A Chinese state-owned aerospace company unveiled a fully reusable design for its Long March 9 booster at the country's largest airshow in Zhuhai this week, saying it would rival the heavy-lift systems ...

China's Long March rocket family has been growing in recent years, but the current lineup doesn't include a super-heavy lift ...

A recent airshow in Zhuhai, China officially unveiled its first 'super heavy lift rocket' called the Long March 9, and this has been revealed after almost a decade since it was introduced ...

And it was revealed this week that China's next-gen heavy lifter, the Long March 9, will look a lot like SpaceX's Starship megarocket, at least in one of its planned configurations. Engineers ...

When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country's first super heavy lift rocket nearly a decade ago, it looked like a fairly conventional booster. The rocket was fully expendable, ...

China ’s space agency has unveiled an updated design of its first super-heavy reusable rocket which looks eerily similar to ...

China’s main space contractor has unveiled a fully reusable rocket concept, reminiscent of SpaceX’s Starship, designed to support its grandest ambitions for space. The new concept ...

Since then, China has been revising the design of this rocket, named Long March 9, in response to the development of reusable rockets by SpaceX. As of two years ago, China had recalibrated the ...

TL;DR: China's new Long March 9 rocket design closely resembles SpaceX's Starship, featuring the same two-stage, fully reusable configuration and aerodynamic flaps. This is part of a pattern ...

A Chinese state-owned aerospace company unveiled a fully reusable design for its Long March 9 booster at the country's largest airshow in Zhuhai this week, saying it would rival the heavy-lift systems ...

The Long March 9 was announced in 2016 as a big but pretty typical rocket, but the design has morphed over the years to borrow traits from SpaceX's in-development Starship. The latest version of ...