A comprehensive inventory of the capacity of launch vehicles under development in my country (1)

1. Long March 8A sun-synchronous orbit payload (700 km): 7 tons

Estimated first launch: December 2024

2. Long March 9 Low-Earth orbit load: 100 tons (two-stage configuration recovery) Low-Earth orbit load: 150 tons (two-stage configuration not recovered) Low-Earth orbit load: 80 tons (two-stage fully reusable configuration) Earth-moon transfer orbit load: 35 tons (three-stage configuration recovery) Earth-moon transfer orbit load: 50 tons (three-stage configuration not recovered)

Estimated first launch time: 2033 (the third-stage configuration will not be recovered)

3. Long March 10 Low-Earth orbit load: 70 tons Earth-moon transfer orbit load: no less than 27 tons

Estimated first launch time: around 2027

4. Long March 12 Low-Earth orbit payload (300 km): not less than 10 tons Sun-synchronous orbit payload (700 km): not less than 6 tons

Estimated first launch: August 2024

5. Kuaizhou-1B (solid rocket)

Sun-synchronous orbit payload (700 km): 250-300 kg

6. Hyperbola 3 series (decoding Beijing Interstellar Glory Space Technology Co., Ltd., China’s first private company to achieve rocket into orbit) (1) Hyperbola 3 Low Earth orbit load (200~400 km, 42°): 13.7 tons (not recovered) Low Earth orbit load (200~400 km, 42°): 8.6 tons (recovered under the route) Low Earth orbit load (200~400 km, 42°): 5.1 tons (return to the site for recovery) Sun-synchronous orbit payload (500 km): 10.4 tons (not recovered) Sun-synchronous orbit payload (500 km): 6.2 tons (recovered under the route) Estimated first launch time: the second half of 2025 (2) Hyperbola-3A Low-Earth orbit payload (200-400 km, 42°): 26.1 tons (not recovered) Low-Earth orbit load (200-400 km, 42°): 12.9 tons (recovered under route) Low-Earth orbit load (200-400 km, 42°): 9.5 tons (return to site for recovery) (2) Hyperbola No. 3B Low-Earth orbit load (200-400 km, 42°): 32.2 tons (not recovered) Low-Earth orbit load (200-400 km, 42°): 14.1 tons (recovered under route)

Low Earth orbit payload (200-400 km, 42°): 12.4 tons (return to site for recovery)

7. Tianlong-3 series (Decoding Beijing Tianbing Technology Co., Ltd., how private rocket companies can succeed at launch) (1) Tianlong-3 Low-Earth orbit payload (800 km, 90°): ≥10 tons (Jiuquan) Sun-synchronous orbit payload (500 km): 14 tons (2) Tianlong-3H Low-Earth orbit payload: 68 tons Sun-synchronous orbit payload (500 km): 42 tons (2) Tianlong-3M

Low earth orbit payload: 5 tons

8. Zhuque-3 (decoding how Blue Arrow Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd., the world’s first liquid oxygen methane rocket successfully entered orbit) Low-Earth orbit payload (450 km): 21.3 tons (not recovered) Low-Earth orbit payload (450 km): 18.3 tons (recycling in the flight area) Low-Earth orbit payload (450 km): 12.5 tons (return to site for recovery)

Estimated first launch: 2025

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