The assembly of the new generation rocket “Long March -7” will be completed at the end of April 2016

Almaty. February 23. Silkroadnews – The assembly of the rocket “Long March – 7” will be completed by the end of April this year, the newspaper “People’s Daily” informs.    
    According to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, Tianjin Missile Corporation has already completed 75% of works on assembling “Long March -7” rocket, thus, a countdown started to launch the rocket, it is planned to complete the assembly by the end of April this year.
“Long March-7” has four accelerators 2.25m in length, using a harmless liquid oxygen and kerosene, with 13.5 tons’ earth-orbit payload capability. The researcher of the second institute for Aerospace Science and Industry Yuyguan Yang said “Long March-7”is the base model of China’s new generation medium rockets, in future it will become the major rocket and the major Chinese model.