东方空间 OrienSpace is one of sixty plus Carrier Rocket Companies in Made In China, People’s Republic of China.. Located in headquartered in Beijing, B3, Digital Manor, No. 1 Disheng West Road, Yizhuang Economic and Technological Development Zone, Daxing District, Beijing………Shandong Address: No. 30, Nanjing Street, Economic Development Zone, Haiyang City, Yantai City, Shandong Province………Shaanxi Address: 4th Floor, Northwest Building, Eleven Science and Technology, National Civil Aerospace Industry Base, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province…….Hainan Address: Room 125, 1st Floor, Building 20, No. 169, Wenwei Road, Wencheng Town, Wenchang City, Hainan Province…
Established in 2020, Dongfang Space is mainly engaged in space transportation. It is a design and manufacturing service company for launch vehicles and new aerospace vehicles. Through the research and development of the “Gravity” series of launch vehicles, the company has created serialized, diversified, and flight-based aerospace transportation products such as one-time use, recyclable reuse, and manned flight, and quickly formed low-cost, large-scale, and convenient launches. Service capability, committed to becoming the world’s most respected provider of commercial aerospace products and launch services, so that everyone can realize the dream of spaceflight…….
[Are the destinations of private Carrier rockets all turtle version of Falcon 9]
Oriental Space’s “Gravity 2” recyclable Reusable liquid launch vehicle plans to fly for the first time in 2025. According to news on November 27, the 2023 China (Wenchang) Commercial Aerospace Summit Forum was held in Wenchang Hosted, Oriental Space and Hainan Wenchang International Space City officially signed a launch vehicle launch and recovery Hainan base project to conduct in-depth cooperation around the launch and recovery of the “Gravity 2” recyclable liquid launch vehicle to serve large-scale constellation networking and high-orbit rocket launches need.
Eastern Space will launch its all-solid Gravity-1 rocket next month, but its subsequent destination will still be a liquid rocket.
Gravity 2 has a take-off weight of 927 tons, a take-off thrust of 1,420 tons, a low-Earth orbit carrying capacity of 25.6 tons, a 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit carrying capacity of 19.1 tons, and a geosynchronous transfer orbit of 7.7 tons. It is planned to make its first flight in 2025.
The “Gravity-2” recyclable liquid launch vehicle is scheduled to fly for the first time in 2025. Gravity-2 is positioned to meet the needs of large-scale networking of medium and large satellites and commercial high-orbit launches. It is characterized by ultimate cost-effectiveness/high-orbit launch/core-stage recovery. of medium and large launch vehicles.
The rocket adopts a two-stage and a half configuration of liquid core stage + solid boost. The first stage of the core uses 9 units of Oriental Space’s self-developed Force-85 liquid oxygen and kerosene engines, and the second stage of the core uses 1 unit of the Force-85 liquid oxygen and kerosene vacuum version. The engine and booster inherit the Gravity-1 boost technology
[The first all-solid private rocket with four boosters is about to be launched] Oriental Space’s first launch vehicle “Gravity-1” is scheduled to be launched from Haiyang Oriental Space Port in Shandong Province in December 2023. of the first launch.
“Gravity One” is an innovative model in the world’s launch vehicle field. It is the world’s first medium-sized all-solid strap-on launch vehicle. It will become the world’s solid launch vehicle with the largest take-off capacity and the most powerful capacity. Officials have now released actual shots of the appearance of the “Gravity-1” Yaoyi rocket.
It adopts a three-stage and a half configuration, consisting of a core first stage, a core second stage, a core third stage and four boosters bundled around the core first stage, all using solid propellant.
“Gravity One” meets the needs of large-scale networking of small and medium-sized satellites in low orbit, and supports the launch needs of multiple satellites in one rocket. For a constellation satellite with a single weight of 200 kilograms, the rocket can support the multi-satellite launch of 18 to 24 satellites in one rocket. In the Yaoyi mission, the rocket will be equipped with a fairing with a diameter of 4.2 meters, the largest of Chinese commercial rockets, waiting for the solid giant rocket to rise from the east.
The arrow core has a first-stage diameter of 2.65 meters and is equipped with an SR-2500 solid rocket motor with a thrust of 255 tons and a maximum nozzle diameter of 2.4 meters, leading the country in comprehensive performance. The booster has a diameter of 2.65 meters and a height of more than 10 meters. It is equipped with a solid engine with a thrust of more than 150 tons; the secondary core diameter is 2.65 meters; the third core diameter is 1.4 meters. It is equipped with a solid main engine. The final attitude control power system has a total of 4 50 N and 12 The 700-N solid motor is used for attitude control such as pitch, yaw, and roll and terminal speed correction during part of the rocket’s flight phase, and is used for final stage deorbit and reentry.
