China's reusable rocket "Zhuque-3" has temporarily postponed its maiden flight mission.
According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, the "Zhuque-3" rocket, developed by the Chinese private aerospace company LandSpace, was already in final preparation. The maiden flight, originally scheduled for Saturday (November 29), was postponed at the last minute due to force majeure.
According to publicly available information, "Zhuque-3" is a large-capacity, low-cost, reusable liquid launch vehicle independently developed in China for large-scale constellation networking missions. After conducting orbital launches, it can autonomously and precisely return, achieve soft landing at the recovery site, and be reused.
With a launch weight of about 570 tons and an overall length of approximately 66 meters, the "Zhuque-3" rocket has a payload capacity of no less than 18.3 tons. The maiden flight is planned for this year, which will support China's satellite internet networking high-frequency launches, large communications satellite launches, and various types of spacecraft launch requirements.
With a launch weight of about 570 tons and an overall length of approximately 66 meters, the "Zhuque-3" rocket has a payload capacity of no less than 18.3 tons. The maiden flight is planned for this year, which will support China's satellite internet networking high-frequency launches, large communications satellite launches, and various types of spacecraft launch requirements.
According to previous reports by IT Home, from October 18 to 20 of this year, LandSpace's "Zhuque-3" Yao-1 launch vehicle successfully completed the first phase of its maiden flight task—propellant loading rehearsal and static fire test—at the commercial launch site 2 in Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Test Zone. LandSpace will continue with planned vertical operation drills before returning to the technical area to prepare for the official orbital launch and first-stage recovery.