Rizhao, China, September 24, 2025 – The sixth orbital plane satellites of the ‘Geely Future Mobility Constellation’, also known as GEESATCOM, were successfully launched aboard a single rocket carrying 12 satellites from waters near Rizhao, Shandong Province in China. This marks the third consecutive deployment launch within two months. The satellites successfully entered their designated orbits with all systems operating normally, and the launch mission has been declared a complete success.

GEESATCOM is a global low-Earth-orbit satellite IoT constellation independently designed, developed, constructed, and operated by Geespace, the commercial aerospace company under Geely Holding Group. From 2022 to 2025, Geespace successfully completed six consecutive launches to accomplish the Phase I constellation deployment. To date, including earlier test satellites deployed in orbital planes, the number of satellites in orbit has reached 64.

Building a Next-Generation Global Commercial Satellite IoT Constellation

With its satellites currently in orbit, GEESATCOM is able to provide one-to-two-layer real-time satellite communication coverage within the 60° north–south latitude range. The system supports 340 million communications per day. The constellation can serve up to 20 million users worldwide, including approximately 5 million high-frequency users and 15 million medium- and low-frequency users.

Protecting user data and connectivity, both transmissions and terminals utilize advanced, fully self-developed adaptive anti-signal disruption algorithm, offering ultra-strong resistance of 50 dB. The system also has robust anti-interception capabilities, ensuring the security of transmitted information.

Backed by long-term, large-scale R&D investment, Geespace has developed full-stack in-house capabilities covering space, ground, and application segments. These capabilities span constellation system design and verification, self-developed payload platforms, satellite mass production, autonomous constellation operation and management, as well as the development and production of application communication chips and multiple terminal modules.

Service fees for the constellation’s IoT communications are just one percent of traditional satellite communication provider costs, significantly lowering the threshold for widespread adoption. Building on medium- and low-speed data communication services, the constellation allows flexible configuration across multiple dimensions—such as real-time responsiveness, priority scheduling, acknowledgment mechanisms, message length, and service frequency—tailored to different application scenarios.

Global-Ready Commercial Loop Validated Across Multiple Markets

Geespace has completed the R&D and mass production of self-developed satellite communication chips, modules, and terminal products, and has successfully passed commercial validation testing (POC tests). This has created a complete business ecosystem covering the space segment (satellites) – ground systems – application products.

Leveraging GEESATCOM’s global satellite IoT coverage, Geespace can provide stable and reliable real-time satellite IoT communication services for a wide range of scenarios, including intelligent connected vehicles, marine fisheries, construction machinery, low-altitude mobility, emergency communications, transportation and logistics, public infrastructure, energy, water management, and agriculture, forestry, and animal husbandry. With the successful completion of the Phase I constellation deployment, Geespace is now delivering commercial satellite IoT services to users worldwide—bringing the “constellation in the sky” into the real-world and everyday life, empowering industrial upgrades and benefiting social development.

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About Geely Auto

Geely Auto Group is a leading automobile manufacturer based in Hangzhou, China and was founded in 1997 as a subsidiary unit of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (ZGH). The Group manages several leading brands, including Geely Auto, Lynk & Co, and Zeekr. Geely Auto Group is also the global strategic partner of Malaysian national automaker PROTON.

The Group employs more than 50,000 people and operates 12 plants and 5 global R&D centers in Hangzhou, Ningbo, Gothenburg, Coventry, and Frankfurt. The Group also boasts 5 global design studios in Shanghai, Ningbo, Gothenburg, Milan, and Coventry, respectively with over 1000 employees. Geely Automobile Holdings, a subsidiary company holding controlling stakes in Geely Auto, Lynk & Co, and Zeekr, has been listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange since 2005.

In 2024, the brands under Geely Auto Group management sold over 2.17 million units, marking a 32% year-on-year increase.

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