National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences

The National Space Science Center (NSSC) is a Chinese Academy of Sciences institute responsible for planning, developing, managing and operating space-science satellite missions. Its research combines space physics and the space environment with microwave remote sensing and space-engineering technology. NSSC manages China's Strategic Priority Program on Space Science, whose missions include DAMPE, the Quantum Experiments at Space Scale mission, Shijian-10, Insight-HXMT, GECAM, the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory, Einstein Probe and the joint China–ESA SMILE mission. It also leads the Chinese Meridian Project, a distributed ground-based system for monitoring the space environment. In lunar and planetary exploration, NSSC contributes mission studies, scientific payload design and development, space-weather prediction and science applications. International collaborations include space-science missions, ISSI-Beijing and joint space-weather research.