The promising Chinese rocket "Chang Zheng-9" is set to launch missions to Mars.
Lun Lehao, a designer at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT), stated in an interview with the Xinhua news agency that the next-generation rocket, Long March-9, will have a diameter of 10.6 meters and a height of approximately 114 meters. Its payload capacity for lunar orbit will be 50 tons.
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The "Changzheng-9," which operates on liquid oxygen and methane, will be utilized during manned missions to Mars in the future.
Lehao noted that both stages of the rocket will be fully reusable and can be used again even after being retrieved from seawater.