China's Space Program News Thread
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Not sure if anyone's posted this, but the CZ-5DY and the new CZ-9 (22 looks like) apparently feature in the 2022 article about China's next gen rockets.
The details of their depictions is not that important, but the fact that they're depicting CZ-9 with the 22 or 21 variant as the future, is pointing in the right direction as it's the only variant of the CZ-9 depictions we've seen that is compatible with first stage reusability.
Unfortunately I can't locate the full article, if anyone else can find it that would be greatly appreciated.
李东, 李平岐. 中国航天运输系统发展及未来趋势展望[J].前瞻科技,2022,1(1):51-61
The details of their depictions is not that important, but the fact that they're depicting CZ-9 with the 22 or 21 variant as the future, is pointing in the right direction as it's the only variant of the CZ-9 depictions we've seen that is compatible with first stage reusability.
Unfortunately I can't locate the full article, if anyone else can find it that would be greatly appreciated.
李东, 李平岐. 中国航天运输系统发展及未来趋势展望[J].前瞻科技,2022,1(1):51-61
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Wouldn't this be against their own law?
It seems ZK-1A/CZ-11A/SD-3 are surely the same thing but in different name. 2.65m diameter/31m length/1,500kg payload to 500km SSO.
I thought it was scheduled in Q1 2022, no idea why it is delayed.
China , US , Japan and India are already collaborating on a telescope in Hawaii.
FAST is a purely research project.
Is China involved? That's unimaginable because of the hostile US space related policy to China.
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