3 April 2026, 04:17 UTC
Demo Flight
Maiden flight of Space Pioneer's Tianlong-3, a partially reusable kerosene-liquid oxygen rocket intended to rival Falcon 9. The vehicle suffered an engine anomaly during ascent from Jiuquan and the debut launch failed.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Tianlong-3 flight
- Date and time
- 3 April 2026, 04:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Tianlong-3
- Builder
- Space Pioneer
- Launch site
- Tianlong-3 Launch Pad, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Test Flight
- Launches in 2026
- 75th of 243