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Chinas planned MEGA LIFT ROCKET...July 27, 2010
China is Planning a large Heavy Lift Rocket

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The Long March 5 can have 10.64 MN of thrust and 25 tons to low earth orbit

10.64 MN (long march) = 1,086 tons of thrust. This is a multi-rocket configuration.

China is planning to develop rocket engines that could generate 600 tons of thrust and five could be combined to 3000 tons of thrust. This is likely about as powerful (90%) as the Energia. The Russian Energia rocket had 32 MN of thrust and could lift 100 tons to low earth orbit. The Energia had a core thruster, so it could act as a second stage. 32 MN (meganewtons) divided by 9.8 N/kg (or 9.8 kN/T) yields 3,300 metric tons of thrust. Thanks to Goatguy for the corrections and calculations.

The Saturn V (used for the moon missions) had 34,020,000 N of thrust in the first stage and had two other stages.