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#MadeInChina #中國製造| #中科宇航 #ZhongkeAerospace #ChinaAcademyOfScience #CASSPace #June2024 | #CarrierRocket #ReusableCarrierRocket #CarrierRocket Series Lijian-2 China Aerospace Science and Technology has completed the joint test of the 85-ton kerosene #YF102  #CarrierRocketEngine in full flight conditions.  #ASummary

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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.

On the Week of 17th June 2024 China Aerospace Science and Technology has completed the joint test of the 85-ton kerosene engine in full flight conditions.

Recently, China Aerospace Science and Technology has completed the joint test of the 85-ton liquid oxygen-kerosene engine and servo matching in the first stage of the Lijian-2 liquid carrier rocket. The test engine is in a two-way swing state, which can meet the control requirements of a 6-degree swing circle. The swing test simulating the full-scale operation of the first stage during the test was successful, verifying the matching of the first-stage engine of the Lijian-2 and the servo system, and obtaining key data such as the dynamic swing characteristics of the engine. At the same time, this test tested the first flight state of the first-stage engine of the Lijian-2.


This test assessed the two-way swing performance of the first-stage engine of the Lijian-2 and verified the working coordination of the servo control system and the engine. In the future, the engine will continue to carry out life test on this basis.
Lijian-2 adopts a CBC configuration, with a universal core stage diameter of 3.35 meters, a total length of 53 meters, a take-off weight of 625 tons, and a take-off thrust of 766 tons. The SSO carrying capacity is 8 tons, and the LEO carrying capacity is 12 tons. It is scheduled to fly for the first time in 2025…

[The joint test of the 85-ton liquid oxygen-kerosene engine YF-102 and servo matching flight conditions of the first stage of the Lijian-2 liquid carrier rocket of China Aerospace Science and Technology was successfully completed]

Recently, China Aerospace Science and Technology completed the joint test of the 85-ton liquid oxygen-kerosene engine and servo matching flight conditions of the first stage of the Lijian-2 liquid carrier rocket. The test engine is in a two-way swing state and can meet the 6-degree swing circle control requirements. The swing test simulating the full-scale operation of the first stage during the test process was successful, verifying the matching of the first stage engine of the Lijian-2 with the servo system, and obtaining key data such as the dynamic swing characteristics of the engine. At the same time, this test tested the first flight state of the first stage engine of the Lijian-2.


This test simulated the process of increasing the oxidizer and fuel inlet pressure caused by the flight overload of the first stage engine of the Lijian-2 by changing the engine inlet pressure. The engine thrust and specific impulse met the overall design requirements, the engine parameters were stable, and the performance indicators such as the oxygen self-pressurization met the design requirements.



During the test run, the engine extreme swing angle test, small swing angle joint training, load calibration, pressurized cold swing test, hot test combined swing test, etc. were carried out successively. During the ignition process, various waveform conditions such as square wave, triangle wave, and sine wave were tested. The maximum swing angle of the engine was 6°, and the servo feedback position and command tracking were good. The two-way swing performance of the first-stage engine of Lijian No. 2 was assessed, and the coordination between the servo control system and the engine was verified. Later, the engine will continue to carry out life survey tests on this basis.

Combined with this engine test run, liquid oxygen circuit immersion precooling, small flow precooling and large flow precooling tests were carried out simultaneously to obtain more accurate engine precooling characteristics and verify the correctness of the rocket body precooling scheme. In

addition, the low-order modal characteristics of the first-stage engine were obtained through structural modal tests of the installation process pull rod state and the installation servo mechanism state, providing important data support for the design of the attitude control system on the rocket. Environmental measurement points were added nearby to obtain environmental parameters such as noise.

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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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#MadeInChina #中國製造 |#深蓝航天#DeepBlueLimitedCompany #August2023| Deep Blue Aerospace Xingyun-1  #ReusableCarrierRocket Development Progress – flight preparation liquid oxygen kerosene engine successfully completed the first three-start complete machine test run..

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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…..

