CAS Space wants to send a variety of rockets to space – and back.
A Chinese launch company has stepped up its quest to develop reusable rockets with sea platform landing tests using a small demonstrator.prototype to test guidance, navigation and control systems, software and communications — are being conducted by CAS Space, a spinoff from the state-owned Chinese Academy of Sciences .
A video released by the firm shows a 6.9-foot-tall , 205-pound prototype lifting off from a vessel at sea off the coast of Haiyang in eastern China's Shandong Province.The Chinese company CAS Space has been conducting tests with a vertical takeoff, vertical landing jet-powered prototype on a sea platform.
The prototype reached an altitude of around 3,280 feet before touching back down on the sea platform. The test flight depicted in the video took around 10 minutes, according to CAS Space. The company has been carrying out such tests during the first few months of 2023, according to a pressLanding the first stage of a rocket on a sea platform instead of back on terra firma closer to the launch site is expected to save a significant amount of fuel, and hence reduce the amount of payload-carrying capacity lost by a rocket in reusable configuration.
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