The rocket's basic stats are also remarkably similar to Starship. While SpaceX's rocket is powered by 33 Raptor engines with 280 tons of thrust, the Long March 9 will have 30 YF-215 engines with ...

The Long March 9 rocket project has been under development at CALT for a number of years. The original plan was to build an expendable rocket capable of delivering 100 metric tons or more to LEO.

China has officially approved the development of a super heavy lift rocket, named the Long March 9, or CZ-9 vehicle. The decision was revealed on Wednesday by Chinese state television.

China had previously aimed to debut an expendable Long March 9 rocket using 500-ton-thrust kerosene-liquid oxygen engines around 2028-2030.

Long March 9 First Stage Rocket is Fully Reusable Too. It was revealed that this two-stage Long March 9 will also have one fully reusable rocket configuration for its first stage, powered by 30 YF ...

Originally planned as an expendable rocket, the Long March 9 will be China’s super heavy rocket with a capacity to launch 150 tonnes to LEO and 50 tonnes to lunar transfer orbit.

China is developing a new super-heavy-lift rocket called the Long March 9 to help achieve these and other ambitious deep-space goals. (Image credit: CNSA/Roscosmos) ...

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 ...

China plans to launch the heavy-lift carrier rocket Long March-9 in 2028, said an official of China National Space Administration (CNSA) at the World Conference on Science Literacy 2018 on Tuesday. Li ...

The rocket's basic stats are also remarkably similar to Starship. While SpaceX's rocket is powered by 33 Raptor engines with 280 tons of thrust, the Long March 9 will have 30 YF-215 engines with ...

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.