{"id":925145,"date":"2026-07-10T09:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/925145\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T09:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:04:16","slug":"china-recovers-reusable-rocket-used-in-the-maiden-launch-of-long-march-10b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/925145\/","title":{"rendered":"China recovers reusable rocket used in the maiden launch of Long March 10B"},"content":{"rendered":"

China succeeded in recovering part of its Long March 10B reusable rocket on its maiden launch on Friday, marking the country\u2019s first controlled orbital-class booster recovery and making it only the second nation in the world to achieve the feat.<\/p>\n

Unlike the methods pioneered by Elon Musk\u2019s US-based SpaceX<\/a>, the Chinese rocket achieved the first-ever use of a unique sea-based, net-capture system.<\/p>\n

Reusable Chinese rocket returns after launch<\/p>\n

The 70-metre (230-foot) tall, 5-metre wide medium-lift rocket lifted off from southern China\u2019s Wenchang space launch site at 12.15pm.<\/p>\n

About six minutes after the first and second stages of the rocket separated, the first stage returned vertically and was recovered via a sea platform, according to state broadcaster CCTV.<\/p>\n

The maiden flight validated the rocket\u2019s design for first-stage reusability and was expected to help cut launch costs, CCTV said.<\/p>\n

The two-stage Long March 10B\u2019s first stage is powered by seven YF-100K engines that burn kerosene and liquid oxygen. The rocket can deliver up to 16 tonnes to low Earth orbit and is mainly designed for cargo missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China succeeded in recovering part of its Long March 10B reusable rocket on its maiden launch on Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":925146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,373261,50,33022,103,79880],"class_list":["post-925145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-china","tag-long-march-b","tag-news","tag-wenchang","tag-world","tag-xinhua"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116894884227157299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925145","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=925145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}