{"id":72267,"date":"2025-10-11T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/72267\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T16:30:08","slug":"private-firm-launches-worlds-mightiest-solid-fueled-rocket-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/72267\/","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\/68e9d1b6a310f735017ea1ca.jpeg\" data-from=\"newsroom\" data-mimetype=\"image\/jpeg\" id=\"img-68e9d1b6a310f735017ea1ca\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>   [Photo by SpaceLens\/provided to China Daily] <\/p>\n<p>The Gravity 1 rocket model features three core stages and four boosters, all powered by solid-propellant engine and equipped with flexible swinging nozzles.<\/p>\n<p>With a liftoff weight of 405 metric tons and a thrust of 600 tons, the rocket can carry a spacecraft weighing up to 6.5 tons to a low-Earth orbit, or 4.2 tons to a typical sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 500 kilometers, according to Orienspace, which was founded in 2020 by a group of veteran researchers from State-owned space enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>Since its debut, Gravity 1 has become the world&#8221;s mightiest solid-fueled launch vehicle and also the most powerful private rocket in China.<\/p>\n<p>Its liftoff weight and thrust surpass those of the European Space Agency&#8217;s Vega-C, previously the world&#8217;s most powerful solid-propellant rocket.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Gravity 1 is the first and currently the only private rocket in China that has side boosters and the largest fairing, or nose cone \u2014 the top structure on a rocket that contains satellites or other payloads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Photo by SpaceLens\/provided to China Daily] The Gravity 1 rocket model features three core stages and four boosters,&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-72267","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\/72267","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=72267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72267\/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=72267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}