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…..
This afternoon on the 19th January 2024, Beijing time, the Landspace – Blue Arrow Aerospace Zhuque 3 VTVL-1 reusable vertical take-off and landing verification rocket conducted its first flight test today at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The flight lasted about 60 seconds and the flight altitude was about 350 meters.
During 16:00 Beijing Time on January 19th , 2024, the Zhuque-3 VTVL-1 reusable vertical takeoff and landing recovery verification rocket (hereinafter referred to as the “VTVL-1 test rocket”) independently developed by Blue Arrow Aerospace was ignited and launched into space at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in my country. . The flight time of this test was about 60 seconds, the flight height was about 350m, and the landing position accuracy was about 2.4m. The rocket landed smoothly, the landing point was accurate, and it was in good condition. The test mission was a complete success!
The flight time of Blue Arrow’s grasshopper jump test is about 60 seconds, the flight height is about 350m, the landing position accuracy is 2.4m, the landing speed is 0.75m/s, the landing attitude angle is about 0.14°, and the rolling angle is about 4.4°.
The material of the rocket tank is stainless steel , with a diameter of 3.35 meters, uses a modified TQ-12 transmitter with multiple starts and depth variable thrust capabilities.
The flight time of this test is about 60 seconds, the flight height is about 350m, the landing position accuracy is 2.4m, the landing speed is 0.75m/s, the landing attitude angle is about 0.14°, and the roll angle is about 4.4°.
[The Zhuque-3 reusable rocket successfully completed its first large-scale vertical take-off and landing test]
This afternoon, the Zhuque-3 reusable vertical take-off and landing recovery verification rocket was ignited and lifted off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in my country. The rocket then landed smoothly and the test mission was achieved. success. The take-off mass of the test arrow in this test flight is about 50.3 tons, and the maximum take-off mass of the entire arrow can reach 68 tons. It is currently the largest vertical take-off and landing test arrow in China, People’s Republic of China. .
深蓝航天 Deep Blue Limited – Deep Blue Aerospace 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…..
Recently on the 5th January 2024, DeepBlue Aerospace’s “Thunder-R1” engine rocking test run was a complete success. This test run included sine wave swing, square wave position, frequency sweep and triangle wave swing tests, covering the control requirements for subsequent flight missions and verifying the engine Compatibility with servo system operation. This engine test has accumulated a large amount of data and valuable experience for the power system test. It also laid the foundation for the high-altitude VTVL recovery test of the first sub-stage of the “Nebula-1” rocket that Deep Blue Aerospace will conduct this year, as well as the first flight of the “Nebula-1” rocket. Solid foundation…..
Recently, DeepBlue Aerospace’s “Thunder-R1” engine rocking test run was a complete success. This test run included sine wave swing, square wave position, frequency sweep and triangle wave swing tests, covering the control requirements for subsequent flight missions and verifying the engine Compatibility with servo system operation.
This test run achieved the following results:
1. Feasibility of the plan
The “Thunder-R1” engine adopts a pump backswing solution, which has a small weight in the swing part, greatly reduces the power demand on the servo mechanism, and improves the response characteristics of the small engine control loop; the pump backswing technology can achieve the same swing angle. Significantly reducing the swing envelope is a key technology to achieve a parallel layout of multiple rockets in a limited space. This test run verified the feasibility of this solution;
2 Reliability of flexible links
The maximum swing angle of the engine during the test was ±7°, which verified the reliability of the high-pressure swing hose;
3. Stability of electrical system
Through multiple complete machine tests of the “Thunder-R1” engine, the working stability and reliability of the engine’s electrical system have been fully verified.
This test run fully assessed the relevant performance indicators of the engine controller, servo system, battery, measurement system, ignition system and other parts to meet the overall requirements for the delivery of the rocket. In addition, the engine servo is the most important execution link of the rocket control system, and its working performance, stability and reliability were fully assessed and verified during this engine test run. The engine servo operates according to regulations and completes unidirectional swing and omnidirectional swing of various swing angles at multiple frequency points, with a maximum swing angle of 7 degrees. The engine servo is working normally and all performance indicators meet the requirements of the rocket control system.
