{"id":689922,"date":"2026-07-13T20:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689922\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T20:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:36:14","slug":"how-chinas-aerospace-vision-differs-from-elon-musks-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689922\/","title":{"rendered":"How China\u2019s aerospace vision differs from Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"

China\u2019s controlled seaborne recovery of a rocket booster using a net-capture vessel last week proved the viability and virtues of its state-led aerospace efforts, experts said, contrasting it with the market-focused approach<\/a> adopted by America\u2019s SpaceX.They also said Beijing was convinced that keeping the state, rather than a private company, at the helm of its space programme<\/a> was a more secure, resilient and deliverable way to win a space race that had more than commercial interests at stake in the eyes of policymakers.Friday\u2019s recovery<\/a> of a reusable Long March-10B rocket booster in the South China Sea turned a new page in the tech and space rivalry between China and the United States.<\/p>\n

The retrieval made China the second nation to have mastered the precision recovery of an orbital-class rocket component, analysts said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA more confident Beijing is looking at the American model, represented by SpaceX\u2019s dominance, with caution,\u201d said Lung Siu Fung, director of research at the equity division of CCB International Securities, the Hong Kong-based investment banking and brokerage arm of China Construction Bank.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina\u2019s space sector is, in a nutshell, a national team<\/a>. Unlike the US, China\u2019s vibrant commercial space companies are playing a supplementary role.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s controlled seaborne recovery of a rocket booster using a net-capture vessel last week proved the viability and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[8421,5713,891,229886,63380,6110,11139,229885,11132,229884,90,87388,416,412,56,54,158,55],"class_list":["post-689922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-america","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-china-academy-of-launch-vehicle-technology","tag-china-national-space-administration","tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","tag-long-march","tag-net-capture","tag-qianfan","tag-rocket-booster","tag-science","tag-south-china-sea","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}