Jitian Xingzhou has completed tens of millions of yuan in Pre-A round financing, and two satellites carrying self-developed new generation "three high" optical payloads have been successfully launched recently!

Recently, Suzhou Jitian Xingzhou Space Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Jitian Xingzhou") completed a Pre-A round of financing worth tens of millions of yuan. This round of financing was led by Yuanhe Zhongyuan, with Su Gaoxin Rongxiang, Baiyan Fund and other investors joining in. The raised funds are mainly used for the research and development of new payload technologies, upgrading production capacity, and daily operations of the company.

The field of satellite manufacturing includes overall satellite design, payload development, platform development, as well as whole satellite integration, testing, and experimentation. The type of payload is an important characteristic that distinguishes satellite application fields. The payload of remote sensing satellites is mainly optical payload, and also includes SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) and so on.

Generally speaking, the cost of satellite payloads accounts for over 50% of the total satellite production cost. In recent years, with the development of commercial aerospace and the increasing demand for Earth observation data, commercial optical payloads can provide more diverse data services to meet the needs of different industries. Optical cameras are the core component of the aerospace optical remote sensing industry chain, and their level directly affects the ability to obtain remote sensing data, the quality of data, and the effectiveness of application. They are the most valuable and valuable key link in the industry chain, and are closely integrated with applications. They are the pearl on the crown of aerospace optical remote sensing!

Jitian Xingzhou was established in June 2021 and is a leading enterprise in commercial aerospace optical remote sensing payloads in China. It was jointly founded by Academician Lin Jun and Dr. Zhang Liu of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. There are currently over 130 employees, and the founder Dr. Zhang Liu has nearly 20 years of research experience in new optical payloads, TDI dynamic imaging technology, and more. In addition, the core founding teams of the company are all from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The core core members have more than 10 years of experience in model task development, and have won the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the National Science and Technology Invention Award, and the Military Science and Technology Progress Award for many times.

Today, Jitian Xingzhou has a complete system for the research, design, production, and testing of space optical remote sensing payloads, and can provide various high, medium, low resolution, and wide range optical cameras for the commercial aerospace market. In terms of core products, Jitian Xingzhou has launched a range of aerospace optical remote sensing cameras, including the traditional 0.5m~200m resolution full spectrum, as well as a new type of "high timeliness, high geometry, high spectrum" aerospace optical remote sensing camera based on independent intellectual property rights. At present, Jitian Xingzhou has established cooperative relationships with more than 30 clients, including China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, research institutes under China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, as well as private commercial aerospace companies such as Space Time and Elliptical Space Time. It has delivered more than 20 sets of optical payloads and more than 10 sets for orbital operation, with a success rate of 100%. In recent years, the company's revenue growth rate has exceeded 80%.

Jitian Xingzhou's unique imaging technology of "high timeliness, high geometry, and high spectrum" can improve the imaging efficiency of remote sensing satellites by more than 10 times, while effectively solving the problem of traditional aerospace optical remote sensing that cannot achieve both geometric resolution and spectral resolution. The company successfully launched Jitian Star A-03 (Suzhou No.1 satellite) and Jitian Star A-01 (Jilin University No.1 satellite) on August 29 and September 24 this year. Both satellites have applied the company's unique "high time non orbital one-time transit curve imaging technology" and "new computational reconstruction high geometry hyperspectral imaging technology", with good in orbit imaging quality, successfully achieving in orbit verification of the "high time, high geometry, hyperspectral" imaging technology.

In addition, while focusing on optical payload technology, the company continues to expand upstream and has developed various types of satellite payloads such as star sensors, high-precision fast mirrors, and high-performance turntables. These payloads are now widely used in commercial aerospace, military, and special fields.

Founder Dr. Zhang Liu stated that in the future, Jitian Xingzhou will build an optical payload technology and product system that meets the application needs of various fields based on its independent intellectual property rights of "high timeliness, high geometry, and high spectrum" imaging technology, and is committed to becoming a leading global provider and service provider of aerospace optical main payload products. We will actively focus on major national needs, proactively connect with key engineering projects, and help improve the efficiency and construction level of national natural resource surveys, ecological environment protection, and other related fields, injecting new impetus into the development of China's aerospace new quality productivity!

Company Profile

As the first commercial aerospace company in China that mainly provides optical payloads in bulk, Jitian Xingzhou has a complete system for research and development, design, production, and testing of space optical remote sensing payloads. It can provide various high, medium, low resolution, and wide range optical cameras, micro nano star sensors, and high-precision optical tracking turntables for the commercial aerospace market, with significant characteristics such as "mass production, engineering, and low cost"; At the same time, based on the independent intellectual property rights of "high timeliness, high geometry, and high spectrum" imaging technology, we will build optical payload technology and product systems that meet the application needs of various fields, carry out experimental constellation construction and data application services, and strive to become a leading enterprise in commercial aerospace optical payloads in China and a globally leading provider of aerospace optical payload products, helping accelerate the development of commercial aerospace.