On January 11, 2024, Gravity-1 was launched at the Yantai Oriental Spaceport in Shandong Province.
Gravity-1 is the world's first all-solid medium-sized launch vehicle, which adopts the "semi-solid" all-solid configuration of four boosters, and is the first domestic first-class civilian and commercial rocket.
The take-off weight of the rocket exceeds 400 tons, the take-off thrust is 600 tons, and the carrying capacity of low-earth orbit is 65 tons, sun-synchronous orbit (500km) carrying capacity 42 tons.
According to Ma Mao, the overall designer of Gravity-1, "the Gravity-1 Yao-1 flight test used the 22,000-ton launch ship of the 'Oriental Spaceport', which is the first engineering ship in China specifically used for rocket sea launch and **. ”
It is understood that Dongfang Space, which developed the Gravitation-1 launch vehicle, was established in 2020, and its main business is space transportation, which is a design and manufacturing service company for launch vehicles and new air and space vehicles.
The Gravity-1 launch vehicle is mainly oriented to the rapid response launch of medium and large space payloads and the large-scale networking launch of small and medium-sized satellites in low orbit, and has the characteristics of large carrying capacity, large payload space, convenient sea and land launch, rapid response and good economy.
According to reports, the research and development of this type of rocket lasted three years.