China's reusable rocket completes 10 km vertical takeoff, landing test
China's reusable rocket completes 10 km vertical takeoff, landing test
China completed its first 10-kilometer vertical takeoff and landing test of a reusable rocket on June 23 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The scale of this test is the largest in the country so far.
Chinese companies overtook Tesla in less than a decade, and now they're coming for his rockets too.
I mean this was the whole point of the X prize and the private space race, right? Create competition to lower costs.
The current Long March series are already price-competitive-ish with SpaceX, but they're missing manufacturing capacity to continue churning out rockets. This seems to be the solution?
Curious to see what the economics of starship will shake out to be