LandSpace

LandSpace Technology Corporation
LandSpace
Native name
蓝箭航天空间科技股份有限公司
Company typePrivate
IndustryAerospace
FoundedJune 2015; 9 years ago (2015-06)[1]
FounderZhang Changwu (张昌武)[2]
Headquarters
Beijing
,
China
Websitelandspace.com
Footnotes / references
[3]
LandSpace Technology Corporation
Simplified Chinese蓝箭航天空间科技股份有限公司
Traditional Chinese藍箭航天空間科技股份有限公司
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLánjiàn Hángtiān Kōngjiān Kējì Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàngōngsī
LandSpace
Simplified Chinese蓝箭航天
Traditional Chinese藍箭航天
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLánjiàn Hángtiān

LandSpace Technology Corporation (doing business as LandSpace)[4][5] is a Chinese commercial space launch provider based in Beijing.[6] It was founded in 2015 by Zhang Changwu.[6][7]

As of July 2023, the company's Zhuque-2 rocket became the first methane-fueled orbital launch vehicle in the world after reaching orbit on its second flight.[8][9] LandSpace plans to conduct three Zhuque-2 launches in 2024 and six in 2025.[10]

  1. ^ 关于我们 [About Us]. landspace.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Zhang Changwu". APSCC Satellite Conference & Exhibition. Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications Council. Archived from the original on 11 August 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  3. ^ "About Us". landspace.com. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  4. ^ 北京蓝箭空间科技有限公司(landspace) [Beijing Blue Arrow Space Technology Co., Ltd. (landspace)]. China Spaceflight (in Chinese). 30 September 2017. Archived from the original on 6 October 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  5. ^ Kenhmann, Henri (8 October 2016). "LandSpace: le futur SpaceX chinois" [LandSpace: the future Chinese SpaceX]. East Pendulum (in French). Archived from the original on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  6. ^ a b Lin, Jeffrey; Singer, P. W. (23 January 2017). "A private Chinese space company just scored a foreign contract for the first time". Popular Science. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  7. ^ Dillow, Clay (28 March 2017). "China's secret plan to crush SpaceX and the US space program". CNBC. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
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