China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation is launching a rocket! Unknown Payload is a unknown mission and will launch via a Long March 4C rocket from 🇨🇳 Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) on 2024-10-15 at 23:45 UTC. For more information, visit the Go4Liftoff launch page#rocketlaunch 🚀✨

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation is launching a rocket! Unknown Payload is a unknown mission and will launch via a Long March 6A rocket from 🇨🇳 Launch Complex 9A on 2024-10-15 at 11:08 UTC. For more information, visit the Go4Liftoff launch page#rocketlaunch 🚀✨

No booster landing legs = lighter, more mass for payload, less drag, less complexity. Eventually plan to catch Starship itself. Obviously the #Mars version needs legs.

Single stage to orbit is such a challenge to actually have any payload. You could achieve SSTO on its own, but without a payload it would be pointless. I don't know if it will ever be possible

The observation has just finished. Taking a quick look at the recording now. The same 12 kbaud r=1/6 Turbo 1115-byte frame modulation and coding has been maintained all the time. Idle Space Packets are "signed" by team members. Congratulations to them and the rest of the team!

Here is a picture of the huge solar arrays! Credit: Attaching the Europa Clipper spacecraft inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in August. NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Structural strengthening, additional fuel, ground hardware, and other factors easily make this a worthwhile endeavour. Reducing fuel margins for landing alone increases payload to orbit. Structural strengthening and landing hardware not being present have similar margin saving benefits.