Both supply and demand sides are working hard, and commercial aerospace is experiencing rapid growth, injecting power into the construction of a strong aerospace country. Launch | China | End to End Business
CCTV News: In recent years, China has implemented multiple "carpooling" launch missions into space. At present, the number of commercial satellites in orbit in China has exceeded 350. Why do we need so many commercial satellites, what are their uses, and what is their relationship with our daily lives?
At the Emergency Management Bureau of Hebi City, Henan Province, staff are conducting data analysis on images captured by remote sensing satellites.
Hebi is a city thriving from coal, with many goaf areas. At the same time, there are various terrains and landforms such as mountainous areas, forest areas, hills, and plains within the area, which puts great pressure on the prevention of natural disasters every year. In the past, their early warning of disasters mainly relied on manual observation, which was time-consuming, laborious, and inefficient. Using drones could not monitor long-term settlement deformation, so they thought of remote sensing satellites.
In March 2023, Hebi City, which tasted the sweetness, launched three satellites at once, Hebi 1, Hebi 2, and Hebi 3. In addition to disaster monitoring, it can also provide various services such as pollutant monitoring and agricultural precision management. In the future, they will also achieve more and faster satellite applications.
Hebi is a microcosm of China's satellite application scenarios. Currently, China's satellite applications mainly focus on satellite navigation, satellite communication, and satellite remote sensing, covering various fields including land survey, water conservancy, forestry, agriculture, electricity, emergency management, environmental protection, ocean, meteorology, etc.
Both supply and demand sides work together to achieve high-speed growth in commercial aerospace
As a tool for entering space, rockets have innovatively reduced the cost of commercial space entry through the "carpooling" launch mode, which in turn promotes an increase in demand for commercial space applications. Under the joint efforts of the supply and demand sides, commercial aerospace has ushered in rapid development.
At the Ark Laboratory of Beijing Galaxy Space, the new generation of stackable flat panel satellites are undergoing final debugging, using flexible solar wings.
Driven by the high demand for space launches, China's commercial aerospace technology innovation capability has steadily improved. Breakthroughs have been made in the fields of "multiple satellites with one arrow", reusable rockets, and low-cost small satellites.
At present, a pattern of extensive participation by state-owned and private enterprises in various sub sectors, led by Aerospace Science and Technology Group and Aerospace Science and Industry Group, has been basically formed. Constellation plans such as Tianmu 1 and Jilin 1 are steadily advancing, and commercial space companies are launching their own space networking plans.
Enterprises are innovating, and the national level is constantly providing support. In April 2020, the National Development and Reform Commission made it clear for the first time that satellite Internet would be included in the scope of "new infrastructure" of communication network infrastructure. In the 14th Five Year Plan and the 2035 Vision, the country clearly proposes to "build a global coverage and efficient communication, navigation, and remote sensing space infrastructure system, and build commercial space launch sites.". The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a strategic deployment to accelerate the construction of a strong aerospace country, providing strong policy support for the development of commercial aerospace in China. As of 2022, there are over 400 commercial aerospace enterprises operating effectively in China.
In the first half of 2023, commercial aerospace continued to maintain a high-speed growth momentum, with solid launch vehicles such as Kuaishou, Ceres, Hyperbolic, and Lijian successfully launched, and the Tianlong 2 liquid rocket successfully made its maiden flight. At present, the number of commercial space satellites in orbit in China has exceeded 350.