The “Gravity One” rocket is 31.4 meters long, has a take-off mass of 405 tons, a take-off thrust of more than 600 tons (the core first stage does not ignite during take-off), a thrust-to-weight ratio of more than 1.48, and optional fairings with diameters of 3.35 meters, 3.8 meters and 4.2 meters. The 4.2-meter-diameter fairing has a load space of 100 cubic meters. Its low-Earth orbit (LEO) carrying capacity is 6.5 tons, and the carrying factor is about 1.60%. The 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) carrying capacity is 4.2 tons, and the carrying factor is about 1.04%. 700 The kilometer SSO has a carrying capacity of 3.7 tons and a carrying coefficient of approximately 0.91%.
For comparison, the world’s most powerful solid rocket is currently the European Space Agency’s “Vega-C”, which has a take-off mass of 210 tons, a take-off thrust of about 459 tons, and a 700-kilometer polar orbit (PO) transport capacity of 2.3 tons (700-kilometer SSO). The transport capacity is close to 2.3 tons) and the load factor is 1.10%.
In comparison, the take-off mass of “Gravity One” is 190 tons higher, and the 700-kilometer SSO transport capacity is nearly 1.4 tons higher.
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星河动力空间科技有限公司 Galactic Energy- Galaxy Power (Beijing) Space Technology Co., Ltd.Located in Block D, Aviation Technology Plaza, E-Town, and Beijing – Beijing – China – People’s Republic of China ….Galaxy Aerospace is the first private aerospace company in China to achieve successful continuous launches, the first to send commercial networked satellites into a 500km sun-synchronous orbit, and the first to master the ability to launch multiple satellites with one carrier rocket.
On the 5th December 2023 0733 Hours Hong- Kong SAR – Beijing time星河动力空间科技有限公司 Galactic Energy- Galaxy Power Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center- Inner Mongolia China, People’s Republic of China. Successfully launched the Ceres-1 Yao-9 carrier rocket was successfully launched at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in my country. The mission was a complete success. This mission is the ninth flight of the Ceres 1 launch vehicle
[Galaxy Power’s “Ceres 1” rocket successfully returned to flight]. It will carry Tianyan 16 satellites and Xingchi 1 satellites. The No. A satellite was successfully put into the predetermined orbit, and the launch mission was a complete success. This mission is the 11th flight of the Ceres 1 launch vehicle.
(mission code: WE WON’T STOP, never stop) at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, successfully putting the A total of two satellites, Tianyan 16 and Xingchi 1A, were launched into a 500km dawn and dusk orbit. This is the first time a domestic private rocket company has successfully implemented a dawn and dusk orbit launch mission, and it is also the tenth successful launch of the Ceres 1 series of commercial launch vehicles. .
Up to now, Galaxy Power Space Company has served 16 commercial satellite customers and successfully launched 35 commercial satellites of different types.
The Tianyan 16 satellite was developed by Gengyu Muxing (Beijing) Space Technology Co., Ltd. The satellite is a meteorological environment detection satellite. The satellite is equipped with a microwave radiometer and laser communication payload. It is mainly used to carry out multi-mode continuous remote sensing detection of microwave radiometer. and laser communications. Xingchi-1A is another real-time wide-area comprehensive sensing satellite independently developed by Elliptical Space-Time Technology Co., Ltd. The satellite is located in the morning and evening orbit and has the characteristics of responsive and agile imaging, on-orbit intelligent processing, and spaceborne on-orbit mutual calibration. According to reports, the “Star Pool Project” launched by Elliptical Spacetime is a comprehensive sensing satellite constellation composed of more than 100 intelligent satellites. The overall construction is expected to be completed in 2027. After the constellation is completed, it can provide standardized data products and application services for intelligent inspection of electric power and petroleum infrastructure, futures big data, dual carbon, emergency disaster reduction, ecological environment monitoring and other fields.
