A reusable design of the super heavy-lift Long March 9:
D11m 1st stage with 26 200-ton thrust LOX/Methane engines
D11m 2nd stage with 4 120-ton thrust LOX/LH2 engines
D7.5m 3rd stage with 1 120-ton thrust LOX/LH2 engine
Length: 111m
Mass: 4122 ton
LTO: 50t
LEO: 150t
#CZ9
The slide is from a presentation by Long Lehao, former chief designer of Long March rockets. Other designs of 2-stage reusable LOX/Methane rockets
In the future, Long March 7A will be redesigned to cover the capacity of the current #CZ6/7/8, by removing the current 2nd stage. 1st stage will be taller, upper stage uses 1 YF-75E engine.
In a summary of "other" launch vehicles, Kuaizhou-11 of CASIC was labeled "retired". Since the launch failure of Kuaizhou-1A last December, we haven't heard any news about its return
Timeline of lunar/deep space programs:
Chang'e-6/7/8 before 2028
Lunar Research Station ~2035
Tianwen-2 2016HO3 sample return before 2025 (Long March 3B)
Tianwen-3 mars sample return ~2028 (Long March 9 or Long March 5 and 3B)
Jupiter 2034
Heliopause 2049
The new generation human rated launch vehicle #CZ5DY will be reusable too
1st stage: 7 YF-100K
2nd stage: 2 YF-100M
3rd stage: 3 YF-75E
LTO: 27 ton
LEO: 70 ton
Targeting ~2030 for human landing on the moon with 2 launches
Single stick variant (#CZ5ZRL) for LEO is less of the 3rd stage and only 1 engine in 2nd stage. It will have a capacity of 14 ton (reuse) to 18 tons. The new rocket is to replace Long March 2F before 2030 and to launch cargo spacecrafts with recycled 1st stages before 2032.
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