Is this official? If this is true that mean just a year between first launch in 2025 to attempting an uncrewed circumlunar moonshot in 2026.
China's Space Program News Thread
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No it's not official, thread is here:
According to them it's "moderately believable".
From Henri Kenhmann
The return to flight of the CZ-7A launcher, after the failure of its maiden flight on March 16, 2020, will take place on the night of March 11 to 12, at the Wenchang space center on the island of Hainan. The payload is an experimental optical satellite of over 6t known by its nickname XJY-6-02.
I see, but if it true it might be possible for China to land people on the moon before 2030
It is not official.
Where do you get this "first launch in 2025"?
If it is not circulating the moon what kind of test would the first launch be? A full state 921 is 3 staged and capable of launching 25t to LTO. If the launch aims at the moon, the dummy payload will be able to sling around the moon even if one don't intend to do so. So not only it is possible but very probable that the first full state launch is circulating the moon.
Yes, likely the full state 921 IMO, according to the maturity of components of 921 and current progress.
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SY-9 is probably a GEO based sat to collect space situational awareness data about other objects on orbit.
China equivalent of DoD GSSAP sat. GSSAP satellites can perform rendezvous and proximity operations, approaching other space vehicles to provide attribution or enhanced surveillance on objects.
China also have two other SY-6 sat doing space surveillance in LEO
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