No specific mission. Can be any heavy payload. The current 12m fairing is too small to utilize CZ-5's payload capability. Possible payload is two DFH-4 stacked or one DFH-5 + one DFH-3.
China's Space Program Thread II
- Thread starter Blitzo
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From the Youtube summary:
Washington is going to have another massive panic attack if Americans start reporting laser beams shooting down from the sky from these weather satellites.
Does China provide us with the numbers for how much is the Chinese space budget? I would want to anylizd how it changed for the last decade.
I recall a Chinese report at the time of the first manned Shenzhou launch mentioning that China's total cumulative spending on manned space flight up to that point was less than 1 billion dollars.
Of course, the Chinese space program has massively expanded since then, and project costs must have also gone up a lot too with the rapid economic development and increase in wages seen across China in the last 20 years. But still, I'm sure the current annual Chinese space budget is still well under NASA's annual budget ($25B for fiscal year 2023).
ZK-1A off to the launch pad.
by78
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That's an old photo from last year, isn't it? The next launch is scheduled for May, so it's too early to be transporting it to the launchpad. The rocket is probably not yet been completely assembled.