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by _RPL5_ 1774 days ago
This sounds like something from a sci-fi novel.

The only tangible new thing in production is the Angara heavy rocket that will replace Protons. It's an actual thing that exists and flies. There is also a new piloted ship (Eagle/Federation) in development tailored for Angara, but I don't expect to see it in serial production until late 2020s.

Beyond these two things, everything else is basically concept art.

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FWIW, it actually is part of an old sci-fi novel, featuring in Arthur C. Clarke's 2010¹. China suddenly joins a race to Jupiter by firing up its "space station".

¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_Odyssey_Two