China recovered its first reusable rocket and showed a new way to do it
"Clearly, they admire the work that's being done by SpaceX and are trying to replicate it." https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/china-recovered-its-first-reusable-rocket-and-showed-a-new-way-to-do-it/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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@arstechnica Reminds me of those guys that made a Segway-like vehicle with three wheels instead of the complex gyroscope and everyone went yeah, okay, that works too.
@arstechnica nice - glad that maybe they'll be able to stop dropping rocket stages into rural villages, spewing hypergolics.
Looks like a slightly more reliable capture method too.