LM-5 Ready for Rehearsal in the Second Half Year

摘要

At 16:35 Beijing time on August 17,the second test run of the second-stage power system of LM-5 was conducted at the Beijing Institute of Aerospace Testing Technology and achieved success.By now,LM-5 has accomplished all major ground hot-fire tests and is ready for rehearsal at the Hainan launch site in the second half year,preparing for the first test flight scheduled in 2016.The LM-5 is the carrier rocket with the largest payload capacity currently developed by China,and is planned to launch the Chang’e 5 probe around 2017 from