2025-12-09
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China's first seaborn platform designed for rocket recovery using a net system has delivered.
offering a critical piece of infrastructure for the country's reusable rocket launch.
The platform, named Linghangzhe, or Pathfinder,
has been certified by the China Classification Society,
making it the first sea-based rocket recovery platform in the country to receive the required class and statutory certifications.
This follows the launch of Chinese commercial rocket firm, iSpace's landing vessel, Xingji Guiheng.
or Stellar Return in August, featuring a 40 plus 60 meter recovery deck.
The ship is designed to retrieve the first stage of iSpace's reusable liquid oxygen methane rocket SQX-3.
In the same month, China's new generation manned launch vehicle,
the Long March 10, completed its first static fire test.
The model includes two configurations, the Long March 10 and the Long March 10a.
The latter being a reusable two-stage rocket.
Chinese rocket manufacturers are racing to advance reusable vehicle development.
In June, another commercial firm, LandSpace,
successfully conducted a ground ignition test for the first stage propulsion system of its reusable Zhutue III rocket.
So far, multiple Chinese rocket makers have completed essential vertical takeoff and landing tests.