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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.
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’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 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 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’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.
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.