For the first time, "Three Stars with One Arrow" has been achieved, and the "New Member" of the Long March series of carrier rockets has completed its third launch
At 12:30 am on September 10th, the Long March 6-Jia Yao 5 carrier rocket ignited and took off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, and then successfully launched the Remote Sensing 40 satellite into its designated orbit. The launch mission of "One Arrow Three Stars" has been a complete success.
The Long March 6A carrier rocket carrying out this launch mission is a new generation of solid-liquid bundled medium-sized carrier rocket developed by the Shanghai Aerospace Technology Research Institute of China Aerospace Science and Technology Group. It has a capacity of no less than 4 tons in a 700 kilometer sun synchronous orbit. The rocket adopts a modular, modular, and serialized development path, and can form multiple configurations through the adjustment of boosters in the future to meet the diverse and intensive launch needs of satellites.
Long March 6-Jia Yao 5 carrier rocket. Photo by Yan Pengfei
In March 2022, the first flight of Long March 6A was a complete success. In November of the same year, the Long March 6A-2 rocket was successfully launched, becoming the first new generation carrier rocket in China to be put into use and launched in the same year as its maiden flight.
After a gap of 10 months, the Long March 6A carrier rocket has launched again. Compared with the previous two missions, this mission is the first time that the Long March 6A has been launched in a three-star series, with a total rocket height of nearly 55 meters, which is more than 5 meters higher than the first two rockets.
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In order to ensure the safety and smoothness of the transfer process, the Changliu Jia test team had a detailed discussion and analysis confirmation of the joint operation process of the satellite and rocket with the satellite system and launch site system after entering the site. For the first time, the plan of using two satellite transfers was proposed, and a dedicated protective top cover was designed to ensure that the temperature, humidity, and cleanliness inside the cabin always meet the satellite requirements during the two transfers.
As a new member of the Long March series of launch vehicles, the Long March 6A rocket actively explores innovation and continuously improves mission adaptability. On the premise of ensuring testing coverage, optimize the launch site workflow, further shorten the launch site testing cycle, and take multiple measures to accumulate experience and lay the foundation for subsequent high-density launches.
The remote sensing satellite No. 40 launched this time was jointly developed by China Aerospace Science and Technology Group Corporation's Fifth Academy Aerospace Dongfanghong Satellite Co., Ltd. It is mainly used for electromagnetic environment detection and related technical experiments.
This launch is the third launch of the Long March 6A carrier rocket, the 195th flight test of the Long March series rocket developed by Shanghai Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, and the 487th launch of China's Long March series carrier rocket.