{"id":754180,"date":"2026-07-10T07:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/754180\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T07:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:05:08","slug":"china-recovers-reusable-rocket-used-in-the-maiden-launch-of-long-march-10b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/754180\/","title":{"rendered":"China recovers reusable rocket used in the maiden launch of Long March 10B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p>Unlike the methods pioneered by Elon Musk\u2019s US-based <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/spacex?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SpaceX<\/a>, the Chinese rocket achieved the first-ever use of a unique sea-based, net-capture system.<\/p>\n<p>Reusable Chinese rocket returns after launch<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The maiden flight validated the rocket\u2019s design for first-stage reusability and was expected to help cut launch costs, CCTV said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[144,323304,79,193,25385,34379],"class_list":["post-754180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-china","tag-long-march-b","tag-science","tag-space","tag-wenchang","tag-xinhua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754180","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=754180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}