More Starlink satellites and two big launches for China

More Starlink satellites and two big launches for China

Rocket launches this week On Tuesday, Aug. 18, Chinese aerospace firm LandSpace is targeting 7:35 p.m. EDT for the second flight of its Zhuque-3 rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China, according to tracking from Next Spaceflight. The launch was scrubbed last week after a Long March 7A rocket exploded hours before Zhuque-3’sContinue reading "More Starlink satellites and two big launches for China" The post More Starlink satellit…

LandSpace's Zhuque-3 Y-2 Sets August 19 Launch Window, Targeting China's First Commercial Orbital-Class First-Stage Land Recovery

LandSpace has confirmed the launch window for the Zhuque-3 Y-2 rocket: 7:27 to 8:04 AM on August 19 at Jiuquan, with the core goal of first-stage vertical landing recovery. Success would make it China's first commercial liquid launch vehicle to achieve orbital-class first-stage land recovery, and Huayuan Securities noted the industry's valuation logic could shift from concept to reusable rocket industrialization verification. The satellite secto…