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China’s New Heavy Lift Rocket Looks a Whole Lot Like SpaceX’s Starship (www.wired.com)
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[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

From what I can find the March 9 is just about twice as long, proportionally, looking nearly the same otherwise. It does not look anything like this thing.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I believe that render is outdated.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:

[–] Name@feddit.nu 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's just the top, isn't it?

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

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.