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CAS Space, the Glossary

CAS Space is a Chinese commercial space launch provider based in Guangzhou.^[1]

Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

Blue Origin Enterprises, L.P., commonly referred to as Blue Origin is an American aerospace manufacturer, government contractor, launch service provider, and space technologies company headquartered in Kent, Washington, United States. CAS Space and Blue Origin are Private spaceflight companies.

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Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China.

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Guangzhou

Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China.

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Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC; also known as Shuangchengzi Missile Test Center; Launch Complex B2; formally Northwest Comprehensive Missile Testing Facility (西北综合导弹试验基地); Base 20; 63600 Unit) is a Chinese space vehicle launch facility (spaceport) located between the Ejin, Alxa, Inner Mongolia and Hangtian Town, Jinta County, Jiuquan, Gansu Province.

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List of launch service providers

A launch service provider is a type of company that uses launch vehicles and related services provided by a Launch Agency, including furnishing the launch vehicles, launch support, equipment and facilities, for the purpose of launching satellites into orbits or deep space. CAS Space and List of launch service providers are Commercial launch service providers and Commercial spaceflight.

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Low Earth orbit

A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less than 0.25.

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New Shepard

New Shepard is a fully reusable sub-orbital launch vehicle developed for space tourism by Blue Origin.

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Reusable launch vehicle

A reusable launch vehicle has parts that can be recovered and reflown, while carrying payloads from the surface to outer space.

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Space launch

Space launch is the earliest part of a flight that reaches space.

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Space tourism

Space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes. CAS Space and space tourism are Commercial spaceflight.

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Sub-orbital spaceflight

A sub-orbital spaceflight is a spaceflight in which the spacecraft reaches outer space, but its trajectory intersects the surface of the gravitating body from which it was launched.

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Sun-synchronous orbit

A Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), also called a heliosynchronous orbit, is a nearly polar orbit around a planet, in which the satellite passes over any given point of the planet's surface at the same local mean solar time.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAS_Space

Also known as Lijian-1, ZK rocket family, ZK-1A, ZK-2, ZK-3, ZK-4, ZK-4A, ZK-5, ZK-6, Zhongke rocket family.

CAS Space, the Glossary

Table of Contents

Beijing

Blue Origin

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Guangzhou

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

List of launch service providers

Low Earth orbit

New Shepard

Reusable launch vehicle

Space launch

Space tourism

Sub-orbital spaceflight

Sun-synchronous orbit

See also

Aerospace companies of China

Chinese companies established in 2018

Commercial launch service providers

Commercial spaceflight

Space launch vehicles of China

References