{"id":3959,"date":"2017-06-19T13:30:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T13:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-achieves-key-breakthrough-in-multiple-launch-vehicles\/"},"modified":"2017-06-19T13:30:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T13:30:30","slug":"china-achieves-key-breakthrough-in-multiple-launch-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-achieves-key-breakthrough-in-multiple-launch-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"China Achieves Key Breakthrough in Multiple Launch Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >BEIJING, June 9 (<span style=\"text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); font-style: normal; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font-family: arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\">China Space News<\/span>) &#8212; China is working on reusable launch vehicles and has achieved progress in some key areas, a carrier rocket official said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p >The processes under development include parachute-landing and propulsion-landing, said Lu Yu, director of Science and Technology Committee of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) at the Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX 2017).<\/p>\n<p >Reusable lift-body launchers will be developed in three stages &#8212; rocket-engine partial reusable vehicle, rocket-engine full reusable vehicle and combined cycle-engine reusable vehicle, said Lu.<\/p>\n<p >The Long March carrier rockets still have room for improvement, Lu said, adding that the CALT is developing a heavy-lift launch vehicle with a payload of 140 tonnes to low Earth orbit and 50 tonnes to lunar transfer orbit.<\/p>\n<p >The heavy-lift carrier rocket is currently called the Long March-9, and it should be sent into space by 2030, he said.<\/p>\n<p >According to Lu, a low-cost commercial medium launch vehicle, the Long March-8. is under development, and based on the Long March-8, a new high-orbit medium launch vehicle should be designed to improve the Long March series and enhance competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p >Since China&#8217;s space transportation system started in 1960s, a total of 17 types of launch vehicles have been developed. As of May 2017, Long March series carrier rockets have conducted 246 flights with a success rate of 96 percent, fulfilling missions including the launch of manned spacecraft, a moon rover and the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System.<\/p>\n<p >Lu said that China has carried out international space transportation cooperation through piggyback- and commercial-satellite launches and in-orbit delivery.<\/p>\n<p >As of present, the Long March series have finished 55 international launches, sending 64 payloads into orbit for more than 20 countries and regions.<\/p>\n<p >China will also enhance cooperation by renting foreign launch sites to improve launch flexibility, building international launch sites at equatorial regions, and developing sea-based launch platforms with other countries, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, June 9 (China Space News) &#8212; China is working on reusable launch vehicles and has achieved progress in some key areas, a carrier rocket official said Thursday. The processes under development include parachute-landing and propulsion-landing, said Lu Yu, director of Science and Technology Committee of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}