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Six firms—Galactic Energy, iSpace, Landspace, Space Pioneer, CAS Space, and Expace—reached orbit in 2023.
The group of Chinese commercial launch firms had launched 11 times in 2023, surpassing the total of 10 missions conducted by Expace, CAS Space, China Rocket, Galactic Energy, and iSpace in 2022.
Chinese commercial launch companies Galactic Energy, iSpace, Space Pioneer, Landspace, CAS Space, and Expace had all reached orbit in 2023.
Commercial firms Galactic Energy, iSpace, Space Pioneer, and Landspace, and state-owned commercial spinoffs CAS Space and Expace, reached orbit in 2023.
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 has signed launch contracts worth US$237,000,000.
CAS Space plans three Lijian-1 launches in 2023.
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 raised $31,000,000 in 2021 with leading investors including CITIC Juxin (owned by CITIC Group), Zhongke Chuangxing, and Yuexiu Industrial Investment.
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 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 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, 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.