Xinbin Hou

Xinbin Hou is a senior researcher at China Academy of Space Technology (CAST). He received his PhD from Beihang University, China in 2002. He joined CAST and became a thermal control engineer in 2002. He has been engaged in the research and development of solar-power satellites (SPSs) since 2006 and has become a leading researcher of SPSs in China. He proposed the concept of Multi-Rotary joints SPS (MR-SPS) in 2014. The concept won the first prize in the 2015 International SunSat Design Competition. The MR-SPS has been one of the leading concepts of SPSs in the world since then. Dr. Hou also serves as a member of the Permanent Committee on Space Solar Power, the International Academy of Astronautics since 2022, a member and secretariat of the Space Power Committee of the International Astronautical Federation since 2012, and a member and Vice Secretary General of Space Solar Power Committee, Chinese Society of Astronautics since 2021.