{"id":149079,"date":"2026-04-03T06:04:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149079"},"modified":"2026-04-03T06:04:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:04:04","slug":"china-launches-heavyweight-rocket-to-challenge-spacexs-falcon-9-it-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149079","title":{"rendered":"China launches heavyweight rocket to challenge SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9. It fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s attempt to launch its most powerful privately developed rocket failed on Friday after the vehicle suffered a flight anomaly.<br \/>\nThe Tianlong-3 rocket is being developed in hopes of breaking a key bottleneck in the country\u2019s roll-out of internet satellite megaconstellations to compete with SpaceX\u2019s Starlink.<br \/>\nThe Tianlong-3, built by Beijing-based start-up Space Pioneer and seen as China\u2019s answer to the US company\u2019s workhorse reusable Falcon 9, lifted off from the Jiuquan satellite launch&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3348908\/china-launches-heavyweight-rocket-challenge-spacexs-falcon-9-it-fails?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 attempt to launch its most powerful privately developed rocket failed on Friday after the vehicle suffered a flight anomaly. The Tianlong-3 rocket is&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\/149079"}],"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=149079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}