China’s Long March-5 Rocket on Move to Wenchang Satellite Launch Center

One Long March-5 carrier rocket sets sails on two special-purpose ferry ships from Tianjin on Friday, heading for Wenchang in south China’s Hainan Province for launch before the end of this year. The ferry ships are the Yuanwang-21 and the Yuanwang-22. Long March-5 is China’s largest carrier rocket ever built. The diameter of its main fuselage measures five meters across. The carrier rocket has a nickname of “icy rocket“, in that it uses liquified kerosene and very low-temperature or cryogenic liquified o