14 December 2022, 08:30 UTC
Maiden Flight
Maiden flight of LandSpace's methane-fueled Zhuque-2 from Jiuquan failed to reach orbit after the second stage's vernier engines shut down early when a liquid-oxygen pump casing broke. It still made Zhuque-2 the first methalox rocket to reach space.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- of 3 Zhuque-2 flights
- Date and time
- 14 December 2022, 08:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Zhuque-2
- Builder
- LandSpace
- Launch site
- Launch Area 96A, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Test Flight
- Launches in 2022
- 176th of 186