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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 raised $71,000,000 in a series C funding round to be used for development of a new launch vehicle.
Landspace performed a full-system hot fire test of the TQ-11 10-ton thrust engine for Zhuque-2’s second stage on 2019-11-30.
Landspace previously attracted $75,000,000 in funding from China Growth Capital, Goldwind, PGA Venture Partners and others prior to 2019.
Landspace carried out tests of the two methalox engines powering Zhuque-2 during the summer of 2019.
Landspace signed a contract with Spacety for Zhuque-2 launch services in late 2019.
Landspace performed a successful full-system test of the TQ-11 10-ton-thrust engine for the Zhuque-2 on 2019-11-30.
Landspace is developing the Zhuque-2 liquid methane–liquid oxygen two-stage rocket and aims to test launch it in 2020.
Landspace, OneSpace, and iSpace have initially pursued and launched solid propellant launchers while Linkspace has concentrated on developing a reusable liquid propellant launcher.
If successful, an orbital flight by iSpace’s Hyperbola-1 would be the first Chinese private rocket to achieve orbit, following failures by Landspace in 2018 and OneSpace on 2019-03-27.
Commercial launch firm Landspace failed to reach orbit in October 2018.
LandSpace reached agreements with UK-based Open Cosmos and Italy-based D-Orbit related to launch services involving the Zhuque-2 rocket.
The agreements involving LandSpace, Open Cosmos, and D-Orbit totaled $15,000,000.
LandSpace expects the Zhuque-2 to be the first Chinese rocket powered by methalox propellant and to conduct a test flight expected in 2020 with the third-highest thrust level among commercial aerospace companies globally.
Assembly of the Tianque-12 methalox engine was completed at a LandSpace manufacturing base in Huzhou, eastern China following a successful power pack test in March.
LandSpace has completed assembly of an 80-ton thrust Tianque-12 (TQ-12) liquid methane-liquid oxygen rocket engine for the Zhuque-2 launch vehicle.
LandSpace will use the TQ-12 engine for its Zhuque-2 (Vermillion Bird-2) medium-lift launch vehicle.
LandSpace previously signed a contract with Gomspace of Denmark to provide launch service with a launch vehicle named LS-1, a project that was canceled and replaced by the Zhuque-1 rocket.
LandSpace Technology Corporation was founded in 2015 and has attracted around $75,000,000 in funding from China Growth Capital, Goldwind, PGA Venture Partners, and others.
Landspace intends Zhuque-2 to be the first Chinese rocket powered by methalox propellant and expects its test flight in 2020.
Landspace performed a successful test of the power pack for the Tianque-12 (TQ-12) 80-ton-thrust liquid-methane/liquid-oxygen rocket engine at a facility in Huzhou on 2019-03-25.