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China will work on development of two types of super-heavy launch vehicles for future lunar projects, a senior official said Wednesday.
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China will work on development of two types of super-heavy launch vehicles for future lunar projects, a senior official said Wednesday.
Jiang Jie, chief designer of the Long March 3A series of hypergolic launchers, told press (Chinese) in Beijing March 3 that the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) would continue development of both a heavy launch vehicle and a new generation crew launch vehicle over the next five years.
The super-heavy launcher is known as the Long March 9. While various figures have been published, it is expected to be around 93 meters long, feature a 10-meter-diameter core and have a mass at liftoff of 4,140 metric tons.
Space shuttle by US is a dumb concept. Over expensive and little use. You think China cant build one? Who want to buy an overprice inefficient space craft? Even NASA abandon US space shuttle. Just like USS Zumalt cruiser which is expensive and dumb which USN decide to cancel that project and wasted billion of dollars. While China continue build proven and sophisticated dozen of 055 destroyer.
Its the same as in space. China only build sustainable thing that is feasible for future long term use. Immigration to moon and mars need a vehicle that can be build and use many times that is sustainable. Not overprice and inefficient vehicle and just meant to show off for few times and stop.