China Test Fires Its Largest Solid-Propellant Rocket Motor

Credit: Long March: CMSEO
BEIJING—Chinese space industry group Casc has test fired a space-launcher booster that it says has the greatest thrust of any solid-propellant motor in the country. The test was the first firing in which the servo-mechanism in the tail section of the motor was also validated, says Casc, the main...
Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.

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