Zhuque 3

The Zhuque-3 reusable launcher is constructed from stainless steel and uses methane-liquid oxygen (methalox) propellant.

Landspace’s Zhuque-3 is a methalox rocket with up to 21,000 kg payload capacity to LEO and a first flight planned for 2025.

Landspace is developing the methane-liquid oxygen Zhuque-2 and the planned stainless-steel Zhuque-3 launchers.

Landspace’s Zhuque-3 is a methalox launcher with a payload capacity up to 21,000 kg to low Earth orbit and a first flight planned for 2025.

Zhuque-3 is designed with a 4.5-meter diameter and a payload capability of 21,000 kg to low Earth orbit when flown expendably.

Landspace’s Zhuque-3 has a stated payload capacity up to 21,000 kg to low Earth orbit and a first flight planned for 2025.

Landspace is developing the Zhuque-3 stainless steel methane-liquid oxygen reusable rocket at Jiuquan.

Landspace is developing the methane-liquid oxygen Zhuque-2 and a planned stainless steel Zhuque-3 reusable launchers.

Landspace’s Zhuque-3 is a methalox reusable rocket with a payload capacity up to 21,000 kg to low Earth orbit and its first flight is planned for 2025.

Landspace is developing the Zhuque-3 methalox reusable rocket with a payload capacity up to 21,000 kg to LEO and a first flight planned for 2025.

Landspace aims to launch three Zhuque-2 methalox rockets in 2024 and to conduct further hop tests for the stainless steel Zhuque-3.

Multiple Chinese companies are developing reusable rockets, including iSpace’s Hyperbola-3, Landspace’s Zhuque-3, Galactic Energy’s Pallas-1, CAS Space’s Kinetica 2, Deep Blue Aerospace’s Nebula-1, and Space Pioneer’s Tianlong-3.

Landspace’s Zhuque-3 is a methalox reusable launcher with a payload capacity up to 21,000 kg to LEO and a first flight planned for 2025.

The Zhuque-3 VTVL-1 test article reached an altitude of around 350 m during a roughly 60-second flight.

Landspace executed a first vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) test with the Zhuque-3 VTVL-1 test article at a launch and recovery site at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on 2024-01-19 at 0800 UTC (3:00 a.m. Eastern).

Zhuque-3 will have a liftoff mass of about 660,000 kg and will be powered by nine Tianque-12B engines.

Zhuque-3 will carry up to 12,500 kg to LEO when the first stage returns to the launch site.

Zhuque-3 will carry up to 18,300 kg to LEO when the first stage is recovered downrange.