{"id":71897,"date":"2025-10-11T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T11:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/71897\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T11:34:08","slug":"private-firm-launches-worlds-mightiest-solid-fueled-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/71897\/","title":{"rendered":"Private firm launches world&#8217;s mightiest solid-fueled rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68e9d1b6a310f735017ea1c8.jpeg\" data-from=\"newsroom\" data-mimetype=\"image\/jpeg\" id=\"img-68e9d1b6a310f735017ea1c8\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>   [Photo by SpaceLens\/provided to China Daily] <\/p>\n<p>Orienspace, a private Chinese rocket maker, successfully launched a Gravity 1 carrier rocket on Saturday morning, marking the second flight of the world&#8221;s biggest and mightiest solid-propellant rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-meter-tall rocket blasted off at 10:20 am from a launch service ship off the coast of Haiyang in Shandong province and soon placed its payloads \u2014 an optical remote-sensing satellite and two experimental satellites \u2014 into their preset orbital positions.<\/p>\n<p>The mission marked the second flight of the Gravity 1, which made its debut launch from the same site in January 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Xu Guoguang, chief designer and project manager of Gravity 1, said the second flight aimed to further verify the rocket&#8217;s reliability and capability, its pre-launch preparations and the launch sequence, as well as demonstrate its ability to handle multiple flight trajectories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Photo by SpaceLens\/provided to China Daily] Orienspace, a private Chinese rocket maker, successfully launched a Gravity 1 carrier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-71897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71897","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=71897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}