{"id":154485,"date":"2026-07-13T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154485"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:00:10","slug":"china-joins-us-in-reusable-orbital-rocket-capability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154485","title":{"rendered":"China joins US in reusable orbital rocket capability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has become just the second country after the United States to achieve the controlled recovery of a reusable orbital space rocket.<br \/>\nFriday\u2019s successful capture at sea of the booster stage of a Long March-10B rocket after its maiden launch used a novel technique different from that of Elon Musk\u2019s recently listed SpaceX and previous Chinese attempts.<br \/>\nInstead of landing using extendable hydraulic legs, the rocket stage used its engines to position itself over a floating platform in the South&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/plus\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3360369\/china-joins-us-reusable-orbital-rocket-capability?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 has become just the second country after the United States to achieve the controlled recovery of a reusable orbital space rocket. Friday\u2019s successful&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\/154485"}],"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=154485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}