05 March 2018
China will complete the construction and fitting work of a prototype of its 500-t liquid rocket engine within this year, Liu Zhirang, Head of the No.6 Research Institute of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), who is also a deputy to the 13th National People's Congress, said on 5 March, China's Science and Technology Daily reported. Liu said China is currently tackling problems on key technologies of three types of liquid rocket engines for its heavy-lift rockets - they are the 500-ton engine fueled by liquid oxygen and kerosene, 200-t and 25-t engines using liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen as fuel, and the country has also completed thermal tests on core modules together with some sub-models for the engines.
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