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| Attribute | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Company | LandSpace | Roscosmos / Progress Rocket Space Centre | ExPace (CASIC subsidiary) |
| Country | 🇨🇳 China | 🇷🇺 Russia | 🇨🇳 China |
| Status | Active | Active | Active |
| Vehicle class | Medium | Medium | Small |
| Propellant | CH₄ / LOX (9× TQ-12B first stage; TQ-15B vacuum upper stage) | RP-1 / LOX | Solid (3 stages) + liquid-fueled 4th stage |
| Reusable | Yes | No | No |
| Stages | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| First flight | 2025 | 2004 | 2017 |
| Payload to LEO | 21,000 kgas of [1]Expendable; ~18,300 kg with first-stage recovery ↑ Best | 8,200 kgas of [1]Soyuz-2.1b with Fregat upper stage; 2.1a variant ~7,020 kg LEO | 400 kgas of [1] |
| Payload to GTO | — | 3,250 kgas of [1]With Fregat-M upper stage ↑ Best | — |
| Height | 76.2 mas of [1] ↑ Best | 46.3 mas of [1] | 19.4 mas of [1] |
| Liftoff mass | ~660 tas of [1] ↑ Best | 312 tas of [1] | 30 tas of [1]Transporter-erector-launcher (TEL) capable — road-mobile solid launcher. |
| Success rate | 100%as of [2]1/1 orbital successes (Y1, Dec 3, 2025). First-stage recovery failed — abnormal combustion during the landing burn crashed the booster near the landing zone. | 97%as of [2]~160/165 mission successes since 2004 per aggregated launch logs | ~85% (23 successes, 3 failures, 1 partial failure of 27)as of [1] ↑ Best |
| Total flights | 1as of [3]Second orbital launch and recovery attempt targeted Q2 2026 per LandSpace | ~165as of [2] ↑ Best | 27as of [1] |
| Cost / kg LEO | — | — | — |
| Summary | LandSpace's stainless-steel, reusable methalox rocket — China's closest analogue to Falcon 9. The Y1 debut (Dec 3, 2025) reached orbit on the first attempt but lost the booster during its landing attempt; a second flight with another recovery attempt is targeted for Q2 2026. | Russia's primary medium-lift workhorse, descended from the Soyuz family that has flown since 1966. Carries both crewed Soyuz spacecraft and Cygnus-class cargo. Fregat upper stage significantly expands mission flexibility. Production continues at Samara (now TsSKB-Progress). | CASIC's road-mobile, quick-response small solid launcher, operated commercially by ExPace since 2017 — one of the higher-cadence Chinese small-lift vehicles. |
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