Zhuhai Orbita Aerospace

Zhuhai Orbita Aerospace Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (珠海航宇微科技股份有限公司) was founded in March 2000 in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. The company has been publicly listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange since February 2010 (stock code 300053) and grew from a high-reliability integrated-circuit manufacturer into a pioneer of commercial Earth-observation satellite constellations, employing more than 1,000 people across China.

Orbita designs, builds, and operates the Zhuhai-1 (OVS/OHS) constellation of micro- and nano-satellites, combining video-imaging satellites (OVS series) and hyperspectral imaging satellites (OHS series) in low Earth orbit. The constellation began launching in June 2017 aboard Chinese CZ-4B and CZ-11 rockets from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, and is planned to grow to 34 satellites: video/image, hyperspectral, high-resolution optical, SAR, and infrared payloads working together for global, all-weather, high-revisit remote sensing.

The hyperspectral OHS satellites deliver 10 m ground resolution across a 150 km swath with 2.5 nm spectral resolution over 32 bands (400-1000 nm spectrum range), while the OVS video satellites provide sub-meter to ~2 m imaging with high frame-rate video capture for dynamic monitoring. Orbita backs the constellation with its own ground segment: a network of ground stations (Zhuhai, Wusu, Guiyang, Qingdao, Shanghai, Mohe and others) capable of collecting several petabytes of data per year.

Orbita markets its satellite imagery and derived analytics products and services to agriculture, forestry, water resources, ecological conservation, urban planning, and marine & fishery monitoring customers worldwide, working with international distribution partners for imagery tasking and data delivery.