Zhang believes that India did a better job promoting its launch services internationally than China, the report said.
Acknowledging that after reaching Mars ahead of China, India stole the march last week by putting 104 satellites into orbit from a single rocket, Zhang said, “China will likely fast-track the commercialisation of its rocket launches to vie for the world s burgeoning small satellite launch market.
“The Wednesday’s launch is India’s latest triumph for its space programme”,” a Global Times report said.
“In 2014, India became the fourth country to successfully send a spacecraft to orbit Mars, signalling a regional rivalry with China which suffered a failure in its Mars mission in 2012,” it said.
“Nearly all of its 103 smaller satellites are from other countries including Israel, Kazakhstan, Switzerland and the US,” it said.
