China’s OneSpace completes rocket assembly ahead of first orbital launch
HELSINKI — OneSpace has completed assembly and testing of its OS-M rocket in preparation for a launch at the end of March which, if successful, would make it the first Chinese private rocket firm to reach orbit.
Comprehensive tests on the OS-M1 solid propellant rocket began last week in Xi’an, north China,
the team is now preparing to transport the launch vehicle to the launch site in the northwest of the country, a OneSpace representative told SpaceNews.
Consisting of three solid propellant stages
a liquid propellant fourth stage,
the 19-meter-tall,
20 metric ton
OS-M1 is capable of carrying a 205-kilogram payload to 300-kilometer low Earth orbit (LEO), and 73 kilograms to 800-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), according to OneSpace.
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