China Plans "Crucial" November Test For Long March 5 Rocket Written 15 March 2018
Space News (3/14, Subscription Publication) reports that China plans to launch its Long March 5 heavy-lift rocket for the third time around November of this year. Success of the launch will be “crucial to upcoming projects including a lunar sample return, space station module launch and a 2020 mission to Mars.” During the mission, the rocket will carry an “experimental, 300 Gbps telecommunications satellite based on a new, large DFH-5 satellite platform.”
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