{"id":2944,"date":"2026-06-05T15:26:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-long-march-12b-rocket-completes-successful-maiden-flight\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:26:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:26:49","slug":"chinas-long-march-12b-rocket-completes-successful-maiden-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-long-march-12b-rocket-completes-successful-maiden-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"China’s Long March-12B rocket completes successful maiden flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

China on Monday successfully launched the Long March-12B Y1 carrier rocket into space from the Dongfeng commercial space innovation pilot zone in northwest China.<\/p>\n

The rocket blasted off at 4:40 p.m. (Beijing Time), sending a group of networking satellites destined for the Qianfan Constellation, also known as the Spacesail Constellation, into their preset orbits. The mission was declared a complete success.<\/p>\n

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This mission was the maiden flight of the Long March-12B rocket, and marked the 647th flight mission of the Long March carrier rocket series.<\/p>\n

Developed by a commercial rocket manufacturing company under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the Long March-12B is a new-generation reusable rocket. While no recovery test was conducted during this mission, a first-stage recovery test is scheduled to be carried out at a later date, the CASC said.<\/p>\n

Featuring a single-core, two-stage configuration, the rocket has a body diameter of 4.37 meters, a fairing diameter of 5.2 meters, and a total length of approximately 72 meters.<\/p>\n

Its first stage is powered by nine liquid oxygen\/kerosene engines, and the second stage utilizes a single high-altitude engine. With a low Earth orbit payload capacity of about 20 tonnes, the rocket is capable of adapting to multiple orbital missions.<\/p>\n

According to the CASC, this mission signified that China has added a new commercial rocket to its fleet for building large-scale internet constellations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China on Monday successfully launched the Long March-12B Y1 carrier rocket into space from the Dongfeng commercial space innovation pilot zone in northwest China. The rocket blasted off at 4:40 p.m. (Beijing Time), sending a group of networking satellites destined for the Qianfan Constellation, also known as the Spacesail Constellation, into their preset orbits. The […]<\/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-2944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944"}],"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=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}