In terms of combining social responsibilities, this launch of Galaxy Power Aerospace and Beijing Space New Culture Communication Co., Ltd. jointly launched “Painting with the Starry Sky-Youth Calligraphy and Painting Art Space Exhibition”. This event aims to let young children based on Understand aerospace and space, use the brush in your hand to present the infinite reverie and beautiful longing for the vast space on the drawing paper, so as to better promote the “young art lovers” to realize the diversified knowledge expansion of science and technology and art, and inspire the general public Young children pursue their dreams of spaceflight and learn about space. More than 2,000 works collected from this event were exhibited at Muyun Space in the Today Art Museum neighborhood of Beijing from November 24th to 26th. Among them, 20 outstanding youth paintings were incorporated into an electronic chip and accompanied by Ceres 1. The final stage of the launch vehicle entered the vast space.
We would like to thank the Ziyang Branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Jiangtai Insurance Brokers Co., Ltd. for providing insurance brokerage services and related sponsorship support for this launch mission. We would also like to thank Jing Douyun for providing the celebration wine for the Ceres-1 Yao 9 launch mission.
With its perseverance and indomitable will, Galaxy Power Aerospace Company quickly overcame the impact of the failure and returned to the fast lane of launch performance and delivery, demonstrating the rapid and stable guarantee and contract performance capabilities of the commercial aerospace industry chain, as well as its ability to cope with pressure. industrial resilience. In the future development process, Galaxy Power Aerospace will continue to adhere to the concepts of being cautious, striving for excellence, and customer first, further strengthen the construction of high-density launch capabilities, and contribute its own modest strength to the development of my country’s commercial aerospace industry…
东方空间 OrienSpace is one of sixty plus Carrier Rocket Companies in Made In China, People’s Republic of China.. Located in headquartered in Beijing, B3, Digital Manor, No. 1 Disheng West Road, Yizhuang Economic and Technological Development Zone, Daxing District, Beijing………Shandong Address: No. 30, Nanjing Street, Economic Development Zone, Haiyang City, Yantai City, Shandong Province………Shaanxi Address: 4th Floor, Northwest Building, Eleven Science and Technology, National Civil Aerospace Industry Base, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province…….Hainan Address: Room 125, 1st Floor, Building 20, No. 169, Wenwei Road, Wencheng Town, Wenchang City, Hainan Province…
Established in 2020, Dongfang Space is mainly engaged in space transportation. It is a design and manufacturing service company for launch vehicles and new aerospace vehicles. Through the research and development of the “Gravity” series of launch vehicles, the company has created serialized, diversified, and flight-based aerospace transportation products such as one-time use, recyclable reuse, and manned flight, and quickly formed low-cost, large-scale, and convenient launches. Service capability, committed to becoming the world’s most respected provider of commercial aerospace products and launch services, so that everyone can realize the dream of spaceflight…….
The actual shape of this bevel cone seems to be a bit sharper than the one in the animation and model?
[The Orient Space Gravity-1 launch vehicle plans to make its first flight at the Oriental Space Port in December this year] Orient Space’s first “Gravity-1” launch vehicle will make its first flight at the Oriental Space Port in Yantai, Shandong in December this year. Aiming at the demand for rapid launch services of low-orbit constellations and medium- and large-scale satellites, the low-Earth orbit carrying capacity of “Gravity-1” is as high as 6.5 tons, which will increase the capacity of the largest commercial space rocket in China by about three times and will effectively help my country improve its medium- and large-scale satellites. Space payload rapid response launch capability.
“Gravity-1” is China’s first commercial space rocket with a bundled design and the world’s first all-solid bundled rocket. The rocket has a three-stage and semi-configuration. The booster stage is bundled with four solid motors. Each unit is more than 10 meters in height, 2.65 meters in diameter, and has a thrust of up to 155 tons. It will provide 600 tons of thrust for the rocket to take off, making the “gravity force” -1″ can achieve a low-Earth orbit carrying capacity of up to 6.5 tons…
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The Orion Astropreneur Space Academy in Hong Kong is an independent, non-political, and not-for-profit action-oriented leadership development academy for global young leaders with stellar and outer space aspirations. The Academy is a member of the global leadership development initiatives with other space onboarding and offboarding institutions such as the Laboratory for Space Research at the University of Hong Kong, and other forward-looking and space-related institutions.
OASA HK – Hong Kong is located in the Central of Tsim Sha Tsui, First Floor, Everglory Centre, 1B Kimberley Street, (Next to Observatory Road) Hong Kong SAR-China, People’s Republic of China.
