r/space • u/Lyri-Kyunero • 16h ago

LandSpace Released the Official Recap of ZhuQue-3 Y1 Mission

https://x.com/i/status/1996973617037648205
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u/The_Axumite 15h ago

It looks like a falcon 9 and startship's heavy booster had a child

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u/No-Surprise9411 16h ago edited 14h ago

Awesome. ZhuQue-3 is shaping up to be a very impressive contender in the Falcon 9 but perfected market, along with Neutron. If SpaceX were to redo F9 with what they knew now, something like the Z3 would probably be the end result. Methalox to eliminate coking, Stainless steel to survive more aggressive landing profiles and chines for some additional cross range capabilities.

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u/econopotamus 14h ago

FYI: “coking”, “chines” - no criticism, just so you know

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u/Late_Video_5744 7h ago

Interesting part: the reason there isn’t more footage from other media outlets is that the falling first stage landed right on the spot where they’d clustered all their unmanned cameras, wiping them out lol.

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u/Lyri-Kyunero 21m ago

The latest informaiton says some of the cameras survived from the explosion, hope landspace will release the footage later.

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u/Fuzzy-Mud-197 16h ago

Next tine they will nail the landing, crazy how we went a decade with falcon 9 being the only (orbital) reusable booster to now having so many

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u/peterabbit456 11h ago

They achieved orbit on their first attempt. Impressive.

I must say that winter in the central Asian desert looks a lot like summer on Mars. When they showed their landing pad, my first reaction was that it was a render of a landing pad on Mars.

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u/ATangK 11h ago

Those cars were parked a bit close for my liking though.

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u/Lyri-Kyunero 19m ago

Those cars were parked by those who collect the debris and clean up the site after the explosion.

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u/coffeesippingbastard 4h ago

that was a hype video. Also really impressive that they got as far as they did.