- Service ensign · official · carried by People's Liberation Army
- Affiliation étatique · Chine
- Emblème de catégorie Vigil · pas un insigne officiel
Provenance de l’identité
Service ensign: Flag of the People’s Liberation Army — carried by People's Liberation Army, not issued to this record. Drawn by Vigil in IconSprite.astro from the flag’s official construction; no file is fetched and no artwork is copied. The PLA flag was adopted on 15 June 1949 — a red field with a gold five-pointed star and the characters for eight and one in the upper hoist.
Affiliation étatique : Chine.
La petite marque carrée est un emblème de catégorie Vigil, établi à partir du domaine, de l’échelon et du rôle propres à cette fiche — pas un insigne officiel.
En bref
La composante spatiale de l’APL, constituée en avril 2024 à partir de l’organisation spatiale de la Strategic Support Force et rattachée directement à la Commission militaire centrale.
- Périmètre
- Structure, rôle, filiation et liens. Aucune fiche subordonnée publiée.
- Subordination
- Subordination confirmée
- Sources
- 4 dans la fiche
- État de la fiche
- Partiel
- Zone d’activité générale
- Chinese territory and orbit; a functional rather than geographic remit
- Historique notable
- Formed on 19 April 2024 from the Strategic Support Force's Space Systems Department, which had held the PLA's launch, telemetry, tracking and satellite operations since 2015. The elevation from a department inside a force to an arm reporting to the Central Military Commission is the change worth recording; the underlying organisation is largely continuous. Its relevance to this module is the layer beneath everything else: maritime surveillance, over-the-horizon targeting support and the communications that make theatre-level joint operations possible all depend on space systems, and separating them from the cyber and information functions they were bundled with is the reorganisation's most legible decision.
- Points forts
- Direct CMC subordination, a mature launch and tracking infrastructure, and a remit clearly separated from the network and cyber functions it was previously grouped with.
- Limites
- The public record covers institutional identity and very little else. Vigil publishes no constellation detail, no capability assessment and no operational claim; older English-language sources that treat "space and cyber" as one Chinese organisation predate this structure and are not reconciled with it here — they are simply not used for post-2024 claims.
Filiation et histoire institutionnelle
Prédécesseurs : PLA Strategic Support Force
Évalué au — 2026-09 Dernière revue — 2026-09-09
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