China’s New Heavy Lift Rocket Looks a Whole Lot Like SpaceX’s Starship
China’s New Heavy Lift Rocket Looks a Whole Lot Like SpaceX’s Starship
The Long March 9 super heavy-lift rocket made an appearance at a major airshow recently—and looks awfully familiar.
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I dont see it
That's because the stock image Wired used is of a Long March 5, not Long March 9.
It does not look anything like 
.I believe that render is outdated. The Long March 9 has undergone a quite a few redesigns over the years.
The original ARS Technica article this Wired article was based on includes a more recent mockup of Long March 9:
That's just the top, isn't it?
Yes but the stages before that are all kinda the same looking as they're obviously just tubes holding rocket fuel. Virtually all rockets look the same if we go by that metric.