China recovered its first reusable rocket and showed a new way to do it
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China successfully recovered a reusable orbital rocket booster for the first time, catching the Long March 10B in a net aboard an offshore vessel in the South China Sea. This makes China the third entity — after SpaceX and Blue Origin — to achieve this, raising US military concerns about China rapidly expanding its satellite-launch capabilities.
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