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Space/Science » in reply to Earth-orbit rendezvous technique.

The danger of relying on non-metric sources.

The "Long-March" booster I'm alluding to, the CZ-4B, would according to the "Federation of American Scientist's" website be able to park 29,900Ibs [nearly 15 short-tons] into LEO, not the 15 metric-tons(15,000kg) as I previously posted.
However, the math formulas and ratios that I used still apply, even using 15 short-tons. It would only mean that the
lunar-Shenzhou would 'weigh' less than
7 short-tons not the 7,000kg value given.
A lunar-Shenzhou would probably be a trimmed-down/slimmed-down version of the 7.6 metric-ton Earth-orbiting Shenzhou anyways.

Jake

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