The Long March 9's first-stage booster will be powered by 30 YF-215 engines, which run on liquid oxygen and liquid methane. Starship's first stage, known as Super Heavy, has 33 of SpaceX's new ...

The Long March began just after midnight on Jan. 28, 1945, when Stalag Luft III, a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp in what is now Zagan, Poland, received the order to evacuate all 11,000 Allied POWs. To ...

Based on its latest specifications, the Long March 9 rocket will have a fully reusable first stage powered by 30 YF-215 engines, which are full-flow staged combustion engines fueled by methane and ...

Reflecting on my recent trip to take part in the 80th anniversary commemoration of the Long March, the words that keep coming to my mind are “once in a lifetime.” The opportunity to be as ...

The Long March 80th Anniversary was executed to promote international cooperation, esprit de corps, and honor the survivors and descendants of the original march.

The Long March 9 was announced in 2016 as a big but pretty typical rocket, but the design has morphed over the years to borrow traits from SpaceX's in-development Starship.

Fourteen years after the Long March, Mao occupied the city and declared the birth of the People’s Republic of China from Tiananmen Square. He’s still there, sealed inside a crystal sarcophagus.

The Long March 6A's second stage apparently disintegrated after placing its payload of 18 satellites into a polar orbit. Space Command said in a statement it has "observed no immediate threats ...

China's Long March 2C rocket launched a remote sensing satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Feb. 24, 2023. The rocket sheds tiles during launch, a normal occurrence.

The Long March 9 is a two-stage design, and the goal was for both stages to eventually be fully reusable, the company said. Its first version, shown in 2018, was expendable, ...

Rana Mitter traces the country’s emergence as a world power to the visionary leaders who pushed for greater openness.