{"id":1029937,"date":"2026-08-20T07:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029937"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:07:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:37:44","slug":"chinas-landspace-lands-rocket-booster-joins-spacex-and-blue-origin-with-reusable-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/chinas-landspace-lands-rocket-booster-joins-spacex-and-blue-origin-with-reusable-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s LandSpace lands rocket booster; joins SpaceX and Blue Origin with reusable tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese startup LandSpace on Wednesday recovered the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket, joining SpaceX and Blue Origin as the only private companies to land an orbital-class booster and narrowing China&#8217;s gap with \u200cthe U.S. \u2060in reusable \u2060rockets. <\/p>\n<p>The ability to return, recover and reuse a booster is crucial to reduce cost and make \u200bit easier to put satellites into orbit, turning space exploration into a commercially viable business similar to \u200bcivil aviation. <\/p>\n<p>The achievement came at LandSpace&#8217;s second attempt to land the engine-packed first stage of the Zhuque-3, a stainless-steel rocket billed as China&#8217;s answer to SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese startup LandSpace on Wednesday recovered the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket, joining SpaceX and Blue Origin as the only private companies to land an orbital-class booster and narrowing China&#8217;s gap with \u200cthe U.S. \u2060in reusable \u2060rockets. The ability to return, recover and reuse a booster is crucial to reduce cost and make \u200bit easier to put satellites into orbit, turning space exploration into a commercially viable business similar to \u200bcivil aviation. The achievement came at LandSpace&#8217;s second attempt to land the engine-packed first stage of the Zhuque-3, a stainless-steel rocket billed as China&#8217;s answer to SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029964,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029937\/revisions\/1029964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}