{
  "id": 3032235,
  "title": "Meet Dai Zheng, the space veteran betting on China’s reusable rocket revolution",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/meet-dai-zheng-the-space-veteran-betting-on-chinas-reusable-rocket-3032235",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-24T13:30:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3365091/meet-dai-zheng-space-veteran-betting-chinas-reusable-rocket-revolution"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Ten years ago, Dai Zheng made a career-defining gamble: he left his secure, prestigious engineering post in China’s state space programme to join an unproven private start-up. On August 19, that risk paid off when a rocket booster returned from orbit and landed upright for the first time in Chinese commercial space history. For Dai, now chief commander of the Zhuque-3 missions at LandSpace, the…",
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        "outlet": "SCMP Tech",
        "title": "Meet Dai Zheng, the space veteran betting on China’s reusable rocket revolution",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/meet-dai-zheng-the-space-veteran-betting-on-chinas-reusable-rocket",
        "published": "2026-08-24T13:30:09.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}