Disaster! China miserably Attempts to COPY SpaceX Starship Engineering...Elon Laughs!!!
Disaster! China miserably Attempts to COPY SpaceX Starship Engineering...Elon Laughs!!!
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0:00: Intro
0:43: China’s New Starship Rival
1:29: Copying Even the Welding Style
8:58: Backed by Strong Government Support
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Disaster! China miserably Attempts to COPY SpaceX Starship Engineering...Elon Laughs!!!
China’s private space companies are now aggressively following SpaceX’s Starship strategy — from stainless steel rocket structures and methane-powered engines to fully reusable booster recovery systems. But despite the similarities, Elon Musk says Starship is still operating “in another league.”
In this video, we examine how companies like Yushi Space, LandSpace, Space Pioneer, and Galactic Energy are attempting to replicate the engineering philosophy behind Starship and Mechazilla, while exposing the enormous execution gap that still separates China’s launch industry from SpaceX.
Disaster! China miserably Attempts to COPY SpaceX Starship Engineering...Elon Laughs!!!
Elon Musk is betting everything on Starship — a next-generation rocket with the potential to fundamentally reshape humanity's future in space. However, Starship is not finished yet. SpaceX knows that, and the company is working relentlessly day by day to refine and improve it.
China knows that too — and it is not waiting around.
Rather than innovate, a parade of Chinese aerospace companies has chosen to shamelessly help themselves to the idea — so brazenly, so completely, that it has become genuinely difficult to tell where the original ends and the photocopy begins.
Recently, a Chinese private aerospace company called Yushi Space made headlines after securing a 200 million yuan Pre-A+ funding round. But for many observers, the funding itself is almost secondary. What has drawn far greater attention is the rocket the company is developing.
Disaster! China miserably Attempts to COPY SpaceX Starship Engineering...Elon Laughs!!!
Yushi Space’s AS-1 launch vehicle is expected to be transported to Wenchang, Hainan, in the second half of 2026 ahead of its maiden test flight. And what makes the vehicle remarkable is surprisingly simple: AS-1 bears an extremely strong resemblance to SpaceX’s Starship.
In other words, from the very beginning, Yushi Space appears to be pursuing one of the most ambitious — and unforgiving — paths in modern commercial spaceflight.
The imitation operates on three simultaneous levels.
The first is pure engineering. Yushi Space, one of China's most audacious new rocket startups, has followed SpaceX's technical roadmap for its AS-1 vehicle with almost surgical precision. The hull is stainless steel — the same unconventional material Elon Musk's team chose in 2019, trading the lightness of aluminum for steel's superior heat resistance and industrial manufacturability. The engines run on liquid oxygen and methane — the same green-fuel combination that makes SpaceX's Raptor engines cleanly reusable across multiple flights. And most strikingly, Yushi Space is actively developing a tower-mounted mechanical catch system to retrieve the returning booster mid-air, a near-identical echo of SpaceX's Mechazilla structure in Boca Chica, Texas. Cosmoleap, another Chinese startup, is building the same thing. These are not coincidences of engineering logic arriving independently at the same solution. These are deliberate choices to clone a specific technical roadmap, step by step, component by component.
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