{"id":148980,"date":"2026-04-01T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148980"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:00:20","slug":"is-chinas-commercial-rocket-now-cheaper-than-elon-musks-spacex-falcon-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148980","title":{"rendered":"Is China\u2019s commercial rocket now cheaper than Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX Falcon 9?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s commercial space sector has reached a cost milestone as its new rocket debuts for less than the ticket price of the latest SpaceX Falcon 9 reusable launch vehicle.<br \/>\nThe Kinetica-2 Y1 carrier rocket, also known as the Lijian-2 Y1, took off on its inaugural flight on Monday before delivering three satellites into orbit, including a prototype commercial cargo spacecraft and a satellite to function as a mini-orbiting space lab.<br \/>\nThe rocket developed by Chinese commercial space firm CAS Space \u2013&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3348697\/chinas-commercial-rocket-now-cheaper-elon-musks-spacex-falcon-9?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s commercial space sector has reached a cost milestone as its new rocket debuts for less than the ticket price of the latest SpaceX&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148980"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}