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China unveils fully reusable Starship-like rocket concept (spacenews.com)

submitted 6 days ago by threelonmusketeers to c/spaceflight

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[–] threelonmusketeers 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Hopefully these reusable concepts will come to fruition soon.

It would be nice to reduce the frequency of situations like this:

(2024-06-22 Long March 2C launch of the Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) X-ray telescope out of Xichang, in case you're curious.)

[–] Tar_alcaran 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That one deeeeefintiely isn't getting reused.

Also, that's an interesting colour of smoke, probably venting oxidizer like mad.

[–] JohnDClay 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hypergolic oxidizer, dinitrogen tetroxide, one of the most carcinogenic substances known to man.

[–] Tar_alcaran 5 points 6 days ago

Oh don't worry about cancer, it's so toxic, it'll probably kill you long before you have a chance to develop any