China’s Low-Cost Space Launcher To Fly In 2020

BEIJING—A rocket that Chinese state space contractor Casc hails as a low-cost space launcher is now due to fly in 2020, a little later than previously expected. An ambiguous quote carried by state media raises the possibility that Calt, the Casc unit developing this Long March 8 launcher, may be...
Bradley Perrett

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

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