LostCosmonaut Posted June 26, 2016 Report Share Posted June 26, 2016 China's new rocket (roughly comparable to the Atlas V) launched yesterday. Unlike the Long March 2, the CZ-7/Long March 7 uses LOX/Kerosene instead of hypergolics, which is a pretty big improvement from a safety standpoint. Also, I believe it's going to be used for manned missions in the future (the entire architecture is liquid fuelled). Khand-e, Belesarius and Sturgeon 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted June 27, 2016 Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 Just for reference, and to add a bit to the post I guess, they have more then "one" new rocket, but rather a family of them, The Long March 7 being the second heaviest of the ones built so far behind the CZ-5/CS-5B (which is considered the "parent" design of the others) which is undergoing it's maiden launch soon, but heavier then the "small-medium" payload 6 series and "emergency recovery" 11 series Long March 6 and Long March 11 had their first and only test launches last year on September 19th and 25th respectively, both were successful. (there are an 8 and 9 "superheavy" launch vehicles, but as far as I'm aware, these are still only in design study stage, 10 was skipped for reasons unknown.). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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