北京中科宇航探索技术有限公司
CAS Space (Guangzhou Zhongke Aerospace Exploration Technology Co., Ltd.), founded in 2018 and partially owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is a Chinese commercial space launch provider. It focuses on developing and manufacturing launch vehicles, including the Kinetica series of rockets, and aims to provide launch services, suborbital science experiments, and space tourism opportunities. CAS Space operates from its headquarters in Guangzhou, with R&D in Beijing, and has established manufacturing facilities, including a dedicated commercial launch pad, to support mass production and frequent launches.
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Chinese commercial launch companies CAS Space, iSpace, Expace, Space Pioneer, and Landspace reached orbit in 2023.
CAS Space secured 600 million yuan in C round funding for mass producing solid rockets, developing medium and large liquid launchers, and reusable technology.
A CAS Space Lijian-1 solid rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 12:10 a.m. Eastern on 2023-06-07.
CAS Space uses SP70 solid rocket motors from China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation for its Lijian-1, or Kinetica-1, rockets.
CAS Space (Zhongke Aerospace), a spinoff from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, planned three PR-1 (Lijian-1) solid rocket launches in 2023 following its first successful launch in July 2022.
CAS Space raised $31,000,000 in 2021 with leading investors including CITIC Juxin (owned by CITIC Group), Zhongke Chuangxing, and Yuexiu Industrial Investment.
CAS Space held an opening ceremony on 2023-01-10 for the first phase of its CAS Space Industrial Base rocket manufacturing facility in Nansha district of Guangzhou.
CAS Space plans three Lijian-1 launches in 2023.
CAS Space has signed launch contracts worth US$237,000,000.
CAS Space signed a deal with China Tourism Group to support development of its suborbital tourism launcher and plans a first test launch around 2024.
CAS Space is developing a suborbital reusable launcher for space tourism designed to carry up to seven passengers on roughly 10-minute rides that briefly pass above the 100-kilometer Kármán line.
CAS Space raised $31,000,000 in 2021, with leading investors including CITIC Juxin (owned by CITIC Group Corporation), Zhongke Chuangxing, and Yuexiu Industrial Investment.
CAS Space is working on reusable liquid engines with the goal of developing recoverable launchers.
CAS Space, spun off from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is preparing for its first mission using the ZK-1A designed to carry up to 2 metric tons to LEO and is scheduled to lift off in June or July 2022.
CAS Space planned its first launch, the ZK-1A solid rocket, for early 2022.
The CAS Space ZK-1A is capable of lifting 1,500 kg to a 500-kilometer Sun-synchronous orbit.
CAS Space is registered as Beijing Zhongke Aerospace Exploration Technology Co., Ltd. and was spun off from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in December 2018.
CAS Space plans its first launch of the ZK-1A solid rocket during the first quarter of 2022.
CAS spinoff Zhongke Aerospace (CAS Space) is preparing to conduct its first launch in the first quarter of 2022 using the Lijian-1 (Zhongke-1A) solid rocket.
CAS Space is preparing its first launch for the first quarter of 2022 and has established facilities in the Nansha district of Guangzhou.