China recovers Long March 10B booster at sea after maiden flight

🚀 An Historic Moment! 🚢 Long March 10B Y1 Booster Recover at Sea.

This is big: China just launched the Long March 10B and caught the first stage out at sea with a net recovery system. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/8VpyAMwNaV...

You know how when China enters a market once dominated by the US, it tends to iterate faster, cheaper and usually dominates... Well suck it SpaceX www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9XD...

China's Long March 10B demo successfully completed stage separation before the first-stage booster was caught by a barge off China's coast. This marks China's first successful reusable booster recovery, joining SpaceX and Blue Origin in achieving the feat. https://t.co/i5PYocsfy6

China has successfully recovered an orbital-class rocket booster at sea for the first time. The Long March 10B first stage was caught by a specialized recovery vessel using a giant wire-net system - a radically different approach from SpaceX ’s legged drone-ship landings.

On its first outing, the Long March 10B recovered its booster at sea while delivering a customer satellite into orbit, becoming China's first operational reusable rocket! Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/china-reco...

Ook China is nu in staat om de eerste trap van hun Long March 10B-raket op zee te vangen.

first launch of the Long March 10B looked good, and reports from china space twitter are that they nailed the drone ship booster landing

China challenges SpaceX with its first rocket recovery at sea 🚀 The successful recovery of a reusable Long March 10B booster brings China closer to matching SpaceX and could intensify competition across the global launch industry. www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2026/07... #China #spacenews

On maiden launch of Long March-10B, China successfully “caught” the rocket’s first stage in a net system aboard a barge in the ocean. Not the first to land on a barge (SpX has done it for years and Blue Origin more recently), or to catch one (SpX again), but first with a net. x.com/XHscitech/st...

2016 parts, dozens of moves considered illegal by The LEGO Group, and a fair amount of model glue later, CZ-5 is done. Fun fact: the Long March 10B that flew today uses the same (modified a bit) YF-100 engines as the boosters on the Long March 5.

China Launches Reusable Rocket, Clearing a Key Hurdle in Race With SpaceX www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/w...

The First Rope Bondage-Capable Rocket: What You Should Know About Long March 10B

OK, this nails it: the Long March 10A & 10B 1st stages are really interchangeable. All future 10A/B S1s will launch fresh as a -10A on crew launches, then reallocated as 10B boosters for satellite launches. No more new 10B-only boosters will be built. m.weibo.cn/detail/53191...

LING HANG ZHE 领航者 <Navigator or Pathfinder>, used TODAY for Long March CZ-10B first-stage net/wire capture, spotted YESTERDAY and tracked NOW at 16.6044, 113.5287 Rocket recovery vessel/platform delivered in late 2025 for China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology CALT.