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Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to [Dormant] moved to !space@mander.xyz@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

China’s New Heavy Lift Rocket Looks a Whole Lot Like SpaceX’s Starship

www.wired.com

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China’s New Heavy Lift Rocket Looks a Whole Lot Like SpaceX’s Starship

www.wired.com

Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to [Dormant] moved to !space@mander.xyz@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago
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The Long March 9 super heavy-lift rocket made an appearance at a major airshow recently—and looks awfully familiar.
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    It looks whole lot like a rocket. It’s almost like there is a shape that works well for the job.

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    I’m getting Ariane 5 tbh.

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    Two machines designed to do the same job in the same environment look similar? Nah, that doesn’t track.

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    I dont see it

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      That’s because the stock image Wired used is of a Long March 5, not Long March 9.

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        From what I can find the March 9 is just about twice as long, proportionally, looking nearly the same otherwise. It does not look anything like this thing.

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          I believe that render is outdated. The Long March 9 has undergone a quite a few redesigns over the years.

          The original ARS Technica article this Wired article was based on includes a more recent mockup of Long March 9:

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            Yes but the stages before that are all kinda the same looking as they’re obviously just tubes holding rocket fuel. Virtually all rockets look the same if we go by that metric.

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    https://web.archive.org/web/20241106123827/https://www.wired.com/story/china-heavy-lift-rocket-spacex-starship/

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    KSP rocket

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    Based

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