Flight preparation liquid oxygen kerosene engine successfully completed the first three-start complete machine test run in China, People’s Republic of China.

The “Thunder-R1” engine participating in the test has experienced dozens of start-up tests and ignition tests under different working conditions, as well as more than ten short-range and long-range test runs of the whole machine without leaving the platform, and has excellent reusability.

Through this trial run, the following objectives were achieved: Verified the correctness of the three ignition design states of the “Thunder-R1” engine…

Multiple starts involve key designs such as start-up air consumption distribution and automatic simple post-processing. This test run focuses on verifying the correctness of the design of multiple start-up air consumption distribution and multiple start-up and shutdown processes; The rationality of process design such as automatic post-processing, automatic pre-cooling of oxygen system, and automatic maintenance of non-working section box pressure.

Verified the correctness of multiple ignition timings of the “Thunder-R1” engine

Different from Through this test run, the timing difference between the filling state before multiple starts, the pre-cooling state of the oxygen system and the first ignition was obtained, and the correctness of the design of the ignition sequence, starting sequence, and blow-off sequence during multiple starts and shutdowns was verified.

“Thunder-R1” engine’s successful three-time ignition test is a new milestone in the high-frequency and normalized test run after Shenlan Aerospace’s new vertical test station was put into use, and it also marks the deep blue aerospace in engine design, production and testing. Steady improvement in the whole process capability.

In the follow-up series of vertical recovery flight tests, a series of key technical system-level verifications, including multiple starts of the engine in the air, will be gradually carried out to achieve the successful orbiting of the “Xingyun-1” carrier rocket and the vertical recovery of the first sub-stage. Reusable. 

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#MadeInChina #中國製造 #中國 |酒泉衛星發射中心#JiuquanSatelliteLaunchCenter #星河动力航天#GalacticEnergy #June2023|#CarrierRocketShopping Zhishenxing-1 Carrier Rocket First-Stage Separation Test successfully….

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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 week of 17th June 2023 Galactic Energy Zhishenxing-1 Carrier Rocket First-Stage Separation Test Successful] Recently, Galaxy Power Aerospace successfully completed the Zhishenxing-1 carrier rocket inter-stage separation test. During the test, each system worked normally, and the interstage section was separated smoothly, which verified the correctness of the interstage separation scheme, and the test was a complete success.

The success of this inter-stage separation test marks a solid step forward in the development of Zhishenxing-1. Other large-scale ground tests will be carried out in an orderly manner as planned…

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#MadeInChina #中國製造| #ISpace #星际荣耀#InterstellarGlory #April2023 | #酒泉衛星發射中心 #JiuquanSatelliteLaunchCenter – #ChinesePrivateSpaceCompany –#ReusableCarrierRocket of the #Hyperbola1  Yao 6 #CarrierRocket successfully Launched  testing…

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In which iSpace- Interstellar Glory in which it is the first Chinese Private Space Company to do so successfully commercially first out from sixty known private space companies in China People’s Republic of China…  Founded in Beijing 2016 located in Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone or known for short as E-Town in Capital of China – People’s Republic of China …

On 7th April 2023 Hong Kong SAR – Beijing time at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center- Inner Mongolia-China – People’s Republic of China, Interstellar Glory Hyperbola-1 verification rocket At 12:00 on  Hong Kong SAR- Beijing time, the Hyperbolic No. 1 solid commercial launch vehicle was successfully launched at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center Inner Mongolia China, People’s Republic of China. The rocket completed the flight safely and smoothly according to the scheduled procedures, and the launch mission was a complete success. The main purpose of this flight test is to verify the correctness of the rocket’s overall plan and to accumulate rocket flight data. The mission is the fifth flight of the Hyperbolic 1 commercial launch vehicle.

Hyperbola-1 is the first rocket successfully entered orbit by a Chinese private rocket company, and it made its maiden flight in 2019. The three subsequent launches all failed, and Yao Liu finally succeeded in a go-around, and the interstellar glory came back to life for a successfully goal.. About 10 minutes after take-off, it entered the scheduled orbit smoothly, and the launch mission was a complete success.

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