China's Space Program Thread II

[escobar]

OrienSpace Gravity-2 rocket
4.2 diameter with 9 engines Force-85 at first stage.
Expendable LEO 21.5t VS Recovery LEO 17.4t
To fly at 2025.

 

[by78]

According to a financial report from China Satcom Corporation, the company signed a contract to use Long March 3B to launch a series of communications satellites. Based on the amount paid and the payloads launched thus far, the price of LM-3B per launch can be extrapolated as ¥260 million, or $36 million. The figure tallies precisely with an earlier financial report (2nd image) on ZX-18 satellite launch, which also used LM-3B.

 

[by78]

The fairing separation test for the Long March 8 improved variant has been successfully completed. The enlarged fairing has a length of 13 meters and a diameter of 5.2 meters.

A second fairing separation test has been successfully conducted for the Long March 8 improved variant. Through these two tests, the fairing design and separation scheme have been fully verified.

 

[by78]

Models of CASIC's reusable KZ-6 and KZ-6C launch vehicles (two on the right).

 

[sunnymaxi]

ORIENSPACE will increase the thrust of YuanLi-85 kerolox engine to 110 tons in future. 9 engines in the 1st stage of Gravity-2 make it capable of launching 21.5 tons payloads to LEO in expendable mode and 17.4 tons reuse mode. By adding two 150 tons solid boosters, the capacity increases to 29 tons..

 

[j17wang]

Shenzhou 18 Crew Announced!

Chinese astronauts Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu will carry out the Shenzhou-18 crewed spaceflight mission, and Ye will be the commander, the China Manned Space Agency announced at a press conference on Wednesday.

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[iantsai]

Ye Guangfu(叶光富), Le Cong(李聪), and Li Guangsu(李广苏) will go to the China Space Station tomorrow night by Shenzhou-18.

 

[iantsai]

据新华社消息，中国载人航天工程新闻发言人、中国载人航天工程办公室副主任林西强表示，将抓紧研究推动国外航天员以及太空游客参与空间站飞行。此外，我国第四批航天员选拔即将完成。他们入队后将和现役航天员一起，实施空间站后续任务，并实现中国人登陆月球。

CNSA will step up to promote foreign astronauts and space tourists to participate in space station flights.

In addition, the selection of China’s fourth batch of astronauts is about to be completed. After joining the team, they will work with active astronauts to carry out follow-up missions to the space station and of the Chinese Crewed Lunar Exploration Project.

 

[AF-1]

So Ye Guangfu will be the first taikonaut to break one year in space milestone, nice development of Chinese manned space program!!

 

[tacoburger]

Does anybody have any idea of how many LEO SAR or optical satellites it will take to have 24/7 coverage of every square kilometer of the globe? It is economical or feasible to have such widespread coverage?