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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CAS Space unveiled a suborbital tourism concept with vehicle renders resembling Blue Origin’s New Shepard and SpaceX Crew Dragon and aims to provide tourist rides to space as soon as 2024.
CAS Space, a Chinese Academy of Sciences spinoff, raised $31,000,000 in May 2021.
CAS Space raised $31,000,000 in May 2021 as it prepared for launch of the ZK-1A solid rocket.
CAS Space, a spinoff of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, targeted a first launch of the ZK-1A solid rocket capable of lifting 1,500 kg to LEO around September 2021.
Chinese commercial companies planning launches in 2021 include Landspace, iSpace, Deep Blue Aerospace, Expace and CAS Space.
Other Chinese state-owned and commercial companies planning launches in 2021 include Landspace, iSpace, Deep Blue Aerospace, Expace, and CAS Space.
CAS Space and private firm Deep Blue Aerospace were working towards first launches planned for later in 2021.
CAS Space plans to develop a family of reusable ZK launch vehicles ranging from one metric ton to LEO up to 15,000 kg using a three-core rocket design.
CAS Space’s industrial base in Nansha broke ground on 2021-03-08 and the facilities are expected to be able to produce up to 30 rockets annually.
CAS Space tested a 23-kilogram vertical takeoff, vertical landing demonstrator on 2021-04-02 for future sea-based launch and landings.
State-owned spinoff China Rocket Co. Ltd. and Expace and CAS Space are planning launches 2021.
Commercial Chinese launch providers China Rocket Co. Ltd., Expace, Galactic Energy, CAS Space, Deep Blue Aerospace, and Landspace were planning launches in 2021.
CAS Space is developing a rocket production facility in Nansha District in Guangzhou and is developing what would be China’s largest solid rocket by payload capacity with a target first launch in 2021.
CAS and the local government agreed in 2019 to jointly build the 99-square-kilometer Nansha Science City, within which the CAS Space facility will be established.
CAS Space was registered in December 2018 and aims to launch a solid rocket capable of lifting 1,500 kg to LEO in 2021.
CAS Space’s planned solid launcher would be China’s largest solid rocket by payload capacity, exceeding CASC’s Long March 11 and the Kuaizhou-11 operated under CASIC.
Beijing Zhongke Aerospace Exploration Technology Co., Ltd. (CAS Space) will first develop solid rockets before developing liquid propellant launchers.
An infographic from CAS Space suggests planned ZK liquid launchers will be reusable and that ZK launchers range from one metric ton to LEO up to 15,000 kg with a three-core rocket design.
The CAS Space facility will integrate R&D, production, final assembly, and testing and will eventually be capable of producing 30 rocket products per year.