By Yan Dongjie and Liu Weifeng in Tianjin |
chinadaily.com.cn |
A Tianjin aerospace firm's homegrown carbon fiber composite payload fairings cut rocket weight by over 20 percent, delivering a game-changing Chinese solution that now serves more than 90 percent of China's domestic commercial launch vehicles and fuels the fast growth of global commercial spaceflight.
"We pioneered an integrated product team R&D model that unites design, material research, and manufacturing teams to speed up iterative upgrades," Zhang Yi, chairman and CTO of iStar, said, explaining the core technical breakthrough.
"This collaborative innovation system bridges basic research, engineering trials, and mass production, offering a replicable development path for commercial aerospace worldwide," Zhang said.
