Lijian-2

The Kinetica-2 launch vehicle is planned to be shipped to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center for its debut flight carrying the Qingzhou cargo spacecraft.

The Lijian-2 rocket will launch the Light Boat-1 spacecraft.

CAS Space's Lijian-2 rocket is preparing for its maiden flight in Q4.

The ship-rocket separation test verified the correctness and system compatibility of the ship-rocket separation system design for Kinetica-2.

CAS Space delayed Kinetica-2’s debut flight from late September to the fourth quarter of 2023.

The successful ship-rocket separation and modal tests signal the sprint phase for Kinetica-2's maiden flight.

The Kinetica-2 ship-rocket combination underwent modal tests to determine its modal parameters.

The tests verified the correctness of the Kinetica-2 structure and connection configuration, ensuring compatibility of the interfaces.

Static modal and separation tests were conducted on the Kinetica-2 payload adapter.

Preparations for the maiden flight of the Kinetica-2 carrier rocket are progressing steadily.

Kinetica-2 will be an expendable two-stage launch vehicle capable of sending up to 12,000 kilograms into low Earth orbit or 8,000 kilograms to sun-synchronous orbit.

The debut launch of Kinetica-2 could be delayed a few weeks or months from the previous target of September 2023.

The launch of the Lijian-2 rocket is set for Q4 of this year.

The overall assembly of the Kinetica-2 rocket has been completed, and it has entered the comprehensive testing phase.

One of Kinetica-2's first-stage cores was fired up in early June 2023, followed by its second stage later that month at the Guangdong test facility.

The Lijian-2 rocket has a payload capacity of 12 tons to low Earth orbit.

First-stage reuse for Kinetica-2 is planned to be implemented in 2028.

Kinetica-2 is scheduled to launch the initial prototype of the Qingzhou cargo spacecraft for China's national manned space program in the fourth quarter of 2023.