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Feb 26, 2023, 6 tweets

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Interesting details coming out of an exhibition at National Museum, #Beijing to celebrate 30 years of China's human spaceflight program.

A model of #CNSA space station Tiagnong which is operational in orbit(~370km altitude) and a live size model of its core module.
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Long March Family of rockets :

From right to left :
1.) Long March-5B (#CZ-5B), the most powerful rocket CNSA has in service.
2.) Long March-3
3.) This one isn't completely visible but I think it's Long March-2F. China's maiden crewed mission was carried on this.
4.) IDK

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#Shenzou 13 return capsule. It was launched in 2021 and carried 3 astronauts in space to Chinese space station module for 180 days.

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Now this and the next tweets are special.

For the first time #China or #CNSA unveiled a model of its moon service lander in which it intends to send its men to moon on crewed mission.

The right one is the next generation Chinese crewed spacecraft.

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And this is supposedly from the next generation of Chinese launch vehicle. Although Chinese media is reporting it to be a next variant of Long March Family I doubt that. The chief designer of Chinese academy of launch vehicles said that it is 3x more capable than CZ-5B..
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which translates to approximately ~25 tonnes capacity to Trans Lunar Injection (TLI) orbit, which is synchronous with the capacity of that not so discussed "Rocket 921". Personally I think it's that "Rocket 921" model.

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