China's Space Program News Thread

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ougoah

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Hmmm first attempt to use CZ-7A for GTO delivery. While it's a newish rocket, only a 2:3 success rate is still not promising and it doesn't seem to be a high performance rocket in any way unlike CZ-5. Failure after 2 hours of flight. Something to do with the payload or payload delivery perhaps? Upper stage separations? It is a modification on the standard CZ-7 though. An oversight somewhere in the newer modifications maybe. Doubt we'll hear much about the nature of the issue.
 
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