{"id":27569,"date":"2025-09-17T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/27569\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T10:30:07","slug":"chinas-large-reusable-tianlong-3-rocket-passes-1000-tonne-thrust-major-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/27569\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s large reusable Tianlong-3 rocket passes 1,000-tonne thrust \u2018major exam\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chinese reusable rocket race<\/a> is heating up, with two start-ups and a state-owned developer all aiming for orbital launches by year\u2019s end. If successful, they could help to ease a growing mismatch between China\u2019s limited rocket supply and surging demand.On Monday, Beijing-based Space Pioneer<\/a> completed a full-scale test of the first stage of its 72 metre (236 feet) partially reusable Tianlong-3 rocket from an offshore platform in the eastern province of Shandong.<\/p>\n

The 35-second burn involved nine Tianhuo-12 engines firing together to produce nearly 1,000 tonnes of thrust in \u201cthe most complex and challenging ground trial in rocket development\u201d, according to the company.<\/p>\n

Now that Tianlong-3 had passed its \u201cmajor exam\u201d, it was entering the final sprint towards launch, Space Pioneer said on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe aim to fly by the end of this year. After that, we plan to quickly move into routine commercial operations, with a target of more than 30 missions annually.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the second such test in recent months by a Chinese private company, following LandSpace\u2019s<\/a> trial of its Zhuque-3 in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chinese reusable rocket race is heating up, with two start-ups and a state-owned developer all aiming for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[4177,607,4444,13190,1496,1498,27394,111,139,69,1501,147,27397,392,27396,1503,27395,27400,27398,27399],"class_list":{"0":"post-27569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-chinese","11":"tag-falcon-9","12":"tag-guowang","13":"tag-landspace","14":"tag-long-march-12a","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-qianfan","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-shandong","21":"tag-space","22":"tag-space-pioneer","23":"tag-spacex","24":"tag-tianhuo-12-engines","25":"tag-tianlong-3","26":"tag-zhuque-2e-rocket","27":"tag-zhuque-3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}