03 January 2020
China tests mini solar sail in space
... now, China is doing the same. This week, the Shenyang Institute of Automation (SIA), a division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) based in Northeast China's Liaoning province, announced that the nation’s first solar sail based craft, SIASAIL...
22 July 2020
China's first Mars rover set to launch tomorrow
... the existence of extraterrestrial life, and the origin and evolution of the Solar System,” write the Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers in their short paper. Aside from advancing our knowledge of Mars to an unprecedented level, the authors...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
... commercial companies are spinoffs or direct subsidiaries of the somewhat impenetrable Chinese state system, which includes the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the main contractor for the...
18 January 2022
First of 40 planned launches for China
...country’s state-owned main space contractor. The Innovation Academy for Microsatellites under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) developed the Shiyan-13 satellite and the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST) provided the launcher. The...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
... and further space debris either by collisions or malfunctioning satellites is increasing This summer, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) also announced that it will be launching a constellation of 72 satellites, via private satellite company...