Taikonaut Zhao gave us an overview of Hong Kong’s and GBA’s possible role in complementing China’s Space programme over the next few years. He built on the theme of “why not?” and suggested this is the perfect time to jump in. NewSpace is becoming a new industry for mankind. NewSpace is broad and all-encompassing, and that’s why we all need to think bigger and wider. NewSpace requires new tech, new talent, new policies, and new insights. The satellite applications market is the largest and this segment requires more capacity building. NewSpace should be more inclusive and for a more diversified humanity. We shouldn’t leave anyone behind. Hong Kong’s locational role is unique, and can help China become more international, more connected, and more innovative with proper and timely funding. Conversely, the NewSpace will also help power Hong Kong’s economy and make it much more diversified. There are five steps for Hong Kong to consider. Breakthrough the old stereotypes and barriers. Bring in talent. Enhance the rule of international space law. Attract more capital. Promote and connect startups in China to IPO. Hong Kong needs lots more talent. Need to develop many more and create a stronger pool of talent.
Speaker: Mr ZHAO Chuandong, China’s first batch of Taikonaut
About the speaker: Zhao Chuandong is a renowned figure in the field of space exploration. He served as a fighter pilot in the PLA Air Force for 16 years. In 1998, he became one of the first group of astronauts in China’s Shenzhou program and took part in the training for manned space missions from Shenzhou 5 to Shenzhou 10. Zhao pursued his higher education at Tsinghua University, specialising in Aerospace Engineering, where he obtained a Master’s degree in Engineering.
Following his retirement from active duty in 2014, Zhao devoted himself to astronaut training, scientific research management, and public education initiatives focused on manned space exploration.
LSR special colloquium
Date: 19th Oct 2023 Time: 3:30-4:30pm Location: LSR, Cyberport 4
Profile of Mr. Zhao Chuandong Mr. Zhao Chuandong (趙傳東) is a Chinese pilot selected as part of the Shenzhou program. A fighter pilot in the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, he was selected to be an astronaut in 1998. He retired from the Astronaut Corps in 2014.
Content of the talk: 1. How to leverage the advantage of HK unique position under “One country, two systems” for aerospace? 2. How should Hong Kong SAR nurture aerospace talent by leveraging China’s support or even contribute to China? 3. LSR is continuously striving in various space research areas. Can it collaborate and develop together with China?
Schedule: 3:30pm Welcome, intro to LSR and speaker by Prof. Parker 3:40pm Talk delivered by Mr. Zhao 4:10pm Discussion between LSR people and Mr Zhao, aka Q&A 4:30pm Causal chat, with wine and cheese 5:30pm End
星河动力空间科技有限公司 Galactic Energy- Galaxy Power (Beijing) Space Technology Co., Ltd. Located in Block D, Aviation Technology Plaza, E-Town, and Beijing – Beijing – China – People’s Republic of China ….Galaxy Aerospace is the first private aerospace company in China to achieve successful continuous launches, the first to send commercial networked satellites into a 500km sun-synchronous orbit, and the first to master the ability to launch multiple satellites with one carrier rocket.
The latest news from Galaxy Power – Ceres 1 will return to flight in two months – Progress of Pallas 1 Onwards
October 29, 2023, at the Beihang Alumni Innovation Forum held during the 71st anniversary of Beihang University, Galaxy Power CEO Liu Baiqi, who is a Beihang alumnus He delivered a speech titled “Building a New Generation of Low-Cost, Highly Reliable Commercial Launch Vehicles” and introduced the development of Galaxy Power. Among the more important new information are: 🚀 Ceres 1 has a low-orbit carrying capacity of 300 kilograms and sells for 4.5 million
. Around US$7 million, compared to US$7 million for 150 kilograms of electronic numbers.
🚀 Ceres 1 has been put into production for 30 rounds (!) 🚀 Ceres 1 is expected to return to flight in two months, with the mission of Remote Nine, codenamed “We won’t stop” 🚀 Some people think that Ceres 1 has been fired too intensively. It is necessary to slow down, but Liu Baiqi insists that there is no room for reuse of small rockets. The only way to achieve commercial success is large-scale industrial production, and high-density launches must continue to be promoted. 🚀 Ceres 1 will have two more launches by the end of this year. The future goal is 40 launches per year, which is equivalent to rockets hitting the sky every week.
