Space Pioneer unveils plan to allow ordinary people to ‘take a rocket like they take a plane, making global one-hour travel possible’
In a recent ground-based test in central China, the company used the rocket’s nine-engine first stage – which produces nearly 900 tonnes of thrust combined – to simulate key mission phases, including fuelling, lift-off, flight and recovery.
The structure held up under all test conditions, the company said on its social media account on Friday.
Private Chinese space rocket crashes and explodes after accidental launch during test
On June 30 last year, the company conducted a static-fire test with the first stage of its new Tianlong-3 rocket in Gongyi, a city of about 800,000 people in Henan province.
