标志着中国在小卫星领域实现技术、市场、资本有机结合,在产业化、商业化方面迈出重要步伐的航天东方红卫星有限公司8月18日在北京成立。该公司将达到年产6～10颗小卫星的研制生产能力,并成为中国小卫星技术的领军单位。这意味着小卫星发展完全依靠政府行为的局面已被打破,中国批量生产小卫星的格局 It marks China’s organic integration of technology, market, and capital in the field of small satellites. It has made significant progress in industrialization and commercialization. The aerospace Dongfang Satellite Co., Ltd. was established in Beijing on August 18. The company will achieve an annual production capacity of 6 to 10 small satellites, and will become a leader in China’s small satellite technology. This means that the development of small satellites relying solely on government behavior has been broken. China’s mass production of small satellites