紫微宇通科技有限公司
AZSpace (Ziwei Technology): This Chinese high-tech enterprise, founded in 2019 and based in Beijing, focuses on space exploration and transportation services, particularly designing recoverable spacecraft and related reentry technologies. They aim to provide diversified spacecraft products for scientific, enterprise, and consumer customers, with their core products being small series of spacecraft. They are focused on designing recoverable spacecraft and related reentry technologies.
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Chinese companies AZSpace and CAS Space displayed New Shepard-like suborbital vehicle models at the International Astronautical Congress in Sydney that included design elements resembling New Shepard and Falcon 9.
AZSpace is the only other commercial entity pursuing the capability of extended-duration space missions currently limited to state-owned enterprises.
AZSPACE is testing an inflatable space module known as the orange bubble on the DEAR-5 mission.
AZSPACE is testing an inflatable space module known as the orange bubble on the DEAR-5 mission.
AZSPACE has released plans for 2026 that include a reusable suborbital space travel system, a commercial space station, larger orbital spacecraft, and a re-entry capsule.
AZSPACE plans to produce a re-entry capsule by 2026.
AZSPACE plans to manufacture larger orbital spacecraft by 2026.
AZSPACE plans to create a commercial space station by 2026.
AZSPACE plans to develop a reusable suborbital space travel system by 2026.
AZSPACE's DEAR-5 cargo spacecraft will stay in orbit.
There are two mice in AZSPACE's DEAR-5 cargo spacecraft.
Zhang Xiaomin is the chairman of AZSpace.
AZSpace's spacecraft is capable of serving as a space laboratory for scientists.
The DEAR 5 is the second member of the B300-L family developed by Beijing-based private spacecraft company AZSpace.
AZSpace plans to develop recoverable satellites like the Fanhui Shi Weixing, with a new version tested via Shijian-19 in October 2024.
AZSpace's Dear-5 mission is the first time a non-government space enterprise has flown a cargo spacecraft to host payloads for microgravity study.
EXPACE's Kuaizhou-11 Y8 launched the DEAR-5 cargo ship for AZSPACE at 01:08 UTC on December 13.
AZSpace was the primary customer for this launch, delivering its small Dear-5 commercial cargo spacecraft for its first yearlong mission.
AZSpace announced various milestones in 2024, but their DEER-1 spacecraft was a casualty of a failed launch.
AZSpace aims to launch a 300-kilogram-capacity B300 reusable cargo spacecraft in 2023.