Test rockets In 2013, before the official registration of the company, Hu's team was testing the
KC-SA-TOP suborbital rocket with payloads in
Horqin Left Rear Banner,
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
VTVL prototypes LinkSpace has built flying vertical-takeoff/vertical-landing (VTVL) prototype test rockets, to develop its reusable rocket technology. By July 2016, it achieved hover flight with a single-engine thrust-vectored rocket. By September 2017, it had built three hovering rockets, tested in
Shandong Province. On 19 April 2019, the VTVL prototype test rocket
RLV-T5 flew to a height of 40 m (131 ft) and landed safely after thirty seconds of flight.
RLV-T5, also known as
NewLine Baby, is 8.1 m (27 ft) in length, weighs 1.5 t (1,100 lbs) and has five liquid engines. On 10 August 2019 the company reported a test flight reaching a height of 300 meters. On 5 May 2022, the company announced that it had conducted a static fire test of its RLV-T6 test vehicle in preparation for a altitude test flight in late 2022, but in September it was expected to be launched no earlier than mid-2023. The rocket will launch from
Lenghu, in
Qinghai Province.
New Line 1 The
New Line 1 (
Xin Gan Xian 1; ) is a two-stage rocket under development to launch microsats and nanosats, with a reusable first stage. It is to be a liquid-fuelled rocket, with a diameter of , height of . It would have a lift-off mass of and take-off thrust of , allowing a payload of to be lifted into a
Sun synchronous orbit (SSO) of high. It is projected to have an initial launch cost of $4.5 million, dropping to $2.25 million using a reused first stage. As of the end of 2017, the main rocket engine has been tested over 200 times, and first launch was planned for 2020.
Future New Line rockets Future development of a reusable second stage, in addition to the reusable first stage, is anticipated for in a future vehicle, such as
New Line 3. ==Services==