{"id":218450,"date":"2025-10-16T19:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218450\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T19:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:27:08","slug":"chinas-record-breaking-gravity-1-rocket-aces-amazing-debut-launch-from-ship-at-sea-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218450\/","title":{"rendered":"China’s record-breaking Gravity-1 rocket aces amazing debut launch from ship at sea (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A squat and brawny Chinese rocket just aced its second-ever liftoff.<\/p>\n

Orienspace’s Gravity-1, the world’s most powerful solid-fuel rocket<\/a>, launched from the deck of a ship in the Yellow Sea on Oct. 10 at 10:20 p.m. EDT (0420 GMT and 10:20 a.m. Beijing time on Oct. 11).<\/p>\n

The dramatic liftoff, which was caught on video, sent two huge plumes of exhaust into the hazy sky.<\/p>\n

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The Chinese company Orienspace’s Gravity-1 rocket launches for the second time ever, lifting off from a ship on Oct. 10, 2025. (Image credit: CCTV)<\/p>\n

The 100-foot-tall (30-meter-tall) Gravity-1 consists of three stages and four strap-on boosters, all of which employ solid-fuel rocket motors. The vehicle is capable of lofting about 14,300 pounds (6,500 kilograms) of payload to low Earth orbit<\/a> (LEO).<\/p>\n

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The Oct. 10 launch was successful, sending one wide-field satellite and two experimental spacecraft to their designated orbits, according to<\/a> the state-run Chinese broadcaster CCTV.<\/p>\n

Gravity-1 also lofted some satellites \u2014 three Yunyao-1 commercial weather spacecraft \u2014 on its first flight, which launched in January 2024<\/a> from the deck of this same barge.<\/p>\n

Orienspace is developing two larger and more powerful rockets, known as Gravity-2 and Gravity-3.<\/p>\n

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Gravity-2 will feature a liquid-fuel core stage and solid rocket boosters as well as be capable of sending about 25.6 tons to LEO, Andrew Jones reported in SpaceNews<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n

Gravity-3 will employ three Gravity-2 core stages, much as SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy<\/a> rocket uses three strapped-together Falcon 9 boosters, according to Jones. Gravity-3’s payload capacity will be about 5 tons greater than that of Gravity-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A squat and brawny Chinese rocket just aced its second-ever liftoff. Orienspace’s Gravity-1, the world’s most powerful solid-fuel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-218450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}