Construction of China's first specialised offshore satellite launch engineering vessel begins

At 10 o'clock on the 29th, Haiyang City held the groundbreaking ceremony of the new sea launching ship of the Oriental Spaceport at the sea launching mother port Haiyang Production Base, and with the blue sparks flying, the construction of the first specialised sea satellite launching engineering ship for sea launching tasks in China started.

The new sea launching ship of Oriental Spaceport is the first specialised sea satellite launching engineering ship developed and designed in China on the basis of the successful experience of two sea launches of Long March 11 solid carrier rocket, based on the future sea launching demand of China and the overall planning of Oriental Spaceport, and the full investigation of the launching and recycling demand of China's solid and liquid rockets. The ship has a length of 162.5m and a width of 40m, and can meet the launch and recovery needs of large and medium-sized solid carrier rockets and small and medium-sized liquid carrier rockets currently in service and under research by configuring specialised functional system modules and integrating launch support equipment. The ship is planned to complete the construction in 2022 and be officially put into service to meet the launch of liquid carrier rockets at sea by expanding its functional modules and to make Dongfang Spaceport truly realize the following The Oriental Spaceport will be able to achieve the normalised sea launch capability of "hot and cold compatibility and solid-liquid compatibility".

"After the launch ship construction is completed, it will become China's first professional sea launch ship and unmanned sea special business ship." Haiyang City Government, vice mayor of high school before the introduction, the ship has a high-precision positioning, high steady state launch, unmanned state launch, multi-rocket reproduction, rocket integrated environmental protection and other functions, in the absence of the launch mission can also support the operation and maintenance of offshore wind farms, marine pasture operations, maritime transport of bulky cargo and special equipment and other business functions.

Maritime satellite launch engineering ship is an important project for the Oriental Spaceport to build a new capability of maritime launch, and is also one of the key projects supported by Shandong Province's key research and development programme (major scientific and technological innovation project) "Maritime Satellite Launching and Recovery" project, and the successful commencement of the project marks that the construction of the maritime launching capability of the Oriental Spaceport has entered a new historical stage, which will further enhance and improve the capability of maritime launching. The successful commencement of the project marks the entry of the construction of sea launching capability of Haiyang Oriental Spaceport into a new historical stage, which will further improve China's high-frequency sea launching capability, and lay a solid technical foundation for the repeatable recovery of carrier rockets at sea in future.

"The new sea launch vessel is an important part of the core capability construction of the Oriental Spaceport, and is another milestone in upgrading the new capability of the Oriental Spaceport for sea launch." Liu Haibin, deputy secretary of Haiyang Municipal Party Committee and mayor, said.

Since the first successful launch of China's launch vehicle at sea in June 2019, Haiyang has seized the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and make every effort to build the Oriental Spaceport major project.In December 2019, Haiyang first started the construction of the technical plant in the Haiyang port area, and on April 22, 2020, the Haiyang Oriental Spaceport industrial project started, and the 10 major aerospace projects were concentrated on signing in Haiyang.In August, the Oriental Spaceport In August, the first phase of major engineering projects in the Oriental Spaceport started construction. 22 November, the Oriental Spaceport assembly of the first rocket Long March 11 Remote Nine rocket factory, to achieve a breakthrough in rocket manufacturing in Shandong Province, the formation of a "can enter and can make" comprehensive capacity.

Today, the commercial solid rocket Haiyang industrial base has been put into use, the Oriental Spaceport allegation centre is rapidly advancing, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Space and Astronautics, Haiyang Branch, nine days of song liquid rocket propellant storage tanks and the Shandong Aerospace Solid Rocket Industrial Base and other contracted projects waiting to be launched, will soon start ...... Haiyang Oriental Spaceport major projects have been comprehensive! Start momentum, will fly to the sky, run to the stars and the sea.