Disclaimer initially--it’s a slow week on account of holiday. Also, happy holidays everyone! Be sure to check out our Longjiang-2 satellite image of the moon/earth that we posted on 1 October.
This week's news update includes:
OneSpace C-round of funding. Company announced the funding round in early-September, but did it quite quietly. We just heard about it this week. It’s a C round of an undisclosed amount, with the investors being Liangjiang Investment Fund, Zhengxuan Investment, HIT Robotics Fund, and Huijin Capital → most which are already previous investors, showing continued confidence of the core investors.
- It also represents the latest example of a trend of involvement of regional and provincial governments, which we highlighted in an upcoming ESPI report (plug for ESPI report), as Liangjiang Group (两江集团)of Chongqing is an investor this round, and OneSpace has officially relocated their HQ to Chongqing. Interesting stuff.
Apstar-6D reached its orbital slot this week. Satellite represents an interesting business case--large payload of interesting capacity; Ku-band HTS broadly over APAC with emphasis on mobility routes. Satellite will be operated primarily by APT Mobile Satcom of Shenzhen, but probably some cooperation from APT Satellite of Hong Kong, and by extension. It’s interesting because APSATCOM now kind of puts APT Satellite into competition with ChinaSat, even though ChinaSat owns a big piece of APT Satellite, and thus also of APSATCOM.
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A Conversation on Chinese Satellite Constellations
China's Future Launch Plans for Crewed Spaceflight, the Growing Trend of Rideshare - Ep 73
Wentian: the Next Big Upgrade to the Chinese Space Station, A Review of China's IFC Market in 2022 - Ep 72
Tianbing Aerospace: the Most Eccentric Chinese Rocket Startup, CASC's 2022 Launch Blue Book & Takeaways - Ep 71
A Chinese Version of Relativity Space, Takeaways from China's Space White Paper - Ep 70
Chinese Launch Startups Are Raising a Historic Amount of Funding in 2022 - Ep 69
Could 2022 be the Year of Massive Chinese Satellite Deployment?, A New Variant of the Long March 8 - Ep 68
How the Chinese Space Station Handles Space Debris, A Retrospective Look at 2021 Rounds of Funding - Ep 67
The Chinese Space Station Tests Module Transfer Capabilities, A Chinese Startup is Developing Laser Comms Technologies - Ep 66
China Confirms Future Chang'e Lunar Missions, Starlink Comes Across The Chinese Space Station - Ep 65
The Top 8 Highlights of Chinese Space in 2021
Expace's Kuaizhou-1A Rocket Fails for the Second Time and Associated Implications, Rocket Pi Launches a Microgravity Platform - Ep 64
Galactic Energy Successfully Launches Ceres-1 and Gives An Exclusive Interview - Ep 63
A Chinese Startup Wants to Commercialize Relay Satellites, The Tiangang EO Constellation, Landspace Updates - Ep 62
Major Chinese Rocket Updates at the 2021 China Commercial Aerospace Forum in Wuhan - Ep 61
China Betting Big on Sea-Based Launch, Revisiting the Concept of a US-China Space Race, The First China-Africa Beidou Conference - Ep 60
Shenzhou 13 Performs a Historic Spacewalk, iSpace Sets Foot in Wenchang, Tianwen-1 Changes Orbit - Ep 59
A New Constellation from Spacety, Orienspace's New Rockets & co-CEO, Linkspace Gives a Sign of Life - Ep 58
Mars Express & Zhurong to Communicate, China Breaks Previous Record in Launch, Launch Company Rocket Buys JZYJ Methalox Engines - Ep 57
Interview Part 2 - The Growing Trend of Chinese Space Culture (feat. Molly Silk)
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