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#CNSA #ChinaNationalSpaceAdministration #国家航天局 |#BRI June2024 | #长征十号#ChangZheng10 #CZ10 #LongMarch10 the Next Generation Manned #LunarCarrierRocket successfully completed the test of the Three #YK100K  first-stage rocket power engine system…

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On the 14th June 2024  CNSA _China National Space Administration -China – People’s Republic of China at a China Academy Of Launch Vehicle Technology  Engine Testing complex.. On June 14, the Long March 10 series rockets used for manned lunar landing and other missions successfully completed the test of the first-stage rocket power system. During the test, the engine started normally, worked stably, shut down at a fixed time, and all parameters were tested normally. This test is the first system-level large-scale ground test of the Long March 10 series of launch vehicles. The matching of the first-stage booster delivery system and the engine, the propellant filling process, the multi-machine parallel power transmission and environmental characteristics and other technologies were fully verified.

The Long March 10 rocket is a three-and-a-half-stage rocket developed for the manned lunar exploration project. The total length of the rocket is 92.5 meters, the takeoff weight is about 2,189 tons, the takeoff thrust is about 2,678 tons, and the Earth-Moon transfer orbit carrying capacity is not less than 27 tons. In the future, it will be used to launch a new generation of manned spacecraft and lunar landers. In addition, the Long March 10 has also designed another booster-free configuration that can perform space station astronaut and cargo transportation tasks….

The engine is the power source of the rocket, and its development process is very complicated. Test run is an important link in the engine development process, and there are dozens of types. In layman’s terms, engine test run is the process of igniting the engine and verifying the rationality of its design scheme and process reliability. This is an indispensable and important part of the development and delivery of a type 1 engine. It will run through all stages before and after engine development. Each stage of test run has different meanings, and the ignition time varies from a few seconds to hundreds of seconds.

It is reported that the engine used in this test run uses advanced liquid oxygen kerosene as fuel, which is improved and iterated from the high-thrust liquid oxygen kerosene engine used by the new generation of launch vehicles such as the Long March 5. The thrust reaches 130 tons. The R&D team of the Sixth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology Group adheres to the concept of digital design, and has successively overcome key technical problems such as engine start-up and shutdown sequence, engine wide-range continuously variable thrust, and engine long life and high reliability.

In addition, the continuous success of the test run has fully verified the reliability of a number of new carrying process technologies. The engine production of this test run adopts the concept of intelligent manufacturing, and actively applies new materials, new processes, and new technologies. The inner wall of the thrust chamber of the core component adopts a new protective coating, key assemblies adopt automatic welding technology, and a large number of components adopt 3D printing technology.

During the preparation of the engine test run, the participants in the research and test conducted tests and verifications on each subsystem of the test through comprehensive means such as digital modelling, simulation calculation, and system debugging. The successful test run shows that the test area has greatly improved the multi-station parallel test run capability and test efficiency by optimizing the workflow.

Images and visuals are from their Respectives CMS China Manned SpaceCNSA-China National Space Administration  the Sixth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology Group

#MadeInChina #中國製造| #中科宇航 #ZhongkeAerospace #ChinaAcademyOfScience  #CASSPace #April2023  | the Launching #ReusableCarrierRocket Cute Adorable scale Prototype launch vehicle Testing on Ground launching also Marine Sea Launching at One Kilometer more towards Landing …………..

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Beijing Zhongke Aerospace Exploration Technology Co., Ltd. is the first domestic aerospace enterprise with mixed ownership, and it is also the target enterprise that Oriental Aerospace Port focuses on introducing. Relying on the scientific research strength and resource advantages of the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Aerospace Flight Technology Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Aerospace Science and Technology has been committed to the research and development and integration of space technology and aerospace vehicles as a platform for the transformation of major national scientific research projects, as well as the transformation and provision of technological achievements. Aerospace launch service. The Lijian-1 rocket project also adds a brand-new name card to the Oriental Space Port, which will surely promote the construction of the Oriental Space Port to take a solid step forward.

Zhongke Aerospace successfully completed the vertical recovery flight test at sea From January to March, Zhongke Aerospace continued to conduct vertical recovery demonstration and verification flight tests in Haiyang, Shandong, and successively carried out land launch recovery and sea recovery.

The vertical recovery principle prototype of Zhongke Aerospace launch vehicle, which successfully completed the flight test this time, is used as a technology verification platform. At the beginning of the scheme design, it has adhered to the innovative design concept and adopted the integrated control system of power supply and distribution-control-telemetry Design and 3D printing design and process the anti-sway storage tank, and adopt a lightweight carbon fibre structure to realize the integrated configuration of bearing-force transmission-vibration suppression, which can integrate and reuse the functions of multiple systems, greatly simplifying the overall quality Connected with cables, it can be applied in similar miniaturized aircraft.

The complete success of the demonstration test of the vertical recovery principle prototype of the Zhongke Aerospace Launch Vehicle at sea has verified a number of key technologies. The success of the flight test will carry out technical research and accumulation for the near-space recyclable scientific experiment platform, the sub-stage recovery of the orbiting rocket, and the space tourism vehicle, which will be applied in subsequent models and sub-stage recovery missions of the orbiting rocket.

The whole flight test simulates and verifies the flight process of launch on land and recovery at sea, mainly to verify the process of landing at sea during the recovery process of the sub-stage rocket into orbit, and the communication and relative measurement technology under the influence of sea clutter environment. The landing accuracy of the Kilometer-level flight environment and the shaking of the offshore landing platform will be assessed. The maximum flight altitude is greater than 1000m. After flying to the highest point, adjust the attitude and descend after hovering. The descending section is decelerated by the reverse thrust of the engine, so that the speed of the aircraft can be reduced below 2m/s when approaching the landing platform at sea, and then through the buffer legs Realize soft landing, the whole flight takes about 10 minutes, and the landing point accuracy is better than 10m.