This engine test has accumulated a large amount of data and valuable experience for the power system test. It also laid the foundation for the high-altitude VTVL recovery test of the first sub-stage of the “Nebula-1” rocket that Deep Blue Aerospace will conduct this year, as well as the first flight of the “Nebula-1” rocket. Solid foundation.
Knowledge Posts
The “Thunder-R1” engine thrust vector control adopts a pump backswing technical solution. As the name suggests, a swingable high-pressure hose is set between the engine’s thrust chamber and the turbine pump. When the engine is performing vector control during operation, the turbine The pump is stationary and the thrust chamber is oscillated by the servo actuator. The name pump backswing engine actually comes from the perspective of the overall engine layout. This layout is based on the engine frame, and the frame and the thrust chamber are connected through a gimbal. Since only the thrust chamber swings, the swing mass and inertia are small, and the power requirements for the servo actuator are lower; since the turbopump does not swing, the engine swing profile is more compact, and the saved space provides the possibility to connect more rocket engines in parallel.
深蓝航天 Deep Blue Limited – Deep Blue Aerospace 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 December 1st 2023, the Blue Arrow Aerospace Zhuque Suzaku- 2 Yaosan liquid oxygen methane carrier rocket was successfully transferred to the launch area and is preparing to select an opportunity to carry out the launch mission in the near future. The launch is sponsored by PopMart ..
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The world’s liquid oxygen methane rocket successfully entered orbit for the second time! Zhuque-2 takes the lead in entering the commercial launch stage
At 07:39 Hong Kong SAR- Beijing time on December 9th , 2023, the ” Suzaku -Zhuque-2″ Yao-3 carrier rocket carrying the three satellites “Honghu”, “Tianyi 33” and “Honghu-2” was ignited from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center Blue Arrow Space Launch Site Launched, the satellite was successfully placed into a sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) at an altitude of 460 kilometers.. Launching from酒泉卫星发射中心Jiuquan Satellite launch Center, Inner Mongolia, China, People’s Republic of China .
The “Honghu” satellite is a 50-kilogram-class space science experimental satellite independently developed by Tianyi Research Institute. It is mainly equipped with a comprehensive electronic load, a xenon Hall propulsion load, and a krypton Hall propulsion load. It will complete the Hall propulsion orbit control function and Performance verification, comprehensive electronic load device and switch life verification and other tasks. The “Tianyi 33” satellite is a 50-kilogram space science experimental satellite jointly developed by the Tianyi Research Institute and Hunan University of Science and Technology. It is equipped with a remote sensing camera module and a number of new technology payloads.
“Honghu 2” is an experimental satellite developed by Shanghai Blue Arrow Hongqing Technology Co., Ltd. for low-orbit satellite constellation networking. It is equipped with a Hall electric propulsion system (xenon and krypton), a satellite integrated electronic system, and a new solar array. Innovative technologies such as self-developed products, on-orbit verification of large-scale orbit changes of satellites, high computing power operations on satellites, and new solar technologies provide technical support for my country’s satellite constellation networking.
Honghu satellite is a 50kg space science experimental satellite independently developed by Tianyi Research Institute. The satellite is mainly equipped with a comprehensive electronic payload, a xenon Hall propulsion load, and a krypton Hall propulsion load developed by Shanghai Blue Arrow Hongqing Technology Co., Ltd. It will complete the Hall propulsion orbit control function and performance verification, comprehensive electronic payload devices and Tasks such as switch machine life verification. This launch will be the first time that my country has used xenon and krypton permanent magnet electric propulsion systems to achieve a cumulative 100-kilometer-level orbit control test. It also plans to complete nearly 3,000 hours of on-orbit ignition testing and a 10,000-time switch life of the Hall electric propulsion system. verify.
The Honghu satellite is also equipped with the “Xingcheng II” argon ion thruster developed by Xingcheng Huiyu (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.
The cost of this type of thruster is much lower than that of xenon and krypton. It is developed based on ion propulsion technology, with ionization and acceleration separated. The specific impulse can reach 1500s and the thrust adjustment range is large. At the same time, due to its integrated and centralized layout Designed for easier satellite installation and control. This type of thruster has high reliability and cost-effectiveness, and can be widely used in orbit control scenarios such as orbit entry, network attitude adjustment, and deorbiting of micro-satellites, which can significantly reduce the deployment cost of satellite constellations. This flight is the second on-orbit verification of this type of thruster. It mainly conducts on-orbit tests such as electromagnetic control, ignition, working and shutdown processes, and temperature measurement and control under long-term working conditions. It will provide support for the development and application of subsequent products. Provide technical support.
