China has joined the US and Russia as the only nations to have successfully launched a rocket at sea, as the National Space Administration’s Long March 11 took off from a launchpad on a ship in the Yellow Sea last week, reported Engadget, a global technology network.
The rocket carried five commercial and two research-focused experimental satellites.
While the US and Russia worked with other countries on the Sea Launch platform, China is the only country to have launched a rocket from the sea using a platform and tech it fully owns, according to TechCrunch.