Chinese commercial rocket firm suffers 4th launch failure (spacenews.com)

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[-] evidences@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

It's probably because this is all solid stages. Since you don't have throttle control or the ability to stop and start the engines with solid motors if your building an entire launch system built around them you use more stages.

this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024

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