CNSA news, Updates and Discussions

[skywatcher]

Update: China's iSpace completed another 200s test for its 15 ton methalox engine on 19 May 2020. The engine will be used on Hyperbola-2 rocket

 

[skywatcher]

Update: China's iSpace completed another 200s test for its 15 ton methalox engine on 19 May 2020. The engine will be used on Hyperbola-2 rocket

 

[skywatcher]

Update: China's iSpace completed another 200s test for its 15 ton methalox engine on 19 May 2020. The engine will be used on Hyperbola-2 rocket

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[skywatcher]

recent progress of 220 ton thrust YF90 LOX/LH2 cryogenic engine. maybe not so recent

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recent progress of 220 ton thrust YF90 LOX/LH2 cryogenic engine. maybe not so recent

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For more information, read this paper:
Sun Jiguo, Yue Wenlong, Advances of Large Thrust Staged Combusion Cycle Hydrogen/Oxygen Rocket Engine in China, Aerospace Shanghai, May 2019

 

[skywatcher]

For more information, read this paper:
Sun Jiguo, Yue Wenlong, Advances of Large Thrust Staged Combusion Cycle Hydrogen/Oxygen Rocket Engine in China, Aerospace Shanghai, May 2019

download link for interested readers

http://shht.ijournal.cn/ch/reader/create_pdf.aspx?file_no=20190603&flag=1&year_id=2019&quarter_id=6

 

[skywatcher]

Parameters of the three types of rocket engines CNSA has currently been working on
YF130, LOX/Kerosene, Staged Combustion Cycle, Thrust: 480 ton, Specific Impulse: 337s (sea level)
YF90, LOX/LH2, Staged Combustion Cycle, Thrust: 220/230 ton, Specific Impulse: 453s (vaccum)
YF79, LOX/LH2, Expansion Cycle, Thrust: 25 ton, Specific Impulse: 460s (vaccum)

 

[skywatcher]

Chinese astronauts underwater training for 2021 mission

 

[skywatcher]

Chinese astronauts underwater training for 2021 mission

 

[skywatcher]

the next Long March 5 rocket arrived at Hainan island yesterday scheduled for 23 July 2020 mission

 

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according to NOTAM source , next launch mission may be on 31 May 2020.

 

[skywatcher]

11 missions scheduled between 2021-2023( 4 manned missions and 7 unmanned)

artistic rendering of China Space Station (CSS) baseline version

gif of CSS

 

[skywatcher]

Chinese space launch startup iSpace 15 ton thrust methalox engine JD-1 completes 500s test on 27 May 2020.

 

[Assassin 2.0]

Which Misson is going to happen in 2021?

 

[skywatcher]

Which Misson is going to happen in 2021?

core module "Tianhe" for CSS

 

[skywatcher]

An old video in 2018 shows CSS "Tianhe"(literally heavenly harmony) core module that will be launched in 2021 by Long March 5B.

 

[skywatcher]

YF77 cryogenic engine test revisit

 

[skywatcher]

YF77 cryogenic engine test revisit

revisit of old videos of Long March 5 testing