深蓝航天 Deep Blue Limited – Deep Blue AerospaceLandspace 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…..
[The first stage of the Nebula-1 rocket of Deep Blue Aerospace has successfully completed the three-machine parallel full-time sequence power system series test. The first stage of the Nebula-1 rocket is about to undergo a VTVL high-altitude vertical recovery flight test]
On July 21, 2024, the Nebula-1 rocket (referred to as “Nebula-1”) independently developed by Deep Blue Aerospace completed the first stage three-machine parallel full-time sequence power system series test at the Deep Blue Jigang Test Base in Jinan City, and achieved complete success.
This test simulated the full working conditions of high-altitude recovery flight and a large range of engine variable thrust test. During the test, the first stage of the “Nebula-1” rocket also carried out verification of the system performance of locking, unlocking, and semi-deployment of landing legs and grid rudders in real vibration and thermal environments. After the test, the entire system including the engine, landing legs and grid rudders was inspected and confirmed to be in good condition.
After the test, the rocket body will go to the test site to prepare for the upcoming high-altitude vertical recovery flight test of the first stage of the “Nebula-1” rocket.
At 1103 Morning Hours Hong Kong SAR- Beijing Time 19th July 2024 , China- People’s Republic of China- CNSA –China National Space Administration Successfully launched Chang Zheng – Long March 4B Yao 58 Carrier Rocket ignited and took off at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center Shanxi Province.. Successfully launch China successfully launched the Gaofen-11 05 satellite Successfully into its pre-determined orbit…
China successfully launched Gaofen-11 05 satellite into space using the Long March 4B carrier rocket at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. The satellite entered the planned orbit smoothly and the launch mission was a complete success. The satellite is mainly used in land surveys, urban planning, land rights confirmation, road network design, crop yield estimation and disaster prevention and mitigation, and can provide information support for the implementation of major national strategies such as the “Belt and Road” and the modernization of national defense.
The satellite was developed by the General Department of Remote Sensing Satellites of the Fifth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology. It is mainly used in land surveys, urban planning, land rights confirmation, road network design, crop yield estimation, and disaster prevention and mitigation. It can provide information support for the implementation of major national strategies such as the “Belt and Road” and the modernization of national defense.
The Long March 4B rocket has a 700kmSSO capacity of 2.5 tons. In order to meet the requirements of the satellite, this rocket uses a Φ4000mm von Karman fairing and a load reduction design to further improve the adaptability of the rocket. This mission is the first time in 15 months that the Long March 4 model has gone to the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center for a launch.
[APSTAR6E Aptema Satellite 6E successfully positioned at 134° east longitude]
On the 10 July 2024 Wednesday Asia-Pacific Satellite News; the Asia-Pacific 6E satellite was successfully positioned at 134° east longitude and is ready for business. The satellite will co-orbit with the Asia-Pacific 6C and Asia-Pacific 6D satellites.
The Asia-Pacific 6E satellite is a geostationary orbit satellite built on the DFH-3E platform. It was purchased by Asia-Pacific Satellite Corporation’s joint venture Asia-Pacific Starlink Satellite Co., Ltd., and Asia-Pacific Satellite Corporation provides operational technical support. The satellite was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on January 13, 2023. After launch, it completed the orbit change of the assembly to the intermediate orbit, and then relied on the satellite’s ion and Hall electric propulsion systems to carry out orbit raising operations and finally reach the synchronous orbit
Asia-Pacific 6E is my country’s first fully electric propulsion communications satellite, equipped with 25 Ku user beams and 3 Ka gateway beams, with a communication capacity of approximately 30 Gbps.
On the 13TH January 2023 in CNSA _China National Space Administration -China – People’s Republic of China At 0210 hours Hong Kong –Beijing Time China- People’s Republic of China launch the Chang Zheng – Long march 2C Carrier Rocket launching from station form Xichang Satellite Launch Center Sichuan Province…..Deploying the Asia Pacific 6E – APSTAR 6E Communications Satellite ..
