China Details Heavy-Lift Launcher Plans

China’s Long March 5 heavy rocket program, comparable to the U.S. Delta IV, will comprise a family of launchers to be built at a plant at Tianjin whose construction began this week. The rockets will go into service in 2013 at the new Wenchang launch base on Hainan Island. Wenchang itself is to be...

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