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#MadeInChina #中國製造 |#深蓝航天#DeepBlueLimitedCompany #August2022| Deep Blue Aerospace participated in the “Creating Youth” Nantong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition and won the scientific and technological innovation….

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In order to promote scientific and technological self-reliance and create a good atmosphere for innovation and entrepreneurship, Nantong City launched the “2022 Create Youth Nantong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition and ‘Let the Nation See You’ Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project Roadshow (Nantong Station)” to further stimulate the vitality of innovation and entrepreneurship among young people.

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…..

The Deep Blue Aerospace team won the first prize of the special scientific and technological innovation project for the “recyclable and reusable launch vehicle” project .

List of winners
Award ceremony scene

The reusable and reusable launch vehicle project is the core project developed by Deep Blue Aerospace, focusing on the research and development of liquid recyclable launch vehicles and the provision of commercial launch services, integrating scientific research, production, testing and launch services. The “Nebula” series of launch vehicles independently developed by Deep Blue Aerospace chose the liquid oxygen kerosene fuel system with higher technical maturity.

Deep Blue Aerospace Kilometre-scale VTVL Vertical Recovery Flight Test

Deep Blue Aerospace’s flagship product “Nebula” series includes “Nebula-1” small and medium-sized liquid launch vehicle, “Nebula-1H” medium and large liquid launch vehicle; the supporting “Thunder” series of liquid rocket engines are respectively “Thunder-R1” Liquid oxygen kerosene engine and “Thunder-R2” liquid oxygen kerosene engine. Deep Blue Aerospace has greatly reduced the cost of rocket launch services and improved launch service capabilities through the vertical recovery and reuse of the first sub-stage of the “Nebula” series of launch vehicles.

On May 6, 2022, Deep Blue Aerospace successfully completed the kilometer-level high-altitude vertical take-off and landing recovery flight test, becoming the second company in the world to complete all low-altitude engineering tests for the vertical recovery and reuse of liquid oxygen kerosene rockets (the first was SpaceX in the United States. ). On June 29, 2022, the test run of Deep Blue Aerospace’s 20-ton liquid oxygen kerosene engine “Thunder-R1” was a complete success.

The footprint continues to expand, and the exploration never stops. The Deep Blue Aerospace team, which has won many awards in recent years, has actively responded to the deployment of the development of the aerospace industry in the overall national development strategy, continuously innovated the technology of recyclable launch vehicles, further increased investment, accelerated the progress of research and development, and strengthened innovation in scientific and technological management. Promoter of the space transportation industry, striving to become a powerful supplement to China’s aerospace industry. 

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#CNSA #ChinaNationalSpaceAdministration #国家航天局 |#BeltAndRoadinitiative #July2022 | #CMS #ChinaMannedSpace #CLEP #ChinaLunarExplorationProgram the Advance Next Generation #LunaMannedLanding #ChangZheng #LongMarch #CZ-5DF #CarrierRockets #ReusableCarrierRocket The first flight is not far away …..

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中国空间站 On currently on 29th July 2022 2022, the Belt and Road Initiative CNSA –China National Space Administration   on the currently developments of the  latest progress of China’s Chang Zheng – LongMarch manned lunar landing carrier  rockets Science and Technology Daily reporters learned from the First Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation on July 28 2022 that the 702 Institute of the Academy recently successfully completed the multi-machine parallel static-motion joint test of my country’s new generation of manned launch vehicles. It strongly supported the smooth transition of the development of this type of rocket to the initial stage.

The first flight is not far away! China- People’s Republic of China’s first-generation moon landing Carrier rocket began to be prototyped, with a near-Earth capacity of 70 tons….  

China- People’s Republic of China’s moon landing rocket has completed the multi-engine parallel static and dynamic test and began to manufacture, and the first flight may not be far away

​​China’s new generation of manned rockets has made important progress! According to news from the First Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation published by the “Science and Technology Daily” and other media on July 28th 2022, the 702 institutes affiliated to the academy have recently successfully completed the multi-machine parallel static-motion joint test of my country’s new generation of manned launch vehicles. The first step of this type of rocket will be transferred to the initial sample development stage.

