Long March (rocket family)

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The Long March rocket family (Chinese: 长征运载火箭, romanized: Cháng Zhēng yùnzài huǒjiàn, lit. 'Long March launch vehicles') is a family of expendable and reusable carrier rockets operated by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. The rockets are named after the Chinese Red Army's 1934–35 Long March military retreat during the Chinese Civil War. The Long March series has performed more than 600 launches, the third most among active rocket families, to low Earth orbit, Sun-synchronous orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, trans-lunar, and trans-Mars injection. The Long March 2F is a human-rated vehicle which launches the Shenzhou craft. The Long March 5 has the greatest payload, at 25,000 kilograms to low Earth orbit, placing it in the heavy-lift launch vehicle class. It has launched the Tianwen-1 Mars probe and the Chang'e 6 and Chang'e 5 Moon probes. The Long March 10 is undergoing development and component testing as a launch vehicle for the Mengzhou and Lanyue crewed lunar...

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