{"id":365135,"date":"2025-12-23T07:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365135\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:14:10","slug":"second-reusable-rocket-recovery-failure-in-a-month-puts-china-10-years-behind-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365135\/","title":{"rendered":"Second reusable rocket recovery failure in a month puts China 10 years behind US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Long March 12A, China\u2019s first state-owned <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3334321\/china-has-3-reusable-rockets-lined-launch-they-vie-make-history?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reusable rocket<\/a>, made its debut launch on Tuesday morning but the recovery of the first stage was a failure.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It was China\u2019s second failed bid this month to return an orbital-class booster to Earth, a feat that has so far only been achieved by the US.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The second stage of the rocket entered its predetermined orbit after its launch at 10am, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1o401188 css-1w1l3op e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766474050_686_maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">China launches Shenzhou-22 for first emergency mission<\/p>\n<p>China launches Shenzhou-22 for first emergency mission<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s commercial and state-owned space developers have been racing to launch and recover the country\u2019s first reusable rocket \u2013 a feat first achieved a decade ago by Elon Musk\u2019s 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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[550,17179,144,162498,86364,179665,13548,25384,150421,46120,72186,17181,25382,79,162497,193,98791,1513,5408,98793,21,2002],"class_list":["post-365135","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-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\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}