CCTV News: In the early morning of March 12, the first launch of the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Station was a complete success. The Long March 8 Yao-6 carrier rocket sent the fifth batch of networked satellites of the Qianfan Constellation into the predetermined orbit by "one arrow and eighteen stars". At this point, the first launch of the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Station duplex station marks that my country's first commercial space launch site has the full system launch capability.
The Long March 8 carrier rocket is a new generation of medium-sized liquid carrier rocket in my country. It has a low-Earth orbit carrying capacity of about 7.6 tons and can support single-star or multi-star launches. It is an important force in my country's commercial aerospace launches.
Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site is currently the only commercial space launch site in my country. Construction started in July 2022 and its first launch was completed on November 30, 2024. It took only 878 days from the start of construction to the full completion and successful first launch.
The Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site has two workstations No. 1 and No. 2. The workstation No. 2 is the launch station of my country's first liquid universal rocket, which can be compatible with the launch needs of more than 10 models of rockets.
The No. 1 station used for this launch is the trial station of the Long March 8 series rocket. It has innovatively adopted new technologies such as ground diversion cone guidance method and improved "three-sided" launch measurement mode, and can complete a launch in as fast as half a month.
