{"id":5156,"date":"2026-08-19T07:01:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T07:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/?p=5156"},"modified":"2026-08-19T07:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T07:01:40","slug":"china-successfully-recovers-zhuque-3-rockets-first-stage-on-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/2026\/08\/19\/china-successfully-recovers-zhuque-3-rockets-first-stage-on-land\/","title":{"rendered":"China Successfully Recovers Zhuque-3 Rocket\u2019s First Stage on Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China has achieved a major milestone in reusable rocket technology with the successful launch and land recovery of the Zhuque-3 Y2 reusable rocket. The rocket lifted off at 7:35 a.m. Beijing time from the Dongfeng commercial space innovation pilot zone in northwest China.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rocket\u2019s first stage successfully completed a controlled landing at its designated recovery site using deployable landing legs. Meanwhile, the second stage placed the Honghu-03 satellite into its planned orbit, making the overall mission a success.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The achievement marks China\u2019s first successful land-based controlled recovery of a rocket\u2019s first stage using landing legs. It follows the successful sea-based net recovery of the Long March-10B\u2019s first stage on July 10 and represents another significant step in China\u2019s development of reusable launch technology.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has achieved a major milestone in reusable rocket technology with the successful launch and land recovery of the Zhuque-3 Y2 reusable rocket. The rocket lifted off at 7:35 a.m. Beijing time from the Dongfeng commercial space innovation pilot zone in northwest China. The rocket\u2019s first stage successfully completed a controlled landing at its designated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5158,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions\/5158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}