{"id":1010418,"date":"2026-08-19T08:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1010418\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:48:16","slug":"china-becomes-first-nation-to-recover-orbital-launch-rockets-with-2-distinct-paths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1010418\/","title":{"rendered":"China becomes first nation to recover orbital launch rockets with 2 distinct paths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a global first, leading Chinese commercial rocket company <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"http:\/\/scmp.com\/business\/china-business\/article\/3338376\/chinese-rocket-firm-landspace-moves-closer-us1-billion-ipo-shanghai?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LandSpace<\/a> has recovered a stainless-steel booster after an orbital launch, marking a major step in the country\u2019s efforts to develop lower-cost, reusable rockets.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It is also the first country to succeed in orbital launch recovery down distinct technological pathways, pulling off a dual-track strategy that even the United States \u2013 which pioneered reusable rocket technology \u2013 has yet to execute.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Zhuque-3 is China\u2019s first commercial rocket to both reach orbit and have its first stage recovered.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Like SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 and Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn, Zhuque-3 uses landing legs to recover its rockets.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But last month, China was the first to recover a booster on an orbital launch with a different technique, after the first stage of CASC\u2019s Long March 10B was recovered using a unique sea-based net capture system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a global first, leading Chinese commercial rocket company LandSpace has recovered a stainless-steel booster after an orbital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1010419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[888,64,74,92867,2532,321287,57263,98677,178824,33013,57266,404521,57261,2527,11182,67,132,68,404522],"class_list":["post-1010418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-blue-origin","tag-business","tag-china","tag-china-aerospace-science-and-technology-corporation","tag-falcon","tag-gansu-province","tag-guowang","tag-hainan-province","tag-jiuquan-satellite-launch-centre","tag-landspace","tag-long-march","tag-minqin-county","tag-qianfan","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-zhuque"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117121312896119975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1010419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}