{"id":142244,"date":"2023-01-27T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/?p=142244"},"modified":"2023-02-01T23:20:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T04:20:34","slug":"u-s-sanctions-chinese-satellite-firm-for-allegedly-supplying-sar-imagery-to-russias-wagner-group-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/u-s-sanctions-chinese-satellite-firm-for-allegedly-supplying-sar-imagery-to-russias-wagner-group-2\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. sanctions Chinese satellite firm for allegedly supplying SAR imagery to Russia\u2019s Wagner Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HELSINKI \u2014 The U.S. has sanctioned a Chinese small satellite manufacturer for allegedly supplying Russia\u2019s Wagner Group with radar satellite imagery of Ukraine to support its combat operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Changsha Tianyi Space Science and Technology Research Institute, also known as Spacety, and its Luxembourg-based subsidiary are among a number of entities hit by sanctions as part of a move against the private paramilitary organization Wagner Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Treasury Department announced sanctions targeting Wagner Group Jan. 26, designating it as a transnational criminal organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spacety provided synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery orders of locations in Ukraine to Terra Tech, a Russia-based technology firm, according to the Treasury Department\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese images were gathered in order to enable Wagner combat operations in Ukraine,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s expanded sanctions on Wagner, as well as new sanctions on their associates and other companies enabling the Russian military complex, will further impede Putin\u2019s ability to arm and equip his war machine,\u201d Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/jy1220\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spacety manufactures small satellites and is based in Changsha, Hunan province, with offices in Beijing and Luxembourg. It was founded in 2016 by former employees of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also working with the 38th institute of the giant state-owned enterprise China Electronics Technology Group (CETC) to build a 96-satellite \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.spacenews.com\/chinese-partnership-to-create-tianxian-sar-satellite-constellation\/\">Tianxian<\/a>\u201d SAR constellation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spacety has so far launched two small C-band SAR imagery satellites, namely&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.spacenews.com\/spacety-releases-first-sar-images\/\">Hisea-1<\/a>&nbsp;in December 2020 and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.spacenews.com\/china-launches-national-record-22-satellites-on-long-march-8-commercial-rideshare\/\">Chaohu-1<\/a>&nbsp;in February 2022, the latter for the Tianxian project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its latest satellite, Beiyou-1 (BUPT-1), was launched Jan. 15 and developed for the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and also carried science payloads for the academic Tiange astrophysics project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spacety has been looking to work with companies all around the world, even&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.spacenews.com\/chinas-spacety-ceo-sees-future-in-radar-satellites-data-fusion\/#:~:text=It%E2%80%99s%20possible%20I%20can%20have%20some%20U.S.%20customers%20if%20the%20satellite%20is%20not%20launching%20in%20China.%20We%20could%20find%20an%20Indian%20satellite%20to%20launch%20the%20Chinese%20bus.\">considering&nbsp;<\/a>launching on Indian rockets to allow it to work with partners restricted from flying on Chinese launchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China and Russia have developed closer relations in recent years. China has attempted to act in a neutral role following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, and previous reports suggest it has been adhering to U.S. and European sanctions imposed on Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China last year omitted any mention of Russia when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.spacenews.com\/china-seeks-new-partners-for-lunar-and-deep-space-exploration\/\">presenting&nbsp;<\/a>its lunar exploration plans as open for cooperation at the International Astronautical Congress in Paris, despite Russia being a partner in the planned International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) project.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China has raised concerns over the use of U.S. commercial satellite constellations in the Ukraine conflict, including communications via SpaceX\u2019s Starlink satellites but also imagery from companies such as Maxar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The People\u2019s Liberation Army Daily, the official newspaper of China\u2019s military forces, ran a commentary (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.cn\/mil\/2022-04\/11\/c_1211635118.htm\">Chinese<\/a>) in April 2022, noting that companies such as Maxar and Black Sky provided satellite imagery of Russian troop movements to Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The commentary claims the U.S. has in recent years been \u201cpromoting the construction of so-called \u2018space resilience\u2019, attempting to blur the boundary between military and civilian spheres,\u201d bringing commercial entities and the general public into the space arms race in order to strengthen its dominant position in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HELSINKI \u2014 The U.S. has sanctioned a Chinese small satellite manufacturer for allegedly supplying Russia\u2019s Wagner Group with radar satellite imagery of Ukraine to support its combat operations. 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