{"id":4176,"date":"2025-08-17T05:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4176\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T05:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:27:11","slug":"chinese-launch-startup-landspace-suffers-zhuque-2-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4176\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese launch startup Landspace suffers Zhuque-2 failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HELSINKI \u2014 Landspace\u2019s Zhuque-2 rocket suffered an anomaly after liftoff Thursday, leading to loss of the mission and potential delays for its new Zhuque-3 reusable launcher.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading this article:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Register now and get<br \/><strong>3 free articles every month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">You\u2019ll also receive our weekly <strong>SpaceNews This Week<\/strong> newsletter every Friday. Opt-out at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"#signin_modal\"><strong>Sign in to an existing account<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Get unlimited access<\/strong> to<br \/>SpaceNews.com now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>As low as $5 per week<\/strong>*<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Cancel anytime. Sales tax may apply. No refunds. (*Billed quarterly)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/subscribe\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See all subscription options<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/andrew\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Andrew-jones-headshot-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAndrew Jones covers China&#8217;s space industry for SpaceNews. Andrew has previously lived in China and reported from major space conferences there. Based in Helsinki, Finland, he has written for National Geographic, New Scientist, Smithsonian Magazine, Sky&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/andrew\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Andrew Jones\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HELSINKI \u2014 Landspace\u2019s Zhuque-2 rocket suffered an anomaly after liftoff Thursday, leading to loss of the mission and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[381,18,4558,19,17,4559,4560,133,3977,451,4561,4562],"class_list":{"0":"post-4176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-guowang","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-landspace","14":"tag-long-march-5b","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-sn","17":"tag-space","18":"tag-zhuque-2","19":"tag-zhuque-3"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176","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=4176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}