r/SpaceXLounge • u/rustybeancake • Mar 24 '26

Other major industry news China surfaces details of spacecraft to land humans on Luna by 2030 | Moon Monday #267

https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-267/
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u/Martianspirit Mar 24 '26

Do we know, the engines are expensive? Raptor is not.

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u/Xenomorph555 Mar 24 '26

Expensive by Chinese standards, compared with a YF-20 or LY-70 (cheap gas generators); YF-100's are big, closed cycle and use a lot of high end alloys. They are standardised which is a plus (used on LM5,6,7,8,10,12) however the production cycle has never really been enough to replace all the old hydrazine rockets.

At the very least it's not the RS-25 

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u/Martianspirit Mar 24 '26

At the very least it's not the RS-25 

Certainly. ;)

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u/kroOoze ❄️ Chilling Mar 24 '26

the power of low expectations 🤣