China To Test Methane Expander Rocket Engine

Credit: YF-75: Bradley Perrett/Aerospace DAILY
BREMEN, Germany—Chinese state space industrial group Casc will begin testing a demonstrator methane-burning rocket engine using the expander configuration in November. Discussion of the work at the International Astronautical Congress, held here Oct. 1–5, underscores the wide range of technologies...

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