Space: Science & Technology is an Open Access journal published in affiliation with Beijing Institute of Technology and published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). BIT cooperates with China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) in managing the journal.

The editor-in-chief is Dr. Ye Peijian, who is the academician from Chinese Academy of Sciences and currently the senior researcher at CAST. The executive editor-in-chief is Dr. Deng Yulin, who is the President of the International Academy of Astronautics Life Sciences Commission, Chief Scientist of Institute of Engineering Medicine, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT).

The mission of Space: Science & Technology is to promote the exploration and research of space worldwide, to lead the rapid integration and technological breakthroughs of interdisciplinary sciences in the space field, and to build a high-level academic platform for discussion, cooperation, technological progress and information dissemination among professional researchers, engineers, scientists and scholars.

Space: Science & Technology was established by February, 2021, and has now been indexed in Ei Compendex, Web of Science ESCI (2023 IF=4.1), Scopus, Inspec, SAO/NASA-ADS and other major international databased.