China's Long March-10B rocket feat lights up social media: is SpaceX set to lose crown?

China successfully recovered a reusable Long March-10B rocket booster using a novel sea-based net-and-cable system, breaking SpaceX's decade-long monopoly on economical rocket reuse. Goldman Sachs simultaneously raised LEO satellite deployment forecasts sevenfold to 305,000 units by 2031, citing reusable rocket breakthroughs as the enabling technology.

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