CCTV News: At the beginning of the New Year, not only is the ground very busy, but the sky is also very lively. On February 11, the first flight of the new rocket, Long March 8, was successfully launched, which also opened the curtain for China's Aerospace Year of the Snake. The Long March 8 was renamed the Long March 8A rocket, developed by the China Launch Vehicle Technology Institute. Its first flight was successful, marking a new addition to the new generation of my country's new generation of launch vehicle family.

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Just just after the Spring Festival, Hainan Wenchang Space Launch Center was busy, and the Long March 8A launch vehicle is about to carry out its first flight mission. This is the first launch of China's Aerospace Year of the Snake and the first flight of China's first new rocket in 2025. As usual, a mobilization meeting will be held before the rocket launches to encourage everyone.

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Song Zhengyu is the chief designer of the Long March 8 rocket. As a "veteran" of the Long March series of rockets, he has participated in the development of the Long March 2nd bundle, the manned rocket Long March 2F and the new rocket Long March 7. Later, Song Zhengyu was appointed as the chief designer of the Long March 8 series of rockets.

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Song Zhengyu said that the Long March 8 A was developed based on the Long March 8 rocket and was developed in response to the future network launch needs of giant constellations in medium and low orbits.

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In the past, in order to ensure high reliability, improving carrying efficiency was not the most important focus on rocket design. However, the Long March 8A is mainly aimed at the needs of commercial space launches, which requires the rocket to meet the requirements of being much installed and low-cost. Therefore, they made a lot of technological innovations at the beginning of their design, focusing on the design of passenger fairings and secondary rockets.

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Song Zhengyu introduced that it is precisely because of technological innovation that the Long March 8A has become the highest carrying efficiency among the rockets of the same size as the Long March Rocket family, and the transportation cost has dropped significantly.

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On the afternoon of February 11, the Long March 8-modified carrier rocket ushered in the test of its first flight. At 5:30, the Long March 8A launch vehicle successfully launched the satellite Internet low-orbit 02 satellites, and the satellite successfully entered the predetermined orbit, and the launch mission was a complete success. Aerospace is working hard together, and this year's "Sky" is very busy.

The successful first flight of the Long March-8 rocket has also opened the curtain for the high-density launch of China's space in the Year of the Snake. Not only that, the aviation field is not idle, and multiple aircraft are undergoing tests and test flights in various places. Many new models will also be unveiled in 2025. 2025, "In the Sky" is very busy.

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At the beginning of the New Year, a busy scene was in the industrialization base of the new generation of launch vehicles located in Tianjin. Multiple rockets such as Long March 5 are being manufactured and assembled here.

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In 2025, China's spacecraft will maintain high-density launches, and the Chinese space station will launch two manned spacecraft and a cargo spacecraft. my country's asteroid exploration mission, Tianwen-2, will also set sail in 2025, and plans to fly a near-Earth asteroid and take samples to return. The multi-type newly developed rocket will be fully advanced and the key technology verification will be completed. Multi-type commercial rockets will carry out their first flight, and reusable rocket tests will continue to advance.

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Space is very busy, and the sky is very busy. Multi-type aircraft are being tested and produced throughout the country. In Pucheng, Shaanxi, China's large-scale amphibious aircraft AG600 independently developed by my country is speeding up its test flight. This type of aircraft is scheduled to obtain a model certificate in the first quarter of 2025 and officially put into the market. In Heilongjiang, the northernmost tip, the multi-purpose helicopter AC332 is challenging the severe cold and conducting high-altitude test flights.

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In addition, the third aircraft is being developed at a rapid pace. The turboprop fixed-wing aircraft for medium and long-range sea search and rescue special purpose - Xinzhou 60 search and rescue aircraft is scheduled to be completed in June. The electric manned airship AS700 is under installation and commissioning and will be its first flight in February. It can be used for logistics and transportation of 3-ton tilt rotor electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft - AR-E3000, and is carrying out technical research and other related work.