{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_awfagmtgkhdw7r7emhma","title":"Hanwha Aerospace starts assembling prototype for reusable rockets","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/hanwha-aerospace-starts-assembling-prototype-for-reusable-rockets-awfagmtgkh","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_awfagmtgkhdw7r7emhma","seq":871480,"kind":"article","title":"Hanwha Aerospace starts assembling prototype for reusable rockets","url":"https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/companies/20260930/hanwha-aerospace-starts-assembling-prototype-for-reusable-rockets","summary":"Korea’s premier defense and space contractor Hanwha Aerospace has begun assembling a reusable rocket technology demonstrator, marking a critical step toward developing vertically landing launch vehicles similar to SpaceX’s Falcon 9. Hanwha Aerospace said Wednesday that it started full assembly of the demonstrator as part of a project led by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), with Vitzro Nextech and Hanyang ENG also participating. The project aims to complete…","published":"2026-09-30T09:37:02Z","seen":"2026-09-30T09:38:25Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-koreatimes-co-kr-c6eccf","name":"koreatimes.co.kr","domain":"feed.koreatimes.co.kr"},"via":"kite-koreatimes-co-kr-c6eccf","topics":["asia"],"authors":["author"],"entities":[{"id":"Q563107","name":"Hanwha Aerospace","type":"org"}],"image":"https://newsimg.koreatimes.co.kr/2026/09/30/3808ee5a-1b24-42f2-94e1-e9708e47c214.jpeg","story":"st_awfagmtgkhdw7r7emhma","category":"science-technology","category_p":0.6600000262260437,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":0.25999999046325684,"political":0.33000001311302185}]}