China currently relies on its Long March 5 for heavy launch missions.
Credit: Tu Haichao/Xinhua
At first, all they wanted was a Moon rocket. What began about 12 years ago as a conventional superheavy launcher for China’s crewed lunar missions has now broken into two development streams that have themselves divided into further designs. These include a set of rockets that will introduce two...
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