Tianyi 33 satellite is a 50kg space science experimental satellite jointly developed by Tianyi Research Institute and Hunan University of Science and Technology. The satellite is equipped with a remote sensing camera module and a number of new technology payloads, and for the first time adopts a number of Tianyi independent research and development platform technologies, which can provide more reliable temperature control, thermal protection and energy guarantee conditions for the normal on-orbit work of the payload. In particular, the satellite adopts newly developed thermal control technology to achieve precise temperature control of the satellite in the restricted space of space. The temperature control accuracy design value is better than 0.5°C. The temperature control energy consumption is expected to be reduced by more than 50%, and it can achieve high temperature Sensitive scientific research loads provide reliable environmental protection. At the same time, high-performance composite materials are also applied to the multiple layers of the Tianyi 33 satellite, which further improves the satellite’s radiation protection capabilities.
In terms of power supply, the Tianyi 33 satellite adopts the high-power long-term power supply technology independently developed by Tianyi for the first time, which enables the satellite to support the normal startup of high-current loads and meet the needs of uninterrupted on-orbit testing of the load. The Tianyi 33 satellite is also equipped with a scientific research load independently developed by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications based on the open source real-time dual-core operating system RROS as the underlying architecture and based on the Rust language. This load will complete general tasks represented by tensorflow/k8s and real-time tasks represented by real-time file system and real-time network transmission on the satellite, and ensure the normal execution of upper-layer applications and scientific research tasks, such as satellite-to-ground delay measurement, Live video broadcast, satellite-based web chat service, pseudo-ssh experiment, etc. This marks the world’s first dual-core operating system written in Rust to be officially applied in satellite scenarios. While taking into account versatility and real-time performance, RROS achieves high security and low power consumption, better adapts to satellite scenarios and supports the complex application requirements of satellite payloads, and provides operating system guarantees for the next generation of standardized and universal satellite platforms.
“ZhuQue-2” (ZhuQue-2) is a medium-sized two-stage dual-cryogenic liquid launch vehicle independently developed by Blue Arrow Aerospace Company. The first and second stages all use liquid oxygen methane engines. The rocket is equipped with four “Tianque-12” (TQ-12) engines in the first stage, with a single thrust of 658.5 kilonewtons (about 67 tons) at sea level and a sea level specific impulse of 286 seconds. The four “Tianque-12” engines are combined in parallel. The body code is “Tianque-13” (TQ-13); the secondary main engine is a “Tianque-12” (TQ-12) engine, with a vacuum thrust of 776.5 kN (about 79 tons) and a vacuum specific impulse of 350 seconds. , equipped with a swimming engine “Tianque-11”, using a four-combustion chamber design, a vacuum thrust of 80 kN (about 8.2 tons), a vacuum specific impulse of 333 seconds, a “Tianque-12” and a “Tianque-12” The Que-11 combination is codenamed “Tianque-16” (TQ-16).
TheZhuque Suzaku- 2 Yaosan liquid oxygen methane carrier rocket is 49.5 meters long, with a diameter of 3.35 meters for the first and second stages and a fairing. It has a take-off mass of 220 tons (not including payload), a take-off thrust of 268 tons, and a 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) capacity of 1.5 tons. It is an improved version. The 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit capacity will be increased to 4 tons, which can meet the needs of satellite deployment and spacecraft launch in low-Earth orbit.
Zhuque Suzaku- 2 Yaosan liquid oxygen methane carrier rocket Yaosan is the third rocket of the first batch of “Suzaku-2”. The three test arrows fully verified the correctness and coordination of the overall and sub-system plans of the “Zhuque-2”, and accumulated flight samples and a good data basis for subsequent design improvements and reliability improvements of rocket and engine products. , laying a solid foundation for the development of the “Suzaku-3” reusable liquid oxygen methane launch vehicle. This launch is the world’s first official commercial launch of a liquid oxygen methane rocket.
