{"id":240660,"date":"2026-07-11T07:24:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/china-takes-a-page-from-spacex-and-recaptures-the-first-stage-of-a-rocket-to-reuse-it"},"modified":"2026-07-11T07:24:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:24:42","slug":"china-takes-a-page-from-spacex-and-recaptures-the-first-stage-of-a-rocket-to-reuse-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/china-takes-a-page-from-spacex-and-recaptures-the-first-stage-of-a-rocket-to-reuse-it","title":{"rendered":"China takes a page from SpaceX and recaptures the first stage of a rocket to reuse it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-takes-a-page-from-spacex-and-recaptures-the-first-stage-of-a-rocket-to-reuse-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China successfully recaptured the first stage of a rocket after a launch on Friday in a breakthrough for the country\u2019s space program, state media said.<\/p>\n<p>The first stage of a Long March-10B rocket separated from the second stage after liftoff and returned to a platform in the sea, the official Xinhua News Agency said.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time China recovered the first stage of a rocket. America\u2019s SpaceX has been doing so for several years to drive down launch costs by reusing the booster that helps lift the satellites or whatever the rocket is carrying into space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China successfully recaptured the first stage of a rocket after a launch on Friday in a breakthrough for the country\u2019s space program, state media said. The first stage of a Long March-10B rocket separated from the second stage after liftoff and returned to a platform in the sea, the official Xinhua News Agency said. It [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240660","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}