Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, east China - March 23, 2023 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of footage showing testing of carrier rocket booster recovery system
2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Teng Haishan, deputy chief engineer, No. 508 Institute of China Academy of Space Technology (partially overlaid with shot 3/ending with shot 4):
"In the booster's process of falling, we open the parachute and use its gliding control performance to reduce the original landing area of 30 to 90 kilometers to a relatively smaller area, so that the booster will drop on a designated place. We also make the landing area into a landing bed by adding cushion, making it soft as a mattress. As a result, the booster will be completely recyclable without any damage."
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3. Various of footage showing testing of carrier rocket booster recovery system
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4. Various of footage showing testing of carrier rocket booster recovery system

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5. Various of rockets being launched
6. Animation showing rocket in air
7. Rocket being launched

Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, east China - March 23, 2023 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
8. Various of footage showing testing of carrier rocket booster recovery system
9. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Teng Haishan, deputy chief engineer, No. 508 Institute of China Academy of Space Technology (starting with shot 8/ending with shot 10):
"Now this technology is relatively mature, and we already have the capability to recover four-ton boosters. We can recover the boosters of CZ-3B, CZ-3C and CZ-2F. In the next two years, there will be two tests on the recovering of boosters and two tests on recovering fairings. If there are no problems, the design will be finalized."
10. Various of footage showing testing of carrier rocket booster recovery system
11. People at lecture
12. Various of innovation achievements being demonstrated

A China-made system for the recovery of carrier rocket boosters and fairings has entered the final stage of development, marking new progress in the country's spacecraft recovery technology.

The system was demonstrated at the third Innovation and Creativity Competition sponsored by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), which opened on Thursday in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province.

The system consists of multiple subsystems such as parachute, program control, and telemetry remote control. It mainly recovers the boosters and fairings that can be reused in rocket launches.

"In the booster's process of falling, we open the parachute and use its gliding control performance to reduce the original landing area of 30 to 90 kilometers to a relatively smaller area, so that the booster will drop on a designated place. We also make the landing area into a landing bed by adding cushion, making it soft as a mattress. As a result, the booster will be completely recyclable without any damage," said Teng Haishan, deputy chief engineer of the No. 508 Institute of China Academy of Space Technology.

Teng said that China launched over 50 carrier rockets per year in the past two years. If the recovery system is put into use, the annual cost can be saved by about 1.7 billion yuan (about 249 million U.S. dollars).

At present, this technology has ensured landing area control and parachute landing of rocket boosters, and the system has entered the final verification stage.

"Now this technology is relatively mature, and we already have the capability to recover four-ton boosters. We can recover the boosters of CZ-3B, CZ-3C and CZ-2F. In the next two years, there will be two tests on the recovering of boosters and two tests on recovering fairings. If there are no problems, the design will be finalized," said Teng.

In addition to the spacecraft recovery system, a total of 60 new achievements related to aerospace technology were displayed at the innovation and creativity competition, such as space anti-radiation protective film and software radio frequency transceiver chip.