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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Space => Topic started by: kevindavis007 on November 19, 2017, 01:11:34 am

Title: China sets out long-term space transportation roadmap including a nuclear space shuttle
Post by: kevindavis007 on November 19, 2017, 01:11:34 am

The main contractor for the Chinese space programme has set out a space transportation roadmap which could massively boost capabilities and reduce costs for access to space.


The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) roadmap sets out a string of ambitious targets related to space technology, space science and space applications from 2017 to 2045.


By 2020 CASC will have a wide range of launch capabilities through its expendable Long March rocket families, with the low-cost Long March 8 rocket to be in action by this time, adding to the new capabilities of the Long March 5 and 7.


Read More: http://www.isn-news.net/2017/11/china-sets-out-long-term-space.html


Those Red Devils....