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Old 05-05-2020, 01:15 PM
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I've been sheltering-in-place long enough that the REALLY wild ideas are starting to bubble up. Yesterday (well, really early today), China successfully launched their Long March 5B heavy lifter. This was the fourth launch and third success for this rocket since 2016. The payload was their new deep space capsule (unmanned) for lunar missions later this decade. The rocket itself is roughly the same capacity as a Delta Heavy. It's a central core with 4 strap-on liquid boosters. There was no second stage. The capsule, which looks like an early Dragon is carried under the aeroshell and is designed to carry up to seven people. The mission will be similar to the Boeing Starliner flight profile last year. The capsule will make a number of orbital changes and then accelerate for a high-speed reentry to test the parachutes and heat shield.

And it has fins.

So in 1/64th scale, to match my Russian R-7s and my Long March 2F, it would have a 3" diameter core and be 33 tall. The LRBs would be 2" in diameter and 17 inches long. Doable. Probably 29mm powered.
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Old 05-05-2020, 06:16 PM
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Amazing it has fins!!
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Old 05-05-2020, 09:34 PM
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Capsule under aeroshell... Does it have to chuck the shell before initiating the LES or does the whole thing come off together in an abort?

It's an interesting rocket, but even an identical Russian rocket would be more interesting to me due to them being our mortal enemy and direct competition during the space race. It's hard for me to get excited over Chinese hardware that can finally lift today what US hardware was lifting over 50 years ago.
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Capsule under aeroshell... Does it have to chuck the shell before initiating the LES or does the whole thing come off together in an abort?

It's an interesting rocket, but even an identical Russian rocket would be more interesting to me due to them being our mortal enemy and direct competition during the space race. It's hard for me to get excited over Chinese hardware that can finally lift today what US hardware was lifting over 50 years ago.


There is no abort mode. In the event of a booster failure it is understood that the crew most certainly are very happy, willing, and eager to give their lives for the sake of the homeland.

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There is no abort mode. In the event of a booster failure it is understood that the crew most certainly are very happy, willing, and eager to give their lives for the sake of the homeland.
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I wouldn't be surprised.
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I wouldn't be surprised either.
Typical attitude of China toward it's "citizens".
Idiot lemmings.
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