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Latest NRI News: The first ever reusable kerosene-fueled rocket by China’s Deep Blue Aerospace, Nebula-1, failed a high-altitude vertical recovery test flight over the northern region of Inner Mongolia. The spacecraft crashed in the final stage.
The company’s private rocket startup’s spacecraft completed 10 out of its 11 tasks, said the company in a statement, with its three thrusters igniting in normal procedure and launching the Nebula-1 high into the sky. Its two engines then disengaged as planned, after which the rocket started its descent.
However, when the Nebula-1 was closing in on its launch pad, the landing system failed, and it impacted too hard: hitting on its side, while images of the test revealed broke off at the top portion as it plunged to the ground, fire damage to the rocket’s side.
Investors and rocket developers said alternative fuels such as kerosene, methane, and liquid oxygen could help save money while allowing rockets to be launched cleaner and in a more efficient way.
Several Chinese rocket startups have tested various spacecraft in the last year to get their products ready to meet an increasingly rising demand in China’s burgeoning commercial space industry amidst stiff competition to form a constellation of satellites as an alternative to Elon Musk’s Starlink.
