China's Space Program Thread II

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Michael90

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ZachL111 said:
In response to both, from what I've seen, it's rumored to be the Lijian-2, with the Tianlong-3 potentially ready to go soon after. Again these are just rumors but this is what I am seeing.
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Yeah I thought so. Seems they private sector is really struggling to get up to speed.
 
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Michael90 said:
Yeah I thought so. Seems they private sector is really struggling to get up to speed.
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From the perspective of a complete outsider, these delays experienced by new launchers also have a positive aspect: it may mean that these commercial launch providers have sufficiently robust procedures and experienced personnel to identify and fix major potential problems before their debut launches. Lots of things can still go wrong that result in launch failures (like the debut of Ceres-2), but they're not just going ahead in a "damn-the-torpedoes" manner that may impact the future prospects of the companies themselves (after all, even SpaceX did not really engage in the lengthy "fail-then-fix" development process until it became an established launch provider). At this stage, I'd rather see them delay launches rather than adding more failures to their resume.
 
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TheRathalos

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ZachL111 said:
In response to both, from what I've seen, it's rumored to be the Lijian-2, with the Tianlong-3 potentially ready to go soon after. Again these are just rumors but this is what I am seeing.
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Yeah, for example, from a former CAS Space employee:
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, I now believe this is more plausible, because back in 2024, CAS Space announced that the Maiden launch of Lijian-2 would carry LEO communication satellite alongside Qingzhou (
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), which would explain why they would be launched in polar orbit.
Tianlong 3 is still indeed expected to be launched later in the week.
 

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bsdnf said:
April will be a big month for space launches.
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Indeed, looking forward to it.
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with 6 or 7 more launches done in March.
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Also looks like my estimate was spot on pretty much, barring any secret launches, we will have eight in March, final count. I do actually wish we saw the ZQ-2E launch this month as it was previously supposed to, but we are on schedule still for 120-140 launches this year.
 
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