{"id":589420,"date":"2026-08-19T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/589420\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:26:09","slug":"china-becomes-first-nation-to-recover-orbital-launch-rockets-with-2-distinct-paths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/589420\/","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\">Previous reusable boosters deployed in such launches have been made from aluminium alloys, which can be more expensive to develop due to higher design and raw material costs.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China 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","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":2,"featured_media":589421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[4536,1657,94004,14412,91200,6032,128380,85,46,94003,20166,4968,266715,6033,141,145,4688,4689,266716],"class_list":["post-589420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-blue-origin","tag-china","tag-china-aerospace-science-and-technology-corporation","tag-falcon","tag-gansu-province","tag-guowang","tag-hainan-province","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jiuquan-satellite-launch-centre","tag-landspace","tag-long-march","tag-minqin-county","tag-qianfan","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-zhuque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}