Would I be correct to presume that the Tiangong-3 flight has been cancelled, and the Chinese are going straight for the modular space station after Tiangong-2?
China to UN: Like our Long March 5 (Nov inaugural carried >14,000kg to GTO)? Long March 934 coming in 2021: 66,000kg to GTO, 140,000kg LEO.
Tweet from Peter B. de Selding:QuoteChina to UN: Like our Long March 5 (Nov inaugural carried >14,000kg to GTO)? Long March 934 coming in 2021: 66,000kg to GTO, 140,000kg LEO.
Quote from: gongora on 01/31/2017 04:11 pmTweet from Peter B. de Selding:QuoteChina to UN: Like our Long March 5 (Nov inaugural carried >14,000kg to GTO)? Long March 934 coming in 2021: 66,000kg to GTO, 140,000kg LEO.2021 is very early for a CZ-9 variant.
AIUI, the CZ-8 is a CZ-7 with solida and an hydrolox upper stage. That would replace the CZ-3 series.
Quote from: baldusi on 02/01/2017 01:25 pmAIUI, the CZ-8 is a CZ-7 with solida and an hydrolox upper stage. That would replace the CZ-3 series.Sorta - it uses the existing CZ-7 1st stage with the existing CZ-3 series hydrolox upper stage on top as 2nd stage and 2 120 t class SRBs. It will lift about 4.5 tonnes to polar orbits (roughly Antares-Soyuz class) and will be the CZ-4 series replacement (which it will divide - perhaps evenly - with the CZ-6A).I wanted to write about the related paper some time ago but never quite found the time to do so - maybe I should do it now......
The core will use the first stage of Long March 7 and a modified version of the Long March 6 second stage with one YF-115 engine, which indicates that the second stage uses RP-1 and LOX.
JAKARTA, Indonesia — China Great Wall Industry Corp. has clinched a contract with an Indonesian joint venture to build a replacement for a satellite that is running out of fuel early due to an underperformed Long March launch.Palapa Satelit Nusantara Sejahtera, a joint venture of Indosat Ooredoo and Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN), signed the contract for Palapa-N1, a high-throughput Ku-band satellite with 10 Gbps of capacity here May 17 with Beijing-based CGWIC, a subsidiary of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
In a more expansive agreement than other deals, CGWIC is providing not only the satellite and a Long March 3B launch, but also the ground control system, insurance and financing support for Palapa-N1.