{"id":25278,"date":"2025-10-12T08:10:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T08:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=25278"},"modified":"2025-10-12T08:10:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T08:10:32","slug":"china-launches-gravity-1-rocket-from-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=25278","title":{"rendered":"China launches Gravity-1 rocket from sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Gravity-1 carrier rocket carrying a wide-field satellite and two experimental satellites blasts off from waters off the coast of Haiyang, east China’s Shandong Province, Oct. 11, 2025. The rocket blasted off at 10:20 a.m. (Beijing Time), placing three satellites into their designated orbits. The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted the offshore mission. The Gravity-1 carrier rocket made its debut flight in January 2024. (Photo by Guo Jinqi\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China sent a Gravity-1 carrier rocket into space from waters off the coast of Haiyang, east China’s Shandong Province, on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rocket blasted off at 10:20 a.m. (Beijing Time), placing three satellites into their designated orbits. The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted the offshore mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A wide-field satellite and two experimental satellites were onboard the carrier rocket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gravity-1 carrier rocket has a low-Earth-orbit payload capacity of 6.5 tonnes and is capable of delivering a 4.2-tonne payload to a 500-km sun-synchronous orbit, according to Xu Guoguang, chief designer and commander of the rocket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The series of rockets can deploy more than 10 satellites in a single mission, offering generous payload volume, sea or land-launch compatibility, and rapid-response capability, said Xu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this launch mission, the Gravity-1 Y2 carrier rocket executed a roughly 40-degree yaw manoeuvre, swinging its trajectory from southeast to due south within seconds, Xu noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Powered by a solid-propellant core stage augmented by four solid strap-on boosters, the carrier rocket remarkably enhanced both stability and adaptability under heaving sea conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gravity-1 Y1 carrier rocket successfully completed its maiden flight on Jan. 11, 2024, setting a new record as the world’s most powerful solid-fuel rocket and China’s highest-capacity commercial launch vehicle developed by a private enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mission expanded the country’s capability in deploying diversified medium and low-orbit satellites on a large scale, further broadening China’s carrier rocket family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compared with the Gravity-1 Y1 mission, the Y2 flight demonstrates marked gains in quality, stability and consistency, delivering a demonstrably more reliable vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gravity family of carrier rockets, developed independently by the Chinese commercial aerospace company OrienSpace, is a standardized series of medium-to-heavy lift rockets designed expressly to meet the surging demands for large-scale networking and network replenishment of various types of satellites. \u25a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Gravity-1 carrier rocket carrying a wide-field satellite and two experimental satellites blasts off from waters off the coast of Haiyang, east China’s Shandong Province, Oct. 11, 2025. The rocket blasted off at 10:20 a.m. (Beijing Time), placing three satellites into their designated orbits. The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted the offshore mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gravity-1 carrier rocket made its debut flight in January 2024. (Photo by Guo Jinqi\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Gravity-1 carrier rocket carrying a wide-field satellite and two experimental satellites blasts off from waters off the coast of Haiyang, east China’s Shandong Province, Oct. 11, 2025. The rocket blasted off at 10:20 a.m. (Beijing Time), placing three satellites into their designated orbits. The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted the offshore mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gravity-1 carrier rocket made its debut flight in January 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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