In terms of vertical return high-precision guidance and control technology, the re-entry and return high-precision navigation and positioning technology, the powered vertical recovery online trajectory generation guidance technology for the prototype of the carrying principle, the adaptive flight control technology for complex environments, and the initial alignment of offshore shaking platforms And long-term tracking technology, the verification work of semi-physical verification technology for the whole flight…

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#RocketLab #火箭實驗室|#Electron #AstroDigital | #AsTheCrowFlies like that constellation #Corvus the crows of #CubeSats…

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Rocket Lab 火箭實驗室 | #ThisOnesForPickering providing #LaunchServicesProgram to launch two cute educational #CubeSats #ELaNa19 #ELaNaXIX – Dedication Launch towards the late Sir William Pickering… Providing that role is the Electron Rocket..

On a fourteen day launch window in which is launching inbetween 14th -28th October 2019, it’s the launch of the Rocket Lab 火箭實驗室 an American Space Carrier Rocket Company, based in New Zealand….  The mission is named As “The Crow Flies”, in which the name of the Carbon printed fibre fuselage construction Electron Carrier Rocket... Launching in between 1200 towards 1600 New Zealand Date –Daylight savings Time… Launching from New Zealand North Island’s Mahia Peninsula Launch Complex One …..

The payload manufacturer is Digital Astro, Huntington Beach Californian Company. In which they’re also satellite manufacturer in which they’ve been in the satellite manufacturing for least than five years… Corvus is a CubeSats, in which Tailoring a customed built variant satellites of mission specifications of 6U and 16U CubeSats to ESPA Class…

“On 17th October 2019, launching from the Rocket Lab’s one of two launch complexes, one in North Island New Zealand, Mahia Peninsula, launching successfully in with a clear blue day on in which mostly of the currently month of October has been throughout thunderstorms and rain of an on-going late winters spring.. .Launching with any arising issues only previously that which didn’t met launch criteria is the New Zealand’s four seasons in one day weather… “

The livery patch of the mission As the Crow Flies, resembles the constellation Corvus as the small satellite, in which a ninth mission as it orbits the earth

#RocketLab #火箭實驗室 |#光子 – The #Photon #Spacecraft is not that #StarTrek #PhotonTorpedo ….?

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Down Southern hemisphere in Mountain Wellington – Auckland, New Zealand,  an American Base Carrier Rocket Company that made it’s based in an industrial section of Auckland, in which that American Base space company is Named Rocket Lab – 火箭實驗室, in which in production of their next product range in which is purposely design to fully integrated into the Electron Carrier Rocket in which also design to forgo the various steps of having to adaption, finding compatibles  or modifications … in which lead towards the one stop store in producing a spacecraft in creating a heritage space craft chassis design in a co-architecting component for the upper stage or the secondary staging for the Electron Carrier Rocket in which if forms as integrated module known as the  kick stage module…  that small robust space craft is named the光子Photon orthough it’s not that Star Trek Photon Torpedo..

With an operational life cycle of five years, Design for the LEO Low Earth Orbit towards thirty seven degrees towards SSO Sun Synchronous Orbits missions with a weight upwards of least than 170 Kilograms in which of orbital dependent.. having the Photon Space Craft that allows the Satellite to be constructed with their mission criteria requirements in which that could easily integrated, or the provide satellite hardware that could be arrange within the Photon Space Craft Chassis module also its core 3D printed  Curie Engine unit in which is core propulsion system of the secondary stage of the Electron Carrier Rocket in which among another base bundle package is the S-Band Communications systems with the integrated high fidelity Attitude Control system along with the avionics unit ….

@RocketLab #MadeInNewZealand | #StillTesting Go Electron rocket – Go Rutherford Engines..

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Made in New Zealand -Electron ‘Still Testing’ at Rocket Lab LC-1

On Monday 11th December 2017 New Zealand – Rocket Lab is set to launch its second attempt of its Home grown, Made in New Zealand of its Electron Rocket launch from its launch complex one at Mahia Peninsula in at starting launch window of 1430 to 1830 hours New Zealand time in which that time translate towards 0830 to 1330 hours Hong Kong Time……

One of the Payloads that’s involve with the Still Testing launch is the CubeSats- micro satellites in which are two imaging Earth Dove satellites for Planet, also paired with a Spire dual weather reconnaissances Lemur 2 satellites in which will be used to data observationally collect of weather information analysis also provisionment for assisting of marine vessel traffic monitoring … the various payloads are launched from Made In New Zealand, Auckland Made Electron Carrier Rocket in which the main fuselage of the rocket is composite of Carbon fibre , powered by those home grown clustering 3D printed Rutherford Engines in similar design heritage that can be founded to those of the China National Space Administration Long March series carrier rockets, as to of the  ROSCOSMOS– ESA’s  Soyuz or Known SpaceX Falcon nine reusable Carrier Rocket..

As to the previous terminate launch “it’s a test” its provided more leaning experiences for the adaptive changes for what’s need from the last launch as there was a communications miscommunications of that launch in provide more what’s need to overcome those barriers..

During the proceedings towards public safety of the launch there will be road closures as to Marine shore boundary closures as to Aircraft Airspace no fly zones..

As to due to weather conditions that didn’t match up with Rocket Lab’s launch Criteria in which also during that time the NASA-National Aeronautics and Space Administration collaboration ISS- International Space Station was in closely directly in its launch path.. in which hopefully the part two of “Still Testing” will commerce on Tuesday 12th December 2017 on the same time with twenty four hour recycle..