Zhuque 3 Becomes the First Chinese Commercial Rocket to Recover Its First Stage
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The startup LandSpace became in the week the first Chinese company to land a rocket, the Zhuque-3, which had been sent into orbit to place satellites, for its re-use, representing a competition for SpaceX, by Elon Musk. In its debut in December 2025, the rocket reached orbit, but lost the propellant due to what LandSpace described as an abnormal combustion during the descent. The Chinese Zhuque-3 rocket is 65.84 meters high and can transport 18.…
After a first failed attempt last December the LandSpace Zhuque 3 has become a few days ago the first Chinese commercial rocket to recover its first stage. It has been by landing on a platform, in the purest SpaceX style, with which the Chinese rocket keeps “some similar”. In addition, the payload, the Honghu 03 satellite, was placed in the intended orbit, which is no less important. The only problem was that after the landing there was a fire t…
The suspense did not last long. Fragilized by a fire after landing, the first floor of the Zhuque-3 rocket ended up yielding and lay all its length in the sand. LandSpace thought it had made a faultless, but the gravity and structural weakness decided otherwise.
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