As technological developments augur an era of renewed space exploration, China is aiming to become a major player. #Space law
US commercial space firm #SpaceX 🚀 has been eager to tout its deployment of reusable first-stage rocket boosters, claiming to have flown more than 600 missions with the cost-cutting launch components.
Despite a succession of breakthroughs in booster-recovery efforts in recent months, both on land and at sea, China has yet to reuse one – a stark contrast laying bare the gap between Beijing’s space ambitions and the challenges that remain.
Last month, Chinese private aerospace company LandSpace landed the booster of its Zhuque-3 rocket on deployable landing legs at a site in the northwestern province of Gansu, marking the country’s first successful ground-based controlled recovery using landing legs, an approach that closely resembles that of SpaceX’s Falcon 9.
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