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The Chinese company Landscape continues to develop the Zhuque-3 (ZQ-3), a two-stage reasuable launch vehicle inspired by SpaceX’s Starship and Super Heavy. They achieved their first milestone in January 2024 with a vertical takeoff and vertical landing (VTVL) using their VTVL-1 test vehicle at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC) in northern China. By September, the company conducted a second …

China’s first reusable rocket just took a big step toward flight. The Chinese company LandSpace conducted a static-fire test with its stainless steel Zhuque-3 launcher on Monday (Oct. 20), keeping the rocket on track for a debut expected to occur before the end of the year. The static fire — a common prelaunch trial in which a rocket fires its …

Staying hydrated is a basic human need. Navigating this while traveling becomes trickier. We are perpetually inundated with single-use plastic options. The plethora of plastic water bottles stacked at every airport shop, kiosk, or roadside convenience store comes with a hidden cost: microplastics. These tiny particles, often invisible to the eye, are increasingly found in bottled water, tap systems, and …

A modified Long March 7 rocket carrying the Yaogan 45 satellite lifts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on September 9, 2025, in Wenchang, Hainan Province of China. Credit: Luo Yunfei/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images China also launched a spy satellite called Yaogan 45 into a peculiar orbit earlier this month. (Yaogan is a cover name for China’s …

Carrying a reusable water bottle is a smart habit. It saves money. It cuts down on single-use plastic. It keeps you hydrated. There’s a catch, though. Many of us don’t clean our bottles nearly as well or as often as we think we do, and the germs that hitch a ride on our hands, rims, and lids can stick around. …

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — A new reusable rocket with jaws like a cosmic hippo, an innovative booster built by the company Rocket Lab, finally has its first launch pad on the Virginia coast and could make its first flight by the end of the year. The novel booster, called Neutron, is Rocket Lab’s newest and the company’s first purpose-built reusable …