{"id":206300,"date":"2025-12-23T05:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/206300\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T05:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:07:07","slug":"chinas-reusable-rocket-ambitions-experience-second-setback-in-the-same-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/206300\/","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":206301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[2102,8971,114,90537,4487,108197,9327,10182,61,60,90536,22412,22409,73533,10183,82,90535,247,22411,2306,1390,22416,115,1519],"class_list":["post-206300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-beijing","tag-blue-origin","tag-china","tag-china-aerospace-science-and-technology-corporation","tag-china-daily","tag-cz-12a","tag-falcon-9","tag-guowang","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jiuquan-satellite-launch-centre","tag-landspace","tag-long-march-12a","tag-new-glenn","tag-qianfan","tag-science","tag-shanghai-academy-of-spaceflight-technology","tag-space","tag-space-pioneer","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-tianlong-3","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}