🚀 The future development direction of medium and large liquid rockets must be reusable. 🚀 Pallas 1 uses seven engines in the first stage, which are reusable to achieve power redundancy and can complete the launch even if one engine fails. 🚀 Pallas 1 is currently aiming for its first flight in the second half of 2024. The recyclable first-level Pallas 1A will make its first flight in 2025, and the CBC configuration Pallas 1B will make its first flight in 2026. 🚀 The Pallas No. 1 that was “off the assembly line” reported by the media was actually a joint training test arrow. 🚀 There are also complete speech videos and transcripts of Galaxy Power’s Anhui engine production base, vertical take-off and landing verification, sky liquid oxygen kerosene engine test, etc. See: Highlights of the 2nd Beihang Alumni Innovation Forum | Galaxy Power Aerospace Founder & CEO Liu Baiqi
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“Dear leaders, teachers, and alumni, good afternoon! I am very honored to be invited to participate in the second Beihang Alumni Innovation Forum. Every time I come back to school, I feel like I am going home. It feels very cordial. I came to Beihang University to study for a PhD in 2003. I graduated in Department 17 and enrolled in Department 15. After graduation, I stayed in Department 17 and worked there for three and a half years. In 2011, I was assigned to the China Launch Vehicle Research Institute. I found that many of my colleagues and leaders around me were alumni of Beihang University, and they were no strangers to them after I arrived there. In 2018, I left the First Institute of Aerospace Engineering and founded a private company. At that time, I wanted to start a business. I wanted to build rockets but had no money. So I got the first angel funding. He is also an alumnus of Beihang University. Of course, the backbone of core technologies are Beihang alumni, so the genes of Beihang are engraved in my bones, and the strength of Beihang has always been with me as I grew up.
The title of today’s report is “Building a new generation of low-cost, highly reliable commercial launch vehicles.” What is a rocket company’s business model? Making rockets has corresponding courses and techniques for Beihang people, but for commercialization, the business model of making rockets is to independently develop and manufacture a rocket, use it as a means of transportation, and use it to put satellites into orbit. , charging a fee for launch services. You can understand that Rocket Company is essentially a courier company, and we actually deliver couriers.
We have also established a website where you can book our launch services. If you want to send something to the sky, you can contact us. Why come to us? Because in China’s private commercial aerospace field, Galaxy Power has created some technologies. We are the first private rocket company to put satellites into orbit. We are also the first private rocket company to implement sea launches. We are also the first private rocket company to achieve industrial mass production of rockets and the first private rocket company to implement high-density launches. In the field of private rockets, we have the most launches and the highest success rate. So it is worth having.
However, most people do not have the opportunity to launch satellites into the sky. Where is our market? Who will launch the satellite? What kind of customers do we face? The market we are facing is mainly low-orbit satellite Internet. In 2021, the National Development and Reform Commission included this as a new device. From an academic perspective, it has set off a craze for low-orbit satellite Internet. Tens of thousands of satellites may enter space in the next five to ten years. , these satellites are manufactured, launched and operated by themselves, and the data formation services will be an external market. With so many satellites wanting to enter space, rockets are the only channel for satellites to enter space. If all these satellites enter space, our country’s current transportation capacity will be less than one-tenth of this capacity. This is a huge gap in demand. This is one of the driving forces for the birth of Chinese private rocket companies and the birth of commercial rocket companies. The market needs rockets and transportation capacity. But don’t think this requires all rockets. For example, the Chinese car market is huge and they need cars, but some cars sell a million cars a year, and some cars only sell a few cars a year. So let’s analyze what kind of rockets are needed for such an upsurge in the development of low-orbit satellite Internet? What kind of rocket is needed to meet such market demand.
There are two trends in the development of low-orbit satellite Internet, one is large and the other is small. The trends are very obvious. The big trends refer to the big satellites and big constellations. For example, the United States and China launch tens of thousands of satellites into space. The mass of the satellites increases from 260 kilograms to 750 kilograms, and will increase to 1.2 tons in the future. This means that more than 10,000 tons of weight must be sent from the earth to orbit. Requires a lot of experience. It is impossible for us to send such a heavy weight to the sky one kilogram by one. We can only send a lot in batches at one time. At this time, medium and large liquid launch vehicles are needed. At the same time, traditional rockets are disposable and will be damaged after each launch. In order to reduce costs, we need to reuse rockets. For large satellites, we need large reusable liquid rockets. Few countries can complete the construction of such a giant constellation, and few people can build such a constellation.
