China Advances Lunar Ambitions With Long March 10 Abort Test

launch abort test of long march 10 rocket in china

The Long March 10 rocket with the Mengzhou crew capsule.

Credit: Chinese state media Xinhua
SINGAPORE—The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said Feb. 11 it successfully conducted a launch-abort test of the Mengzhou crew capsule using the new Long March 10 rocket, marking another milestone in Beijing’s plan to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030. The rocket lifted off from a newly developed...
Chen Chuanren

Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.

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