China's Space Program Thread II
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by78
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A model of the fully reusable Long March 9 at Zhuhai Airshow. An accompanying placard states that YF-215 (LOX/Methane) is under development. Some specs are listed below:
– Thrust (vacuum): 200 tons
– Combustion chamber pressure: 18MPa
– Vacuum specific impulse: 341 seconds
– Diameter: 2m
– Height: 4m
Scaled models of the fully re-usable Long March 9 at Zhuhai Airshow + 1st stage capture tower.
by78
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"“Basically, the Americans want our lunar samples, but we can’t have theirs,” said two Chinese planetary geologists, one based in Beijing and the other in Hong Kong, who spoke on condition of anonymity."
Well, I see two ways to interpret this, one of them is hilarious.
First of all spaceplane has been under development for a very long time well before Haolong being selected as the cargo ship for space station. Earlier flights are certainly part of the long lasting spaceplane program irrespective to Haolong. If there is any connection it is Haolong being a variant, spin-off from the main program. So I'd say it is wrong to call the previous launches test of Haolong prototype.
The law (made since last year or so) requires export of any high tech or critical goods to be approved by government. The law is phrased in a format that gives the government full freedom to determine what can and can not be exported to whom. Generally speaking in China the government is the law, the government includes both the congress and the administration (two facades of the party) with administration being the lead.