OrienspaceIn Development
Orienspace's planned super-heavy launch vehicle for large-scale space construction and deep-space missions, specified on the company product page as an 81-meter rocket with an 8-meter fairing, 3,400-tonne liftoff mass and 5,040-tonne liftoff thrust, sized at 100 tonnes to LEO, 74 tonnes to 500 km SSO and 23 tonnes to GTO, with full-vehicle recovery as the design goal.
Latest update Sep 6, 2026
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Official product-page specifications as of September 2026 describe a much larger vehicle than the earlier triple-core Gravity-2 variant (previously quoted around 30 tonnes to LEO). No first-flight date is posted on the product page; prior company comments pointed to a 2027 follow-on after Gravity-2.
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Announced next steps from Orienspace that mention Gravity-3 (Yinli-3).
2027-2028
Convert the June 2026 shortlist (with Galactic Energy, CAS Space and LandSpace) into a contract to launch CAS's Qingzhou cargo craft to Tiangong, tentatively first docking in January 2027. In parallel, advance Gravity-3 from the company product-page specification (100 t to LEO, full-vehicle recovery) toward a first flight after Gravity-2. Gravity-2 has not flown as of September 15, 2026, so no recovery attempt has been made.
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Solid-propellant medium-lift launch vehicle with a unique configuration of four ground-lit strap-on boosters and three air-lit core stages. Sea-launched from a barge off Haiyang, it is the world's largest and most powerful solid-fuel carrier rocket.
Two-stage, partially reusable kerosene-liquid oxygen heavy-lift rocket with a vertically landing first stage powered by nine in-house Yuanli-110 engines - Orienspace's higher-than-Falcon-9-class vehicle.
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