but the company also revealed ambitious plans for a new stainless steel rocket known as the Zhuque-3. As per Reuters, the Zhuque-2, powered by a clean-burning methane-liquid oxygen engine ...

By way of comparison, Starship's first stage is powered by 33 Raptor engines, also fueled with methane and ... space ambitions. China intends to use a more conventional rocket for its initial ...

China on Monday launched the Lijian-1 Y5 commercial carrier rocket with 15 satellites onboard, including the Xiguang-1 04 satellite, which is China's first high-resolution methane monitoring ...

In July, LandSpace hit a benchmark in that race with the launch of the world’s first methane-liquid oxygen rocket, the Zhuque-2 Y-2, putting China ahead of U.S. rivals including SpaceX and Jeff ...

New images of the rocket, released at a major airshow in Zhuhai, China, indicate that the ... a reusable first stage with 30 YF-215 engines that use methane and liquid oxygen as fuel, similar ...

China has showed off a concept for ... The rocket will purportedly feature 30 methane and liquid oxygen fuel rocket engines, not unlike the 33 Raptor engines that power Starship's first stage ...

New images of the rocket, released at a major airshow in Zhuhai, China, indicate that the plan for the country ... long rocket features a reusable first stage with 30 YF-215 engines that use methane ...