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	Long March rocket
		As of 2003, the main stages of Long March rockets use storable propellants with UDMH as fuel and Nitrogen tetroxide as oxidizer as well as solid booster rockets.
		The Long March rocket is related to early versions of the Dongfeng missile (note that Dongfeng is the generic Chinese name for all of its land ICBM's).
		Long March launches also take place from the more military oriented Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province from which the manned Shenzhou spacecraft also comes from.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/l/lo/long_march_rocket.html (481 words)

	Long March 2F (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Long March 2 rocket family is an expendable launch system operated by People's Republic of China.
		Long March 2C and Long March 2C were also developed by China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, the first launches occurred in 1982 and 1990 respectively.
		Long March 2D was developed by Shanghai Space Agency, first launch was in 1992.
	buju.banton.pl.ogarnij.com /en/Long+March+2F (447 words)

	Long March
		The Long March 3 was a three-stage launch vehicle designed for delivery of satellites of 1,500 kg mass into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
		The Long March 2D was a two-stage launch vehicle with storable propellants, suitable for launching a variety of low earth orbit satellites.
		The Long March New Generation Launch Vehicle series medium launcher would use the 3.35 m diameter module and a new 3.35 m diameter second stage as the core vehicle....
	www.astronautix.com /lvfam/lonmarch.htm (1668 words)

	Long March (Chang Zeng, CZ)
		Long March rockets are descendants of ballistic missiles developed by China in the 1960s following the breakdown of Sino-Soviet relations in June 1959.
		The most powerful Long March launch vehicle with a payload capacity of about 5,000 kg.
		The standard CZ-3C fairing is 9.56 m long and 4.0 m in diameter.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/L/Long_March.html (758 words)

	China ready for history-making human spaceflight
		Liftoff of the Long March 2F rocket is expected between Wednesday and Friday from a specially-built launch pad at the Jiuquan launching center in the Gobi desert, located in the northern part of China.
		The over 190-foot tall Long March is assembled in the confines of a cavernous integration building that starkly resembles the famous facility at Cape Canaveral that housed the assembly of parts of the massive Saturn 5 moon rockets and today is where critical space shuttle components are put together.
		The facilities serving the Long March 2F rocket and its Shenzhou payload were built in the 1990's at the Jiuquan satellite launch center, an almost 45-year old base that very little was known about until recently.
	www.globalsecurity.org /org/news/2003/031014-china-space01.htm (848 words)

	Long March rocket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As of 2003, the main stages and the booster rockets of Long March rockets use storable propellants with UDMH as fuel and dinitrogen tetroxide as the oxidizing agent.
		The upper stages of Long March 3A (CZ-3A) and CZ-3B use cryogenic fuel, Liquid hydrogen (LH2) as fuel and Liquid oxygen (LOX) as oxidizer.
		This divergence has become clear in the next generation of Long March rockets which use cryogenic propellants in sharp contrast to the next generation of strategic missiles which are mobile and solid fuelled.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Long_March_rocket (960 words)

	Space Today Online -- Chinese Satellites and Spacecraft
		The satellite, Badr-A, was launched aboard the maiden flight of the Long March 2E rocket from Xichang Launch Center in China.
		The Long March 4-B booster rocket is an upgraded version of the Long March 4-A. The Nov. 5, 2004, launch was the 82nd time that a Long March rocket had been used and the 40th continuous success since China launched the first Long March 4 rocket in October 1996.
		The two satellites are to be launched on Changzheng-4 (Long March 4) rockets to 500-mile-high circular Sun-synchronous orbits, crossing the equator near noon local time, and passing over places on earth every 2 to 3 days.
	www.spacetoday.org /China/ChinaSatellites.html (2353 words)

	People's Daily Online -- The look of Shenzhou-VI manned spaceship
		The Long March-2F rocket is a carrier rocket developed on the basis of the Long March-2E, i.e., the Long March-2 cluster rocket, which presently is China's only rocket used for the launching of manned spaceships.
		The Long March-2F rocket, with its reliability index reaching 0.97, and astronaut's safety index touching 0.997, is a carrier rocket with most complicated technology, highest reliability and security indexes in China's aerospace history.
		According to Liu Yu, general director of the carrier rocket system for the manned space flight project, compared with the Shenzhou-5 manned spaceship, 75 items of technology were changed in the rocket used for the present launch, thus further enhancing reliability, security and improving riding comfort.
	english.people.com.cn /200510/12/eng20051012_213999.html (1085 words)

