World's largest rocket production base built in N China

[Brotherhood]

World's largest rocket production base built in N China - People's Daily Online March 04, 2011

The world's largest design, production and testing base for rockets is being built in north China's Tianjin Municipality, Liang Xiaohong, deputy head of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, told Xinhua Thursday.

The first phase of the rocket industrial base in Tianjin's Binhai New Area will be completed within the year. Rocket parts will be designed, manufactured, assembled and tested at the base, Liang said.

Twenty of the 22 plants have been completed, and some of them are ready for operation. The base is designed to meet China's growing demand in space technology research and development for the next 30 to 50 years, he added.

By integrating the industrial chain, the base will be able to produce a whole spectrum of rockets of different sizes and types for China's moon probe project, space station and other projects, he said.

China's new rockets, including Long March IV, will be designed and manufactured in the 200-hectare base, he said.

Source:Xinhua

 

[Whiplash]

This will also serve as an ICBM production facility? Considering the tech is very similar?
Anyway congrats

 

[Markus]

This new facility will help China challenge American space supremacy in the coming decades.

 

[Aramsogo]

This will also serve as an ICBM production facility? Considering the tech is very similar?
Anyway congrats

AviationWeek March 2010

The Long March 5 has a core diameter of 5 meters (16 feet) with boosters of either 3.35 meters or 2.25 meters, officials say. The 3.35 meter diameter, the same as that of the original Long March series (Long March 1, 2, 3 and 4) was chosen as the largest that would fit within the loading gauge of the Chinese railways, one program executive told Aviation Week last year. Established tooling could also be used with the 3.35 diameter booster, even though the materials and structural design would be different, that executive said.

But the facilities of the space industry base under construction at Tianjin will be adaptable to handle rocket diameters of 8 or even 10 meters, an official there said last year, hinting that the plant was prepared to build an equivalent of the Saturn V, whose first-stage diameter was 10.1 meters.

Confirming that such a Chinese Moon rocket is at the study stage, the vice-president of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, Liang Xiaohong, says it will have a thrust at lift off of 3,000 tons. The Saturn V’s S-1C first stage generated 7,648,000 lb. (3,470 metric tons) of thrust at sea level.

 

[below_freezing]

This will not only boost our ICBM production but also make money back in the form of fast mass production of commercial launch vehicles.

 

[Truth Teller]

Congratulations China