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Re:China successfully launches its largest reusable rocket by xref on Sunday August 11, 2019 @03:38AM (#20666905)
You’re being downvoted but this seems like a very legitimate question seeing as a major part of the current US/China trade dispute is appropriation of intellectual property
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Re:China successfully launches its largest reusable rocket by andygates on Sunday August 11, 2019 @05:40AM (#20667307)
Parallel reinvention happens all the time. Consider steam engines, web browsers. Once a way has been found to do the thing, it's surprisingly straightforward to redo the thing.
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Re:China successfully launches its largest reusable rocket by garmaine on Sunday August 11, 2019 @05:39AM (#20667302)
Given that the form factor of this rocket is totally different from SpaceX's reusable hardware, it doesn't seem likely.
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