{"id":247043,"date":"2025-12-23T05:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/247043\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T05:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:04:09","slug":"chinas-reusable-rocket-ambitions-experience-second-setback-in-the-same-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/247043\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s reusable rocket ambitions experience second setback in the same month"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Long March 12A, China\u2019s first state-owned reusable rocket<\/a>, made its debut launch on Tuesday morning but the recovery of the first stage was a failure.<\/p>\n

It was China\u2019s second failed bid this month to return an orbital-class booster, a feat that has so far only been achieved by the US.<\/p>\n

The reusable rocket, designed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in China\u2019s northwest.<\/p>\n

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China launches Shenzhou-22 for first emergency mission<\/p>\n

China launches Shenzhou-22 for first emergency mission<\/p>\n

China\u2019s commercial and state-owned space developers have been racing to launch and recover the country\u2019s first reusable rocket.<\/p>\n

The US is to date the only country to return an orbital-class booster. Reusable rocket pioneer SpaceX<\/a> was the first to achieve this almost a decade ago with the Falcon 9.<\/p>\n

Reusable rocket technology will make it possible to have more frequent, lower-cost launches and could aid the building of major space projects, including China\u2019s planned internet satellite constellations.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s Guowang<\/a> and Qianfan megaconstellations, which are both planning to launch networks of up to 10,000 satellites, are expected to rival the Starlink constellation developed by SpaceX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Long March 12A, China\u2019s first state-owned reusable rocket, made its debut launch on Tuesday morning but the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[1793,2965,381,111663,35257,129053,18,9130,4558,19,17,11396,4559,19462,95214,10560,133,77144,451,11398,2731,4425,48194,384,2709],"class_list":{"0":"post-247043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-blue-origin","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-china-aerospace-science-and-technology-corporation","12":"tag-china-daily","13":"tag-cz-12a","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-falcon-9","16":"tag-guowang","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-jiuquan-satellite-launch-centre","20":"tag-landspace","21":"tag-long-march-12a","22":"tag-new-glenn","23":"tag-qianfan","24":"tag-science","25":"tag-shanghai-academy-of-spaceflight-technology","26":"tag-space","27":"tag-space-pioneer","28":"tag-spacex","29":"tag-starlink","30":"tag-tianlong-3","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-washington"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115767139891158882","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}