Tag: Methane Propulsion

Chinese private launch company iSpace has announced the start of preliminary studies for its Hyperbola-9 (SQX-9) heavy-lift rocket. The proposed vehicle targets a payload capacity in the 100-tonne class to low Earth orbit (LEO), with a first stage powered by 33 liquid oxygen–methane engines, each in the 300-tonne-thrust class. It is intended to support crewed…