China's LandSpace carries out maiden flight of reusable rocket Rocket's crucial recovery and landing phase ends in failure LandSpace vows to investigate cause and improve for future launches No firm ...

A private Chinese space firm successfully sent its Zhuque-3 rocket to orbit but failed in its historic attempt to re-land the rocket booster Wednesday – the first such trial by a Chinese firm as the ...

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China’s reusable carrier rocket Wednesday failed to complete its maiden test, state media reported. The “second stage” of the Zhuque-3 Y1 rocket entered the designated orbit “but the recovery of its ...

A full decade after SpaceX pioneered reusable rocketry with the first-ever successful landing of its Falcon 9 booster, the rest of the world is finally catching up. These few successes aren’t based on ...

BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The maiden test of LandSpace's next-generation Zhuque-3 rocket ended in failure on Wednesday, dashing the Chinese firm's hopes of becoming the third company after Elon ...

China launched a reusable carrier rocket on Wednesday from northwest China. The second stage of this rocket managed to enter the designated orbit, but recovery of its first stage failed, according to ...

LandSpace conducts the debut flight of its ZQ 3, or Rosefinch 3, carrier rocket in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Dec 3, 2025. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] A leading Chinese ...