China's Space Program News Thread

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winword

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Wouldn't the offset reduce the thrust some what?
Yes, but it's quite minor. From the photo it's around 4 degree angle, cos(4) is 0.9976, that's only 0.24% reduction in thrust comparing to not angled. That's the good thing about cosine function, the slope near 0 degree is close to 0. If you use radian, cos(x) can be represented as 1-0.5*x^2 when x is small enough.
 

ZeEa5KPul

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But I will ask, what the f-word is the diploma flashing about? Your NOT having a degree in the ship building industry did not stop you from arguing in warships and maritime engines, your NOT having a slightest education of Chinese history did not stop you from sprinkling saliva on the subject of what China should or should not do.
Sprinkling saliva on the subject... LOL! Ah, that's a good one, I'm going to use that one.
 

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Do note the small canard and the box wings and the four turbofan/Ramjet/CC engines. Certainly not the original creation of some model vendor.

Wait, why does it have box wing like structure ? Isn't the piggybacking spaceplane supposed to detach? Or is it an integrated craft?

The more I look, the more it seems like an model.
 

Skywatcher

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Do note the small canard and the box wings and the four turbofan/Ramjet/CC engines. Certainly not the original creation of some model vendor.

Wait, why does it have box wing like structure ? Isn't the piggybacking spaceplane supposed to detach? Or is it an integrated craft?

The more I look, the more it seems like an model.
Who's the model maker? It'd be interesting if it was CASIC or CASC.
 

Richard Santos

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Not only is obviously a model, it is very crude model, and very unlikely, in my opinion, to accurately represent anything thought out carefully enough to potentially be developed as a serious project.

For one thing, the hard thine on the forward fuselage is in vogue in popular aerospace fictional depictions because it is a fixture on stealth aircraft design and stealth is still cool. But it is nonsense from structural perspective on a space launcher the presumably doesn’t need to be stealthy and can’t be stealthy because it’s heat output during ascent phase.
 
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