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BEIJING (China Daily/ANN): Designers at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology have started developing the first reusable model in the nation's Long March carrier rocket family, said a senior rocket scientist. Jiang Jie, an expert at the academy and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said on Wednesday that research and development of the reusable variant of the Long March 8 rocket was proceeding well and designers plan to conduct the first test to verify key vertical landing technologies before the end of this year. "The new model will feature highly integrated equipment, au...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Pentagon planners are looking to replace Sikorsky’s Black Hawk, middle-aged and slower than the next generation of helicopters [Hartford Courant] The Black Hawk, the workhorse in wartime and in natural disasters, is facing a challenge familiar to those in middle age as a new and faster helicopter swoops in to take its place. Its manufacturer, Sikorsky Aircraft, a unit of Lockheed Martin Corp., is working with Boeing to develop a utility helicopter that flies at double the speed and twice as far as the Black Hawk. In a competition for a Pentagon contract, they ar...

Book excerpt: In The Tejas Story, a retired air marshal chronicles his experiences of test flying the LCA jets The story that comes to life through his book is that of his team of pilots and of the LCA programme itself, how it was commissioned, the challenges in the development phase and the pressure of realising the dream of domestically developing a fighter plane. Philip Rajkumar January 29, 2021 11:44:45 IST Philip Rajkumar's The Tejas Story: The Light Combat Aircraft...

Long March 8 rocket makes maiden flight By ZHAO LEI in Wenchang, Hainan | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2020-12-23 07:05 A crowd has turned out to watch the launch of China's new medium-lift carrier rocket Long March 8 in Wenchang, Hainan province, on Tuesday. On its maiden flight, the rocket put five satellites into orbit. LIU YANG/FOR CHINA DAILY Five days after China concluded its historic 23-day Chang'e 5 lunar mission, Chinese space engineers made a new achievement with the debut flight of the country's newest carrier rocket. The Long March 8, the latest in C...

Long March 8 rocket lifts 5 satellites in debut flight 1 The Long March 8 rocket waits for its debut flight. （Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn） The Long March 8, the latest in China's Long March launch vehicle fleet, conducted its debut flight on Tuesday afternoon at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in South China's island province of Hainan. The 50.3-meter rocket ignited its engines at 12:37 pm at a coastal launch pad, thundering skyward into thick layers of cloud. After about 15 minutes, the rocket reached a sun-synchronous orbit with an altitude of 512 kilometers, an...