China's Space Program Thread II

gpt

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The CZ-3B third stage has been the main point of failure in almost all of the rocket's recent anomalies.

Zhongxin-9A (June 2017): launch failure; third stage shut down early during GTO, but using maneuvers the satellite still reached GEO with a shortened lifespan.

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(Xinhua's reporting on Zhongxin-9A)

Depending on where SJ-32 is currently, its health and whether it has separated from the third stage, it may still be possible to recover this thing. ZX-9A was launched on 6/19/17 and reached GEO on 07/09/17 using its thrusters at the cost of 10 years of lifespan. As I understand, the most recent SJ satellites use a high performance bipropellent engine with increased prop reserves.
 

sunnymaxi

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I don't know man, they seem pretty successful IMO, I had to go closer to the screen to see the failures "in red".
2025 was the best year ever In the Chinese Space program
the Bar is only high for China rest people don't care.. USA has the highest rate of crash and failure of military aircrafts , helicopters in last two years but people don't give a shit and just ignore as nothing happened.

2026 started with high launching frequency as compared to 2025. so we are on track for 110-120 launch in 2026 if everything goes well. maybe more than that if they really push in later half of this year.
 
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