Jielong-3 "Yao-1 launch vehicle.
At 14:35 on December 9, 2022, the "Jielong-3" Yao-1 carrier rocket carrying 14 commercial satellites was launched from the launch ship in the Yellow Sea, successfully putting the satellite into the predetermined orbit, and the "Jielong-3" solid rocket made its first successful flight. At present, it has been nearly one year since the first flight of the "Jielong-3" rocket, and the rocket will soon usher in the second launch.
It is expected that at around 03:30 on December 6, 2023, the "Jielong-3" Yao-2 carrier rocket will be ignited and launched from the South China Sea near Yangjiang, Guangdong, challenging two consecutive victories. The launch will be the first time that a Chinese launch vehicle has carried out a sea launch mission in the South China Sea.
Jielong-3 "Yao-1 launch vehicle.
The Jielong-3 carrier rocket is a medium-sized four-stage solid commercial launch vehicle developed by the First Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation and invested by the China Long March Rocket Corporation under the First Academy. The arrow is 31 in length8 meters, the maximum diameter of the arrow body is 265 meters, optional diameter 29 meters and a diameter of 335-meter fairing, take-off mass 140 tons, take-off thrust 200 tons, its 500 km sun-synchronous orbit carrying capacity 15 tons. The Jielong-3 rocket supports rapid land and sea launches, and is China's first carrier rocket to achieve thermal launch at sea.
Jielong-3 "Yao-1 launch vehicle.
The "Jielong-3" rocket mission has high cost performance and applicability, has the launch capacity of "one arrow and 20 satellites", and the unit launch cost is not more than 10,000 US dollars, and can complete the technical preparation and launch of the satellite and rocket within one week, which is used to meet the launch needs of commercial satellite users such as constellation networking and network supplementation, payload verification, etc.
List of high-quality authors This mission is a southward "entrepreneurship" of the "Jielong-3" rocket. The rocket carrying out the "Jielong-3" Yao-2 launch mission departed from Haiyang, Shandong Province on a launch ship, and arrived in the waters near Yangjiang in Guangdong Province after several days of sailing, creating the longest maneuvering distance for China's sea launch. At the same time, this mission will also be China's first low-latitude sea launch.
Author: Mulan Xingzhou.