Blue Arrow Aerospace responded to "Vermilion Bird II launch failure": rocket stage I and II mainframe flight is normal, is analyzing the reason

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Harry12345 for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, 15 December, in response to the "failure of the flight test mission of the Vermilion Bird-2 remote-1 carrier rocket," China's private rocket company Blue Arrow Aerospace issued a statement this morning.

Blue Arrow Aerospace said that 16:30 on December 14, China carried out the first flight test mission of Vermilion Bird II private commercial new carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite launch Center. The primary and secondary main engines of the rocket flew normally, the second-stage tourist plane worked abnormally, and the launch mission failed. The specific reasons are being further analyzed and investigated.

CTOnews.com has reported that this launch, the star-arrow combination can fly at an altitude of up to 400km. Since then, due to the failure to reach the orbit speed, the flight altitude continues to decline, and finally has no choice but to re-enter the atmosphere. This launch is China's 60th space launch this year, and it is also the first liquid rocket from a domestic private company to attempt to put into orbit.

Since the establishment of the project in September 2017, the "Vermilion Bird II" carrier rocket has completed the research and development of the first batch of rocket technology. In addition to the remote-1 rocket launched in Jiuquan in mid-December, the remote-2 rocket began its final assembly work at the Jiaxing Blue Arrow Space Center in late November.

▲ source: blue Arrow Aerospace Vermilion Bird-2 remote launch vehicle is a two-stage cryogenic liquid carrier rocket with a diameter of 3.35m, a total length of 49.5m, a take-off mass of 219t and a take-off thrust of 268t. The first stage of the rocket uses four "Tianque" 80-ton liquid oxygen methane engines in parallel; the rocket second-stage engine uses a single "Tianque" 80-ton liquid oxygen methane engine and "Tianque" 10-ton swimming liquid oxygen methane engine, and the configuration of the main engine is the same as that of the first-class engine. The rocket stages are separated by cold separation, and the fairing is separated by spinning separation.

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