{"id":175383,"date":"2023-11-04T05:24:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T10:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/spacex-rival-chinas-ispace-claims-success-in-vertical-landing-rocket-test"},"modified":"2023-11-04T05:24:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T10:24:44","slug":"spacex-rival-chinas-ispace-claims-success-in-vertical-landing-rocket-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/spacex-rival-chinas-ispace-claims-success-in-vertical-landing-rocket-test","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX rival, China\u2019s iSpace claims success in vertical landing rocket test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-rival-chinas-ispace-claims-success-in-vertical-landing-rocket-test2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company aims to launch a larger and more powerful reusable rocket in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese company has made significant progress in developing its reusable rocket after successfully testing the first stage of its Hyperbola-2 launch vehicle in a desert. iSpace, a Beijing-based firm, conducted a \u201chop test\u201d at the Jiuquan satellite launch center on Thursday, which lasted for about a minute and demonstrated the rocket\u2019s ability to take off and land vertically. The company said the test was an essential step towards flying its larger and more powerful Hyperbola-3 reusable rocket in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>As per SCMP.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>CNSA Watcher\/X<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>Interstellar Glory \/ iSpace\u2019s Hyperbola-2 prototype rocket aced its 1st test flight &amp; LANDED successfully in Jiuquan! Diameter: 3.35m, Length: 17m, Engine: JD1 CH4\/LOX. Flight height: 178.42m, Time: 50.82s, landing accuracy: 1.68m, landing speed: 0.025m\/s. <a href=\"https:\/\/buff.ly\/45XwaBh\">https:\/\/buff.ly\/45XwaBh<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/6hdUfCesuQ&mdash;\">pic.twitter.com\/6hdUfCesuQ\u2014<\/a> CNSA Watcher (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNSAWatcher\">@CNSAWatcher<\/a>) November 3, 2023<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company aims to launch a larger and more powerful reusable rocket in 2025. A Chinese company has made significant progress in developing its reusable rocket after successfully testing the first stage of its Hyperbola-2 launch vehicle in a desert. iSpace, a Beijing-based firm, conducted a \u201chop test\u201d at the Jiuquan satellite launch center on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}