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A Chinese firm attempts to bring a rocket stage back to Earth
This week may go down as the beginning of one of those calendar-compressing occasions, for it was when LandSpace became the first non-American firm to attempt to return a rocket stage to Earth for reuse,
A spectacular explosion shows China is close to obtaining reusable rockets
The Zhuque-3, or ZQ-3, booster stage is architected for recovery and reuse, the first rocket in China with such a design. Made of stainless steel, the first stage arced to the edge of space before gravity pulled it back into the atmosphere.
China's reusable rocket makes it to orbit but fails to stick the landing
An ‘anomaly’ meant a fireball arrived at the recovery zone instead of a spent first stage There's good news and bad news for the Chinese commercial launch industry. The good news is that LandSpace's ZhuQue-3 launched successfully on its maiden flight.
Chinese reusable booster explodes during first orbital test, in failed bid to catch SpaceX
A private Chinese space firm successfully sent its Zhuque-3 rocket to orbit but failed in its historic attempt to re-land the rocket booster Wednesday – the first such trial by a Chinese firm as the country’s growing commercial space sector races to catch up with American rivals like SpaceX.
This Chinese company could become the country’s first to land a reusable rocket
LandSpace, one of several maturing Chinese rocket startups, is about to launch the first flight of its medium-lift Zhuque-3 rocket. Liftoff could happen around 11 pm EST tonight (04:00 UTC Wednesday),

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