China’s CAS Space to develop powerful solid propellant rocket

The Chinese rocket company CAS Space started to develop what it expects will be “the world’s most powerful solid-propellant carrier …
China’s CAS Space to develop powerful solid propellant rocket

Paris, 4 June 2021. – The Chinese rocket company CAS Space started to develop what it expects will be “the world’s most powerful solid-propellant carrier rocket”, the company’s chairman told China Daily.

Yang Yiqiang, a senior rocket scientist and founder of CAS Space, told China Daily in an exclusive interview this week that the rocket – ZK 2 – is in the research and development stage at laboratories in Beijing and will be ready for its debut flight before the end of 2022.

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CAS is based in Beijing and owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The ZK 2 will have a core stage and two side boosters, each of which will have a diameter of 2.65 meters and use solid propellants, China Daily reported. The rocket will be 39.7 meters tall and have a liftoff weight of 343 metric tons. It will be able to transport satellites with a combined weight of 3.55 tons to a sun-synchronous orbit 700 kilometers above Earth, the newspaper said.

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