Chinese engineers have turned to the same gas that gives soda its fizz. They aim to hurl small rockets skyward without the usual fireball at the pad. The idea sounds simple on paper. Yet it could reshape how commercial space firms operate in a country racing to launch more often and cheaper than before. Supercritical carbon dioxide sits at the heart of the concept. Push the familiar CO2 past certain temperature and pressure points and it behaves…
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