MinoSpace

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MinoSpace is a Beijing-based private Chinese satellite technology company. It was founded on August 7, 2017, shortly after China began allowing private firms to participate in space technology. The company has designed, built, and launched more than 20 remote sensing and communications satellites.

Founders and background
- Founders: Gao Enyu, who previously worked at major state space organizations, and Wu Shufan, who spent years in European space research and later worked at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- The private space sector in China grew after government policy in 2014 encouraged private investment and competition.

Milestones
- The first MinoSpace satellite, Future-1 (Welai-1), was launched on October 27, 2018, aboard a LandSpace-made Lhuque-1 rocket. It failed to reach its intended sun-synchronous orbit, but it marked the first private Chinese satellite launch.
- A second MinoSpace satellite followed on October 29, 2018, launched on a Long March 2C rocket.
- On November 20, 2018, MinoSpace announced its Series A financing.

What MinoSpace makes
- Satellite platforms and components
- SATCOM ground station equipment
- Ku/Ka-band very-small-aperture terminals (VSATs)
- Portable telemetry, tracking, and command (TT&C) ground stations
- A three-mode data terminal compatible with 4G, Thuraya, and Beidou networks
- UHF/VHF deployable antennas

Headquarters and context
- The company is headquartered in Beijing’s Aerospace City, an area with many other aerospace companies and institutions.

Note
- In November 2022, the hacktivist group Anonymous claimed to have compromised MinoSpace’s site as part of broader disinformation activity.