Tsinghua University

清华大学

Tsinghua University is a prominent Chinese research university with significant activity in the space sector. Through its School of Aerospace Engineering and related research centers, it designs and develops microsatellites and nanosatellites like Tsinghua-1 and Q-SAT for Earth observation, communications research, and atmospheric density measurement. The university also leads the Tomorrow Space Network (TSN) Innovation Project, focused on developing space-based networking technologies. Tsinghua partners with organizations like SSTL and CASC and is involved in national aerospace projects such as the C919 aircraft program.

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Beijing, Beijing, China

www.tsinghua.edu.cn

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Tsinghua University students are building the $2.8 million START smallsat mission to study asteroid Apophis.

PlanGeneralValue 3.5Jun 19, 2026Tsinghua University students are building the $2.8M smallsat START mission to intercept asteroid Apophis at 7 km. START to launch in early 2028 as a rideshare payload on a Zhuque-3, then raising to 31,600 km orbit. Will make flyby during peak tidal-stress window at 8.74 km/s.

Naxing-3A and Naxing-3B were jointly built by Tsinghua University and a company in Beijing.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 3.0Apr 15, 2026The launch - happening hours before Starship Flight 4 (1st successful re-entry) & problematic docking w/ ISS for Starliner's crew test flight - had this "TEE-01B" (we don't know what's TEE-01A BTW) deployed to a 500 km SSO.

Tsinghua University and Harbin Institute of Technology campus locations face directly onto industrial parks and corporate headquarters in the district.

GeneralValue 0.9Feb 10, 2026Shenzhen district powers dense robot innovation ecosystem

The RAFAEL technology, developed at Tsinghua University's Department of Electrical Engineering, integrates a full spectroscopic system onto a chip roughly the size of a SIM card.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Oct 22, 2025Miniature chip spectrometer opens new window on the universe

Tsinghua University is developing a Mars lighthouse, an integrated sustainable Mars exploration system utilizing CO2 compressed energy storage.

CapabilityPlanValue 4.0Sep 28, 2025Events From China at the International Astronautical Congress

Tsinghua University led the development of a Compton telescope for gamma-ray particle detection on Yunyao-1-27.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.0Sep 5, 2025Galactic Energy Lofts Three Satellites Into Orbit [Ceres-1 Y15]

Yunyao-1-27 carries a Compton telescope for gamma-ray particle detection led by Tsinghua University.

CapabilityValue 4.0Sep 5, 2025Galactic Energy Lofts Three Satellites Into Orbit [Ceres-1 Y15]

Tsingshen Tech, backed by the Shanghai government and Tsinghua University, launched China’s first medium Earth orbit broadband satellite earlier 2024-05.

CapabilityRelationshipsValue 4.4May 30, 2024Chinese reusable rocket maker to cooperate on new MEO constellation

Tsingshen Tech is collaborating with Tsinghua University and the Shanghai government to create a medium Earth orbit broadband satellite constellation.

RelationshipsPlanCapabilityValue 4.0May 9, 2024China launches its first medium Earth orbit broadband satellites

The Tsinghua Science satellite was launched in August 2020 on a Long March 2D rocket to make atmospheric density and gravitational field measurements.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.2Jan 20, 2022Chinese satellite in near miss with Russian ASAT test debris

The Tsinghua Science satellite operates in a 478 by 499-kilometer orbit with an inclination of 97.4 degrees.

CapabilityValue 4.0Jan 20, 2022Chinese satellite in near miss with Russian ASAT test debris