With SpaceX's successful rocket recovery and landing, the reuse of rockets is no longer an illusory dream. According to @ dark blue Aerospace official wechat, on May 6, commercial rocket enterprise Jiangsu dark blue Aerospace independently developed "xingyun-m" No. 1 test rocket completed the 1km vertical take-off and landing (VTVL) flight test (Video) 。**
In the process of climbing and falling, the rocket moved laterally at the same time, and finally landed at a point less than 0.5m from the "bull's-eye" position of the landing site. The "nebula-m" test arrow was successfully recovered.
The kilometer level VTVL vertical recovery flight test marks that in only 10 months, three launch tests of deep blue Aerospace have reached the same level of test results achieved by SpaceX's eight launch tests in more than a year from 2012 to 2013.
At the same time, Deep Blue aerospace has become the second company in the world to complete all low altitude engineering tests for vertical recovery and reuse of liquid oxygen and kerosene rockets (the first is SpaceX)**
It is reported that the arrow used in the kilometer test is still the "nebula-m" No. 1 test arrow. It has carried out three flight missions and seven ground static ignition, truly realizing the recyclability and reuse of liquid launch vehicles.
It is worth mentioning that the equipped "thunder-5" engine is the first needle bolt liquid oxygen kerosene engine manufactured by the whole machine using 3D printing technology in China**
In the kilometer level VTVL vertical recovery flight test, the flight speed reached 0.2mA and the flight altitude reached 1km. It is the vertical recovery flight test with the highest flight altitude, the fastest flight speed and the longest flight time in China.
