https://spacewatch.global/tag/landspace/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Mon, 31 Jan 2022 09:00:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/landspace/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2022/01/spacewatchgl-column-dongfang-hour-china-aerospace-news-roundup-24-30-january-2022/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 09:00:02 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=38847 As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Orbital Gateway Consulting we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. We are pleased to present “Dongfang Hour China Aerospace News Roundup 24 – 30 January 2022 ”. Welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space Updates! I’m Jean Deville, joined as always by my co-host Blaine Curcio]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/12/spacewatchgl-column-dongfang-hour-china-aerospace-news-roundup-29-november-5-december/ Mon, 06 Dec 2021 13:00:44 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=37753 As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Orbital Gateway Consulting we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. We are pleased to present “Dongfang Hour China Aerospace News Roundup 29 November- 5 December 2021”. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Aero/Space News Roundup! ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/11/spacewatchgl-column-dongfang-hour-china-aerospace-news-roundup-22-28-november/ Mon, 29 Nov 2021 08:00:46 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=37553 As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Orbital Gateway Consulting we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. We are pleased to present “Dongfang Hour China Aerospace News Roundup 22-28 November 2021”. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Aero/Space News Roundup! A special shout-out to our friends at SpaceWatch.Global,]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/08/spacewatchgl-column-dongfang-hour-china-aerospace-news-roundup-16-22-august-2021/ Mon, 23 Aug 2021 07:00:13 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=35291 As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Orbital Gateway Consulting we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. We are pleased to present “Dongfang Hour China Aerospace News Roundup 16 - 22 August 2021”. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Aero/Space News Roundup! A special shout-out to our friends at SpaceWatch.Global,]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/07/spacewatchgl-column-dongfang-hour-china-aerospace-news-roundup-28-june-4-july-2021/ Mon, 05 Jul 2021 08:00:40 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=34161 As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Orbital Gateway Consulting we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. We are pleased to present “Dongfang Hour China Aerospace News Roundup 28 June – 4 July”. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Aero/Space News Roundup! A special shout-out to our friends ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/04/spacewatchgl-column-dongfang-hour-china-aerospace-news-roundup-29-march-4-april-2021/ Mon, 05 Apr 2021 08:00:37 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=31647 As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Orbital Gateway Consulting we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. We are pleased to present “Dongfang Hour China Aerospace News Roundup 29 March – 4 April 2021”.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/11/spacewatchgl-opinion-launching-into-the-new-decade/ Sun, 29 Nov 2020 09:00:05 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=28666 The first year of the 2020s has been nothing if not very memorable. A global pandemic, political turmoil, and rapid technological development coming from and also helping to propel these changes. Flying somewhat more under the radar, however, has been the year in Chinese launch. 2020 has seen billions of Yuan poured into companies, has seen a plethora of engine tests and other technological steps forward, and government support for the growing crop of launchers.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/11/spacewatchgl-column-dongfang-china-aerospace-news-roundup-2-nov-8-nov-2020/ Tue, 10 Nov 2020 08:00:35 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=28026 As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Orbital Gateway Consulting we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. We are pleased to present “Dongfang China Aerospace News Roundup 2 Nov - 8 Nov 2020”.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/10/e2mc-update-on-space-financing-rounds-in-september-2020/ Thu, 01 Oct 2020 08:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=26599&preview=true&preview_id=26599 September saw over US$300 million of space financing rounds, including blockbuster rounds for Chinese launcher LandSpace and the Finnish SAR constellation ICEYE. Notably absent this month were large rounds for satellite communications companies, like those we have seen in many previous months.