LandSpace Achieves Reusable Rocket Milestone Boosting Hong Kong Space Ambitions

Reusable rocket milestone opens a door for Hong Kong’s space ambitions

On the morning of August 19, LandSpace’s Zhuque-3 Y2 rocket lifted off from the Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Test Area. After deploying its second stage and payload into orbit, the rocket’s first stage touched down softly at a recovery site in Gansu province using deployable landing legs. It was China’s first successful land-based recovery of an orbital-class rocket booster that had just completed an orbital mission – a feat previously achieved only by SpaceX. Just over a month earlie...

By Zhonghua Sheng