The American space website gave high praise to China's successful recovery of a first-stage rocket, using the phrase "Making history," indicating that China is creating history. Although SpaceX was the first to develop such a recovery method, China has achieved "latecomer surpassing the leader" by developing a different approach to first-stage rocket recovery.
On July 10, 2026, at 12:15 PM, the Long March 10B launch vehicle successfully launched from the Hainan Commercial Aerospace Launch Site and completed the controlled recovery of its first stage via sea-based net capture. This marks China's first successful implementation of controlled recovery for a launch vehicle's first stage, as well as the world's first orbital launch vehicle net-based recovery, signifying that China's aerospace industry has officially entered the era of rocket recovery.
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