While SpaceX's rocket is powered by 33 Raptor engines with 280 tons of thrust, the Long March 9 will have 30 YF-215 engines with 200 tons of thrust. Both engines use methane and liquid oxygen as fuel.

The new two-stage, four-booster Long March 5 rocket is 187 feet (57 m) long and 16 feet (5 m) in diameter. It is China's largest and widest rocket, capable of lifting 31,000 pounds (14,000 kg) to ...

Watch how China Long March-6 rocket launched a group of remote sensing satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center.

The Long March 5B was transferred to the launch area early Friday local time. The rocket was transferred from a vertical integration building via a 2.7-kilometer track, with the transfer process ...

A Long March-5B Y4 rocket takes off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Wenchang, Hainan province, China, on Oct. 31, 2022. (China Daily via Reuters) ...

The module was launched on Thursday and China used one of its powerful Long March 5B rockets to push the hardware skyward. It was a big day for China’s space agency, and it got a lot of attention.

A Long March-5B Y2 rocket carrying the core module of China's space station, Tianhe, blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on April 29, 2021, in Wenchang, Hainan Province of China.

Part of a Long March 5B rocket China launched on July 24 will make an uncontrolled reentry around July 31, according to the Aerospace Corp., a nonprofit based in El Segundo, California, that ...

A photo of the Long March 5B rocket taken by the Virtual Telescope Project. Gianluca Masi/Virtual Telescope Project. Masi said on the project's website that the photo was captured when the Sun was ...

China's space station ambitions blasted off last week with a massive rocket called the Long March 5B. Powering the station's "core module" into orbit, where future astronauts will live, the 20-ton ...

While SpaceX's rocket is powered by 33 Raptor engines with 280 tons of thrust, the Long March 9 will have 30 YF-215 engines with 200 tons of thrust. Both engines use methane and liquid oxygen as fuel.