We don’t just talk about space — we take a space city from requirements through structure and habitat to a proposal that can be verified and defended.
Butian Engineering Club belongs to the Qiushi Innovation Academy at Hangzhou No.2 High School of Zhejiang Province. We care about space, but more about how it gets built — a space city is only truly understood once it survives the scrutiny of structure, habitat, operations and business, a 24-hour design sprint, and an all-English defense.
Around a competition RFP, deliver a full systems proposal for a space city or off-world base under structural, habitat and operational constraints — from breaking down requirements to defending it in English.
Solve load-bearing, pressurization, assembly and infrastructure layout in orbital and off-world environments — so a vast habitat is not just an idea, but a design that holds up.
Atmosphere cycling, life support, food engineering and crop selection — turning "keep people living here long-term" into computable, verifiable subsystems.
Organized as a virtual aerospace company: management, operations, risk and business cases that make an engineering proposal both feasible and convincing.
Explain the work and pass it on — documentation, space-science outreach and community programs that let what we learn live on inside and beyond the club.
Teams Yuheng and Tianquan designed a Venus-orbit space city at the 2024 GFSSM China round — from winter-break preparation to a 24-hour on-site sprint. Both companies took national runner-up; Team Tianquan won "Best Qualifying Proposal".
In June 2023, Butian joined the IF Business Club and the school volunteer team in a paired-exchange visit to Jianshan Central Primary School in Pan’an, Jinhua, bringing space-science books and introductory science lessons.
At the 2016 ISSDC China finals, the Hangzhou No.2 High School team designed a 250-person mining base inside a Mercury lava tube in 25 hours and won the China round — the traceable origin of Butian’s aerospace-engineering tradition.
We welcome students with a lasting interest in engineering and space. You don’t need to know a lot already — only to be willing to get your hands dirty, dig into problems, and write the process down.