"The Sea Dragon concept has been developed assuming that space transportation economy will result if launch vehicles are used that are very large, simple, and reusable, even if payload-to-liftoff ...

A Smart Dragon-3 SD-3 rocket lifted off on Monday in east China Shandong Province sending the satellite group CentiSpace 01 into the planned orbit ...

China has completed its first sea-based rocket launch of 2025, successfully deploying ten CentiSpace-01 satellites from the ...

China launched a Smart Dragon 3 carrier rocket on Monday morning off the coast of Haiyang in Shandong province, placing 10 ...

A Smart Dragon-3 rocket lifted off on Monday in east China Shandong Province sending the satellite group CentiSpace 01 into the planned orbit Xinhu ...

A Smart Dragon-3 rocket carrying the satellite group CentiSpace 01 blasts off from the sea near the city of Haiyang in east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 13, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] A Smart Dragon ...

The rocket blasted off at 11 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the sea near the city of Haiyang. Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted the offshore launch mission. A Smart Dragon-3 rocket carrying the ...

SD-3 is a member of China's Dragon rocket family. It made its maiden flight in 2022 from a ship in the Yellow Sea. Unlike the Long March rockets, the country's backbone launch vehicles ...

China has successfully conducted its first sea-based rocket launch of the ... On Monday, 13 January 2025, the Smart Dragon-3 carrier rocket lifted off from the waters near Haiyang, Shandong ...

This launch marks a significant milestone as it is the first sea-based rocket launch of 2025 for China, conducted by the ...