Talk:Long March 5 rocket family

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[edit] White Paper

In the new white paper released 2006-10-12 there is some information on the engines related to long march 5:

"Important breakthroughs have been made in key technologies of the new-generation launching vehicles. Research and development of the 120-ton thrust liquid-oxygen/kerosene engine and the 50-ton thrust hydrogen-oxygen engine are proceeding smoothly." (I believe these are the engines that are going to be used)

Also one of the goals for the coming five years are:

"To develop nontoxic, pollution-free, high-performance, low-cost and powerful thrust carrier rockets of the new generation, eventually increasing the carrying capacity of near-Earth orbiters to 25 tons, and that of geostationary orbiters to 14 tons"

So the Long March 5 project seem to progress, something to add to this article?

The white paper can be found here:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/12/content_5193446_2.htm

Malu5531 10:37, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

the 2 engines are known some time ago and has been listed in astronautix.com for years. it seem likely that the liquid-oxygen/kerosene engine may use parts similiar to those use on the russian zenit and the US Atlas V rockets. so it would be interesting to see the 3 major spacefarers using samiliar technology, welcome to free market >:) Akinkhoo (talk) 18:21, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Moon mission

If this is the rocket that is supposed to put the first Chinese on the Moon, at 25t to LEO it will not succeed (compared to 130t to LEO of the Ares V). So the Chinese will have to design a much more powerful launch vehicle.--Arado 12:45, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Well the plan might be to use a multi-launch strategy. For instance two launches for the spacecraft that dock in LEO and then go to LLO and two launches for the lunar lander and its propulsion stage for a TLI burn. Themanwithoutapast 13:14, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
it is enough since the moon mission is NOT a manned mission. the US media has been misleading the public to help NASA secure funding for a space race that doesn't exist. just for comparison, Russian claims it is possible with 2 launches to send a manned capsule around the moon, but it means no landing. china will focus on building it's own space station instead of the moon which the rocket can do. Akinkhoo 16:56, 19 August 2007 (UTC)