Blue Arrow Aerospace Successfully Recovered a Stainless Steel Rocket Booster, Becoming the Fourth Organization Globally to Achieve Controlled Recovery of Orbital Launch Vehicles

Foreign media: China's private space company LandSpace has become the world's first entity to successfully recover a stainless steel rocket booster after orbital launch, with its Zhuque-3 rocket both completing an orbital mission and achieving controlled recovery of its first stage.

Previously, reusable boosters were mostly made of aluminum alloy, which is more expensive; LandSpace's adoption of a stainless steel approach significantly reduces design and raw material costs. China has thus become the first country to achieve orbital launch recovery via two distinct technological paths—aluminum alloy and stainless steel—while even the United States, a pioneer in reusable rocket technology, has not yet accomplished this dual-track strategy.

LandSpace has become the fourth organization globally to achieve controlled recovery of orbital launch vehicles, following SpaceX and Blue Origin in the U.S., and China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

Original source: toutiao.com/article/1873962806111296/

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