China Beats SpaceX With World’s First Methane-Powered Rocket Launch

A private Chinese aerospace company has won the race to launch a giant rocket powered by methane and liquid oxygen.

The Zhuque-2, a carrier rocket from LandSpace, blasted off at 9am on Wednesday morning from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert.

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