China achieves successful land recovery of a rocket
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Technical specs from LandSpace shows the ZQ 3 Y2 had a diameter of 4.5 meters and weighed about 570 metric tons when fully fueled.
The rocket was propelled by nine TQ 12A methane engines on the first stage and a TQ 15A methane engine on the second stage, boasting a liftoff thrust of nearly 770 tons that was enough to transport heavy satellites to low-Earth or Sun-synchronous orbits.
















