China Claims Progress On Lifting-Body Space Launchers

BEIJING—China is making fairly quick progress in research aimed at eventual development of a reusable lifting-body space launcher, a senior manager of the country’s space program says. Space-launcher builder CALT says it is following a three-phase approach to sending objects into space with reusable...

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