In late September, the leadership of Chinese company Zhongke Aerospace gave several speeches on how the company envisioned #commercial #launch services, and showed this neat illustration of the commercial rocket family it planned to develop. (1/4)
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Beijing Zhongke Aerospace (also known as CAS Space on social media), is a launch services spin-off of the China Academy of Sciences (CAS), and like a lot of CAS spin-offs, it has "Zhongke" in its name. (2/4)

From the company chairman Yang Yiqiang& #39;s speech, it looks like they plan to develop both solid and liquid propulsion launch vehicles (presumably kerolox), and are aiming for 30ish launches a year by an undefined timeline. (3/4)

For more background & context regarding this project in Guangzhou (which includes building a launch cluster in Nansha district!), be sure to check out the latest episode of our #DFH Aero & Space Weekly News Update! (4/4)https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten"> https://youtu.be/mwtxNeJbBX4 ">https://youtu.be/mwtxNeJbB...