At the beginning of the Chinese New Year, China's giant constellation network is steadily advancing, and a batch of new models of rockets are ready to fly. China's commercial aerospace industry seizes the "golden opportunity period" and innovates and upgrades again. Innovative deployment: Achieving a breakthrough from "0" to "1". By the end of November 2024, China's Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site was completed and successfully launched, achieving a zero breakthrough in commercial space infrastructure construction. From "0" to "1", it marks the true formation of a complete capability for executing launches in commercial aerospace, filling the gap in commercial aerospace and witnessing China's innovative deployment in the aerospace field. The "National Medium - and Long Term Development Plan for Civil Space Infrastructure (2015-2025)" proposes to encourage social capital to enter the aerospace field, and commercial rocket and satellite companies are emerging like mushrooms after rain; In 2024, commercial aerospace will be included as a "new growth engine" in the government work report, and local industries will accelerate their coordinated layout. The new national system promotes technological innovation, accelerating the gathering of technology, capital, talent and other elements in commercial aerospace, laying the foundation for industry development, and achieving breakthroughs in multiple fields Fan Ruixiang, academician of the CAS Member and rocket expert of China Aerospace Science and Technology Group, said. From top-level design to local practice, a series of policy norms promoting the development of commercial aerospace continue to be introduced; More than ten provinces including Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong have intensively introduced special support policies, forming multiple commercial aerospace industry clusters and constructing a complete industrial system; Through policy linkage and resource integration, commercial aerospace industry synergy is taking shape nationwide. Moving towards a new direction: Advancing the transition from "1" to "N", multiple commercial aerospace companies have explored the recovery and reuse of carrier rockets and made progress, verifying the successful vertical takeoff and landing flight tests of rockets; The Thousand Sail Constellation and GW Constellation satellites, which aim to become the "Ten Thousand Star Constellation", have been launched successively... "We plan to steadily enter the commercial operation stage of rockets such as Zhuque-2 in the next two years," said Zhang Changwu, founder and CEO of Blue Arrow Aerospace. The Zhuque-3 reusable rocket completed a 10 kilometer vertical takeoff and landing return flight test last year, and we believe that in the next few years, there will be a "highlight moment" in the development of reusable rocket technology in the commercial aerospace field. A series of good news marks the footsteps of China's commercial aerospace industry moving towards a new direction. Huo Liang, founder of Jiangsu Shenlan Aerospace Co., Ltd., feels that as policy support shifts from "basic capacity building" to "guiding innovation breakthroughs", the construction of new infrastructure such as low orbit satellite constellations drives the reconstruction of the industrial chain, rockets and satellites are experiencing a surge in demand, and the commercial aerospace industry is accelerating its transformation from a "project-based" to a "service-oriented" system. Galaxy Aerospace's partners have grown from over 100 in 2018 to more than 1300 currently, with supply chains covering precision machining, casting, electronic integration, energy, mechatronics, materials and other fields. Commercial satellites are transitioning from a 'small customization model' to a 'batch model', and it is gradually becoming possible to produce satellites like computers Zhang Shijie, chief scientist of Galaxy Aerospace, predicted that the satellite Internet with low delay, low cost, wide coverage and high reliability will become another milestone in the development of China's commercial aerospace in the future. As the largest commercial radar remote sensing constellation in China, the N ü wa constellation developed by Aerospace Hongtu has a total of 12 in orbit satellites, providing "space support" for China's smart cities, water security, and disaster warning. More than ten overseas projects, such as Gwadar Port in Pakistan and Jakarta Bandung High Speed Railway in Indonesia, have also received "security protection" from the N ü wa constellation. The private commercial aerospace force is growing stronger and will produce more technological highlights in the future Liao Tongkui, co-founder of Aerospace Hongtu, is full of confidence. Accumulate and make progress: Looking forward to the transformation from "following" to "leading", whether it is the countdown to the use of reusable rockets or the progress of large-scale commercial satellite networking, China's commercial aerospace has achieved remarkable results and unlimited potential. At the same time, many industry insiders also point out that the development goal of commercial aerospace is not only more rocket launches and denser satellite networks, but also to build a commercial aerospace industry ecosystem covering the entire chain, achieving a transformation from "following" to "leading". The 'national team+enterprise' model is becoming an important driving force for the rapid development of the commercial aerospace industry Jiuzhou Yunjian Chairman Ji Fenglai stated that the coordinated development of the two can not only accelerate the iteration and upgrading of aerospace technology, but also promote the diversification and commercialization of aerospace application scenarios. Commercial aerospace is a typical heavy asset, high-risk industry that requires multiple drivers of policy, technology, and funding I look forward to more patient capital joining this industry I hope the investment structure will tilt towards innovation in key core technologies According to the plan, a batch of new models of rockets such as Zhuque-3, Lijian-2, and Zhishenxing-1 will carry out intensive maiden missions this year; The second phase of the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site project officially started construction in January, with plans to build two new liquid rocket launch stations. Policy guidance leads to steady progress. Innovation accelerates the takeoff of China's commercial aerospace industry, pursuing dreams for nine days. (New Society)