Spacety is a Chinese New Space company specializing in small satellites and satellite-based services, particularly CubeSats and smallsats. They provide "Satellites-as-a-Service" (SataaS) and are developing a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) constellation for Earth observation, offering "Data-as-a-Service" (DaaS). Their services support science, technology demonstration, and commercial applications, targeting customers like research institutions and commercial companies globally. Associated keywords: micro-satellites, nano-satellites, Earth observation, SAR imagery.
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ThrustMe tested iodine storage, delivery, and sublimation technologies on Spacety’s Xiaoxiang 1(08) satellite as part of an in-orbit demonstration of the I2T5 iodine cold gas thruster in the prior year.
Spacety created a new bus for the Beihangkongshi-1 cubesat that includes batteries, a thermal radiator, and a solar panel to support payloads with high power consumption and duty cycle.
In 2019 ThrustMe tested a cold gas thruster based on the iodine propellant storage subsystem of its electric thruster on a Spacety satellite.
Spacety has ordered several of ThrustMe’s NPT30-I2 propulsion systems for its upcoming Synthetic Aperture Radar constellation that Spacety intends to start deploying 2020.
Results from PolarLight, a science payload aboard the Tongchuan-1 CubeSat developed by Spacety and launched in October 2018, were published in Nature.
Spacety, a Chinese startup based in Changsha, has moved to develop larger satellite platforms similar to MinoSpace.
MinoSpace and Spacety both began by developing and launching CubeSats for clients.
Landspace signed a contract with Spacety for Zhuque-2 launch services in late 2019.
Spacety is developing larger satellite platforms and has a next mission that could launch as soon as late November.
Spacety is working with LaserFleet, a spinoff from the Chinese Academy of Sciences that plans to build a low Earth orbit constellation providing broadband services through laser communications.
ThrustMe developed the new cold gas thruster within six weeks and signed a contract with Spacety three months later.
Spacety plans to test the other payloads on its ten-kilogram cubesat that launched on 2019-11-03.
Spacety is flying an in-orbit demonstration with a 10-kilogram cubesat testing a multispectral imager, laser communications, and ThrustMe’s iodine propulsion system.
Spacety is testing new technologies including cameras and synthetic aperture radar (SAR).
Xiaoxiang-1-04 is a small satellite developed by Changsha-based private firm Spacety that was carried on the launch.
Changsha city provides support to Spacety by supplying free office rent.
Spacety manufactured 10 6U cubesats for 2018 and planned to build 30 in 2019 and 100 in 2020.
Spacety completed its first angel-investor funding round in July 2016 and launched its first satellite in November 2016.
Spacety was established in January 2016 as one of China’s first commercial and private satellite companies following government deregulation of the space sector in 2014 and 2015.
Spacety has five or six customers at institutes under the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducting experiments, including microgravity science research in cooperation with SpacePharma on a satellite launched in February 2017.