On September 22, the Jiangsu Deep Blue Aerospace Company conducted the first high-altitude test of their Nebula-1 rocket: a reusable and recyclable first-stage rocket body. The test was mostly successful – but once the rocket came back to Earth,

In an official statement, the company explains that the propellant type is the most efficient, cheapest, and safest choice for commercial reusable rockets. Still, they explained that due to kerosene-liquid oxygen’s inherent regulation and stability issues,

Deep Blue Aerospace launched its Nebula-1 rocket for its first high-altitude recovery test flight on Sunday, and attempted to land it back at the Ejin Banner Spaceport in Inner Mongolia. The rocket lifted off to an altitude of around 3 miles (5 kilometers) above the ground but it fumbled the landing,

The test flight went well for about two and a half minutes before the vehicle experienced a problem just before landing and erupted into a fireball. This is not the first vertical rocket landing test by a Chinese company,