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New Delhi, July 12, China on Wednesday became the first country to successfully launch a new methane-powered carrier rocket into space, beating Elon Musk's SpaceX. Chinese private aerospace company LandSpace's Zhuque-2 carrier rocket blasted off at 9 a.m. Beijing Time (6.30 a.m. IST) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi desert in China, and completed the flight mission according to the procedure, Xinhua news agency reported. This was the second flight mission of the Zhuque-2 carrier rocket, after an unsuccessful launch on December 14, last year. With the successful launch, LandSpace is now at the forefront for the race…