The United States is still the only country in the world to successfully return an orbital-class booster, though China is still vying for the second spot with other upcoming launches.<\/p>\n
The reusable rocket, designed by the Beijing-based commercial space company LandSpace, was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in China\u2019s northwest at noon on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
After reaching a low-Earth orbit, the first stage of the rocket \u2013 the lower section that lifts the vehicle off the ground \u2013 appeared to catch fire in the air before crashing near the target recovery site.<\/p>\n
The first stage \u201cexperienced an anomaly\u201d during the landing phase and \u201cfailed to achieve a soft landing on the recovery pad,\u201d LandSpace said in a post on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe debris landed on the edge of the recovery pad, resulting in a failed recovery test. The specific cause is under further investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States is still the only country in the world to successfully return an orbital-class booster, though…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":421391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[888,92867,917,66,2544,178824,33013,192272,50755,196768,159,783,187035,2527,14884,3622,33018,196767,67,132,68,33024],"class_list":{"0":"post-421390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-blue-origin","9":"tag-china-aerospace-science-and-technology-corporation","10":"tag-earth","11":"tag-elon-musk","12":"tag-falcon-9","13":"tag-jiuquan-satellite-launch-centre","14":"tag-landspace","15":"tag-long-march-12a","16":"tag-new-glenn","17":"tag-qianfan-project","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-space","20":"tag-space-pioneer","21":"tag-spacex","22":"tag-starship","23":"tag-tiangong-space-station","24":"tag-tianlong-3","25":"tag-tianque-12a-engines","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-zhuque-3"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115654636595785337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421390","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=421390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}