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Zhuque-3 | Demo Flight

Name: Zhuque-3 | Demo Flight
Start: 2025-12-03T04:00:00.000Z
Location: Launch Area 96B, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

LandSpace · Zhuque-3 · Launch Area 96B, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

LandSpace's 8th launch · 3rd this year · humanity's 7,138th orbital launch attempt

T− --:--:--December 3, 2025 · 04:00 UTCAdd to calendar

Success

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

Window: Dec 3, 03:52 – Dec 3, 04:49 UTC

Flight preview

Demo Flight

First test launch of LandSpace’s ZQ-3 rocket, with a dummy payload. The rocket’s 1st stage attempted to land on a landing pad about 300 km downrange of the launch site.

Test Flight · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Booster

ZQ-3 F1 · flight 1 · Vertical Landing @ Zhuque-3 Landing Site · landing failed · zone record 0/1

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Updates

Launch success, first stage failed to land.
Cosmic_Penguin · 12/3/2025 · source
NET December 3 per NOTAMs.
Cosmic_Penguin · 12/2/2025 · source
Added launch.
Cosmic_Penguin · 12/1/2025 · source

Pad — Launch Area 96B

Local pad time: Dec 3, 12:00 PM GMT+8

1 launches from this pad · 291 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

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