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Chinese rocket static-fire test results in unintended launch and huge explosion

spacenews.com Chinese rocket static-fire test results in unintended launch and huge explosion

Chinese rocket static-fire test results in unintended launch and huge explosion A rocket stage test firing by Chinese commercial company Space Pioneer ended in catastrophic failure and a dramatic explosion Sunday.

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"unintended launch" lol
Temu NASA.
- CNSA would be "Temu NASA".
  
  Space Pioneer is more like "Temu SpaceX". Their aforementioned Tianlong-3 rocket is pretty much a Falcon 9 clone.
"No casualties were found."

Nice.

On the positive side, they really stuck the landing.
- None died or none was found?
  
  Or none were looked for. Coverups are easier when you ignore the evidence.
  
  Everyone died and the bodies were not found (they exploded)
- To shreds you say...
Static fire quickly became dynamic one
You'd think making a big clamp is easier than making a rocket...
- They're rocket scientists, not clamp scientists.
  
  It'd be easier to train clamp scientists to static fire than to train rocket scientists to clamp.
- There's a reason management courses all insist that you focus on your core competency.
  
  Next time maybe they’ll shell out for The Clamp
"I believe it's time for me to flyyyyy"
Wow, that's wild!

Space Pioneer issued its own statement later, stating there was a structural failure at the connection between the rocket body and the test bench.

Sounds like the hold-down clamps failed. Have there been any previous cases in history where static fires unexpectedly turned into non-static fires?
- It means the rocket was just too good for those clamps
- well there was that incident in '86 when the shuttle Atlantis was 'accidentally' launched with 4 kids aboard during an engine test. The documentary about it called Space Camp is riveting.
  
  Few people know that one of those kids was now famous actor, Joaquin Phoenix. I watched that documentary many times and was shock to find out that people speak in a type of slow motion when in zero G.
- In surprised a failure like that led to it being launched straight up like that.
W O W

https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5050998629862652#&video

https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5051020881691029#&video
- Bruh why the fuck are they doing this in the suburbs
  
  China is a very small country, obviously.
  
  I was thinking the same thing. You can kind of figure out the distance from the time the rocket disappears behind the cloud/hill to the time you hear the explosion in the second video. The rocket disappears at 41 seconds and the explosion is heard at 49.5 seconds. Even if the rocket had hit the ground as soon as it disappeared from sight we're talking 2-3 kilometers away.
Sorry, my bad. I forgot a zip tie.
- Okay someone do the math on how many zipties it would take to hold down a Saturn 5 rocket.
- Why are we using zip ties as hold-down clamps in the first place?
  
  Because we couldn't find our duct tape.
Obligatory Manley analysis.
- Wow, that was fast, even for Scott!
Task failed successfully.
They need more struts!
Made in China.
- Their rockets fly even when you try to not let them fly.
I’m happy nobody was hurt. Keep trying kerbalnaughts!
Never Mind that. Look at all those mini-splits.
You'd figure that would have learned from Boeing and used a whole shitload of fasteners..

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