This launch is the second launch of the “Suzaku-2” rocket in 2023, the 31st launch of the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, the 58th launch of China, and the 201st launch of the world.
深蓝航天 Deep Blue Limited – Deep Blue Aerospace 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 December 1st 2023, the Blue Arrow Aerospace Zhuque Suzaku- 2 Yaosan liquid oxygen methane carrier rocket was successfully transferred to the launch area and is preparing to select an opportunity to carry out the launch mission in the near future. The launch is sponsored by PopMart ..
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[The third rocket of Blue Arrow Aerospace Suzaku 2 has been transferred and erected and will be launched in the near future]
After the successful go-around, this launch is a key launch and is expected to officially carry commercial payloads. Therefore, it is also possible to carry out research on transportation capacity and orbit accuracy. further test.
It can be seen from the video that domestic private rockets are basically transported by road, and road transportation can easily exceed the 3.35-meter special train limit when conditions permit. It is estimated that it is more difficult for private companies to obtain special trains.
At present, the mainstream next-generation liquid launch vehicles that should be privately operated are basically aiming at a diameter of more than 4 meters, especially the 4.2-meter diameter of Interstellar, which has already passed through some launch sites.
LandSpace – Blue Arrow’s Suzaku 3 has not been officially announced, but the diameter must be more than 4 meters. I am sure that with this diameter, the entire diameter of the passage should have been passed. At present, the two are mainly Jiuquan and Wenchang. As long as they can support a diameter of more than 4 meters, this will be very advantageous for the development of my country’s rockets.
[Chinese Rockets Are Stunningly Beautiful]
Blue Arrow Aerospace has just shared photos of the Zhuque-2 Yaosan-3 rocket being tested and transferred to the launch station at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
I have to say that the desert scenery and high-tech products are really beautiful.
Blue Arrow Aerospace is a private aerospace enterprise in my country (really private, not a national team vest). Zhuque 2 is a medium-sized liquid oxygen methane rocket (fueled by natural gas), with a total length of 49.5 meters and a diameter of 3.35 meters. The design goal is to be able to carry 6 tons Objects are sent into Earth orbit.
On July 12 this year, the Zhuque-2 Yao-2 rocket was successfully launched, becoming the world’s first liquid oxygen methane rocket to enter orbit…..
深蓝航天 Deep Blue Limited – Deep Blue Aerospace 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 Month of October- November 2023 Zhang Changwu, founder/CEO of Blue Arrow Aerospace As a guest speaker, attend this conference event of Aerospace Information Industry International Ecosystem Event 2023 It has finally been officially announced that Blue Arrow has developed the reusable Carrier Rocket stainless steel Suzaku 3 rocket….
Many people did not notice the details on. Blue Arrow disclosed for the first time its Suzaku 3, which will succeed Suzaku 2 Carrier Rocket – Reusable Carrier Rocket. Launch vehicle.
Judging from the picture, the one-time launch to low-Earth orbit has a transport capacity of 20 tons, the recovery area is 16.5 tons (not necessarily at sea), and the return transport capacity is 11 tons. Two-stage design, stainless steel storage tank, the diameter should be more than 4 meters by comparison, and it is suspected that 7 engines (maybe 9) are stuffed inside. First stage with grille rudder with deployable landing legs.
The railway transportation limit made by the Shanghai Institute is 3.8 meters. If it is 4 meters higher, it is equivalent to killing the possibility of inland launch? Or is there another way? After all, Landspace Blue Arrow spent a lot of effort on the launch pad in Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Inner Mongolia, China, and People’s Republic of China. , so it is unlikely that they will be abandoned. What do you think?
Blue Arrow originally wanted to go to IAC for a press conference, but it was later cancelled for some reason. This time in China, it was taken the opportunity to release. There is nothing unexpected about the overall design. Perhaps the only exception is the use of stainless steel. It is the first mainstream private aerospace company in China to officially announce the use of stainless steel.
General Manager Changwu of Blue Arrow shared that no matter what, I have always recognized Blue Arrow’s hard work and development in the field of China’s commercial space launch vehicles, and I am grateful for its efforts and contributions to the commercialization of China’s launch vehicles. I will always believe in it. , as long as you keep working hard like this, @LANDSPACE Blue Arrow Aerospace will be realized sooner or later.
