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Chinese rocket company Linkspace successfully tests hovering a rocket

@linkspace_china:
LinkSpace did a very successful test on rocket recycling on March 27, 2019. It will support us to open the next PLAN. Thank you Dr. @robert_zubrin for being here to witness this exciting milestone. Later, NewLine Baby(RLV-T5) will undergo higher flight tests in the future. https://t.co/9aIpLopstW

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  1. Neverland
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    Very cool to see a third company actively working on this. It seems to be a small-scale hover and landing testbed. Interesting to read that Dr Zubrin is there. He is a bit odd, but his plan for...

    Very cool to see a third company actively working on this. It seems to be a small-scale hover and landing testbed. Interesting to read that Dr Zubrin is there. He is a bit odd, but his plan for in-situ fuel creation on Mars is basically what allows the settlement of Mars, with current propulsion systems.

    I wrote the title, as a tweet doesn’t exactly have a title. I could not find any news article about this yet, so Twitter.

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