{"id":26018,"date":"2026-07-13T13:39:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=26018"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:39:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:39:47","slug":"china-achieves-first-ever-controlled-rocket-recovery-in-long-march-10b-maiden-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-achieves-first-ever-controlled-rocket-recovery-in-long-march-10b-maiden-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"China achieves first-ever controlled rocket recovery in Long March-10B maiden flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"\">China successfully launched the Long March-10B carrier rocket at the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province on July 10, achieving its first-ever controlled recovery of a carrier rocket&#8217;s first stage.<\/p>\n<p align=\"\">The rocket, in its maiden flight, sent the payload into the preset orbit.<\/p>\n<p align=\"\">After the separation of the rocket&#8217;s first and second stages, the first stage returned and was successfully captured on a seaborne platform via a net-capture system. Both the launch and the first-stage recovery were successfully completed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"\">This mission marked China&#8217;s first successful controlled recovery of a carrier rocket&#8217;s first stage, representing a major breakthrough in the country&#8217;s reusable rocket technology.<\/p>\n<p align=\"\">The Long March-10B carrier rocket, a reusable liquid-fueled commercial launch vehicle, stands approximately 63 meters tall with a diameter of 5 meters. It has a liftoff thrust of about 890 tonnes and a liftoff mass of approximately 760 tonnes. In its reusable configuration, it has a low Earth orbit (LEO) payload capacity of 16 tonnes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China successfully launched the Long March-10B carrier rocket at the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province on July 10, achieving its first-ever controlled recovery of a carrier rocket&#8217;s first stage. The rocket, in its maiden flight, sent the payload into the preset orbit. After the separation of the rocket&#8217;s first and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[135,25,205,8791],"class_list":["post-26018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-launch","tag-long-march","tag-long-march-10b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26021,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26018\/revisions\/26021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}