Smart Dragon-3 (SD-3), the third member of China s Dragon series commercial carrier rocket family, will make its maiden flight in 2022.A four-stage solid-propellant rocket, the SD-3 will be the largest with the highest carrying capacity among .
China launch: The Long March 7A is an udated version of the Long March 7 (Image: GETTY)
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According to CASC, the rocket has the potential to launch payloads to the Moon.
The Long March 7A was originally pencilled in to fly on March 16, 2020, but the mission was scrubbed.
A launch pad failure led to an investigation of what caused the problem, although exact details of what happened have not been revealed.
China has been accelerating its space programme in recent years, funnelling resources, money and manpower into a number of targets.
China launches Chang Zheng 7A rocket on its Return To Flight mission
March 11, 2021
China has successfully launched the second Chang Zheng 7A (CZ-7A) rocket from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Hainan Island, thus recovering from the first failed launch that took place almost one year ago. Carrying the mysterious Shiyan 9/Xinjishu Yanzheng-6-02 satellite, liftoff took place at 17:51 UTC on 11 March from the LC-201 launch complex.
The Chang Zheng 7A represents a new step in replacing the older families of hypergolic fuelled launchers that have been the workhorse of the Chinese space program since its inception in the 1960s.
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