Fusée Chinoise Gravity 1 : Un nouveau lanceur chinois champion du monde

Video from the channel jean-Luc Hau about Gravity-1, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 3:41. Language: French. Video type: News.

The video, in French, presents the debut of the Gravity-1, the first launcher from the Chinese private company Orienspace, founded in 2020. The maiden flight took place on January 11, 2024, at 05:30 UTC from a converted former ship used as a mobile launch platform in the Yellow Sea, placing three weather satellites into a low circular orbit.

The author describes a 31 m, roughly 400 t rocket with a bulky payload fairing and thick strap-on boosters, presenting it as the world's most capable solid-propellant launcher: 6.5 t to low Earth orbit and 3.7 t to sun-synchronous orbit.

Orienspace also announces the Gravity-2, a liquid-propellant, partially reusable launcher with 16 t to low Earth orbit. The video places the launch among the first orbital missions of 2024, shortly after a Kuaizhou-1A flight.