Space-time Daoyu Low Orbit Navigation Enhanced First Double Star
The global commercial aerospace field is entering a period of acceleration.
At 9 a.m. Eastern Time on December 19, at the Kennedy Space Launch Site covered with dark clouds, the U.S. Space Exploration Technology Company (SpaceX) used the "Falcon 9" commercial launch vehicle to successfully launch The NROL-108 payload was launched and successfully entered orbit.
Earlier, the company successfully carried out the Crew-1 commercial manned space mission, using the Falcon 9 rocket to launch four astronauts into space, thereby unveiling the future of commercial manned spaceflight. Curtain has become an important practice for commercial companies to explore the direction of manned spaceflight.
Not only that, SpaceX is also accelerating the launch process. According to incomplete statistics, SpaceX*** carried out 26 launch missions in 2020, sending 854 spacecraft into orbit, breaking the previous record of 21 launches set in 2018.
At the same time, China’s national policy of accelerating the commercialization and industrialization of the private aerospace field has begun to be implemented, and industrial clusters have gradually formed. SpaceX’s Chinese apprentices are looking for differentiated development paths amid competition.
As the National Development and Reform Commission clearly included satellite Internet into the "new infrastructure" in April this year, capital has increased investment in the commercial aerospace track. Public data shows that the total amount of new financing in China's commercial aerospace sector has reached 4 billion yuan in 2020, an increase of 78.9% from 2.235 billion yuan in 2019.
Even the uncertainty caused by the new crown epidemic has not been able to interrupt the rapid development of commercial aerospace. Since May, Shanghai, Beijing, Fuzhou, Chongqing, Chengdu, Shenzhen and other cities have successively proposed action plans involving satellite Internet, planning to build a commercial aerospace industry ecosystem covering rockets, satellites, ground terminals, and application services.
“With policy guidance and government support, China’s commercial aerospace has ushered in a new era of development, and the blowout will continue.” Wang Yang, founder of Spacetime Daoyu, said in an interview with Titanium Media that although At present, the commercial satellite industry is still in the early stages of investment, but the market potential in this field is huge, including in important scenarios such as satellite-based navigation and unmanned driving, commercial satellites will play a more important role.
"China has rich technical experience in network technology, constellation measurement and control, network operations, etc."
Public data shows that by 2025, the global satellite Internet output value will reach US$560 billion to US$850 billion. In China, the size of the commercial aerospace market is generally growing year by year. In 2019, the size of China's commercial aerospace market was 836.23 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 23.5%.
As of now, there are more than 160 commercial aerospace companies in China, covering the upstream supply of satellites, rockets and other supporting facilities and overall manufacturing and launch services in the industrial chain; the downstream satellite navigation applications, satellite measurement and control, satellite remote sensing operations, etc. Multiple links.
In November 2018, Spacetime Daoyu was officially established. As China's first-tier commercial aerospace company, it is affiliated with Geely Technology Group. Currently, Spacetime Daoyu has product-level design and mass production delivery capabilities for microsatellites, and has accumulated more than 150 invention patents. In addition to satellite manufacturing, its business scope also involves the entire industry chain including satellite ground equipment manufacturing, satellite operations and applications.
In fact, before founding Spacetime Daoyu, Wang Yang worked at the Microsatellite Innovation Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for nearly ten years, during which time he was responsible for the research and development of multiple projects such as satellites and ground systems as a software and hardware engineer. In June 2014, Wang Yang stepped out of the system and founded China's first commercial aerospace company. Some media rated him as "the pioneer of China's commercial aerospace."
Wang Yang, General Manager and Chief Scientist of Spacetime Daoyu
Exploring emerging markets has also become Wang Yang’s second entrepreneurial journey. With solid scientific research and project experience, he has a clear judgment on the positioning of Spacetime Daoyu in the industry.
Wang Yang believes that in the popular track of commercial aerospace, the biggest difference between Spacetime Daoyu is its ability to span the automotive and aerospace industries, and its talent advantage.
