The Long March 10B lifted off from Hainan, China this morning, and about 6 minutes later its first stage came back down toward a 25,000-ton ship at sea.https://www.reuters.com/science/china-successfully-tests-sea-based-rocket-booster-recovery-system-state-media-2026-07-10/Chinas net-catch booster recovery on Long March 10B is a creative alternative to SpaceX's propulsive landing based on original solutions and tech.SpaceX uses legs + engines for VTVL after years of iteration. China skipped that - hooks on the booster snag a tensioned steel wire net on a moving ship platform with robotic rails. No legs (weight savings), less hover fuel. Achieved on maiden flight, which is impressive engineering for a new system.Potential edges: lighter booster (more payload/margin), simpler ship recovery, suits their lunar plans (shared core with crewed Moon rocket). Avoids some landing stresses. Sea-based net may scale for rough conditions.Net-catch eliminates heavy legs + landing fuel, enabling lighter booster, higher payload, simpler recovery. Robotic net may allow faster ship turnaround vs precise propulsive burns, supporting very high flight rates at much lower per-launch cost.China is now doing the same to the mutt space tech what is already doing to the mutt AI bubble hype - slowly killing it with combination of superior solutions and x10-x30 smaller cost xD
>>538673352That's not going to be x10 -x30 smaller cost. When the Starship launch system is working it's going to outclass this system so badly it doesn't register. I doubt their engines are as efficient as the Merlins so it would be surprising if this was even par with Falcon.
>>538673652Starship targets $10M/flight at high cadence, but faces heat shield, flip, catch complexities. Chinas lighter net-booster + no legs saves mass/fuel now - simpler descent may enable quicker reuse cycles sooner. If engines scale reliably, marginal costs could compete on medium-lift. Starship wins volume so far, this could win frequency/cost parity earlier. Chinese engines + net recovery enable rapid, low-mass booster reuse tailored for lunar stack. State-driven cadence could yield more Moon-capable launches by 2030 vs Starships development delays. Shared core stages simplify scaling for crewed lunar missions. I think China will win the Moon race.
Nice work China :)
>>538673352Imagine bragging about doing some shit we did years ago while also doing it worse.Fucking pathetic
>>538673652 >>538673782 For Mars base construction, the LM-10Bs net-catch system offers these potential edges over Starship:1. Higher payload fraction: saves 2 tons of leg dead-weight, translating to more cargo per launch.2. Lower per-launch cost: cuts launch costs by 60%, with 80% reduction after 10 reuses.3. Faster turnaround: 7-day reflight capability vs Starships complex post-landing refurbishment.4. Gentler on hardware: soft catch minimizes structural stress, targeting up to 50 reuses vs Starships high-impact chopstick catch.5. Greater tolerance: wider landing error margins - critical for Moons unknown terrain.6. Modular path: this boosters success directly feeds Chinas larger LM-9 (2030 target), creating an evolutionary reuse roadmap vs Starships all-or-nothing bet.While Starship wins on raw tonnage, LM-10Bs architecture offers a lower-risk, higher-frequency, cost-effective logistics chain for sustained Moon supply runs.
>>538673782>may>ifFuck off
>>538674401> For Mars base construction
>>538674507I meant Moon. Typo.
>>538674500LM-10B has flown and recovered on its maiden flight - proven today. Starship still relies on untested "may-ifs": orbital refueling, heat-shield durability, chopstick catch reliability etc. SpaceXs architecture is bold, but Chinas system is already operational while Starship remains a high-risk, multi-year gamble.
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>>538674630>>538674644Typical butthurt of Angloids and Muttoids. Solidarity of faded/fading empires xD
The rocket adopts a two-stage tandem slender body configuration, with a core stage diameter of 5 meters and a total length of about 70 meters. It is a large liquid carrier rocket, with payload capacity metrics in the same range as SpaceXs Falcon 9.
Actually looks much more impressive than SpaceX
>>538675175Yeah this is pretty cool
>>538673352Oh look it's the Poland kike again
This is encouraging, I like SpaceX but we can't just have ZOG flying around colonizing the solar system
>>538675338Kikes with their "mRNA vaccines", MAiD, euthanasia, LGBTQ+, faggotry, satanism is actually the West, including your country. Such countries like China, Russia and Iran give us hope for a world where these kikes wont be rulers of the planet xD
>>538674567Any kind of off-Earth colony is infeasible given differences in gravity. Maybe short term but long term astronauts experience osteoporosis, cardiac disease and diabetes. Humans have spent a long time on earth and are inseparable from it.
>>538676011Thats my theory too. A human can live and procreate only on the Earth. Even advanced habitats wont solve this problem imo. But the Moon is supposed to serve as a military base, resource base and a tool to increase power over Earth. Humans would be functioning there in a rotational way, imo.
>>538673352If this is real, that's really cool.
>>538676011True. But it's an open question: how well life can adapt to different levels of gravity? I don't think it's impossible. The Expanse series explores this. It's sci fi and obviously not real. But basically people born and raised on Mars could not tolerate Earth's gravity for too long, because they had adapted to Mars' gravity across many generations.
>>538676462Evolution is extremely slow; 1000-10.000 years is negligible for polygenic traits like bone density. In microgravity, astronauts lose 2% bone mass monthly - exercise barely slows it. For Martian 0.38g, no data supports viable fetal development, fluid shifts and vestibular malformation are very likely. Animal space studies show skeletal abnormalities. Natural selection needs hundreds of millennia, not generations. Even if adaptation occurred thx to sci-fi genetic engineering, returning to Earth would be fatal contradicting the very notion of adaptation. Genetic engineering requires unraveling thousands of interacting genes and epigenetic factors, current most advanced CRISPR technologies cant rewire whole systems at all. It is biologically intractable with todays knowledge. We are 1g-optimized machines, any other gravity is a chronic pathology, not a new normal. Beyond gravity, Earths magnetic field and atmosphere shield DNA from cosmic rays and solar particles. Outside this biosphere, ionizing radiation fragments strands, drives lethal mutations, degrades telomeres etc. So far long-term survival is biologically impossible without planetary-scale shielding.
>>538673352>>538673782>>538674446>>538675175>>538675693>>538676346STFU chinksect rats, stop trying to spread chinksect propaganda here. Everyone hates you yellow kikes.
>>538674482I mean you've got to get the get the net-catch rig safely onto the moon before you can use it there which seems like a non-trivial undertaking
>>538676011Incorrect. Cloud cities in Venus' atmosphere have Earth-like gravity and sunlight. They're not even expensive to build - oxygen storage tanks will float naturally without any special effort.(The only downside is the acid rain.)
>>538676904China uses the "Lanyue" lander with four landing legs for shock absorption - not net-catch. Two rockets launch separately: one for Lanyue, one for the Mengzhou crew capsule, which dock in lunar orbit. A robotic precursor can land a lightweight net-and-tether system. Subsequent descent stages use hooks to snag it, braking without legs - saving mass for larger cargo. This mirrors Earths sea-net concept, adapted to lunar gravity. But so far this system is planned only for Earth landing, of course.
>>538676634Which is why you don't try shielding planets. Rotating space habitats as long term residences, temporary stays on surfaces if you actually want to mine the thing for whatever reason instead of going asteroid catching. Obviously begs the question why you would even bother going to other planets instead of just building around home. Home is the best after all.