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/12/spacewatchgl-column-reflections-on-the-2019-apscc-conference-putting-on-a-show-in-the-land-of-smiles/ Sun, 01 Dec 2019 09:00:27 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=17323 The Asia Pacific Satellite Communications Council (APSCC) is, among other things, arguably the premier satellite communications (satcom) member organization in Asia-Pacific. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/08/chinas-first-medium-scale-launcher-with-lox-lch4-propellants-zq-2-soliciting-payloads-worldwide/ Fri, 30 Aug 2019 05:00:35 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=15816 Chinese commercial launcher developer and launch service provider LandSpace announced during the MAKS 2019 show, that the company is seeking and accepting payloads from around the world for the maiden launch of its proprietary ZhuQue-2 (ZQ-2) launcher powered by a LOX/LCH4 liquid-propellant rocket engine (LRE).]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/05/landspace-successfully-tests-oxygen-methane-engine/ Wed, 22 May 2019 05:00:16 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=14222 Private Chinese company, LandSpace, has successfully tested an oxygen-methane engine. Called TQ-12, the 80-tonne thrust engine completed the 20-second test and has the third highest thrust level in comparison with the same engine type, in the world.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/02/spacewatchgl-column-private-investment-into-chinese-space-balancing-control-with-innovation/ Sun, 24 Feb 2019 09:00:20 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=12842 By Blaine Curcio and Tianyi Lan .Many would correctly say that much of the innovation in the Western space industry over the past decade has occurred because of the private sector. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/01/spacewatchgl-column-the-race-to-the-launchpad-private-launch-companies-in-china/ Thu, 31 Jan 2019 06:00:23 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=12613 One could be correct in saying that China has a history of firing rockets into the sky. The earliest evidence of fireworks dates back to the ninth century Tang Dynasty, and over the last thousand-plus years, China has continued to put on some of the world’s most brilliant fireworks spectacles.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/01/chinese-new-space-onespace-and-ispace-prepare-for-orbital-launches-in-early-2019/ Tue, 29 Jan 2019 06:00:54 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=12595 The end of 2014 saw an important development for the Chinese launch sector when the government allowed private capital investment into the Chinese launch and small satellite sectors. Since then, there has been rapid development in small satellite launch vehicles with around 10 new companies emerging as a result. A]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/01/chinese-new-space-landspace-opens-huzhou-rocket-production-facility/ Wed, 02 Jan 2019 06:00:18 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=12197 China's first private satellite launch vehicle production facility has begun operations in the city of Huzhou, located in east China's Zhejiang Province, according to the privately-owned and Beijing-based launch vehicle manufacturer LandSpace.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/11/chinas-new-space-race-landspace-technology-launch-company-gets-43-million-in-series-b-funding/ Thu, 22 Nov 2018 06:00:03 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11469 Chinese New Space satellite launch company LandSpace Technology announced on 20 November 2018 that it has received 300 million Yuan (U.S.$43 million) in a just-completed Series B funding round, according to Chinese news platform Weixin.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/11/chinas-new-space-race-landspace-releases-preliminary-zhuque-1-launch-failure-report/ Mon, 05 Nov 2018 06:00:15 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11137 Following the launch failure of LandSpace's Zhuque-1 satellite launch vehicle on 27 October 2018, the Chinese New Space launch company has publicly released its preliminary findings as to why its rocket failed 402 seconds after launch from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in China.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/11/spacewatchgl-interview-masashi-sato-of-nri-on-the-state-and-future-of-japanese-new-space/ Sun, 04 Nov 2018 09:00:46 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11116 Japan's New Space scene is little known and understood outside of Tokyo, despite the emergence of some interesting startups such as iSpace and Infostellar to name just two as well as some big Japanese government announcements about supporting startups in the space sector. SpaceWatch.Global reached out to Masashi Sato, a Senior Consultant at the Nomura Research Institute Ltd. (NRI) in Tokyo and a leading expert on the Japanese space startup scene, to find out what the current state of play is and what the future holds.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/10/chinas-new-space-race-landspaces-zhuque-1-launch-fails-in-first-orbit-bid/ Mon, 29 Oct 2018 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11037 Chinese New Space launch company LandSpace suffered a failure of the third stage of its Zhuque-1 satellite launch vehicle Saturday, 27 October 2018, as it attempted to become the first Chinese private launch company to reach orbit, according to Andrew Jones in Space News.]]>