深蓝航天 Deep Blue Limited – Deep Blue Aerospace Landspace One of sixty Chinese private space Carrier Rocket Companies in China-People’s Republic of China… As many of sixty plus Private Rocket Deep Blue Aerospace Co., Ltd. was established in 2017. The company is mainly a high-tech aerospace enterprise that focuses on the direction of liquid recovery and reusable launch vehicles and provides users with commercial launch services. Deep Blue Aerospace Co., Ltd. is headquartered in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province. At the same time, the company has rocket general and liquid engine R&D centers in Yizhuang, Beijing and Xi’an, Shaanxi, respectively, and a rocket power system test base in Tongchuan, Shaanxi…..
On the afternoon of October 18, 2025, Blue Arrow Aerospace organized and implemented the static ignition test of the Suzaku-3 Yao-1 carrier rocket at the 96B liquid oxygen and methane launch station in the Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Test Area!
The reusable rocket Zhuque-3 has entered the critical preparation phase for its maiden flight. Recently, the reusable rocket Suzaku-3 successfully completed its maiden flight rehearsal and static ignition test, entering the critical preparation phase for its official orbital launch and first-stage recovery this year.
The Suzaku-3 is a high-capacity, low-cost, reusable liquid-propellant carrier rocket independently developed by China for large-scale constellation networking missions. It can autonomously return to Earth with high precision after an orbital launch mission, achieving a soft landing at a recovery site and being reused.
The rocket’s first and second stages have a diameter of 4.5 meters, the fairing has a diameter of 5.2 meters, and the total length is 66.1 meters. It has a takeoff mass of approximately 570 tons and a takeoff thrust of over 750 tons. The rocket uses stainless steel as its main structural material. The first stage is equipped with nine Tianque-12A liquid oxygen-methane engines and is equipped with the RCS, grid rudders, and landing legs required for stage recovery. After completing an orbital launch mission, it can autonomously return to Earth with high precision, achieve a soft landing at the recovery site, and be reused.
On 22nd October 2025 After completing the static ignition test, the Suzaku-3 Yao-1 carrier rocket fairing was docked with the rocket, and the full appearance of the Suzaku-3 carrier rocket was displayed to the world for the first time
The complete shield and arrow combination of Suzaku-3 was unveiled
Landspace Reusable Carrier Rocket Zhuque-3 Suzaku-3 sets new record for liquid rocket thrust….. The test run of the first-stage power system of the Zhuque-3 reusable rocket was successfully completed in the Dongfeng Commercial Aerospace Innovation Test Area. The test used a first-stage rocket body with the same technical status as the first flight mission, and 9 Tianque-12A liquid oxygen-methane engines were connected in parallel, with a total thrust of 7542kN. The test fully covered the rocket-ground test and launch process, including propellant filling, tank pressurization, engine batch starting, steady-state operation and program shutdown, verifying the matching of the entire system and the rationality of the process. The test run conditions covered the flight conditions. It truly achieved “how to fly in the sky, how to test on the ground
Landspace Reusable Carrier Rocket Zhuque-3 Suzaku-3 sets new record for liquid rocket thrust At 12:00, the ignition command was issued, and the 9 engines ignited in batches according to the timing, switched stages, worked stably for 40 seconds, and completed the servo swing test, and then shut down in an orderly manner, fully verifying the matching between the engine, booster transmission, structure, avionics, launch support and other test systems, as well as the rationality of the rocket-ground coordination test and launch process. During the test, all systems worked normally, the engine start timing was accurate, the thrust was stable, and the test mission was a complete success…
Zhuque-3 (model code: ZQ-3) is the next-generation reusable liquid oxygen-methane carrier rocket of Landspace, China’s first stainless steel liquid carrier rocket, with a body diameter of 4.5m, a fairing diameter of 5.2m, a total length of 76.6m, a takeoff mass of approximately 660t, and a takeoff thrust of approximately 900t. The power system uses the Tianque series liquid oxygen-methane engine independently developed by Landspace.
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