One of a pair of the most recent Chinese launch startups, Orienspace, aims to conduct its first launch with the Gravity-1 solid rocket in the second half of 2023 using a mobile sea platform.

Chinese rocket startup Landspace performed a crucial static fire test on Friday, June 20. The company is working toward an ...

Tianlong-2 made its debut in April 2023, paving the way ... is a larger liquid propellant rocket with a reusable first stage, which was designed to help launch China’s satellite internet network ...

Falling rocket debris in China after launches is not unheard of ... which is also a two-stage rocket. In April 2023, Space Pioneer launched a kerosene-oxygen rocket, the Tianlong-2, becoming ...

In April 2023, it successfully launched its Tianlong-2 rocket, making the company China’s first commercial launch operator to send a liquid carrier rocket into space and successfully enter orbit ...

These objects are part of the debris cloud spawned by the breakup of the rocket body. | Credit: Slingshot Aerospace The first launch for a coming Chinese ... by January 2023, according to the ...

Landspace reached orbit on July 2023, and landed a booster ... orbit with their Yanxingzhe rocket later this year. This comes as China completed the launch of its first asteroid sample retrieval ...

Before each launch, China’s civil aviation authority ... Debris from Chinese rockets have hit villages before. In December 2023, the debris of a rocket landed in southern Hunan Province ...