What China Did With SpaceX Rockets Shocked NASA & Elon Musk!

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What China Did With SpaceX Rockets Shocked NASA & Elon Musk!
If copying technology were an Olympic sport, I’d bet China would snatch gold every single year.
From smartphones to electric cars, AI to space rockets, when the world builds something groundbreaking, China’s quick to zero in and make it their own.
And now, their eyes are on the biggest private player in space: SpaceX.
With reusable rockets like Falcon 9, and the monstrous Starship, Elon Musk’s empire has slashed costs and kicked off a new era of space travel.
But China’s not just eyeing the blueprints, they’re gunning to outshine SpaceX, using eerily similar tech to do it.
So, can they really pull it off? And what could it mean for the entire US space industry?
Let’s break it all down in today’s episode of TechMap.
What China Did With SpaceX Rockets Shocked NASA & Elon Musk!
In the U.S., NASA and SpaceX form a powerful public-private duo that's reshaping the future of space.
Likewise, in China, a similar setup is taking shape between CASC, the state-run space giant, and Landspace, a fast-rising private company with big ambitions.
CASC is basically China’s version of NASA, but with military ties, a massive workforce, and way more funding.
They are behind the Long March rocket family, the Tiangong space station, moon sample missions, and even plans to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon with Russia.
CASC is massive, we’re talking about around 170,000 employees and estimated assets of $70 billion.
To put that in perspective, NASA has just about 18,000 employees, an annual budget of $25 billion, and its total value isn’t even something you can measure like that.
But here is the difference, NASA has history.
What China Did With SpaceX Rockets Shocked NASA & Elon Musk!
It was founded in 1958, right as the United States was recovering from a post–World War Two recession.
Despite being smaller, NASA did what no one else could, it put Neil Armstrong on the Moon in 1969, making the U.S. the first and only nation to land humans there.
Now let’s talk about today’s main player: Landspace.
It’s a young private space company from China, founded in 2015. Technically “private,” but not entirely.
Some of its founders and top execs come straight out of CASC. That’s why, when it comes to copying tech from SpaceX, they’ve got serious backing behind the scenes.
Last year, Landspace kicked off a major project, developing a heavy-lift rocket called Zhuque-3. It’s built to go head-to-head with Falcon 9 and, in the long run, maybe even challenge Starship. And now, new images of Zhuque-3 have just surfaced, and it looks strikingly similar to SpaceX’s rockets.
At a glance, it’s clearly a two-stage rocket. And according to China, it’s fully reusable, just like Falcon 9. Those four landing legs, tucked neatly along the body, only make it look even more like a copy.
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