At present, my country’s only manned rocket is the Long March 2F rocket, which is especially responsible for transporting China- People’s Republic of China’s Shenzhou spacecraft and Takionauts to the sky. My country’s new generation of manned rockets is a rocket with larger and more advanced capacity. It is also the “921 rocket” that netizens have often said over the years. In fact, its real code name is “CZ-5DF”, which means Chang Zheng- Long March 5. The series of lunar rockets are exactly the rockets prepared for my country’s manned lunar landing.

According to the published data, this rocket is about 100 meters high. After successful development, it will be the highest rocket before the appearance of the Long March 9. It is about the height of a 33-story building, which should be higher than the building you live in. Well, isn’t it shocking?

​And it will also be the largest rocket before the appearance of the Long March 9 carrier rocket, with a diameter of 5 meters, the same as the Long March 5, but its shape is very different from the Long March 5, because it adopts the CBC configuration, but It is not a “triple version of Chang 5”, it is not the configuration of the three core-stage rockets of the current Long March 5, because it is not composed of three core-stage rockets of the Long March 5. There are only two YF-77 liquid hydrogen-oxygen engines with a thrust of only 100 tons. The thrust of the Fat Five mainly relies on four bundled boosters. Each booster is equipped with two YF-100 engines with a thrust of 240 tons. , the thrust of the four boosters reached 960 tons, which together contributed to the 1060-ton thrust of the Long March-5 first-stage rocket.

​The new generation of manned rockets with  This type of rocket weighs about 2,200 tons and is a three-stage and a half configuration. The capacity of the Earth-Moon transfer orbit will not be less than 27 tons, which can meet the capacity requirements for launching China’s new generation of manned spacecraft (within 25 tons in weight). It can also meet the upward mission of large spacecraft in low-Earth orbit, because the orbital carrying capacity of low-Earth orbit will reach more than 70 tons.

​Take China’s space station as an example. After the Wentian experimental module was docked, the total weight of China’s space station assembly has now reached 66 tons, and China’s new generation of manned rockets can be sent into orbit with one launch mission. Zhu Xiquan, deputy chief designer of the 702 Institute, said: The successful completion of the parallel static-dynamic joint test of my country’s new generation of manned rockets marks the first time that my country has broken through the large-load static-dynamic joint test technology of launch vehicles. The test with the largest scale, the most technical difficulty and the most complex test process has laid a solid foundation for the new generation of manned launch vehicles to adopt the parallel technology of multiple high-thrust engines.

​According to the plan, this rocket will be the main launch vehicle for manned moon landing missions in China in the next 20 to 30 years, so it can also be called China’s first-generation “moon landing rocket”. It is significant, marking that China’s manned lunar landing rocket has entered a substantial manufacturing moment. After the manufacturing is completed, it will be a test flight. It was previously reported that the first flight will be completed before 2025. It can be seen that the first flight is not far away! Moreover, this type of rocket will also expand the recovery and reuse capabilities of the take-off stage in the future, that is, to create a reusable rocket like Musk’s Falcon rocket, which can also greatly reduce the launch cost. ​

References :”Science and Technology Daily” July 28 article “China’s new generation of manned rockets has made important progress “

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中国空间站 On currently on 29th July 2022 2022, the Belt and Road Initiative CNSA –China National Space Administration   on the currently developments of the  latest progress of China’s Chang Zheng – LongMarch manned lunar landing carrier  rockets Science and Technology Daily reporters learned from the First Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation on July 28 2022 that the 702 Institute of the Academy recently successfully completed the multi-machine parallel static-motion joint test of my country’s new generation of manned launch vehicles. It strongly supported the smooth transition of the development of this type of rocket to the initial stage.


