China will launch a new satellite for television broadcasting, mobile communications and other services in late October this year, Xinhua reported. "Xinnuo 2" is China's first large-capacity communications satellite, Xinhua quoted experts from the Chinese Research Institute of Space Technology. The satellite will provide live television broadcasting services to the Chinese mainland, as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. It is designed to have a lifespan of 15 years. "Xinnuo 2", which has taken China six years to develop, marks a breakthrough in China's development of a new generation of large-capacity static orbit satellites, said Sun Laiyan, administrator of the China National Space Administration.