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CAS Space successfully completed a high-altitude test flight carrying a recoverable payload capsule, highlighting China’s push into commercial aerospace and near-space research platforms. China completed its first 100-kilometre-class suborbital parachute recovery mission after a vehicle developed by CAS Space successfully flew from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre and safely returned to Earth. The mission reached an altitude of about 120 kilometres, briefly crossing the in