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Demo Flight
Zhuque-3, flown by LandSpace
Launches / Zhuque-3
Zhuque-3, flown by LandSpace
This was LandSpace's third launch of 2025, and its eighth in all.
Counting every operator, it was the 289th orbital launch attempt anywhere in 2025, and the first from Launch Area 96B.
LandSpace
First test launch of LandSpace’s ZQ-3 rocket, with a dummy payload. The rocket’s 1st stage attempted to land on a landing pad about 300 km downrange of the launch site.
Zhuque-3 (ZQ-3) is a reusable orbital launch vehicle developed by Chinese private company LandSpace. The rocket is built using stainless steel and shares the same series of gas generator cycle methane/liquid oxygen powered rocket engines as in the currently active ZQ-2E rocket. The first stage uses 9 TQ-12 engines (initially the TQ-12A, then upgraded TQ-12B) while the second stage uses 1 TQ-15 engine (TQ-15A, then TQ-15B). On launch missions where the first stage is recovered, it will land on a down-range landing pad located in Minqin County, Gansu Province.
LandSpace
LandSpace is a Chinese private space launch company based in Beijing. It was founded in 2015 by Tsinghua University alumni Zhang Changwu.
11 launches so far, 8 of them successful. The last 4 in a row went to plan.
It went up from Launch Area 96B at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China.
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