SpaceNewsChina is making stainless steel tanks for its future super heavy-lift rockets
Spaceflight 🚀🇨🇳 Launch 🚀 Feb 11, 2025 11:00 CET https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7518
The #LongMarch8A with increased capability of up to 7 tonnes to a 700 km #SSO can use a larger 5.2 meters diameter 📏 payload fairing. A planned future launch vehicle variant of the #LongMarch8 will be partially reusable ♻️ by featuring a combined booster recovery of the first stage and the boosters as a single unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_8
#LongMarch9 should have a maximum #payload capacity of 150,000 kg to #LEO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_9
AEROSPATIAL#SCIENCENEWS || What we know about #LongMarch9, #China's mega rocket to the #Moon and #Mars || Chronicle by R. Decourt #futurasciences || https://www.futura-sciences.com/sciences/actualites/lanceur-long-march-ce-on-sait-long-march-9-megafusee-chine-aller-lune-mars-101850/ ||
T. Reid Lewis1/ Eric Berger @sciguyspace writes in an insightful article on China's plans
"For this reason, the reusable #LongMarch9 design may use clusters of smaller liquid-fueled engines—possibly based on methane as a propellant, like #Starship." [not 1m thrust #YF100]
A subset of smaller engines allows thrust to be varied during landing and enables reuses
Read the full article here: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/china-is-scrapping-plans-for-an-sls-like-rocket-in-favor-of-reusable-booster/