The key point is in picture 1 also pictured on the header. The pull rods carrying 350 tons and the thrust of 2800 tons are installed in the 8 columns. Obviously, this test is the core stage (refer to Figure 2), and the thrust of the entire rocket (including the two boosters) is to transmit from this.


This is the new ultra heavy large Chang Zheng –Long March domestically made Carrier rocket that I am most looking forward to, and it is the key model for realizing the dream of manned lunar moon landing…..  

This test is an important test to verify the key technologies of multi-machine parallel connection and bottom-box force transmission of a new generation of manned launch vehicles. Wang Xiaohui, director of the 702 Institute, said that the successful completion of the test marks the first time that my country has broken through the large-load static-dynamic joint test technology. It is an important innovation in test methods and test capabilities. Solid foundation.


“This is the largest, most technically difficult, and most complicated test ever conducted in the field of mechanical testing in my country.” Zhu Xiquan, deputy chief designer of the 702 Institute, introduced that the test needs to break through the static thrust of multiple engines under actual flight conditions Combined loading with vibration load involves key test technologies such as vibration elastic boundary simulation, nearly 1,000-ton static load elastic loading, and multi-machine combined multi-dimensional vibration control and loading under large static load.

The new-generation manned launch vehicle base stage module has a diameter of 5 meters and is equipped with multiple 120-ton engines. Zhu Xiquan said that the high-thrust engine multi-machine parallel technology is the first time that my country’s launch vehicle has adopted it, which brings about the coupling effect of static and dynamic forces of complex structures and the nonlinear transmission problem under the action of combined loads. One of the key technologies to deepen research. In order to analyze and solve this problem and verify the effectiveness of the design scheme, the technical team designed and implemented the first multi-machine parallel static and dynamic joint test in my country.

Since 2019, the 702 Institute has demonstrated and determined the experimental technical plan with relevant units. According to the plan, the team successively broke through the key technologies required for the test, and this year developed a static and dynamic load consisting of 28 sets of 50-ton oil and gas support systems, multiple sets of 20-ton induction shaking tables and a set of 1,000-ton vibration elastic boundary systems. Combined loading test system…

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#MadeInChina #中國製造 |#深蓝航天#DeepBlueLimitedCompany #July2022| Deep Blue Aerospace successfully Testing its #Nebula #ReusableCarrierRocket One #ThunderR1 #ReusableRocketEngine …..

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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…..

The Thunder-R1 engine is the latest reusable liquid oxygen kerosene rocket engine developed by Deep Blue Aerospace. It will be used in the first sub-stage of Deep Blue Aerospace’s first orbit-level recoverable launch vehicle “Nebulas 1” in a parallel manner. It will carry out technical iterations and upgrades in the future to rapidly improve the thrust performance of the engine to the order of 35-40 tons.


The “Nebula 1” carrier rocket has a take-off thrust of more than 130 tons, a low-Earth orbit carrying capacity of about 2 tons, and has a design goal of 50 reuses in the long run. It is planned to have the ability to launch into orbit by the end of 2023

On May 6, 2022, the “Nebula-M” test rocket independently developed by DeepBlue Aerospace completed a 1-kilometer vertical take-off and landing flight test. It has climbed to a new height and is a solid step closer to the successful realization of orbit and recovery

On 9th July 2022 Recently, Deep Blue Aerospace’s 20-ton “Thunder-R1” reusable engine (Thunder Reusable 1) successfully completed the first round of ignition test. The same engine was used in this test, and a total of 5 ignition tests were carried out. The cumulative ignition working time reached 138 seconds, and the longest single working time reached 90 seconds; the engine worked smoothly, and the startup and shutdown were normal in each test run. It marks the complete success of the first-round test run of the Thunder-R1 engine……

Deep Blue Aerospace’s third-hand “Nebula-M” rocket completes the flight recovery mission
​On May 6, 2022, the “Nebula-M” No. 1 test rocket independently developed by DeepBlue Aerospace completed a 1-kilometer vertical take-off and landing (VTVL) flight test, and the rocket moved laterally during the process of climbing and falling. , and finally landed to a point less than 0.5 meters from the “bull’s eye” position of the landing site, and the “Nebula-M” test arrow was successfully recovered.

