China is making significant strides in the commercial space industry with the launch of its first sea-recovery reusable rocket plant. On January 7, 2026, construction began in Hangzhou, marking a ...

Framegrab from a Cosmoleap animation detailing its rocket and launch and recovery tower plans. Credit: Cosmoleap HELSINKI — Chinese launch startup Cosmoleap has secured significant funding for its ...

China’s space program, striving to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030, carried out a test flight of a new reusable booster and crew capsule late Tuesday (US time), and the results were spectacular.

Reusable rockets have reshaped the economics of spaceflight by dramatically reducing the cost of launching payloads into orbit. Traditional rockets were single-use vehicles that burned up or crashed ...

New guidelines exempt firms from some financial requirements Companies will need to meet reusable rocket tech milestones Beijing seeking to close space tech gap with U.S. BEIJING, Dec 26 (Reuters) - ...

HELSINKI — Astronstone, one of China’s younger launch startups, has secured new funding as it builds toward the first flight of its reusable AS-1 rocket. Astronstone’s “Pre-A+” funding round was led ...