China’s New Heavy Lift Rocket Looks a Whole Lot Like SpaceX’s Starship (www.wired.com)

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[-] Hugin@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago

It looks whole lot like a rocket. It's almost like there is a shape that works well for the job.

[-] vzq@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

I’m getting Ariane 5 tbh.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Two machines designed to do the same job in the same environment look similar? Nah, that doesn't track.

[-] Dequei@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 days ago

I dont see it

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

That's because the stock image Wired used is of a Long March 5, not Long March 9.

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 6 points 6 days ago

From what I can find the March 9 is just about twice as long, proportionally, looking nearly the same otherwise. It does not look anything like this thing .

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I believe that render is outdated. The Long March 9 has undergone a quite a few redesigns over the years.

The original ARS Technica article this Wired article was based on includes a more recent mockup of Long March 9:

[-] Name@feddit.nu 1 points 6 days ago

That's just the top, isn't it?

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 3 points 6 days ago

Yes but the stages before that are all kinda the same looking as they're obviously just tubes holding rocket fuel. Virtually all rockets look the same if we go by that metric.