Chinese Society of Astronautics was founded in 1979. It aims to promote innovation ,development and popularization of space science and technology. CSA has 47 committees, 220 institutional members, over 100,000 individual members, and 2 joint offices with IAA Studies Center and IAF Select Sub-Committee on Satellite Commercial Applications.
CSA is actively engaged in global space academic activities. It is the host of 47th IAC, 64th IAC, GLUC2010, GLEX2017 and China Space Conference. CSA publishes the Journal of Astronautics (in Chinese and English) to cover the latest world space progresses. CSA launches Scientific and Technical Challenges in Astronautics annually. CSA carries out the construction of “National School of Space Features”, “My Space Dream-Space Paintings Competition” and the Space Universities CubeSat Challenge, Lunar Station 2050 International Innovation Competition, International Space Science and Scientific Payload Compition.