On October 11, 2024, China achieved a technological feat by successfully recovering its first reusable satellite, the Shijian 19, the National Space Administration announced.
The Shijian 19 satellite landed at the Dongfeng landing site (Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China) at 10:39 a.m. Friday, the National Space Administration said in a statement.
“Ground recovery personnel, dispatched by the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, then opened the craft to extract the mission payloads,” the statement said.
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On board the satellite were plant seeds, samples of microorganisms, technology demonstration devices and space experiment instruments.
The satellite was put into orbit on September 27 by a Long March 2D carrier rocket.
Developed by the Chinese Academy of Space Technology, this craft will serve as a platform for microgravity experiments in various scientific fields.
The China Space Administration believes that the reusability of Shijian 19 will reduce costs and improve the efficiency of China’s future space missions.
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