China''''s Aerospace Civilian Industry

Since its foundation, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) has been paying great attention to the development of the aerospace civilian industry. The civilian industry is developing rapidly with an increasingly high economic operation quality and has become an important component of CASC's business and economy. Here we introduce the CASC aerospace civilian     

CASC Promoting International Commercial Business in 2012

CASC has been making great efforts in recent years to rearrange and integrate its international business and has set up new international liaison offices in subsidiaries and the headquarters to promote the development and competency of CASC international business, and ultimately increase the share of CASC in the global space market. LM launch vehicles conducted 19 missions, sending 27 satellites and 1 spaceship into preset orbits during 2012, ranking China     

Thermal Design Verification System Used to Improve Product Reliability

<正>CAST introduced a thermal design verification system to realize the verifiability of the design for electromechanical products,shifting the thermal design verification to an earlier period to improve the thermal design level.With the new system,technicians can measure precisely and verify the thermal distributions when the electrome chanical products work.The system has been used in the development of several new products.     

A New-type Inertial Device Passed Piggyback Demonstration

China Aerospace Times Electronics Corporation held a summing-up and review meeting on the piggyback of a satellite optical fiber gyro assembly in Beijing recently.Vice President Lei Fanpei of CASC and related experts and leaders from COSTIND,CAST,Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST) and Dongfanghong Satellite Co. Limited were present at the meeting.     

China's First Lunar Exploration Satellite—Chang'e-1

Chang'e-1,China's first lunar satellite,was mainly developed by China Academy of Space Technology(CAST),a branch of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation(CASC).Since Chang'e-1 mission is quite different from previous Earth orbit missions,technicians had to solve a lot of new problems throughout the development of the satellite. According to the overall planning of China's Lunar Exploration Program,the purposes of the first step were to develop a lunar orbiting satellite,make     

SAST Developed A Vibration Test Bed with the Highest Force and Load Bearing Capacity in China

<正>It was announced in mid August that a 500k N vibration test bed developed by the Shanghai Aerospace Control Engineering Institute had passed the thirdparty metrological assessment by the Chinese Academy of Metrological Sciences.The Institute is a subsidiary of the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology(SAST)of CASC.The platform can produce the highest force and has the largest load bearing capacity for a single test bed developed in China.It is ready to be used for spacecraft testing in China.With this development the SAST environmental testing ability has been improved.(ZHANG     

China Academy of Aerospace Standardization and Product Assurance Established

China Academy of Aerospace Standardization and Product Assurance was unveiled recently,based on the former China Astronautics Standards Institute,a subsidiary of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).The academy was set up by CASC to accelerate the development of aerospace standardization,aerospace productsquality assurance,and aerospace quality technology, etc.     

The Prototype Development for The Second Generation CBERS Initiates

It's reported that the concept for the second generation CBERS-CBERS-03 & 04 to be jointly developed by China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) and INPE went through the assessment by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) at the beginning of the year. It means that the prototype development of CBERS-03 & 04 has been initiated.     

China Haiying Electromechanical Tech Academy

China Haiying Electromechanical Tech Academy, the Third Academy of China Aerospace Corporation, is a base engaged in the research, design, development and production of cruise missiles, and it is going to be a larger-scale hitech industrial group integrating research, development and production with trade of high and new technology products. Since its establishment in 1961, it has developed rapidly and gained remarkable achievements. In the past over 30 years, it has successfully devel-     

China's Space Computer Industry Rapidly Developing

In 1993, China Aerospace Corporation(CASC) announced that it would give priority to the development of satellites and their applications, automobiles and components, computers and their applications, and regard them as its three-pillar industries, which was "a historic and significant strategic decision" said Mr. Liu Jiyuan, the president of CASC. New and great     

Kaituo 1 Assists in Polar Scientific Research

<正>Developed by Aerospace Dongfanghong Development Ltd.Shenzhen,a subsidiary of CAST,the Kaituo 1 satellite had been working stably for more than one month as of mid November 2015and accomplished over 80 times imaging with the coverage of 25,026 square kilometers.The remote sensing images taken     

CASC Issued 2013 Social Responsibility Report

<正>CASC formally issued its fifth annual Social Responsibility Report for 2013 in 2014.The Report comprehensively introduced CASC activities and achievements in 2013 with respect to the county’s interests for responsibility and peaceful development,economic responsibility and sustainable development,social responsibility and harmonious development,environmental responsibility and green development.Besides drawing a conclusion for the year,the report also     

DFH Satellite Co.,Ltd.

DFH Satellite Co.,Ltd. is a hi-tech enterprise founded and sponsored by China Aerospace Sci-ence and Technology Corporation (CASC) and one of CASC subsidiaries, China Academy of Space Technology (CAST). The company is mainly engaged in the research and development of small satellites and micro-satellites, Osystem designs and product development for satellite application projects as well as the international exchanges and cooperation.     

China's First HTS Broadband Satellite Communications System Construction Initiated

正China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation(CASC)and the People’s Government of Shenzhen Municipality co-hosted a ceremony for the contract signing of the high-throughput broadband satellite project and for the establishment of a joint venture on July23,marking the formal start of the construction of China’s first high-throughput broadband satellite communication system.The joint venture called APT Mobile     

Development and Application of a Carrier-free Impulse Sub-surface Detecting Radar in China

This paper describes the design and features of the Image Detecting Impulse (IDI) radar developed by Beijing Institute of Remote Sensing Equipment affiliated to China Aerospace Corp.,which has been successfully used to get three-dimension images of sub-surface objects.It also discusses the radar's development,tests and wide applications.     

Development Of Nigcomsat-1 Satellite Proceeds Well

The development of the Nigcomsat-1satellite started as the soon asthe contract took effect at thebeginning of2005.Now Nigcomsat-1haspassed preliminary design review(PDR)and critical design review(CDR).Theplatform has passed the first-stageperformance test and47transponders havepassed product delivery test.Nigerian technicians have finishedfundamental and professional courses fromNov.2005to Apr.30,2006.They willreceive further training in the followingmonths to participate in the developmen…     

Developing Digital Aerospace to Build The Advanced Aerospace Corporation in The World

It is the strategic goal to develop digital aerospace for China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) to realize its leap development. In the paper, we expound the connotation of developing digital aerospace, i.e. the digitization of aerospace products, the informatization of R&D and manufacturing, the industrialization of software     

CASC Signed First Commercial Launch Service Deal for a National Program

CASC and China Academy of Sciences (CAS) signed a contract on the development of launch vehicles for the satellite project Strategic Pioneer Program on space science on October 31 in Beijing.According to the contract, CGWIC is the general contractor to arrange the launch service and SAST is responsible for developing three LM-2D launch vehicles. It was the first time that LM launch vehicle would be used for a national program in a commercial mode. This new attempt was expected to facilitate     

A Glance of CASC Major Programs in 2013

China’s space activity will be eye-catching in 2013 with the announcement of the upcoming Shenzhou 10 manned spaceflight mission and Chang’e 3 lunar exploration mission. The development of the new generation launch vehicles is also a top priority of CASC in 2013. SPEEDING UP THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW GENERATION LAUNCH VEHICLES CASC develops new generation launch vehicles for the purpose of upgrading the overall capability and performance of China’s launch vehicles to meet the     

SAST Promotes Microsatellite Development

With the rapid growth of microsatellites,customers are becoming diversified from a single country to many countries,to departments,units,even individuals.Many universities,enterprises and individuals rather than a few monopolizing institutes are involved in the microsatellite development.