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Yinhe Galaxy · Apollo · Inverted
Apollo 5
A highly tacky, high-tension Chinese offensive rubber built for spin-heavy looping with a relatively direct and pressuring trajectory.
Official Yinhe specifications
Official Yinhe data: sponge type, hardness grades, published thicknesses, colours, product codes and ITTF approval status, taken from Yinhe's own catalogue and current approval information.
- Brand
- Yinhe Galaxy · China
- Series
- Apollo
- Category
- Inverted
- Surface
- Highly tacky
- Product code
- Apollo 5
- Sponge
- Black Crystal Sponge
- Hardness options
- 37° · 38° · 39° · 40°
- Hardness scale
- Chinese sponge degree as published by Yinhe
- Published thicknesses
- Standard sheet range
- Colours
- Red · Black
- Technologies
- Dynamic Spin · Black Crystal Sponge · Stored Energy · High Tension
- Competition status
- ITTF approved
- Ball type
- Standard 40+
- Last verified
- 2 August 2026
Yinhe lists hardness either as a Chinese sponge degree or as a named grade. Both are shown exactly as published and are never relabelled Shore A, Shore C or ESN. No reliable official Yinhe list price is published per region, so no price is shown rather than an invented one.
TTDNA ratings
Confidence: High
TTDNA values are TTDNA's own editorially normalised 0–100 ratings. They are never an official Yinhe rating and never a conversion of Yinhe's own speed or spin scale.
Physical characteristics
Playing characteristics
Variants and configurations
8 variantsColour, thickness and configuration are variants of one model — never separate products. Colour never changes a rating, MAX and OX stay qualitative labels, and OX carries no sponge hardness.
Red · Standard sheet range
Apollo 5 37° · Sponged · 37°
Speed 8.8 · Spin 9.6 · Control 8.2
Red · Standard sheet range
Apollo 5 38° · Sponged · 38°
Speed 8.8 · Spin 9.6 · Control 8.2
Red · Standard sheet range
Apollo 5 39° · Sponged · 39°
Speed 8.8 · Spin 9.6 · Control 8.2
Red · Standard sheet range
Apollo 5 40° · Sponged · 40°
Speed 8.8 · Spin 9.6 · Control 8.2
Black · Standard sheet range
Apollo 5 37° · Sponged · 37°
Speed 8.8 · Spin 9.6 · Control 8.2
Black · Standard sheet range
Apollo 5 38° · Sponged · 38°
Speed 8.8 · Spin 9.6 · Control 8.2
Black · Standard sheet range
Apollo 5 39° · Sponged · 39°
Speed 8.8 · Spin 9.6 · Control 8.2
Black · Standard sheet range
Apollo 5 40° · Sponged · 40°
Speed 8.8 · Spin 9.6 · Control 8.2
Assessment
Apollo 5 combines a highly tacky topsheet with Yinhe's Dynamic Spin construction and Black Crystal sponge. It is designed for modern plastic-ball offensive play, especially spin-heavy forehand looping from close and middle distance. Compared with classic slow Chinese rubbers, it offers more stored energy while retaining a distinctly tacky and technique-dependent response.
Strengths
- Very high spin ceiling
- Strong serve and receive performance
- Excellent opening loop against backspin
- Stable active blocks
- Strong value for advanced tacky-rubber users
Weaknesses
- Demands active acceleration
- Tacky surface attracts dust
- Lower automatic catapult than European tensors
- Batch and regional variation should be acknowledged
Best for
- Spin-oriented forehand loopers
- Players moving from traditional Chinese tacky rubbers
- Players who generate their own power
Not ideal for
- Players wanting effortless tensor catapult
- Passive backhand play
- Players unwilling to maintain a tacky surface
Player fit
- Skill levels
- Intermediate · Advanced
- Play styles
- OFF · Loop
- Recommended side
- Forehand · Backhand in softer hardness
- Aliases
- Galaxy Apollo 5 · Yinhe Galaxy Apollo 5 · Apollo
Known users
Offensive club and league players who want a spin-first inverted sheet on the forehand or backhand.
Yinhe Galaxy publishes no athlete roster for this sheet, so TTDNA shows the player profile it is built for instead of invented names.