I will be impressed with a church that can end women’s rights and can erase the jews.
“US intel officials ‘concerned’ China will soon master reusable launch”
“Jaws” music begins…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX, and the overall advancement of spaceflight in the US and China, has been beating online political pundits for a decade and a half now.
I remember posting replies in 2013/2014 in the Xenosystems blog about the first Falcon 9 water landing tests, with every political commentator saying that these will amount to nothing.
Even Jim of Jim’s Blog in 2018/2019 stated that China’s first small landing rocket prototypes were just “toy rockets held together with duct tape.”
“CAS Space will soon begin operations at a superfactory in the Zhejiang Province, capable of manufacturing 12 Lijian-2 rockets per year. The company has been testing its new Liqing-2 (or Kinecore-2) engine… This reusable engine has a wide range of throttling to support precise landing burns”
“Deep Blue Aerospace has also been preparing its reusable Xingyun-1 (Nebula-1), which is powered by nine Leiting-R (or Thunder-R) engines…”
Article: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/04/china-roundup-202604/
Stoke Aerospace’s stainless steel methalox 1st stage. 1st launch attempt will aim for orbit only, with next launch attempts attempting to land both stages. The upper stage is hydrolox, and uses a regeneratively cooled heat shield.
New Glenn booster “Never Tell Me The Odds” is getting ready for its 2nd orbital launch and landing for NG-3.