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China’s iSpace launches and lands rocket test stage

Chinese commercial rocket company iSpace has successfully launched and safely landed a test article on its path to developing a reusable launch vehicle.

by Andrew Jones November 2, 2023November 2, 2023

Electron launch August 2023

Rocket Lab reuses engine on Electron launch

by Jeff Foust August 23, 2023August 23, 2023

Rocket Lab Electron launch of two BlackSky satellites

BlackSky buys five Electron launches

by Jeff Foust August 9, 2023August 9, 2023

electron launch

Electron launches seven smallsats in latest step towards reusability

by Jeff Foust July 18, 2023July 18, 2023

Electron booster being recovered from ocean

Rocket Lab takes another step towards reusability on next Electron launch

by Jeff Foust July 13, 2023July 13, 2023

Electron launch

Rocket Lab to refly Electron engine

by Jeff Foust April 19, 2023April 20, 2023

Electron descending

Rocket Lab reconsidering mid-air recovery of Electron boosters

by Jeff Foust March 1, 2023March 1, 2023

Orange exhaust blasts the ground as a 41-meter-tall, white Long March 2D rocket begins to rise above its fog-shrouded launch tower at the hilly Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China.

China plans to make aging Long March rocket reusable and non-toxic

by Andrew Jones August 29, 2022February 22, 2023

A Long March 5 launches the Chang'e-5 lunar sample return mission Nov. 23, 2020.

China could shift to fully reusable super heavy-launcher in wake of Starship

by Andrew Jones July 21, 2022February 22, 2023

Benchmark works with Space Forge to develop reusable engines

by Debra Werner May 24, 2022February 21, 2023