	Office of Space Operations
		The launch vehicle of the Shenzhou spaceships is the new human-rated Long March 2F rocket.
		China's Long March (Chang Zheng, CZ) series of launch vehicles consists of 12 differing versions, which by the end of 2004 have made 83 flights, sending 95 payloads (satellites and spacecraft) into space, with 90% success rate.
		In 2003, however, after successfully launching two reconnaissance satellites (IGS-1A/Optical-1 and IGS-1b/Radar-1) on the fifth H-2A on March 28, the November 29 launch of the sixth H-2A failed when ground controllers were forced to send a destruct command after one of its two solid rocket boosters failed to separate from the first stage.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /osf/2004/yearinrev/04Asia.html (1236 words)

	Chinese spy satellite placed in orbit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Included on the top of the Long March 2F rocket, which boosted Shenzhou into orbit Tuesday, was a new Chinese military intelligence-gathering satellite.
		The Long March rocket booster also benefited from illegal U.S.-technology transfers in the 1990s, when U.S. satellite companies helped China fix electrical problems with the boosters.
		The booster improvements also benefited Chinese strategic missiles, which are made by the same Chinese manufacturers of the Long March rocket.
	www.propagandamatrix.com /171003spysatellite.html (300 words)

	Space Today Online - Spaceports Around the World - China
		A Long March 2F rocket carried China's second and third astronauts from Jiuquan to space in Shenzhou-6 on October 12, 2005.
		When the first Long March 3B rocket crashed in 1996 on a hillside a mile from the launch pad, six persons were killed and 57 injured.
		The launch of the Zhongxing-20 stationary communications satellite on November 15, 2003, was China's 73rd Long March rocket launch since 1970 and the 32nd consecutive successful launch since October 1996.
	www.spacetoday.org /Rockets/Spaceports/China.html (1135 words)

	Long March 2 rocket family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Long March 2 rocket family is an expendable launch system operated by People's Republic of China.
		Long March 2 is the base model of the Long March 2 rocket family.
		This version is intended mainly for manned space missions and is the safest model in the Long March 2 family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Long_March_2_rocket_family (328 words)

	Shenzhou II, China's unmanned spacecraft returns safely
		The spacecraft was made by the Chinese Research Institute of Space Technology and the Shanghai Research Institute of Astronautical Technology, with experimental equipment provided by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Information Industry.
		A Long March 2F launched Shenzhou 2 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 1700 UTC on January 9.
		Shenzhou 2 was launched into a 197 km (106 nmi) by 335 km (181 nmi) orbit, inclined at 42.58 degrees with a period of 89.83 minutes.
	www.gisdevelopment.net /news/2001/jan/china.htm (808 words)

	Shenzhou 6 mission - Asia Finest Discussion Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Huang Chunping, the chief designer of the Long March 2F rocket, was quoted in the Beijing Times as saying the astronauts who will fly the mission will be selected from a pool of three pairs of astronauts.
		Also announced by the Chinese is that the Long March 2F rocket will feature "fire security system" on the escape tower.
		China Aerospace Science and Technology, the major manufacturer of both the Shenzhou spacecraft and the Long March rocket have said that although the flight features a second astronaut and will be much longer than Shenzhou 5, the rocket and spacecraft will not weigh much more due to optimisation of its systems.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=39055 (546 words)

	Chinese plan spacewalk, docking -DAWN - International; November 4, 2005
		It would take up to six-and-a-half years after receiving the go-ahead for the next generation rocket — designated the Long March 5 — to be able to fly, said Wu Yansheng, head of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
		The Long March 5 is designed to carry up to a 25-ton payload, and when built will place China among the world leaders in rocket science, Mr Wu said.
		Previous reports said that the Long March 5 was slated to go into operation by 2008 after initial development began in 2002.
	www.dawn.com /2005/11/04/int18.htm (388 words)

	China to take a walk in space : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It would take up to six-and-a-half years after receiving the go ahead for the next generation rocket - designated the Long March 5 - to be able to fly, said Wu Yansheng, head of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
		The Long March 2F has long been seen as one of China's most dependable rockets and is the engine that has launched the Shenzhou series of flights, including two manned flights since 2003.
		The Long March 5 is designed to carry up to a 25 ton payload, and when built will place China among the world leaders in rocket science, Wu said.
	www.hindustantimes.com /2006/Jan/11/181_1536285,00040005.htm (326 words)