Another trend is small satellites and small constellations. Everyone recognizes the trend of satellite miniaturization. In the past, satellites weighing several tons may now be able to achieve their functions with satellites weighing hundreds or even tens of kilograms. Building such a small satellite constellation with dozens or hundreds of stars can also solve narrow applications in various fields such as communications, joysticks, meteorology, etc. If there are dozens of stars, each of which only weighs tens of kilograms, and is distributed to There are several orbital planes, and each orbital plane only has a total weight of a few hundred to launch. At this time, if we still use a large rocket with a carrying capacity of more than ten tons or more than twenty tons to launch this satellite, it is equivalent to using an Airbus 380 to make a straight-line passenger plane. , that one must lose money. So for small satellites and small constellations, this small trend requires lightweight launch vehicles.
According to this market analysis, Galaxy Power only focuses on market demand. We have deployed two types of rockets: One is a lightweight launch vehicle called Ceres 1, which is deployed around small satellites and small constellations. Its carrying capacity is only a few hundred kilograms. , but it is as convenient as a taxi. Once the satellite comes, you can get in the car and go, and it can have a high frequency of transmission. The other is a medium-to-large reusable liquid launch vehicle, with a carrying capacity ranging from five tons to more than ten tons, and in the future it will reach a large-scale carrying capacity of more than thirty tons. When developing large-scale reusable liquid rockets, the development ideas of modularization and serialization were adopted. The rocket in the middle actually has a red line. The red line is the first stage of the rocket. Above the red line is the second stage. The first and second stages are made to have independent control systems, power systems, structural systems, and independent flight modes. The two are connected in series to form a low-orbit carrier. If its carrier capacity is not enough, two boosters can be added to the one-level parallel bundle to increase the carrier capacity to about 14 tons. In this way, the difficulty of rocket development is reduced, the development cycle is shortened, and the corresponding risks are reduced. For business, it is also very necessary for an enterprise to control corporate risks.
Let me introduce these two rockets to you: The first one is Ceres 1. It is a light and small launch vehicle with a diameter of only 1.4 meters. It has a low-orbit carrying capacity of 400 kilograms and can carry an orbit up to 300 kilograms. But this rocket is bragging. Beihang people are generally relatively low-key and pragmatic. At this time, based on the data, it is still bragging. It is the most cost-effective lightweight launch vehicle in the world. Before this, we all knew that the US Electron was Rocket Laboratory. The Electronic Number made by this company is the best small rocket in the world. It has launched more than 30 times. Its low-orbit carrying capacity is 150 kilograms and the price is 7 million US dollars. Ours is 300 kilograms and the price is 450. About ten thousand US dollars. In terms of cost performance, it is a complete victory over electronic rockets, so we say that China and the United States do not cooperate or compete in small rockets. If this competition can be opened up, we actually still have some advantages in the field of small rockets.
You may be curious and ask, why does our rocket have such a competitive advantage in the market since Galaxy Power was established in such a short time? It is because of the technological innovation spirit and innovative power of our Beihang people.
This rocket is called a four-star rocket. It has corresponding technological innovations in design, materials, processes, and experimental methods. Although there are many people in our company, most of the products produced by the aerospace institute in the past were mature launch vehicles. It is not that we have made a rocket from the past, but we have carefully analyzed the market demand ourselves. Market-oriented needs have been redefined to create such a rocket. There are many details of these technological innovations that have not been elaborated here.
For example, we used to call Beihang University laser rapid prototyping, but now it is called 3D printing. This is Beihang University’s advantageous technology. The engine here is the 4D engine of our rocket, which adopts the traditional manufacturing model. But what are the disadvantages? The cost is relatively high. Such a small engine is only about the size of a finger, costs 500,000 to 600,000 yuan, has a production cycle of 6 months, and is also very heavy. We transformed it into titanium alloy 3D printing, reducing its cost from 5 to 6 million yuan to 70,000 yuan. The production cycle was shortened from the past 6 months to one month and the weight was reduced by half. So we say that this is the power of innovation, and it is also the power of Beihang that we talked about in today’s forum.
At the same time, we have completed the launch of 10 rounds of Ceres 1, the first launch vehicle to achieve mass production. Any technological product, any equipment, or equipment must be industrialized and mass-produced in order to reduce its cost and achieve higher reliability. At present, this rocket is the first mass-produced rocket in China, and it is also the first domestic commercial launch vehicle to achieve high-density launch, because we have to launch it after we produce it. From July 22 to September 11 this year, we launched a rocket every 12 days. This is currently the highest launch frequency in China. This high launch frequency is like taking a high-speed train. There are more choices for customers. Provide better launch services.
