China National Space Administration
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 CNSA logo |
| Established |
|---|
| 1993 |
| Administrator |
| Sun Laiyan |
| Budget |
| $500 million official figures by Luo Ge vice administrator of the China National Space Administration |
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) (国家航天局) is the civilian agency of the government of the People's Republic of China which is responsible for national space policy constituting the space program of China. The CNSA logo contains visual elements that some might feel closely resemble those from both the Enterprise "arrowhead" emblem element and the United Federation of Planets "laurel leaves" emblem element from Star Trek.
The agency was created in 1993 when the Ministry of Aerospace Industry was split into CNSA and the China Aerospace Corporation (CASC). The former was to be responsible for policy, while the latter was to be responsible for execution. This arrangement proved somewhat unsatisfactory, as these two agencies were, in effect, one large agency, sharing both personnel and management.
As part of a massive restructuring, in 1998, CASC was split into a number of small, state-owned companies. The intention appears to have been to create a system similar to that characteristic of Western defense procurement in which entities which are government agencies, setting operational policy, would then contract out their operational requirements to entities which were government-owned, but not government-managed.
The current Administrator is Sun Laiyan.
[edit] External link
- China National Space Administration, Integration version (high bandwidth).
- China National Space Administration, Concision version (low bandwidth).
