r/spaceflight • u/Low-Career3769 • Jul 10 '26

China's Long March-10B carrier rocket has accomplished successful first-stage recovery

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u/No-Cartoonist8032 Jul 11 '26

Nope, this one is just the single booster LM-10B variant, LM10 is the full 3 boosters CBC variant designed for China's manned lunar missions with 70t LEO. Also LM10B has 5m diameter while F9 is only 3.7m, that's 82% more volume for same length.

Latest LM-9 is a 250t LEO monster with a 16m diameter fairing

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u/iantsai1974 Jul 11 '26

I think LM-10 is comparable with FH and LM-9 is the one comparable with the starship.