At the same time, Ceres 1 is the first rocket that can be launched both from land and sea, and Galaxy Power is the only private rocket company. Sea launch has caused a relatively large impact at home and abroad. This launch is also a technology that has successfully launched Ceres 1 for nine consecutive times. Starting a business is a risky thing, and building rockets is also a risky thing. There is an analogy in making rockets: ten thousand people, one gun. If ten thousand people participate in building a rocket, what are the requirements for each person? Everyone is required to do things right the first time, and the work he does is required to have zero defects. If one person’s work is defective, it may bring fatal risks. When Ceres 1 was producing the tenth launch vehicle, when we were producing the supplier’s engine nozzle, due to improper drilling operations, internal defects and damage were caused to the nozzle, so in September 2021 When our Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center carried out its tenth launch mission on the 21st, it no longer had nine consecutive victories. The pause button was pressed during high-density launches. Many people sent messages to comfort and encourage. Many shareholders were also worried, and even many People don’t call me for fear of getting seriously hurt. As a Beihang person and an entrepreneur in the aerospace industry, we cannot be defeated by failure or any setback. This is number one.
When we failed the second time, we didn’t’t have time to think about this. We immediately obtained all the telemetry data of the flight time and all the external images, and analysed each frame of data and images, hoping to find the cause of the failure. We worked non-stop for 48 hours. , quickly located the fault that caused the rocket’s flight failure, and located the fault on the engine baffle. We formed a working group with the baffle supplier, completed the special review of Ceres 1 on October 23, and began preparations for flight. This was the shortest and fastest rocket flight failure in the history of aerospace. We also discussed and researched with our suppliers and raised issues to prevent similar things from happening again. We proposed a series of setbacks and methods for subsequent improvement of quality. At the same time, we not only made requirements for suppliers, but also proposed to Inner Galaxy Power to carry out a The quality improvement project will sort out our potential risks and weaknesses from the entire process of our design, production, assembly, testing, and launch, and propose targeted quality improvement measures. Through these measures, we will further improve the quality of Ceres 1. We hope that it will take two months Afterwards, test flights will be carried out, and I hope everyone will see a better Ceres 1.
I heard different voices. Some people with good intentions advised us whether we shot too much. If we shot one rocket every 12 days, if we shot a few less, we would not face such a failure. Look at it this way, there are big rockets and small rockets. For a small rocket like Ceres 1, first of all, we believe that it has its own segmented commercial market, so the demand for industrialization necessitates this. There is no need to reuse small rockets. Once reused, a lot of systems will be added, a lot of fuel will be reserved, and the carrying capacity will drop sharply. The only channel is industrialized large-scale production, which means high-speed launch. For this We will not change our direction and goals, and we will continue to promote high-density launches. We have completed 6 launches this year, and there will be two more by the end of the year. In the future, we hope to increase the frequency of Ceres-1 rockets to 40 launches per year, which is equivalent to rockets every week. At that time, we will be able to provide our satellite customers with better A more valuable launch.
For small rockets, it is necessary to implement large-scale industrial mass production. For liquid rockets, it is necessary to focus on commercial closed loop. The future development direction must be reusable. Galaxy Power has also laid out reusable medium and large launch vehicles. First of all, in order to make the rocket reusable, we designed a layout concept with seven engines in parallel. This can be reused and can also achieve power redundancy, allowing one Even if the engine fails, it can still fly normally. We have also developed a depth-variable thrust reusable liquid oxygen engine for the rocket, and have also conducted research on a vertical recovery algorithm. In terms of development direction, this rocket is aimed at being reusable, but in order to reduce risks, the first step is to put it into orbit and then recover it to increase the rocket’s carrying efficiency.
What you are looking at now is the engine production base built in Anhui. This engine was independently developed by us for this rocket. It also has a series of technological innovations. These are some large-scale support injectors with coaxial dual-core high-speed Filter pumps are innovative equipment in China. We have also completed the experimental verification of recycling. This is also the first time in China that the online optimization algorithm has been verified. This implementation is still very stable. Galaxy Power has built a 100-ton dual-station test bench around different production facilities for design, production, and experimentation. The first joint training test rocket has been assembled. We hope that through this launch vehicle, we will make greater contributions to the development of our country’s commercial aerospace industry. Contribution and strength of Beihang University.