- Headquarters
- Beijing, China · East Asia
- Value chain
- Systems integration(Systems & services); also Hardware & devices
- What that means
- Joins products into systems and delivers programmes: defence and aerospace primes, system integrators, EPC contractors.
- Founded
- 1999
- Staff
- 180,000 (2023)
- Ownership
- State-owned
- Website
- spacechina.com
- Relevance
- Very high at its strongest, in Space Launch & Reusable Systems
Beijing, ChinaIn 8 capabilities
Each capability the company is listed in, most relevant first: how experts in the field see its global relevance there, why it is listed and the source.
- Space Launch & Reusable SystemsVery high
Space Technologies · Manufacture · listed #2 of 50
State prime for the Long March family (CZ-2/3/4/5/6/7/8/12) through CALT and SAST, China's main orbital launch provider and developer of reusable Long March variants.
Relevance: China's state launch prime; Long March flies the second-highest global cadence
Space Technologies · Manufacture · listed #2 of 50
China's main spacecraft maker; its CAST and SAST academies build the DFH communications buses, Beidou navigation, Yaogan/Gaofen observation satellites and the Guowang constellation spacecraft.
Relevance: China's main spacecraft maker across all satellite classes
Space Technologies · Design · listed #6 of 50
China's main space and missile conglomerate; its Academy of Aerospace Propulsion Technology develops the YF-series liquid rocket engines, and its academies build hypersonic glide vehicles.
Relevance: China's core rocket engine and hypersonic glide vehicle developer
Sensing, Timing & Navigation · Manufacture · listed #8 of 50
Its institutes, including the Lanzhou Institute of Space Technology Physics, develop the rubidium clocks and hydrogen masers for BeiDou satellites, and CASC builds the BeiDou constellation.
Relevance: Develops BeiDou rubidium clocks and masers; builds the BeiDou constellation
Robotics & Autonomous Systems · Manufacture · listed #9 of 50
Its China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics builds the CH (Rainbow) series of armed drones, exported to numerous countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Relevance: CH Rainbow series widely exported UCAVs
Advanced Materials & Manufacturing · Research · listed #9 of 50
Its 4th Academy (Academy of Aerospace Solid Propulsion Technology, Xi'an) and 42nd Institute lead Chinese composite solid-propellant research and production.
Relevance: China's main solid propulsion academy
Sensing, Timing & Navigation · Manufacture · listed #15 of 50
Its 13th Institute (Beijing Institute of Aerospace Control Devices) and listed arm China Aerospace Times Electronics are China's main makers of laser, fibre-optic and MEMS gyros and inertial systems for launch vehicles and missiles.
Relevance: Major Chinese inertial navigation developer for space and missiles
- Quantum Sensing & MetrologyModerate
Quantum Technologies · Manufacture · listed #17 of 50
CASC's institutes build the spaceborne rubidium clocks and passive hydrogen masers for BeiDou and are developing space cold-atom clocks.
Relevance: BeiDou space clocks; strong national champion