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China’s launch methane-fueled rocket fails, 14 satellites misplaced

The world’s first methane-fueled rocket to be launched towards orbit has failed to achieve its purpose.

The Zhuque-2 rocket, developed by Beijing-based firm Landspace, lifted off Wednesday (Dec. 14) on the first-ever orbital mission of a methane-fueled launcher and China’s first liftoff of a commercially developed liquid propellant rocket. Regardless of the excessive hopes for the historic mission, it seems that Zhuque-2 failed to achieve orbit and misplaced the 14 satellites it carried.

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