Alphane Moon to SpaceEnglish • 1 day agoChina’s New Heavy Lift Rocket Looks a Whole Lot Like SpaceX’s Starshipwww.wired.comexternal-linkmessage-square12arrow-up140arrow-down110cross-posted to: hardware
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minus-squarethreelonmusketeerslinkfedilinkEnglish5•1 day agoThat’s because the stock image Wired used is of a Long March 5, not Long March 9.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeerslinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-212 hours agoI believe that render is outdated. The Long March 9 has undergone a quite a few redesigns over the years. The original ARS Technica article this Wired article was based on includes a more recent mockup of Long March 9:
minus-squareDarkThoughtslinkfedilink3•18 hours agoYes but the stages before that are all kinda the same looking as they’re obviously just tubes holding rocket fuel. Virtually all rockets look the same if we go by that metric.
That’s because the stock image Wired used is of a Long March 5, not Long March 9.
I believe that render is outdated. The Long March 9 has undergone a quite a few redesigns over the years.
The original ARS Technica article this Wired article was based on includes a more recent mockup of Long March 9:
That’s just the top, isn’t it?
Yes but the stages before that are all kinda the same looking as they’re obviously just tubes holding rocket fuel. Virtually all rockets look the same if we go by that metric.