Zhuque-3 Flight 2 (Honghu-03)
LandSpace · Zhuque-3
At a glance
- Status
- launched
- Provider
- LandSpace
- Vehicle
- Zhuque-3
- Window
- 18 August 2026 · 23:35 UTC
- From
- Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Test Zone, Gansu, China
- Destination
- Low Earth orbit
- Last verified
- 29 August 2026
Outcome
LAUNCHED · verified against the sources below on 29 August 2026.
The payload
Honghu-03 satellite (Hongqing Technology), deployed to its planned orbit; the first stage made a soft landing on its legs at LandSpace's Minqin County site about six minutes after liftoff, which LandSpace describes as China's first landing-leg recovery, and first land-based recovery, of an orbital-class first stage
Status history
- 19 Aug 2026Recorded as launched from LandSpace's own release: liftoff at 07:35 Beijing time on 19 August (23:35 UTC on 18 August, the date this board publishes), first-stage soft landing at the Zhuque-3 landing site in Minqin County at about 07:41 Beijing time. The recovery firsts are LandSpace's own characterisation.
- 21 Aug 2026Re-checked: the 19 August release is still the newest item on LandSpace's news page, with no post-flight update, and the record stands unchanged.
- 29 Aug 2026Re-checked: the 19 August release remains the newest item on LandSpace's news page, with no post-flight update and no next flight announced.
Related
Sources
- landspace.com · https://www.landspace.com/news-detail.html?itemid=76
- landspace.com · https://www.landspace.com/news.html