{"id":25418,"date":"2026-06-20T23:53:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/a-comprehensive-inventory-of-my-countrys-active-launch-vehicle-capacity\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T23:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:53:24","slug":"a-comprehensive-inventory-of-my-countrys-active-launch-vehicle-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/a-comprehensive-inventory-of-my-countrys-active-launch-vehicle-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"A comprehensive inventory of my country\u2019s active launch vehicle capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Long March 2 Series<\/p>\n<p>(1) Long March 2C<\/p>\n<p> Low-Earth orbit payload: 4.7 tons <\/p>\n<p>Sun-synchronous orbit payload (500 km): 2.1 tons<\/p>\n<p>Sun-synchronous orbit payload (700 km): 1.9 tons<\/p>\n<p> Synchronous transfer track load: 1.3 tons <\/p>\n<p>(2) Long March No. 2 Ding<\/p>\n<p>Low-Earth orbit payload: 4 tons<\/p>\n<p> Sun-synchronous orbit payload (700 km): 1.3 tons <\/p>\n<p>(3) Long March 2F<\/p>\n<p>Low-Earth orbit payload: 8.8 tons (200 km\u00d7350 km, 42\u00b0)<\/p>\n<p> 2. Long March 3 Series (1) Long March 3A <\/p>\n<p>Synchronized transfer track load: 2.65 tons<\/p>\n<p> (2) Long March 3B Low-Earth orbit load: >11.5 tons (theoretical) Sun-synchronous orbit load (700 km): >4.5 tons Synchronous transfer orbit load: >5.55 tons <\/p>\n<p>Earth-moon transfer orbit load: >3.78 tons<\/p>\n<p> (3) Long March 3C Synchronous transfer orbit load: 3.9 tons 3. Long March 4 series (1) Long March 4A <\/p>\n<p>Sun-synchronous orbit payload (700 km): 1.5 tons<\/p>\n<p> (2) Long March 4B <\/p>\n<p>Sun-synchronous orbit payload (700 km): 2.5 tons<\/p>\n<p> (3) Long March 4C Sun-synchronous orbit load (700 km): 3 tons 4. Long March 5 series (1) Long March-5 Low-Earth orbit load: >32 tons (theoretical value) Sun-synchronous orbit load (700 km): >15 tons Synchronous transfer orbit load: >14 tons Earth-moon transfer orbit load: >8.35 tons <\/p>\n<p>Ground fire transfer track load: >5.2 tons<\/p>\n<p> (2) Long March 5B Low Earth Orbit Load: >25 tons (LEO) 5. Long March 6 Series (1) Long March 6 Low Earth Orbit Load: >1.5 tons <\/p>\n<p>Sun-synchronous orbit payload (700 km): 500 kg-1080 kg<\/p>\n<p> (2) Long March 6A Low Earth Orbit Load: >8 tons <\/p>\n<p>Sun-synchronous orbit payload (700 km): 5 tons<\/p>\n<p> (3) Long March 6C Low-Earth orbit payload: 4.5 tons Sun-synchronous orbit payload (700 km): 2 tons (two starts at the second level) Sun-synchronous orbit payload (700 km): 1.4 tons (one start at the second level) Sun-synchronous orbit payload (500 km): 2.4 tons (two starts at the second level) 6. Long March 7 series (1) Long March 7 Low-Earth orbit payload: 14 tons (LEO\/CSS) <\/p>\n<p>Sun-synchronous orbit payload (700 km): 5.5 tons<\/p>\n<p> (2) Long March 7A Low Earth orbit load: 17 tons (theoretical value) Synchronous transfer orbit load: >7 tons Earth-moon transfer orbit load: 5 tons 7. Long March 8 Low Earth orbit load: 8.1 tons (CZ-822(HO)) Low Earth orbit load: 4.5 tons (CZ-820(HO)) Sun synchronous orbit load (700 km): 5.5 tons (CZ-822(HO)) Sun-synchronous orbit load (700 km): 3 tons (CZ-820(HO)) Synchronous transfer orbit load: 2.8 tons (CZ-822(HO)) Synchronous transfer orbit load: 1 ton (CZ-820(HO)) Earth-moon transfer orbit load: \u226e1.3 tons (CZ-822(HO)) Note: 822 means 2-stage configuration, with 2 boosters; 820 means 2-stage configuration, without boost; HO means the second stage uses a hydrogen-oxygen engine. 8. Long March 11 (solid rocket, sea-launchable) Low-Earth orbit payload: 700 kg Sun-synchronous orbit payload (500 km): 500 kg Sun-synchronous orbit payload (700 km): 420 kg 9. Kuaizhou-1A (Aerospace Science and Industry Rocket Technology Co., Ltd.) Sun-synchronous orbit payload (700 km): 300 kg 10. Hyperbola 1 (Interstellar Glory: Decoding Beijing Interstellar Glory Space Technology Co., Ltd., China\u2019s first private company to achieve rocket into orbit) Low-Earth orbit payload: >520 kg Sun-synchronous orbit payload (500 km): >300 kg Sun-synchronous orbit payload (700 km): 225 kg 11. Ceres 1 (Galaxy Power: Decoding Beijing Galaxy Power Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd., my country\u2019s first commercial rocket company with double-digit launches) Low-Earth orbit payload (200 km): 420 kg Sun-synchronous orbit payload (500 km): 300 kg Sun-synchronous orbit payload (700 km): 270 kg 12. Tianlong-2 (Tianbing Technology: Decoding Beijing Tianbing Technology Co., Ltd., how private rocket companies achieve success at launch) Low-Earth orbit payload: 2 tons Sun-synchronous orbit payload (500 km): 1.5 tons 13. Zhuque 2 (Blue Arrow Aerospace: Decoding Blue Arrow Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd., how the world&#8217;s first liquid oxygen methane rocket was successfully put into orbit) Low-Earth orbit payload (200 km): 4 tons\/6 tons (improved type) Sun-synchronous orbit payload (500 km): 1.5 tons\/4 tons (improved type) 14. Lijian 1 (Zhongke Aerospace: Decoding Guangzhou Zhongke Aerospace Exploration Technology Co., Ltd., the first mixed-ownership commercial aerospace enterprise in China) Low-Earth orbit load (500 km, 40\u00b0): 2 tons Sun-synchronous orbit load (500 km): 1.5 tons Fifteen: Gravity-1 (Eastern Space: the biggest dark horse in commercial aerospace in 2024 | Decoding Eastern Space (Shandong) Technology Co., Ltd.) Low-Earth orbit load: 6.5 tons Sun-synchronous orbit load (500 km): 4.2 tons (solid upper stage) Sun-synchronous orbit load (500 km): 5.9 tons (liquid upper stage)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Long March 2 Series (1) Long March 2C Low-Earth orbit payload: 4.7 tons Sun-synchronous orbit payload (500 km): 2.1 tons Sun-synchronous orbit payload (700 km): 1.9 tons Synchronous transfer track load: 1.3 tons (2) Long March No. 2 Ding Low-Earth orbit payload: 4 tons Sun-synchronous orbit payload (700 km): 1.3 tons (3) Long March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}