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Construction of Long March 9 has begun!

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Kryten

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  WestAir said:
Good job China.

And they wanna build the LM11 in 2 years? We need to team up.

LM-11 is an all-solid LV in the same class as Minotaur, you'd expect it to be very quick.

  Giggleplex777 said:
Are there any more details? Are they going with the RP-1 and LOX with liquid fueled boosters or LH2 and LOX with solid boosters? Or LH2 and LOX with liquid fueled boosters?

All three configurations were officially under consideration, but there's little experience in China with large solids, so that's much less likely than the other two. All configurations share the same tank diameter, so even with this they may not have decided yet.

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  Giggleplex777 said:
Are there any more details? Are they going with the RP-1 and LOX with liquid fueled boosters or LH2 and LOX with solid boosters? Or LH2 and LOX with liquid fueled boosters?

Boosters: RP1-LOX

1st stage: RP1-LOX

2nd stage: RP1-LOX

3rd stage: LH2-LOX

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  check said:
Major understatement. Do you have any more info on this? A Source, maybe?

http://www.jyds.gov.cn/show.aspx?id=50824&bigclassid

Production of metal rings with a diameter of 8.7m for a new rocket; not explicitly stated, but in the size proposed for CZ-9 and far above anything else.

  astropapi1 said:
According to Wikipedia (not a great source for information, I know...) it is supposed to have a capability of 130t to LKO and 50 to TLI. Ares these numbers accurate?

It depends on the configuration chosen, everything so far is provisional; but that seems to be the rough target.

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  sojourner said:
Gold that can only be destroyed in the fires of Mt. Doom.

Too heavy. :sticktongue:

  xenomorph555 said:
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And we're officially out of any future space race. That's a fricking Stargate they've got there.

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  vger said:
Too heavy. :sticktongue:

And we're officially out of any future space race. That's a fricking Stargate they've got there.

Lol, the first thing I thought then I saw the glowing ring was Portal :)

Then of the boss fight in Portal 2 who has relevance for moon missions :)

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