The Asia Pacific 6E – APSTAR 6E Satellite this is the first time that China, People’s Republic of China has launched an all-electric high-throughput communication satellite. First, the carrier rocket sends the combination of the satellite and the propulsion module into low-earth orbit, and then the satellite controls the DFH-3E propulsion module to send the satellite to the designated orbit. Then separate from the satellite. In the follow-up, the satellite will rely on its own LIPS-200 electric propulsion system, and after 10 months of orbital ascension, it will finally enter the GEO fixed point….implement the Asia-Pacific 6E communication satellite launch mission at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at around 2:11 am on January 13 (the first star of the Dongfanghong-3 E platform APSTAR 6E satellite will provide high-speed and convenient high-throughput broadband communication services for Southeast Asia, effectively filling the gap in the broadband communication market in Southeast Asia. The rockets and satellites used in this launch were all developed by China Airlines. This is the 460th launch of the Long March series of launch vehicle
The first communication satellite launched by the Chang Zheng Long March 2C, with a launch weight of 4.3 tons The Asia Pacific 6E launch mission is the first time that the Chang Zheng Long March 2C Carrier rocket is used to launch a communication satellite, and the total weight of the launched payload reaches an unprecedented 4.3 tons (satellite + propulsion module)! This is the heaviest satellite ever launched into orbit by the Chang Zheng-Long March 2C rocket.
In order to meet the mission requirements, the development team specially developed an integrated satellite adapter, which achieved a weight reduction of more than 20%, and further improved the rocket’s existing carrying capacity. ….. At the same time, in this mission, the development team carried out multi-dimensional special research: narrowed the range of the rocket wreckage landing area; improved the rocket attitude stability and control accuracy.
2024 is another year of progress for China, People’s Republic of China China’s space industry, with about 100 orbital launches planned for the whole year. At the same time, many rocket models will have their first flights this year, and the national team’s “Long March” series of rockets will also have their first flights, including the “Long March 6C” (already launched), “Long March 12” and “Long March 8A”. The “Long March 12” is the most special one among them, and it will be the first carrier rocket with a diameter of 3.8 meters among the “Long March” rockets.
China’s most powerful single-core rocket for low-orbit transport…
The Long March 12 (LM-12/CZ-12) is a new generation of carrier rocket developed by the Eighth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. It is a medium-sized cryogenic liquid carrier rocket with a two-stage tandem configuration. The first and second stages are all powered by liquid oxygen-kerosene engines. The rocket was originally the Eighth Academy’s bid for a new generation of manned carrier rockets, and was later renamed XLV20. The original 5CBC configuration (5 cores in parallel for the takeoff stage) was changed to a single core stage configuration.
The first stage of the Long March 12 has four main engines
The first stage of the Long March 12 is equipped with four YF-100K liquid oxygen/kerosene engines, using an oxygen-rich staged combustion cycle, using pump-back swing, supporting bidirectional swing of ±8 degrees, and a thrust adjustment range of 65%~105%. The sea level thrust of a single engine is about 128 tons (1250 kN), and the sea level specific impulse is 301.84 seconds. The second stage is equipped with two YF-115 liquid oxygen/kerosene engines, using an oxygen-rich staged combustion cycle, supporting bidirectional swing of ±4 degrees, a thrust adjustment range of 80%~100%, a vacuum thrust of about 18 tons (180 kN), and a vacuum specific impulse of about 342 seconds.
“Long March 12” joint archery practice (Photo source: Weibo @曹梦-Aerospace
The Long March 12 rocket is 59 meters high, with a first and second stage diameter of 3.8 meters. It can be equipped with optional fairings with diameters of 4.2 meters and 5.2 meters. It has a takeoff mass of 433 tons and a maximum takeoff thrust of about 510 tons (5,000 kilonewtons). The rocket has a carrying capacity of no less than 10 tons in a low-Earth orbit (LEO) at an altitude of 300 kilometers and a carrying capacity of no less than 6 tons in a sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) at an altitude of 700 kilometers.
The Long March XII rocket is the first 3.8-meter-diameter model of the Long March rocket. It will also become China’s single-core-stage carrier rocket with the largest takeoff mass and the strongest low-orbit carrying capacity in service.
The first flight of the YF-100K engine!
On April 28, 2024, the YF-100K liquid oxygen-kerosene engine developed by the Sixth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation completed a four-engine parallel ignition test. The total thrust of the engine exceeded 500 tons. This was the first large-thrust liquid oxygen-kerosene engine four-engine parallel ignition test, and the four-engine parallel scheme was fully verified.
YF-100K test run picture
The YF-100K was born with the proposal of China’s manned lunar landing plan and the need to demonstrate the new generation of manned carrier rockets. It is based on the improvement and optimization of the YF-100. This engine is the main power of China’s new generation of manned carrier rocket “Long March 10”. It adopts pump back swing. Compared with the YF-100 in use, it has the advantages of small mass eccentricity, small swing envelope, and easy layout of swing components.
