Orienspace Technology (Shandong) Co., Ltd (Orienspace for short) is a commercial aerospace enterprise in China founded in 2020. The company designs and manufactures Gravity Series launch vehicles and Force Series rocket engines.
Background
Orienspace is headquartered in Shandong Province, where an assembly, integration and test center is being built for future activities.
The company also established an R&D center in Beijing Office and a headquarters of aerospace propulsion technology in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.
As of October 2023, Orienspace has raised four rounds of financing, totaling over 150 million USD.
In January 2024, Orienspace secures 600 million yuan of funding for rocket development amid soaring demand in China.
Product lineup Gravity-1 is a solid-propellant medium-lift launch vehicle that can carry a payload of up to 6.5 tons to LEO or 4.2 tons to SSO, enabling the deployment of large-scale satellite constellations. Its maiden flight was conducted on 11 January 2024, breaking records as both the world's largest solid-fuel carrier rocket and China's most powerful commercial launch vehicle to date.
Gravity-2 is a planned partially recoverable heavy-lift launch vehicle. It will be a 60-meter-tall heavy-lift rocket with a liquid-fuel core stage and solid boosters. The core stage will be powered by nine Yuanli-85 engines, which are gas-generator cycle kerosene engines with a thrust of 100 tons each. Gravity-2 will be able to deliver 25.6 tons of payload to LEO, 19.1 tons to a 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), or 7.7 tons to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). It will also be partially recoverable and support missions to higher orbits such as MEO and LTO.
Gravity-3 was initially a variant of Gravity-2 that would use three core stages. It would have a payload capacity of 30.6 tons to LEO, 20.5 tons to SSO, 9.6 tons to GTO, and 8 tons to LTO. Intended to enable large-scale satellite constellation deployment and lunar exploration. Lately Orienspace has updated their official information space with an all-new version of the vehicle designed to meet even larger space construction and deep space exploration needs, capable of fulfilling most demanding launch missions for a greater period of time. It is now a super heavy-lift launch vehicle aiming for at least 100 tons of cargo capacity to LEO, 74 tons to SSO, 23 tons to GTO and full reusability.https://www.orienspace.com/productPage
List of launches Gravity-1 launches
See also Sea Launch
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