According to its space agency, China successfully landed a reusable rocket for the first time on Friday, a significant step toward lowering launch costs and advancing its space goals. According to the China National Space Administration (CNSA), a Long March-10B rocket launched a satellite into orbit at 12:15 p.m. (0415 GMT) from its launch location on Hainan in the south of the country.
The agency stated that the rocket’s first stage, the lower portion that provides the launcher with the initial impulse to lift it off the ground, was subsequently retrieved “via a net-capture system on a seaborne platform”.
Aerial footage of the launcher descending and then softly landing on the platform was carried by China’s national television, CCTV.This mission represents both the world’s first at-sea net-based rocket recovery and China’s first successful controlled recovery of a carrier rocket’s first stage, according to the CNSA. Chen Muye, a technical expert at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, was quoted in the Chinese newspaper Global Times as saying,
The net-based recovery system offers unique advantages.”Net-based recovery is better suited to the landing needs of rockets than the major recovery methods now in use.”A major breakthrough in Chinese reusable rocket technology” was praised.
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