April 24th is the ninth China Aerospace Day, "2024 China Aerospace Conference - International Forum on Commercial Space Industry", jointly organized by China Astronautical Society and China Aerospace Foundation, was grandly held in Wuhan, Hubei Province, which is an influential and comprehensive industry event in China's aerospace, and Lei Shixiang, the founder and CEO of Beijing Traverser Human Spaceflight Science & Technology Co. As a new generation of commercial spaceflight entrepreneurs, Lei Shixiang, CEO of Beijing Traverser Human Spaceflight Technology Co.
This year's conference, with the theme of "Looking at the Chutian sky, sharing the starry sky together", brought together famous experts, scholars, managers and commercial space leaders in the field of spaceflight at home and abroad to discuss the achievements of spaceflight development. The forum aims to deeply analyze the connotation of China's commercial space policy, discuss the new situation and new challenges, share the commercial space industry chain operation mode and market management strategy, and set up an international exchange platform, so as to build consensus and work together on the road of enhancing the new quality of productivity.
During the meeting, a number of experts and scholars, including academician Wang Jianyu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, former ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain, and executive director and academician Olivier Contant of the International Academy of Astronautics, made wonderful speeches, focusing on the following topics: "Technological Innovation in Commercial Space Supply Chain Leads to Industry Change Roundtable discussions were held on topics such as "Commercial Space Supply Chain Technology Innovation Leads to Industrial Change" and "Satellite Big Data Intelligent Application and Scenario Expansion". As one of the representative emerging industries of new productivity, commercial spaceflight is developing at an unprecedented speed. Under the new historical opportunity, it is the direction for the whole industry to make efforts to give full play to the advantages of business, reduce costs through technological innovation and revolution, catch up with the international advancement, and let spaceflight serve the public more. The 4-day conference will hold a series of activities such as various academic forums, industrial dialogues, cutting-edge exhibitions, event roadshows, culture and popularization of science, etc. Crossing Lei Shixiang will also explore more possibilities of commercial space development together with the experts and colleagues attending the conference.
"Interstellor, as China's first private manned aerospace technology company, focuses on making reusable commercial manned spacecraft. Its establishment also benefited from the development of commercial satellite and rocket companies, making commercial aerospace low-cost and highly reliable. With the gradual improvement of the supply chain system, the cost for ordinary people to go to space can be significantly reduced, and space tourism is just around the corner. As a new generation of commercial aerospace entrepreneurs, I am honored to join this epic wave, and I hope there will be more and more in the future. The more outstanding companies and talents pour into the commercial aerospace industry and join hands with us, the more dazzling China’s aerospace industry will be on the world stage,” said Lei Shiqing.
