Throughout the last few weeks, several events in Chinese spaceflight have created international headlines. After launching a Chang Zheng 2C rocket that would later fall onto an inhabited village, a Tianlong-3 rocket was unexpectedly released during a static fire test and would crash in an area close to the launch site.
However, not all of the attention and headlines China’s spaceflight program has garnered in the last few weeks have been negative. Recently, new developments regarding the design and testing of China’s upcoming next-generation rockets were reported.