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CASC planned at least 40 launches in 2021 and conducted the country’s fifth launch of 2021 with the 2021-02-23 mission.
CASC has prepared the 12th and 13th Long March 2F rockets for launching the Shenzhou-12 and Shenzhou-13 missions.
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) aims to launch more than 40 times in 2021, including a first space station module, cargo resupply missions, and crewed missions.
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is planning to convert the Long March 8 for vertical takeoff and vertical landing reusability by 2025.
On 2021-01-11, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation disclosed progress on key technologies for a 220-ton-thrust liquid hydrogen–liquid oxygen staged combustion cycle engine.
The Long March 9 is being developed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
In December, CASC conducted a successful 130-second hotfire test of a three-segment, 3.2-meter-diameter solid rocket motor producing 260,000 kg of thrust developed by the Academy of Aerospace Solid Propulsion Technology near Xi'an.
CASC’s planned 2021 launch manifest includes missions related to the Chinese Space Station complex.
CASC had aimed to launch around 40 times in 2020.
The Long March 8 was developed and built by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT), a subsidiary of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC).
CASC has tested grid fins as part of developing controlled reentry and recovery technologies.
CASC expects to use the Long March 8 to verify vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) technology as part of upgrading its launch capabilities.
CASC is developing the YF-100K engine with variable thrust capacity intended to facilitate powered descent and landing.
CASC has featured a space transportation roadmap since 2017 with the goal of making all of China’s launch vehicles reusable by around 2035.
CASC intended to carry out around 40 launches in 2020 and had completed 27 launches including two failures by early January 2020 statements.
CASC had missions planned for late 2020 including launching remote sensing satellites for Argentina-based Satellogic from Taiyuan in early November 2020.
CAS Space’s planned solid launcher would be China’s largest solid rocket by payload capacity, exceeding CASC’s Long March 11 and the Kuaizhou-11 operated under CASIC.
CASC also produces a solid rocket, the Long March 11, which can launch from inland sites and from a specially developed sea platform.
A spaceplane project was included in a 2017 space transportation roadmap released by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, with a goal of developing a single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane by 2030.
CASC's 2017 plans included fully reusable launch vehicles and a concept for a nuclear-powered shuttle around 2045.