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The LOX/kerosene fuel tank of the re-usable Pallas-1 rocket being developed by the private startup Galactic Energy. The maiden launch of Pallas-1 is expected in 2024.
Here's a section of the Pallas-1 rocket on the assembly floor.
China's Space Program Thread II
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Here's a section of the Pallas-1 rocket on the assembly floor.
Visitors enjoy an expo displaying China's aerospace industry was held in Hefei of Anhui province on Monday with exhibits including Chang'e-5 return vehicle; samples from Lunar; and models of a carrier rocket, space suit and Tianwen 1.[Photos/Xinhua]
Visitors enjoy an expo displaying China's aerospace industry was held in Hefei of Anhui province on Monday with exhibits including Chang'e-5 return vehicle; samples from Lunar; and models of a carrier rocket, space suit and Tianwen 1.[Photos/Xinhua]
To be honest, it's not really slow for a state owned space company. Private companies can take more risks than state owned ones for obvious reasons. Plus we know that public companies run differently from private companies. Just look at how fast and ambitious SpaceX is working towards its projects and how they are willing to even tolerate several failures in their first launches just to quickly iron out any issues facing a new rocket.
So I will say CNSA is doing well if we consider how slow other state run space agences from major other space powers are doing at the moment. But yes compared to SpaceX everyone is far behind to be honest. SpaceX surprised everybody. We also have to commend the US government for supporting private space companies and giving them the opportunity to thrive and compete on a level playing field with the older more established US space companies that already had a long running relationship with NASA and US government.
That 3rd photo, is that YF-25? also from what mission is it from?
I think you misinterpreted the sentence. 7 YF-100K is to be about 840t thrust, the mounting rack has the dimension of near 5 meters. China does not have that kind of test rig. The largest one just completed few days ago was maximum 700t for one YF-130 engine far smaller than 5 meters. Also, China has never done a full rocket stage ground based test, not in their development methodology.
The text could simply mean that they are going to do various test on YF-100K. At most, a few engine running together to verify the control system managing multiple engines. But it would be far from testing the full bundle of 7 engines running close to its designed thrust.
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They could test the 7 YF-100K engines on a fully built Long March 10 core (minus the cone).
The core can be horizontally mounted on a test stand, i.e. the same way the Space Shuttle / SLS Solid Booster static test was done in a desert test area.
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