At 10:00 on Sept. 1, 2026, China's Xinghe Power Aerospace launched its
domestically developed medium-to-large reusable liquid-fueled rocket
Zhishenxing-1 from the Jiuquan Dongfeng commercial space innovation test area;
the vehicle reached its planned orbit. Zhishenxing-1 has a LEO single-launch
payload capacity of 5–7t for constellation deployments and is designed for a
minimum of 25 reuses.