Various companies, including the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation plan on launching reusable rockets in the coming years. CASC’s announcement was made yesterday. Before then, I believe they only had plans to make the Long March 9 superheavy rocket reusable in the 2030s? Or maybe I missed some news a while back. China’s space industry is very convoluted. I should probably make a master post about it sometime for everyone’s sake.

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They named their heavy rocket series the Long March? That’s incredible

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Yep, it’s super awesome

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The Long March family spans from small lift to (eventually) superheavy lift rockets. It’s just the name of CASC’s series of rockets. Like if NASA called everything a Saturn something, rather than just using that designation for Saturn I and Saturn V.

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Wait, what’s this? I have just heard from an anonymous source on that the engine technology for every one of these rockets was actually stolen in a top-secret mission by Xi Jinping himself late last January under the cover of the weather balloon incident. This is truly troubling if true, comrades. Could it be that the Chinese are ontologically incapable of invention?

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“The orientals are incapable of a single original thought in their robotic minds, old boy!”

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Who is this?

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It’s Philosophy Tube! Rather, a bit about a snooty brit being condescending towards Chinese philosophy in Philosophy Tube’s video about Confucius.

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reusable hypersonic hit-to-kill missile made of a solid Aluminum–scandium that just flies back home after punching a hole straight through a ship.

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Finally the Long Dong 69!

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Dong long (east dragon) would actually make sense though. There’s already a dong feng (east wind) rocket.

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the real innovation in rocketry will be tying Elon Musk to a launchpad

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