All participants in the space race, China, the United States, Russia, Europe …, all share the same aircraft system to reach space, one that feeds with fuel. But that could be About to change thanks to a new advance: an electromagnetic rocket.
The new system, developed by the private space company Galactic Energy, will use magnetic levitation technology to propel satellites to space with much higher speed and efficiency. And economical. If everything is going as planned, it could be operational in 2028.
The greatest advantage of the system is that The rockets do not need to load fuel to boostthey do it through images, just like magnetic levitation trains. This would not only reduce the cost, it would also increase the load capacity, if necessary.
According to Li Ping, president of the Ziyang Commercial Space Technology Research Institute, Galactic Energy’s electromagnetic launch platform technology could double payload capacity. The launch track would also require less maintenance than a traditional launch platform. This would allow a high rhythm of releases and thus lead China to challenge Spacex’s dominance in the launch of satellites.
For now, the problem is that the Chinese startup, Galactic Energy has an ambitious advertisements. Last year, the company announced Pallas-1, China’s first reusable rocket, and now we will have to see if he meets this new challenge. The company would be developing the new technology in collaboration with the Ziyang government in Sichuan and the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (Casic).
The system uses superconductor magnets to accelerate a rocket at supersonic speeds before ignition. The process is comparable to the vertical launch of a magnetic levitation train. Would accelerate the rockets at speeds greater than Mach 1 (approximately 1227 km/h).
American company Spinlaunch, for example, is developing a massive centrifugal that would catapult small spacecraft to space. The spacecraft would turn on an engine for the final rise. Green Launch, meanwhile, intends to launch useful loads directly to orbit using a massive space cannon.
Of course, there is a risk that the experimental launch system does not work. If he does, the reward could be huge, since he could give the Chinese launch sector a key advantage over competition. The successful introduction of The electromagnetic launch technology in the world would be comparable to the advent of the pioneering technology of reusable rockets of Spacex.