China's Space Program News Thread
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The engine is labelled TQ-13. Is it a different engine from TQ-12?
Should be the "same" engine. ZQ-2's first and second stages use the "same" engine, 4 vs 1. While the first stage engines are sea level optimized for take-off at 67t, the second stage is 80t in vacuum. It could be that Landspace choose to label them with different numbers instead of same number with different letter suffix.
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Existence of the Office of Crewed Lunar Program confirmed
The twitter post is showing a 8t thrust engine's operation process. I know existence of two versions of this engine for manned moon landing since 2015 at the latest.
However the post does not state office of crewed lunar program. Whether there is or there will be such new office, the manned lunar program has started long ago. My experience is that a clear cut statement such as new office isn't important to judge what China is doing or going to do. This is a big difference from US.
I think it's a PMO level office under CNSA Lunar Exploration and Aerospace Engineering Center(中国国家航天局探月与航天工程中心). It may be just a technical department of CLEP so most of the news were released by CNSA or CLEP(China Lunar Exploration Project) office.
Also it may be under CMSA(China Manned Space Agency) or under administration of both CMSA and CLEP.
They are building lunar habitat?
Building another one of this will simply reflect and based on the necessity to meet the objective set. I mean, why would they make more of this than what's required? Which wouldn't make financial or economic sense.
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