China's coal powered rocket

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00:00Can coal fire rockets? Yes, it's possible now.

00:03A Chinese company, Space Pioneer, launched a coal-powered rocket and made a significant

00:08achievement in the field of space exploration, in the first successful launch of a liquid-fueled

00:13rocket into orbit, and it has allowed Space Pioneer to deploy a small satellite into a

00:18polar orbit around Earth.

00:20It was a three-stage rocket with a payload capacity of 2 tons to a low Earth orbit, or

00:251.5 tons to a sun-synchronous orbit.

00:29The rocket measures 3.35 meters in width and 32.8 meters in height and is powered by coal-based

00:35kerosene.