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#MadeInChina #中國製造| #ISpace #星际荣耀#InterstellarGlory #June2022 | #酒泉衛星發射中心 #JiuquanSatelliteLaunchCenter – #ChinesePrivateSpaceCompany –#ReusableCarrierRocket of the #Hyperbola2 #CarrierRocket #ReusableCarrierRocketEcosystem  verification rocket successfully completed the joint training mission of the whole ecosystem…

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On 15th May 2022 Hong Kong SAR – Beijing time at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center- Inner Mongolia-China – People’s Republic of China, Interstellar Glory Hyperbola-2 verification rocket successfully completed the joint training mission of the whole eco system  Onwardly that month of May 15th , 2022, Beijing Interstellar Glory Space Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Interstellar Glory”) successfully completed the double The full-process joint training of liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen for the Curve 2 verification rocket marks a critical step for Interstellar Glory to the successful development of a reusable launch vehicle.


With the help and support of leaders at all levels of the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, the Hyperbola-2 verification rocket test team organized and carried out refueling preparations, power-up tests, liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen refueling, pre-cooling drills, emergency Works such as venting drills, simulated launch, and recovery processing have been completed, and the full-process operation exercise of refueling, launching, and landing recovery of the Hyperbola-2 verification rocket has been completed. Coordination, work adaptability of related products on the rocket and the ground in low temperature environment, the matching of the function of the filling gas supply system with the rocket, the correctness and integrity of the technical documents and operating procedures used in the test, and the completion of the refueling process. The evaluation of various working hours in the process of note, launch, and landing recovery has accumulated valuable test data and laid a solid foundation for the vertical take-off and landing (VTVL) flight test of a dual-low temperature reusable rocket.


“Hyperbolic 2 Reusable Small Liquid Launch Vehicle” is the main product with international competitiveness independently developed by Interstellar Glory. Hyperbola No. 2 is a two-stage small liquid launch vehicle with a maximum diameter of 3.35 meters. The first and second stages are equipped with the “Focus No. 1” 15-ton reusable variable-thrust liquid oxygen methane engine independently developed by Interstellar Glory; The take-off mass of the Hyperbola-2 carrier rocket is 90 tons, and the carrying capacity of the 500-kilometer SSO orbit is 1.5 tons (no recovery in the first stage) / 1 ton (recovery in the first stage… )

Hyperbola II: Reusable small liquid launch vehicle, adopts a two-stage series configuration, the first and second stages adopt 15-ton reusable liquid oxygen methane liquid rocket engine Focus No. 1 (JD-1), one of which 9 units are installed and 1 unit is installed in the second level. The diameter of the first-class rocket body is 3.35 meters, and the diameter of the second-class rocket body is 2.25 meters. The total length of the rocket is about 28 meters, the take-off weight is about 90 tons, the maximum carrying capacity of low-Earth orbit is 1.9 tons, and the carrying capacity of 500km SSO orbit is 1.1 tons (non-recovery)/0.7 tons (first-stage recovery). The first stage of the rocket has a vertical landing recovery function, which can be reused more than 30 times.

Hyperbolic III series liquid launch vehicle: medium and large reusable liquid launch vehicle, including SQX-3 basic type, SQX-3A (two-core stage parallel connection), SQX-3B (three-core stage parallel connection) three configurations, carrying Capability can meet the needs of a variety of load tasks. In addition to meeting large-scale satellite networking, medium and large-scale satellite launch tasks, it also has the capabilities of space station cargo transportation and deep space exploration also for Space Plane for crew transportation

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