Chinese State Launch Group Contracts Out Fabrication

Credit: KZ-1A: Expace
BEIJING—Newly established Chinese commercial space launch company Expace is using outside suppliers for much of the fabrication of its solid-propellant rockets, an unusual economic move for one of Beijing’s space enterprises. The second and larger of those launchers, KZ-11, is now due to fly in...

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