????OneSpace Technology, China's first private rocket producer, announced on Tuesday in Chongqing that the maiden launch of the company's OS-X solid-fuel rocket is scheduled for May 17 in a test field in northwestern China.

????中国首个民营火箭制造商—零壹空间于5月8号在重庆宣布，该公司的OS-X0固体燃料火箭将于17日在中国西北部某基地进行首次飞行。

????The company said it represents the first flight of a carrier rocket entirely designed and built by a private company in China.

????该公司表示，这次火箭的发射代表着中国的民营企业可以完全独立负责亚轨道火箭的设计和制造。

????The rocket has been moved to the test field, and the company is busy preparing for the launch. According to an earlier report in China Daily, the test field is in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

????The 9-meter-tall OS-X0, called the Chongqing Liangjiang Star, is capable of placing 100-kilogram payloads into orbit 800 kilometers above Earth. The rocket can push concept aircraft it's testing to a hypersonic speed of Mach 13, or 4.4 kilometers per second.

????Once proved via test flights, the OS-X series will be tasked with testing new types of aircraft or spacecraft.

????发稿时火箭已经被转运到了试验场，而该公司也正为火箭的发射做着紧张的准备。。这个9米高的OS-X0火箭名叫“重庆两江之星”，（该火箭为零壹空间OS-X系列的首型火箭）该系列火箭具备将100公斤的有效载荷送入地球上空800公里的高度的能力（能根据客户需求深度定制）。该火箭可以将正在测试的概念型航空器的速度推至13马赫，即4.4千米每秒。一旦通过试飞证明，OS-X系列将提供测试新型飞机或航天器的飞行试验平台。

????Established in 2015 as part of a government effort to foster the commercial space sector and encourage participation by private enterprise, OneSpace has become a rising star in the country's space arena.

????"Our company will focus on the high-frequency emissions of carrier rockets," said Shu Chang, founder and chief executive of OneSpace Technology, a privately owned startup in Beijing, adding that OneSpace expects up to 10 missions for such rockets in 2019.

????"I hope we can become one of the biggest small-satellite launchers in the world," Shu said.

????在政府努力培育商业航天部门并鼓励私营企业参与的有利形势下，零壹空间于2015年成立，总部设在北京。经过三年的发展，现已成为中国航天领域的一颗新星。

????其创始人兼首席执行官舒畅表示，“我们公司将致力于运载火箭的高频发射。并希望成为世界上最大的小型卫星发射公司之一。”他补充说道，其公司预计到2019年将进行10次的这类的发射任务。

????In May last year, OneSpace Technology signed an agreement with Chongqing Liangjiang Aviation Industry Investment Group to build its research and manufacturing base in Chongqing.

????"It is the center of western China and has a strategic position in the Belt and Road Initiative," Shu said. "The countries participating in the initiative will provide a large market for us."

????去年五月，零壹空间与重庆两江航空产业投资集团签署协议，在重庆建立了研究和制造基地。“这里是中国西部的中心，在‘一带一路’倡议中有着战略性定位。而参与这项倡议的国家将为我们提供一个巨大的市场。”

????Chongqing Liangjiang New Area is the third national development and opening zone in China - and the first inland location - approved by the State Council, after Shanghai's Pudong New Area and Tianjin's Binhai New Area.

????据了解，重庆两江新区是继上海浦东新区和天津滨海新区之后，由国务院批准的第三个国家级开发区，也是第一个我国的第一个内陆开发区。

????The Chongqing base, which will go live by the end of this year, will include a research center, a smart manufacturing and assembly center, a test center, an aircraft control and simulation center and specialized labs. It is expected that its annual output value will reach 1.5 billion yuan ($240 million), with capacity to assemble and test 30 carrier rockets per year.

????重庆基地将于今年年底投入使用，其中包括一个研究中心，智能制造和装配中心，测试中心，一个飞行控制和仿真中心以及专业实验室。该基地预计年产值将达到15亿元（2.4亿美元），每年可组装和测试30枚运载火箭。

????OneSpace is developing the OS-M1, a larger rocket, to send small satellites into sun-synchronous or low-Earth orbits. It plans to conduct OS-M1's first flight around the end of this year.

????The company is expected to produce more than 30 OS-M series rockets and over 20 OS-X series rockets in 2020.

????零壹空间正在开发能将小型卫星送入太阳同步轨道或近地轨道的大型火箭OS-M1，预计在今年年底进行首次飞行。该公司预计将在2020年生产30多枚OS-M系列和20多枚OS-X系列的火箭。

????"We will develop bigger rockets in the future and participate in the global competition," Shu said.“我们将在未来发展更大型的火箭来参与全球性的竞争。”舒畅说道。