{"id":218830,"date":"2025-10-12T09:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/218830\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T09:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:28:14","slug":"china-launches-gravity-1-rocket-from-sea-xinhua-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/218830\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches Gravity-1 rocket from sea -Xinhua"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Gravity-1 carrier rocket carrying a wide-field satellite and two experimental satellites blasts off from waters off the coast of Haiyang, east China’s Shandong Province, Oct. 11, 2025. The rocket blasted off at 10:20 a.m. (Beijing Time), placing three satellites into their designated orbits. The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted the offshore mission. The Gravity-1 carrier rocket made its debut flight in January 2024. (Photo by Guo Jinqi\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n

HAIYANG, Shandong, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) — China sent a Gravity-1 carrier rocket into space from waters off the coast of Haiyang, east China’s Shandong Province, on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The rocket blasted off at 10:20 a.m. (Beijing Time), placing three satellites into their designated orbits. The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted the offshore mission.<\/p>\n

A wide-field satellite and two experimental satellites were onboard the carrier rocket.<\/p>\n

The Gravity-1 carrier rocket has a low-Earth-orbit payload capacity of 6.5 tonnes and is capable of delivering a 4.2-tonne payload to a 500-km sun-synchronous orbit, according to Xu Guoguang, chief designer and commander of the rocket.<\/p>\n

The series of rockets can deploy more than 10 satellites in a single mission, offering generous payload volume, sea or land-launch compatibility, and rapid-response capability, said Xu.<\/p>\n

During this launch mission, the Gravity-1 Y2 carrier rocket executed a roughly 40-degree yaw manoeuvre, swinging its trajectory from southeast to due south within seconds, Xu noted.<\/p>\n

Powered by a solid-propellant core stage augmented by four solid strap-on boosters, the carrier rocket remarkably enhanced both stability and adaptability under heaving sea conditions.<\/p>\n

The Gravity-1 Y1 carrier rocket successfully completed its maiden flight on Jan. 11, 2024, setting a new record as the world’s most powerful solid-fuel rocket and China’s highest-capacity commercial launch vehicle developed by a private enterprise.<\/p>\n

The mission expanded the country’s capability in deploying diversified medium and low-orbit satellites on a large scale, further broadening China’s carrier rocket family.<\/p>\n

Compared with the Gravity-1 Y1 mission, the Y2 flight demonstrates marked gains in quality, stability and consistency, delivering a demonstrably more reliable vehicle.<\/p>\n

The Gravity family of carrier rockets, developed independently by the Chinese commercial aerospace company OrienSpace, is a standardized series of medium-to-heavy lift rockets designed expressly to meet the surging demands for large-scale networking and network replenishment of various types of satellites. \u25a0<\/p>\n

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A Gravity-1 carrier rocket carrying a wide-field satellite and two experimental satellites blasts off from waters off the coast of Haiyang, east China’s Shandong Province, Oct. 11, 2025. The rocket blasted off at 10:20 a.m. (Beijing Time), placing three satellites into their designated orbits. The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted the offshore mission.<\/p>\n

The Gravity-1 carrier rocket made its debut flight in January 2024. (Photo by Guo Jinqi\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n

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A Gravity-1 carrier rocket carrying a wide-field satellite and two experimental satellites blasts off from waters off the coast of Haiyang, east China’s Shandong Province, Oct. 11, 2025. The rocket blasted off at 10:20 a.m. (Beijing Time), placing three satellites into their designated orbits. The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted the offshore mission.<\/p>\n

The Gravity-1 carrier rocket made its debut flight in January 2024. (Photo by Guo Jinqi\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Gravity-1 carrier rocket carrying a wide-field satellite and two experimental satellites blasts off from waters off the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[144,123117,123118,79,193],"class_list":["post-218830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-china","tag-gravity-1-carrier-rocket","tag-offshore-launch","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}