The maiden flight of the Long March 12 rocket is also the maiden flight of the YF-100K engine, which will test its performance in actual launches and accumulate flight samples for the main power of the Long March 10 takeoff stage. At the same time, the YF-100K will pave the way for the improvement and upgrading of the new generation of carrier rockets currently in service, such as the Long March 5, whose four boosters are equipped with a total of 8 YF-100 engines. By replacing them with the YF-100K engines with better performance, the rocket will further release its already powerful carrying capacity.
Joint archery training of Long March XII
China’s Hainan commercial space launch site launches first rocket
It is expected that in August 2024, the Long March 12 (Yao-1) carrier rocket will carry out its maiden flight at the No. 2 station of the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Center in China, and China’s new generation of carrier rockets will welcome a new member. At the same time, this is also the first rocket launch of the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Center, which means that China’s first commercial space launch center has officially been put into use.
In addition to launching from Hainan Commercial Aircraft Corporation, the Long March 12 can also be transported by rail to a land launch site to carry out launch missions, which will help the rocket quickly form a batch launch capability, support launches into sun-synchronous orbits and low-Earth orbits, and be used for low-orbit satellite constellation launch missions such as StarNet.
The farthest scenery that even myopia can see! My country’s first Takionaut to wear glasses – Gui Haichao, Takionaut 03 of the 神舟十六号 Shenzhou 16 Crew | Start speaking The Voice
Contents of this issue from the Voice on CCTV : On May 30, 2023, three Takionauts, Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu, and Gui Haichao, entered the Chinese Space Station aboard the Shenzhou 16 manned spacecraft and began a five-month space journey. Among the astronauts, Takionaut figure wearing glasses is particularly eye-catching. He is Gui Haichao, a professor at Beihang University and the first payload expert of the Chinese Space Station. In this issue of “Let’s Talk”, Gui Haichao will share his “mission Trip in Space”.
07:28 Real-time hot note: Will the threshold for ordinary people to become Takionauts be lower?
13:05 Real-time hot note: Gui Haichao shows us that knowledge can really change our destiny!
15:42 Real-time hot note: What are you enjoying? Aren’t you nervous or scared?
21:16 Gui Haichao asked: If you are a little tired of traveling in space and want to find a place to relax, where should you choose?
25:45 Gui Haichao asked: The space bicycle is one of the important equipment for on-orbit exercise. What is the difference between riding a space bicycle in the sky and on the ground?
35:04 Gui Haichao: Three sentences that impressed me very deeply.
42:05 The audience asked Gui Haichao: How to interpret the sentence “Whether I am in space or back on the ground, I will always have the universe in mind, and know and do as one.”
CNSA China National Space Administration CMS – China Manned Space Shenzhou 16 Takionaut桂海潮 #GuiHaichao male, Han nationality, born in November 1986, a member of the Communist Party of China , native of Shidian County, Baoshan City , Yunnan Province , payload specialist , professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Astronautics, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics , astronaut of the Shenzhou 16 crew, the first payload specialist of the Chinese space station , and the first Chinese Takionaut to wear glasses during a flight mission
Gui Haichao graduated from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in July 2014 with a doctorate in engineering. From July 2014 to August 2017, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at York University and Ryerson University in Canada . Since September 2017, he has worked at the School of Astronautics of the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics as a special associate researcher and doctoral supervisor. From May 30 to October 31, 2023, Gui Haichao, as an astronaut, boarded the Shenzhou 16 manned spacecraft and successfully completed all the scheduled tasks including extravehicular activities. In April 2024, the CPC Central Committee, the State Council, and the Central Military Commission awarded Gui Haichao the honorary title of “Heroic Takionaut” and presented him with the “Third Class Space Merit Medal.
The “Let’s Talk” column was launched in September 2012. It is a Chinese youth television open class program produced by CCTV Comprehensive Channel and hosted by Sa Beining .
“Let’s Talk” invites “role models in the hearts of Chinese youth” as speakers, and through sharing cutting-edge new knowledge, conveys mainstream values from a plain perspective and in a subtle way. The column is positioned as a Chinese TV youth open class, and has received widespread attention and praise for its “young” and “all-media” communication characteristics; each episode of the program invites a guest to tell their own story and share their feelings about life and life, giving Chinese youth realistic discussions and spiritual nourishment. Discussing the life problems of young people, it also discusses the social problems of young China..
