China recovered its first reusable rocket and showed a new way to do it (arstechnica.com)

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[-] untorquer@quokk.au 3 points 18 hours ago

I love the industrial look of everything. Especially the ship. Looks like they just put the landing gantry on a regular service vessel, didn't bother to massively modify it or even give it a fancy paint job or anything. It looks humble.

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