Vermilion Bird, China's first stainless steel carrier rocket, is released on the 3rd and is expected to have its first flight capability in 2025.

Thank CTOnews.com netizens for the past, Mr. Aviation's clue delivery! CTOnews.com, December 9 (Xinhua)-- Chinese private aerospace company Blue Arrow Aerospace Science and Technology Co., Ltd. (blue Arrow Aerospace) has released Vermilion Bird-3 reusable liquid oxygen methane carrier rocket, which is China's first stainless steel carrier rocket and is expected to have its first flight capability in 2025.

Vermilion Bird 3 uses the Blue Arrow Space self-developed Tianque series liquid oxygen methane engine, the first stage uses nine TQ-12B engines, and the second stage is equipped with a TQ-15B vacuum engine. In the future, the rocket can be reused 20 times. The rocket has an one-time low-orbit carrying capacity of 21.3 tons, an area recovery mission of 18.3 tons, and a return recovery mission of 12.5 tons.

The rosefinch-3 rocket has a total length of 76.6 meters, a diameter of 4.5 meters, a fairing diameter of 5.2 meters, a take-off weight of about 660 tons and a take-off thrust of about 900 tons. The rocket is equipped with Tianque TQ-12A engine, which uses its own starting mode and has the functions of thrust adjustment and high precision control of mixing ratio. on the basis of TQ-12, the thrust is increased by 9%, the specific impulse is increased by 40m/s, and the weight is reduced by 100kg.

CTOnews.com reported earlier that at 7:39 this morning, Vermilion Bird-2 Yao-3 carrier rocket was launched from China's Jiuquan Satellite launch Center, and the aboard Swan, Tianyi-33 and Hongyi-2 satellites were successfully put into orbit, and the launch mission was a complete success.

Vermilion Bird II carrier rocket 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 stage separation adopts the cold separation mode, and the fairing separation adopts the spinning separation mode.