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China’s historic sea-based rocket recovery puts spotlight on domestic shipbuilder
China became the second nation after the US to achieve controlled recovery of an orbital-class rocket booster. The reusable Long March-10B rocket's first-stage booster was caught by the Linghangzhe platform, China's first sea-based rocket recovery vessel using a net-capture system.
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