	China sets sights on outer space
		The Chinese space program's Long March 2F rocket is seen at the Jiuquan space center in the Gobi Desert.
		The Long March 2F would be launched from the Chinese equivalent of Cape Canaveral, at Jiuquan in the Gobi Desert.
		Although preparations for the launch have been veiled in secrecy, photographs of the Long March 2F and the Jiuquan facility have emerged in recent months, primarily on Internet sites that track space exploration.
	www.fas.org /news/china/1999/211770.htm (1093 words)

	washingtonpost.com: China Launches Its First Manned Space Mission
		BEIJING, Oct. 15 -- China on Wednesday became the third nation to send a man into space, launching a Long March 2F rocket that carried a 38-year-old former fighter pilot on a journey to take him around Earth 14 times, state media reported.
		In 1995, six people died during the explosion of a Long March rocket, carrying an Apstar-2 satellite, in a failed liftoff shown live on Chinese TV.
		A crater on the moon is named after a mythical Chinese explorer, Wan Hu, who, according to legend, died after strapping 47 rockets to a chair in an ill-fated attempt to reach the heavens.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A26672-2003Oct14?language=printer (794 words)

	cooltech.iafrica.com \| space \| china mission China aims for manned space station
		China does have designs ready for such a rocket, dubbed the Long March 5, which will have three times the power of the current Long March 2F if eventually built, said Oberg, who previously worked in the US space program.
		A Long March 5 rocket is at least five years into the future, and it will bring new challenges once it is operational, as it will force China to build a new launch centre.
		The rail leading to the existing Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre on the edge of the Gobi desert in northern China is simply not large enough.
	cooltech.iafrica.com /space/china/504535.htm (705 words)

	Frontier Status Report #178
		China took another step toward manned spaceflight with the launch of a new version of the Long March rocket topped with an unmanned capsule.
		Since the March 1999, enactment of the Strom Thurman 1998 Defense Bill, satellite exports have been classified as munitions and as such are regulated by the State Department.
		The occupation of the International Space Station is expected to begin in March of 2000.
	www.asi.org /adb/06/09/07/1999/fs-19991126.html (2802 words)

	China space program shows careful development - The Washington Times: World Briefings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Chinese have also learned from their Russian mentors in giving priority to producing a reliable and cost-effective "big dumb booster." Their Long March 2E cargo booster, which has been altered to carry the manned Shenzhou spacecraft as the 2F class, is conceptually very similar to the Russian Proton booster.
		What the Long March 2 provides, like the Proton, is a solid workhorse than can be economically produced in sufficient quantities to put crews in space on a regular basis and acquire the crucial program experience and capability that the United States did with its 1965-66 Gemini program.
		Still, conventional wisdom maintains China will find it a long road from putting a single taikonaut in orbit to fulfilling its dreams of trumping the United States and Russia with impressive orbiting space stations and an eventual moon base.
	washingtontimes.com /world/20031019-112013-5419r.htm (784 words)

	Nerve hub of China's space programme
		When controller Guo Baoxin read the launch countdown to fire up the Long March rocket loudly in the remote Northwest China's Gansu Province, he was in fact sitting in a quiet building in Beijing Wednesday morning.
		The Beijing Aerospace Control Centre, which is Chinese version of the Moscow and Houston mission centres, serves the nerve hub of China's space programme, processing data and delivering directions to control all of the country's space activities from lift-offs of satellites to manned flights.
		Ten minutes after the Long March 2F rocket blasted off, an astronaut radioed to the centre: "The craft has detached from the rocket normally!"
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2005-10/13/content_484586.htm (575 words)

	The Space Review: The phony space race (page 1)
		The March 2003 article also noted, though, that the program has yet to be approved by the Chinese government.
		Using only the Long March 3B would require multiple launches to handle a manned Moon mission, greatly increasing the complexity and risk.
		While China has proposed developing more advanced boosters, like the Long March 5 with up to twice the capacity of the 3B, such boosters appear to be years away from entering service.
	www.thespacereview.com /article/25/1 (1240 words)

	New Details Of Shenzhou And Its Launcher Revealed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Chinese space officials have claimed all along that the Descent Module of Shenzhou is the largest among similar capsules from the former Soviet Union and the U.S. However, there has been scant official information on the dimensions of the Shenzhou spacecraft and the CZ-2F rocket.
		The Descent Module is 2.059 meters long with the largest diameter at the base at 2.5 meters.
		The Changzheng-2F (CZ-2F, or Long March-2F) launcher is a human-rated modification of CZ-2E, a launcher with strap-on boosters in the Changzheng family.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/china-02zf.html (1376 words)

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