Zhang Hongtai, president of the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), a developer and maker of satellites and spacecraft, stated that the Shijian-20 will increase the country’s high-throughput communications satellite capacity to 300 gigabits per second, up from the current 20 Gbps with the predecessor DFH-4.
After on-orbit technical verification of this first satellite, which he suggests would launch in November, Zhang states that future satellites using the DFH-5 platform will be able to supply capacity of 1 terabit per second.