China's Space Program Thread II

[by78]

Galatic Energy has updated the spec sheet for the Pallas-2 reusable launch vehicle:
– Takeoff mass (without/with boosters): 757/1950 tons
– Capacity to LEO (without/with boosters): 20/58 tons

Appropriate corrections made per @sangye.

A presentation given by Xia Dongkun of Galactic Energy:
– The Pallas-2 launch vehicle will carry out maiden flight in October of 2026.
– The company is building a launch facility at Jiuquan for the Pallas-1 launch vehicle. It will be completed next month.

 

[ZachL111]

Have any other Chinese EV companies done this? Just curious. For a car company, this is an impressive feat.

I believe Geely/GeeSpace is the only one that actually is the OEM for their satellites, most of the time you see companies using existing systems, Huawei or something like Tiantong, that is about the closest you will get.

Others have invested in certain systems, Xiaomi Auto for example has patent filings for their own satellite communications in car, which could point to something in the future, Lei Jun has also invested in financing rounds for GalaxySpace via his fund. The only other thing I can think of is the naming of a satellite which Hozon/Nezha did, for a PR stunt type of thing, which was the 桐乡哪吒汽车号 (Tongxiang Nezha Auto) satellite as part of the Tianmu-1 series of satellites.

So GeeSpace is sort of alone in this. But to also be fair, GeeSpace is under the holding group, it's not technically under the car brand itself.

 

[by78]

Another image of the Long March 10 launchpad.

 

[by78]

The transporter/launcher for Ceres-2.

An image from the successful fairing separation test of Ceres-2.

 

[by78]

In a milestone development, China has successfully conducted landing and takeoff verification tests of the Lanyue manned lunar lander.

The test was carried out using a low-gravity simulation platform built by

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

, which had previously built the a similar test platform for the Tianwen-1 Mars lander.

 

[Xiongmao]

Another image of the Long March 10 launchpad.

View attachment 157914

Is that the first stage of the Long March 10?

 

[Nx4eu]

Is that the first stage of the Long March 10?

Looks to be half of the first stage

 

[2=GT]

CZ-5B just launched Xingwang Digui 08A-J

 

[2=GT]

More pics

 

[escobar]

The new bidding for Qianfan sat launch has learned from the lessons of the last failed bidding and lowered the bidding threshold to allow 10 satellites being launched in a group: 4x10 sat launches (2.8t to 950km) + 3x18 (4.8t to 800km) to near-polar orbit.

Sailspace once again announced the failure of the rocket launch service tender: the tender for a rocket launch service carrying 10 satellites due to insufficient number of suppliers registering, which was less than three