You act like China's inability to achieve staging on a Heavy rocket is a good thing...
To put it in perspective, the Long March 5B 1st stage is similar in size to: * Ariane 5’s EPC 1st stage * Delta IV’s Common Booster Core (CBC) * Japan’s H-IIB 1st stage None of these or the stock Long March 5’s 1st stage even came close to reaching orbit. https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1389065072929017862 …pic.twitter.com/XNgx91LlnY
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Hmm, what I meant is that this thing is BIG. 30+ meters long and 5 meters diameter. And for some reason the Chinese didn't thought of adding methods to de-orbit this big reinforced tank, by propellant venting or RCS/solid retro-rockets.
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To me is astonishing to see them launching a massive payload with only a single stage and 4 strap-ons.
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It's because the boosters are little launchers in their own right, also used individually as the Long March CZ-7 core stage.
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But some of it should burn on re-entry? It's not going to fall intact, or all of the debris in the same place right?
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We can expect that somewhere between 10-50% of the mass will survive to ground impact, over a swath up to 1000 km long and 100 km wide
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The stage itself will break up pretty rapidly, leaving only tiny shreds of slowly-falling debris, but the helium COPVs from the LOX tank and the two 3-tonne engines will reach the surface intact. Those engines will impact at a little over Mach 1.
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