Oriental Space launches Gravity-1 launch Service Plan: 10 full Arrow launches will be provided in 2024-2025.
CTOnews.com, November 23, 2022 China Aerospace Conference and 2022 Wenchang International Aerospace Forum was held in Haikou, Hainan Province on November 21. At the International Forum on Commercial Aerospace Industry, Oriental Space released the Gravity-1 launch service plan.
▲ map from Oriental Space, the following with CTOnews.com learned, Oriental Space shows that Gravity-1 all-solid bundled medium-sized carrier rocket low-Earth orbit carrying capacity of 6.5tons, sun synchronous orbit carrying capacity of 4.2m diameter fairing, support for multi-star series-parallel launch mode, can achieve 18-24 stars large-scale space logistics services.
In terms of service plan, Oriental Space will provide 2-engine gravity-1 ride-sharing service in the fourth quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024, with hierarchical carrying capacity of large innovative payloads, small and medium-sized satellites and micro scientific research payloads; from 2024 to 2025, it will provide 10 full-launch services to help various satellite constellations network efficiently.
In September this year, Oriental Space announced the success of the joint hot test test of the booster solid motor and servo mechanism of the "Gravity-1" carrier rocket, saying that the success of the test marked the successful completion of various ground examination tests in the initial stage of the solid power system of the "Gravity-1" carrier rocket and began to enter the stage of large-scale production, laying the foundation for the rocket's first flight next year.
