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Chinese commercial rocket firm suffers 4th launch failure
(spacenews.com)
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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024
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China uses so many stages on their rockets. Are they not able to build larger durable systems so they just stack them up? It just adds more failure points, like here with the 4th stage failing. Most other launch systems we're talking 2 stages until the payload, maybe 3 for some deep space launches.
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.