China's Space Program News Thread

[tiancai8888]

Payloads with Farings of CZ-8 27 Feb's launch are trasferring to the VAB

 

[anzha]

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[taxiya]

A precision milled bottom plate for fuel tank. Diameter = 3.35m, thickness = 1mm. In the near future, the production time of such plates will be shortened from three weeks to one week.

I am more interested in the "input" before the milling. Is it an one piece shell that is already in good form? How would that be made? Milling with good CNC is quite common today, the challenge is to make such size in one piece or as fewer as possible.

 

[anzha]

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[gelgoog]

I think Starship is just too complicated a design to be successful. Probably a bad idea for China to pursue this.
The engine technology is fine, but a Falcon 9 like launch profile is much simpler.

 

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[taxiya]

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Do you have the full set of the presentation? When was it?

This is the first time that confirms the new manned launcher (1st stage) is reusable. I also prefer the landing scheme over the legs. It is also an increase of LTO from 25t in earlier presentations or publications.

 

[by78]

The Long March 6A launch prep is underway. The Long March 6A is the first Chinese solid-liquid hybrid launch vehicle, with four strap-on boosters being solid rockets. The first four images below show the solid rocket boosters.