China's Space Program Thread II
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Hainan Commercial Spaceport has begun launch rehearsals for the upcoming fifth flight of Long March 8, which will be the maiden launch carried out by the newly constructed spaceport.
More images from the launch rehearsal for the first flight of Long March 8 from Hainan commercial spaceport.
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High-resolution renders of the Haolong cargo spaceplane developed by CAC.
Model of the Haolong spaceplane on display at Zhuhai.
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The improved Long March 8 variant has officially been named Long March 8A, or CZ-8A. Payload to SSO (700km) has been increased from 4 tons to 7 tons.
The maiden flight of Long March 8A is scheduled for January of 2025.
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More images from the launch rehearsal for the first flight of Long March 8 from Hainan commercial spaceport.
The launch rehearsal for the first flight of Long March 8 from Hainan commercial spaceport has been successfully completed.
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A Long March 2C successfully launched PIESAT-2 01 to 04 satellites. This marks the 544th flight of the Long March series.
The four satellites launched are remote sensing (X-band SAR, sub-meter resolution) satellites belonging to the Hongtu constellation, which is China's first commercial distributed interferometric X-band SAR observation constellation, with a spatial resolution of 0.5 m to 5m and capable of high-precision terrain mapping, high-resolution wide-format imaging, millimeter-level high-precision deformation monitoring, and three-dimensional imaging. Hongtu-1 constellation will be tasked to carry out topographic mapping of the world.
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More on the Qingzhou spacecraft being developed by Microsatellite Innovation Research Institute. It features a single-cabin design with an internal volume of 27 cubic meters for taikonauts and cargo. It will also have an optional large refrigerator for certain science payloads.
Here's what appears to be a mockup of the Qingzhou spacecraft, which shows its internal layout. Quinzhou will be launched in September of 2025 by a Lijian-2 rocket.
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"New 'Haolong' cargo space plane unveiled at Zhuhai Airshow: Large wingspan, high lift-to-drag ratio, reusable spacecraft tech. Launch, dock with space station, detach, re-enter atmosphere, land horizontally for maintenance and reuse"