The Key Laboratory of Satellite Digital Technology (hereinafter referred to as the "Key Laboratory") focuses on the major needs of high-performance, high-quality, high-efficiency and low-cost satellites of the new generation of satellites, reshapes the satellite system and R&D system with digital technology, breaks through the core technology of cross-generation satellites, leads the innovation and development of the aerospace field, builds an digital innovation highland with advanced platforms and talents, supports the national strategy of becoming a space power, and digital China, and becomes an irreplaceable strategic scientific and technological force in the national aerospace field, space science exploration and other major national strategic needs.

The Key Laboratory adheres to the major national tasks, takes high performance, high quality, high efficiency and low cost as the core problem orientation, and focuses on the direction of satellite digital technology, and has set up four research directions: digital satellite and system, digital design and simulation, digital integration verification, and digital operation and maintenance and evaluation, and carries out technical research from the four dimensions of satellite system architecture, design, research and development, and operation.