NEWS - Bush May Announce Return To Moon At Kitty Hawk - Space Daily

(Allen Thomson) wrote in message . com...
(ed kyle) wrote

There would be one nagging concern: the new KT-series rocket China is developing will be the world's most powerful rocket...

That would be CZ-5xx, not KT. KT-1 is quite interesting in itself,
but it is a Start-class vehicle, perhaps somewhat upgradable by adding
strap-ons and things.

http://www.astronautix.com/lvfam/lonmarch.htm

The "KT" nomenclature (not "KT-1", but "KT Light", "KT Medium",
and "KT Heavy", came from an October Aviation Week & Space
Technology article describing the same launcher that Mr. Wade
calls "CZ-5" (Long March 5). The most powerful variant was said
to be designed to put 25 metric tons into low earth orbit or
14 tons into geosynchronous transfer orbit - more than Proton,
Ariane 5, Titan IVB, or Delta IV Heavy.

- Ed Kyle