This is also the logic behind Wang Yang’s positioning of Spacetime Daoyu in the “full aerospace industry chain”. He believes that a clear positioning is the core to ensure the company’s high competitiveness. "The first goal of Spacetime Daoyu is to become the first echelon in commercial aerospace satellite manufacturing. The second goal is to continuously layout around the application scenarios of commercial aerospace. The ultimate goal is to form a whole-industry solution." Wang Yang Said in an interview with Titanium Media.
Shikong Daoyu introduced that the core members of the team are all from key national aerospace units. Each person has more than 10 years of experience in satellite development and more than 3 major model projects, and has complete research and development capabilities across the entire technology chain.
After more than a year of orderly development work, a total of 12 large-scale tests, more than 200 test items, and more than 1,800 hours of testing have been completed. The first double star of Spacetime Daoyu has successfully passed the factory review and has the qualifications According to the launch conditions, an opportunity will be selected to launch into orbit in the near future.
“An objective fact is that China’s aerospace industry has high technical barriers and a closed system to a certain extent. If a startup company wants to succeed, it must have clear development goals and sufficient technology. Strength, and accurate implementation of goals.” Wang Yang told TMTpost that based on this clear judgment, Spacetime Daoyu may achieve node-level results by the end of 2021.
Currently, Spacetime Daoyu has two main businesses, namely satellite manufacturing and high-precision positioning.
In terms of satellite manufacturing, in March 2020, Spacetime Daoyu broke ground on its satellite super factory in Taizhou, Zhejiang, with a planned investment of 2.27 billion yuan, covering satellite research and development, core component manufacturing, measurement and operation control, aerospace Delivery of materials and other industrial chains. Eventually, the factory will become China's first pulsating modular satellite intelligent AIT (assembly integration test) center, and China's first satellite mass production super factory that deeply integrates spacecraft manufacturing and automobile manufacturing capabilities.
Wang Yang said that the Satellite Super Factory will be committed to realizing low-cost, cost-effective, intelligent and automated satellite manufacturing. Break through the traditional satellite design concept and change the satellite manufacturing model. It also uses automotive industrial-grade component selection and screening technology, civilian products, and civilian technology to save labor costs and time costs, change the original supply chain system of aerospace products, and provide cost-effective products while ensuring product quality.
Wang Yang revealed to Titanium Media that the factory will be completed by the end of 2021 and will gradually achieve an annual manufacturing capacity of more than 300 satellites.
In terms of high-precision positioning, Spacetime Daoyu will launch the world's first commercial low-orbit navigation enhancement system verification by launching the first two satellites in low orbit, and promote the construction of the world's first space-earth integration to serve future travel. High-precision spatio-temporal information system.
It is expected that by the end of 2021, the high-precision space-ground integrated travel service built by Spacetime Daoyu covering mainland China and Southeast Asia will be put into commercial operation.
Wang Yang said that this system will be based on the collaborative operation of low-orbit satellite constellations and satellite ground monitoring networks, and will provide users with global seamless and instantaneous high-precision positioning services, deeply integrating the integrity functional requirements of the smart travel industry. .
Wang Yang emphasized that through these two business modules, Spacetime Daoyu can provide users with low-cost, highly reliable satellites and their supply chain products in the field of commercial satellite manufacturing, and in the fields of satellite communication networks and satellite data. We provide highly competitive, safe and reliable customized solutions in the fields of application and world-ground integrated high-precision services, and are deeply integrated with industries such as intelligent manufacturing, future travel, and big data to continue to create value for customers and build an open, most win-win world. Collaborative ecology.
"In the future world, the networks of heaven and earth will be integrated into one. We ultimately hope to create a high-precision space-time information system integrating space and earth, build a rich commercial aerospace industry, and continue to promote the progress of China's aerospace industry."
(This article was first published on Titanium Media App, author Lin Zhijia)