The Sea Dragon, a super-heavy lift launch vehicle, was a real concept under consideration with NASA in the 1960s. If the design had come to fruition, it would have been the largest rocket ever ...
SD-3 is a member of China's Dragon rocket family. It made its maiden flight in 2022 from a ship in the Yellow Sea. Unlike the Long March rockets, the country's backbone launch vehicles ...
China has successfully conducted its first sea-based rocket launch of the ... On Monday, 13 January 2025, the Smart Dragon-3 carrier rocket lifted off from the waters near Haiyang, Shandong ...
marking the rocket model’s fifth sea-based launch, China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, maker of the Smart Dragon 3 series, said in a news release after the liftoff. The Smart Dragon 3 is ...