China aims for deeper space with new generation rockets

China aims for deeper space with new generation rockets Beijing (XNA) Apr 22, 2016 - China will take its new generation heavy-lift rocket Long March-5 to the skies later this year, and is planning even bigger models. According to Wang Jue, head of the Long March-5 project, the rocket has a liftoff weight of 869 tonnes, with a payload capacity of 25 tonnes to the low Earth orbit (LEO) and 14 tonnes to the geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). "It can carry more than two ... more

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