China just carried out its second reusable launch attempt in three weeks

"For the second time this month, a Chinese rocket designed for reuse successfully soared into low-Earth orbit on its first flight Monday, defying the questionable odds that burden the debuts of new launch vehicles. The first Long March 12A rocket, roughly the same height and diameter of SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9, lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 9:00 pm EST Monday (02:00 UTC Tuesday)."

"The booster failed to complete a braking burn to slow down for landing at a prepared location near the edge of the Gobi Desert. The Long March 12A's upper stage performed as intended, successfully reaching the mission's "predetermined orbit," said the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the state-owned enterprise that leads the country's space industry. "The first stage failed to be successfully recovered," the corporation said in a statement."

A reusable Long March 12A rocket reached low-Earth orbit on its first flight, lifting off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 9:00 pm EST. The rocket's methane-fueled first-stage booster impacted a remote region about 200 miles downrange after failing to complete a braking burn for landing near the Gobi Desert. The upper stage successfully reached the mission's predetermined orbit, and CASC reported the first-stage recovery failure and that specific reasons are under analysis. The outcome resembled the Zhuque-3 debut, where a similar medium-class booster also reached orbit but crashed during a downrange landing attempt, yielding critical engineering data.

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