On Feb. 1, the second launch of a private commercial launch vehicle, the Double Curve 1, experienced an abnormality during ignition and liftoff. Officials announced that the launch mission failed and are investigating the cause.
According to mainland media reports, at 16:15 on February 1, the second private commercial launcher of Double Curve 1 ignited and lifted off from China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The launch failed due to an in-flight abnormality of the rocket. The specific cause is being further analyzed and investigated.
The rocket was designed and developed by Beijing Star Pride Technology (iSpace) and was the 2nd launch of this type of rocket. The first successful 1st launch took place in July 2019, when two scientific satellites were delivered into orbit.
Since 2020, rocket launches by the Chinese Communist Party have repeatedly failed.
On July 10, the first launch of the Fast Boat 11 launch vehicle took place at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, and the mission was lost when the rocket flew abnormally.
The Fast Boat 11 launch vehicle is a new type of solid carrier rocket with the strongest carrying capacity and the largest diameter of the arrow body of the CPC. Originally planned for a maiden flight between late 2016 and 2017, it was eventually postponed to 2020, still ending in a failed maiden flight.
On June 16, the last third-generation Beidou-3 satellite planned to be launched by the Chinese Communist Party was delayed due to problems with the Long March 3B launch vehicle.
The space segment of the third-generation BeiDou satellite navigation system was planned to consist of 30 satellites. The first satellite was launched on Nov. 5, 2017, and the last one was scheduled to be launched on June 16.
However, the “Long March 3B launch vehicle” for the last BeiDou-3 global satellite was found to have technical problems during the pre-launch test, so the launch was postponed and the launch was scheduled for a later date.
On May 5, the Long March 5B launch vehicle launched a manned capsule similar to Dragon 2 for testing, but the large 18-ton rocket went out of orbit during the return process and flew through Los Angeles and New York’s Central Park. On May 11, it fell in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West Africa.
On April 9, the Chinese Communist Party launched an Indonesian satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, which exploded and crashed less than 50 seconds after liftoff.
On the night of March 16, the Long March 7 modified medium launch vehicle, on its first mission at the Wenchang Space Launch Complex, failed to launch after an abnormality occurred during flight after liftoff.
On the evening of Dec. 27, 2019, when the Communist Party of China’s Long March 5 launch vehicle carried out its third launch, the first official film of the second launch failure was made public. It also said that the second launch failure not only cost billions of yuan, but also caused six space programs to be postponed.
The six space programs include the Dongfanghong 5 satellite platform, Chang’e 5 lunar sampling, the Long March 5B rocket, the construction of the Tiangong space station, the Firefly 2 Mars probe, and a large sky survey telescope.
Experts in Chinese launch vehicle technology had earlier made a rare disclosure that Chinese space launches face many problems such as high rocket satellite costs, long launch cycles, and unstable quality control. The Long March 5, which took 10 years to develop, “was expected to be particularly high,” but its launch failure had a huge negative impact.
Taiwan military expert Li Zhengxiu once told Taiwan media that the Chinese Communist Party relied on American chips for rocket development. After the outbreak of the Sino-US trade war, the US sanctioned the CCP, which affected the development of the CCP’s military technology and led to a sharp rise in the failure rate of the CCP’s rocket launches.
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