谢涛，九天微星创始人兼CEO，中国科学院西安光学精密机械研究所卫星应用工程研究中心主任。曾于中国航天科技集团有限公司、国防科工局等任职10余年，参与过嫦娥探月工程等国家重大航天项目。

2015年创办九天微星，聚焦于微小卫星总体设计、星座组网核心技术研发与创新应用。谢涛带领团队持续奋斗，开放创新，首倡“个人卫星时代”、一带一路共建共享星座计划，缩小商业航天与先进国家的差距，推动小卫星形成创业与投资领域的热点与浪潮。2018年2月，九天微星首颗验证星“少年星一号”成功发射并顺利在轨运行，计划今年年底前以一箭七星方式发射“瓢虫系列”，这是目前中国民营航天领域规模最大、复杂程度最高的系统级项目验证。2019年以一箭四星方式启动物联网星座部署并开展商业应用。

Tao Xie
Founder and CEO of Beijing Commsat Technology Development Co., Ltd (COMMSAT)
Director of Applied Engineering of Satellite Research Center of Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, with experience of more than 10 years at China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) and other national agencies in space industries. He has participated in China’s top space projects including Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP) and multiple crewed spacecraft missions.

COMMSAT was founded in 2015, focusing on smallsat design, constellation construction, and innovation in satellite application. COMMSAT and Xie proposed “Sharing Satellite Constellation” for the Belt and Road Initiative associated countries, prophesied the approaching era for individual owned satellites, practice promoting China’s new space to meet the international competition, and to make smallsat the new hot-spot for startups and investors. 

In February 2018, COMMSAT launched its first satellite Young Pioneer-1, which is still operating in good condition in orbit. COMMSAT will launch “Ladybeetle” project of 7 satellites with a single rocket by the end of 2018 to fulfill the most complicated validation in China’s new space, and 4 satellites using a tailor-made rocket in 2019 to commence constellation networking, then provide formal IoT/M2M satcomm service worldwide.