On May 28, 2026, the “Commercial Space On-orbit Verification and Payload Loading Conference” was held in Beijing Satellite Town. This conference was jointly hosted by Beijing Shichuang Yida Technology Service Co., Ltd. (the operator of “Beijing Satellite Town”) and Nihao Space (Beijing) Technology Service Co., Ltd. It brought together representatives from more than 100 units upstream and downstream of the industry chain such as satellite manufacturing, parts and payload development, testing and testing, and scientific research institutes.
The conference focused on exchanges on topics such as commercial aerospace on-orbit verification, payload loading, satellite resource collaboration and industrial ecological construction, and jointly explored new models of commercial aerospace on-orbit verification and payload coordination through theme reports, demand releases, industry docking and closed-door exchanges.
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From “whole satellite mode” to “load coordination”
The demand for commercial aerospace on-orbit verification is growing rapidly
With the rapid development of commercial aerospace, industry demand is gradually extending from the traditional satellite model to new models such as “on-orbit verification”, “payload loading” and “payload hosting”. More and more companies are beginning to enter the space mission system in the form of payloads.
At the same time, more and more companies in the fields of remote sensing, communications, AI computing power, and space situational awareness have also begun to pay attention to the construction of space infrastructure capabilities through “payload loading”. Compared with the traditional independent satellite mode, the payload coordination and load hosting mode can achieve long-term on-orbit capability at a lower cost and in a more flexible way.
The “Research on China’s Commercial Aerospace On-orbit Verification and Payload Loading” released at the meeting pointed out that there are still many pain points in the field of my country’s commercial aerospace on-orbit verification and payload loading, including the lack of a stable path for new technologies to enter the aerospace system, relatively scattered on-orbit verification resources, low supply and demand matching efficiency, and the lack of standardized service platforms for cross-industry technologies to enter the space mission system.
Wang Long, founder of Nihao Space, said in the theme sharing that as commercial aerospace gradually enters the stage of large-scale development, on-orbit verification service capabilities are becoming an important infrastructure connecting technological innovation and aerospace engineering systems. In the future, commercial aerospace will not only require on-orbit verification platforms, but there will also be more and more demands for “replacement of entire satellite launches with payload loading.” Commercial aerospace is gradually moving from the “whole-satellite model” to the “payload coordination model”. More and more companies no longer need to independently launch entire satellites, but are paying more attention to stable, standardized, and low-cost access to space missions.
The participating companies generally believe that commercial aerospace is gradually moving from the past “single project cooperation” to a “platform, standardization, and systematization” collaborative model, and the construction of on-orbit verification service capabilities is becoming one of the important directions for industrial development.
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“Commercial Aerospace On-orbit Verification Innovation Center”
Officially unveiled
During the conference, the “Commercial Aerospace On-orbit Verification Innovation Center” was officially unveiled and landed in a satellite town in Beijing.
The center is jointly promoted by Nihao Space and Beijing Satellite Town, together with industrial chain ecological partners. It is oriented to the upstream and downstream of the commercial aerospace industry chain and explores the establishment of a commercial aerospace mission organization mechanism covering demand collection, payload loading, on-orbit verification, result evaluation and industrial collaboration.
In the future, the center will work with overall satellite enterprises, testing and testing institutions, scientific research institutes and industrial partners to jointly promote the open sharing of on-orbit verification capabilities and improve the efficiency of new technologies and new products entering the space mission system.
During the conference, a number of companies released on-site verification requirements for spaceborne fiber optic gyroscopes, space environment detection, quantum communication verification and other on-orbit verification requirements, and conducted in-depth exchanges around low-cost mounting, standardized interfaces, data return and mission coordination.
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“Verification Star Project” released
Explore the normalized on-orbit verification mechanism
In order to promote the on-orbit verification service from “single project cooperation” to “normalized mission collaboration”, during the conference, the “Commercial Space On-orbit Verification Innovation Center” simultaneously released the “Commercial Space Verification Star Plan”, which was jointly promoted by Nihao Space United Engineering Satellite, Shangxing Shanghai, Gengyu Muxing and other satellite overall enterprises.
The plan will focus on new materials, electronic devices, AI payloads, communication equipment, etc., explore low-cost, standardized, and normalized on-orbit verification and payload loading mechanisms, and open up satellite loading resources and on-orbit experiment opportunities. At the same time, we will gradually explore more open on-orbit verification and load hosting models to meet real commercial payload needs, and promote more new technologies to enter the space mission system with a lower threshold.
It is understood that the “Verification Star Project” will focus on exploring star-studded mounting, standardized interfaces, rapid mission response and other models to improve the efficiency of commercial aerospace on-orbit verification and industrial collaboration capabilities.
In addition, this conference also organized a closed-door docking meeting on on-orbit verification and payload loading requirements to carry out exchanges and cooperation around satellite payload loading, space environment verification, and spaceborne electronic equipment testing.
At present, the center has teamed up with a number of satellite overall units, as well as a number of testing, testing and industrial service institutions to jointly explore a collaborative mechanism for commercial spaceflight on-orbit verification and payload loading.
Participating companies believe that with the advancement of low-orbit satellite constellation construction and the continued expansion of commercial aerospace application scenarios, China’s commercial aerospace is gradually moving from “single-satellite engineering” to the stage of “mission coordination” and “load service”. New models such as on-orbit verification, payload loading and payload hosting are becoming important new directions for the commercial aerospace industry.
