China's Space Program Thread II

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The Long March 7 carrying the Tianzhou-8 cargo spacecraft has been transferred to the launchpad. The launch is expected on November 15, around 11 p.m. local time.

 

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A Long March 4B successfully sent an ocean salinity monitoring satellite (海洋盐度探测卫星) into orbit earlier today. This marks the 545 flight of the Long March series.

 

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The Long March 7 carrying the Tianzhou-8 cargo spacecraft has been transferred to the launchpad. The launch is expected on November 15, around 11 p.m. local time.

A few more high-resolution images of the transfer to launchpad.

 

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A Lijian-1 has successfully launched 15 satellites –– Experiment 26A, B, and C; Jilin-1 High Resolution 05B; Platform 02A03; Yunyao-1 31 through 36; Xiguang-1 04 and 05; Oman's Intelligent Remote Sensing Satellite 1; and the Tianyan 24.

Jilin-1 Gaofen (High Resolution) 05B has beamed back the first batch of images since being launched on Monday.

 

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The TY series of sounding rockets developed by the 4th Academy of CASC on display at Zhuhai Airshow.

 

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The new headquarters of China Satellite Network Corporation has been completed and officially handed over.

A glimpse of the monitoring center at the new headquarters of the China Satellite Network Corporation.

 

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In addition to stainless propellant tanks, LightYear is also working on payload fairings. Seen here is a prototype fairing made of special heat-resistant plywood panels secured to a light-weight steel frame. It has a diameter of 1.6m and a height of 5m. According to LightYear, it's lighter and has better load bearing performance than traditional composite fairings, and it's much cheaper to produce.

LightYear's specially-treated plywood fairing on display at Zhuhai.

 

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, it intends to build a space tourism park where 10 reusable Lijian-3 launch vehicles will work in shifts to send tourists to space. Each spacecraft is capable of carrying seven passengers and features four large portholes for viewing.

Zhongke/CAS Space suborbital manned spacecraft is named Lihong (力鸿). First manned flight is expected in 2028. Ticket price is between two and three million RMB.

 

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Here's the completed stainless steel propellant tank fabricated using LightYear's proprietary bulge-forming process. It has a diameter of 3.8m, a length of 14.6m, a volume of 158 cubic meters, and a total weight of 3400kg. The wall thickness is as little as 1.52mm. It will be exhibited at this year's Zhuhai Airshow.

Another image of that stainless steel propellant tank on display at Zhuhai.

 

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The Chinese space launch startup Galactic Energy has just tested a certain hypersonic vehicle. The flight was a success.