蓝箭航天空间科技股份有限公司
LandSpace, officially LandSpace Technology Corporation, is a Chinese commercial space launch provider established in 2015 and headquartered in Beijing. As a private enterprise, LandSpace focuses on developing and operating launch vehicles, particularly those using liquid oxygen-methane propellants. Its Zhuque-2 rocket achieved a significant milestone in July 2023 by becoming the world's first methane-fueled launch vehicle to reach orbit. LandSpace aims to provide cost-effective and reliable space transportation services, contributing to the growing commercial space sector in China.
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Landspace was the first company to reach orbit with a methalox launcher and the second Chinese commercial firm to reach orbit with a liquid propellant launcher.
Landspace was established in 2015 after the Chinese government opened parts of the space sector to private capital in late 2014.
Landspace unveiled plans to develop a reusable stainless steel rocket named Zhuque-3 (Vermillion Bird 3).
Space Pioneer and Landspace achieved the first Chinese commercial liquid propellant launch successes in 2023.
CAS Space, Galactic Energy, iSpace, Expace, Space Pioneer, and Landspace all reached orbit in 2023.
Commercial Chinese launch companies Landspace, Space Pioneer, Galactic Energy, iSpace, and Expace have all reached orbit 2023.
SpaceX, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance in the United States and China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, Landspace, and iSpace in China have launched or are close to launching methane–liquid oxygen launchers.
CAS Space, Galactic Energy, iSpace, Expace, Space Pioneer, and Landspace reached orbit in 2023.
Space Pioneer and Landspace achieved first commercial liquid-propellant launch successes in 2023.
Six firms—Galactic Energy, iSpace, Landspace, Space Pioneer, CAS Space, and Expace—reached orbit in 2023.
Space Pioneer (Tianlong-2) and Landspace (Zhuque-2) became the first Chinese commercial firms to reach orbit with liquid propellant rockets in 2023.
Chinese commercial launch companies Galactic Energy, iSpace, Space Pioneer, Landspace, CAS Space, and Expace had all reached orbit in 2023.
Commercial firms Galactic Energy, iSpace, Space Pioneer, and Landspace, and state-owned commercial spinoffs CAS Space and Expace, reached orbit in 2023.
Chinese commercial launch companies CAS Space, iSpace, Expace, Space Pioneer, and Landspace reached orbit in 2023.
Space Pioneer and Landspace achieved first commercial liquid propellant launch successes in 2023.
iSpace, Expace, Space Pioneer, and Landspace reached orbit in 2023, and Orienspace aimed to conduct its first launch with the Gravity-1 solid rocket in the second half of 2023.
The TQ-12 engine that powers the Zhuque-2 first stage produces 80,000 kg of thrust and Landspace is developing a restartable version of the engine.
Landspace states that future Zhuque-2 launches with upgraded second-stage engines will be capable of delivering 6,000 kg to a 200-kilometer low Earth orbit or 4,000 kg to a 500-kilometer Sun-synchronous orbit.
Landspace reached orbit with its methane-fueled Zhuque-2 rocket on 2023-07-11, lifting off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 9:00 p.m. Eastern.
Landspace is the second private Chinese launch firm to reach orbit with a liquid-propellant rocket after Space Pioneer’s Tianlong-2 reached orbit in April 2023.