CAS Space (中科宇航) Press Release Scraper

Scrapes all press releases and news articles from CAS Space (中科宇航, Zhongke Yuhang) — a top-3 Chinese commercial launch provider spun out of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, operating the Kinetica/Lijian rocket family (力箭一号, 力箭二号, 力箭三号).

The actor crawls the full listing at /list/16.html (paginated), fetches each article detail page, and returns structured records with full article content, publish dates, images, and launch-specific metadata (rocket family, launch outcome, payload satellite). External media coverage links (people.cn, CCTV, baijiahao) embedded in article content are captured without dereferencing.

What you get

Field	Type	Description
article_id	string	Numeric article ID from the URL (e.g. 512)
title_zh	string	Article title in Chinese
body_html	string	Full article body as raw HTML
body_text	string	Full article body as plain text
publish_date	string	Publication date in YYYY-MM-DD format
source_url	string	Canonical article URL on cas-space.com
external_mirror_links	string[]	External media coverage links in the article
kinetica_rocket_family	string|null	Rocket family mentioned (力箭一号 / 力箭二号 / 力箭三号 / 力箭一号S)
launch_outcome	string|null	Launch outcome phrase if detected (e.g. 发射任务取得圆满成功)
payload_satellite	string|null	Primary payload name if mentioned
images	string[]	URLs of images embedded in the article body
scrapedAt	string	ISO-8601 timestamp when the record was scraped

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum number of articles to scrape. Leave empty or set high (e.g. 9999) to scrape all available articles (~400-600).

Use cases

• Track every CAS Space launch announcement in real time
• Monitor Kinetica rocket development milestones and test results
• Build timelines of Chinese commercial launch cadence (2022-present)
• Cross-reference with Galactic Energy and LandSpace scrapers for full commercial-China-launch coverage
• Feed industry analysis pipelines (Bryce, NSR, Quilty workflows)

Coverage notes

• Category /list/16.html is the confirmed live news feed (要闻速递). Category IDs 3 and 15 return 404; only ID 16 is in scope.
• Articles cover: launch announcements, rocket/engine development updates, facility openings, industry partnerships, and media coverage.
• External media articles (people.cn, cctv, baijiahao) are listed on some detail pages — their URLs are captured but not dereferenced (content extraction is out of scope).
• Pagination follows the pattern /list/16-{page}.html (page 1 = /list/16.html, page 2+ = /list/16-{n}.html).

Example output

{
  "article_id": "512",
  "title_zh": "力箭二号遥一运载火箭成功发射轻舟初样试飞船，服务国家重大战略和重大工程建设",
  "publish_date": "2026-03-30",
  "kinetica_rocket_family": "力箭二号",
  "launch_outcome": "发射任务取得圆满成功",
  "payload_satellite": "轻舟初样试飞船（新征程02卫星）、新征程01卫星和天视卫星01星",
  "source_url": "https://www.cas-space.com/article/512.html",
  "images": ["https://www.cas-space.com/upload/content/2026/example.jpg"],
  "external_mirror_links": [],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-12T00:00:00.000Z"
}