The CMGN satellite was a fictional orbital communications satellite owned and operated by media mogul Elliot Carver's Carver Media Group Network (CMGN). It appeared in EON Productions' 1997 James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies, along with its accompanying novelisation.
Biography[]
In a bid to provoke a beneficial war between China and the United Kingdom, media baron Elliot Carver utilised his network of private communications satellites to stage a phoney international incident. At his behest, cyber-terrorist Henry Gupta meaconed the navigation signals of the British frigate HMS Devonshire using a stolen American GPS encoder and one of the CMGN satellites (which posed as a nearby GPS satellite). The ship was sent off-course into Chinese-held waters in the South China Sea, where Carver's stealth ship proceeded to sink it, steal one of its cruise missiles, shoot down a Chinese J-7 fighter jet and kill off the Devonshire's survivors with Chinese weaponry. A further satellite worth $300,000,000[1], which had been under development at CMGN's Hamburg facility and was about to be sent to the launch site, was destroyed by James Bond during his escape with the encoder when he pushed the satellite onto the ground to hinder a group of pursuing security guards.
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References[]
- ↑ (14 Sept. 2015; Original release: 1997). Tomorrow Never Dies (Blu-Ray). 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Event occurs at 00:48:35.