Question: Name the China’s first sea-based space rocket launched?
(a) CZ-11 WEY
(b) IRBM DF-4
(c) ICBMs DF-5
(d) BDS-3 M14
Answer: (a)
Related facts:
- China successfully launched a Long March-11, solid propellant carrier rocket from a mobile launch platform in the Yellow Sea off east China’s Shangdong Province.
- The rocket named CZ-11WEY carried two experimental and five commercial satellites.
- Launching from sea has a number of advantages, such as the ability to send off rockets from a variety of locations on Earth, as well as reduced costs and risks.
- Designed and built by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, the Long March 11 is the only solid-fuel carrier rocket in the Long March family.
- With a length of 20.8 meters, a diameter of 2 meters and a liftoff weight of 58 metric tons it is capable of delivering up to 350 kg cargo.
- The first sea-based space rocket launch took place in 2014, when a Russian-Ukrainian Zenit-3SL space rocket took off from a floating launch pad in the Pacific Ocean.
Links:
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/china-launches-its-first-sea-based-space-rocket/article27527177.ece
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/05/china-launches-rocket-from-yellow-sea-platform-for-first-time
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3013150/standby-sea-launch-china-space-rocket http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201906/05/WS5cf72c04a31051914270127a.html
https://southfront.org/china-succesfully-condcucts-its-first-sea-based-space-rocket-launch/