SOEs still dominate China’s national space program, but the commercial space sector has taken off in the past five years.
The Tongchuan-1 satellite, developed by Chinese satellite company Spacety, Tsinghua University and the government of Tongchuan, Shaanxi. Credit: Spacety press release
All eyes have been on China’s successful launch of Mars mission Tianwen-1. The spacecraft and the rocket that launched it, like most of the technology for China’s national space missions, was made by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the state-owned enterprise that holds the main contracts for China’s space program.
But, in recent years, new opportunities have emerged in China’s private space sector. This week we look at the recent rise of commercial spa
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