Private firm working on new liquid-fuel rocket

Orienspace, a private space company that makes the world's mightiest solid-propellant carrier rocket, has begun to develop a new, liquid-fuel model, according to the new type's chief designer.

Huang Shuai, who leads the research and development of the Gravity 2 model, said on Wednesday in Wuhan, Hubei province, that the reusable rocket will have two configurations — a baseline model and an enhanced variant with two side boosters.

The baseline model will be 70 meters tall and 4.2 meters wide with a liftoff weight of 715 metric tons.