The floodgates are open after another Chinese company lands a reusable rocket
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继中国首次成功回收轨道级火箭助推器一个多月后，周二又有一家中国发射运营商实现了类似壮举，标志着中国发射能力的持续增强。美国在SpaceX于2015年实现该技术后，时隔十年才有蓝色起源完成第二次轨道级助推器软着陆。目前，中国有多家发射企业正致力于研发可复用火箭，其中部分隶属于大型国有企业中国航天科技集团，另一些则由私人资本驱动的商业公司主导。
It has been a little more than a month since China recovered an orbital-class rocket booster for the first time. A second launch operator accomplished a similar feat Tuesday in another sign of China's growing launch capability.
It took 10 years for a second US launch company, Blue Origin, to propulsively land an orbital-class booster after SpaceX did it with the Falcon 9 rocket in 2015. SpaceX has since added a second reusable rocket to its fleet with Starship and its Super Heavy booster. Perhaps a third American company will join SpaceX and Blue Origin's club in 2027. Rocket Lab, Stoke Space, Relativity Space, and Firefly Aerospace—working in partnership with Northrop Grumman—are working on reusable rockets that could make their first flights in the next couple of years.
A similar number of launch companies are working on reusable rockets in China. Some of them operate under the auspices of the sprawling state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). Others are more commercial in nature, driven by capital investment from private industry.
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