The rocket was undergoing a static fire test of the stage, in which a vehicle is clamped to a test stand while its engines are ignited, when the booster broke free. According to a statement from the company, the rocket was not sufficiently clamped down and blasted off from the test stand “due to a structural failure.”
Video of the accidental ascent showed the rocket rising several hundred meters into the sky before it crashed explosively into a mountain 1.5 km away from the test site.
I feel slightly better knowing that the Chinese suffer from Chinesium-based products as much as we do.
I feel better knowing that Chinese military partners get to feel the joy as well. (Curbs can be a bitch sometimes…)
They suffer far more than anyone else from it. I mean just last week another rocket malfunctioned, lost a fuel tank that crashed close to a nearby village, enveloping homes in toxic gas. And spacecraft catastrophes are only the tiny tip if the tip of the iceberg.
I don’t think that was a malfunction…
That was ‘working as intended’.
Real life Kerbal Space Program accident.
Someone messed up their staging… again.
Lives were lost, equipment destroyed, lessons has been learned-ish.
But at least they already figured out how to land on the Mun and come back. They just need to go back to a previous save.
Except the test facility was dangerously close to city resulting at minimum in an enormous amount of broken windows (clearly heard in the recorded videos) and no doubt damage to people associated with large volumes of windows breaking.
Sounds pretty Kerbal to me.
Hot dam you are right lol.
😭 KSP2
The test stand is only about 5 km away from the city’s downtown and less than a kilometer from a smaller village.
No NIMBY in The People’s Republic ™.
None anymore at least
The test facility was dangerously close to city resulting at minimum in an enormous amount of broken windows (clearly heard in the recorded videos) that were far from the closest homes. no doubt there was harm to people associated with large volumes of breaking windows.
Not for long anyway.
To paraphrase Scott Manley; they got the rocket science down but need to work on their bolt science
(Fly safe)
oopsy doodle
-rocket clamper guy
Actually - “structural engineering team”, you can see it was ripped apart when it came off the test stand.
They should probably not rip off rocket (from spacex) when they dont have the intelligence to engineer it in the first place.
Video of the accidental ascent
I thought for sure it was going to be this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2VDLYWi5ck&t=50s
I think we’ve all been there
I hear Boeing ordered 6 of these rockets all ready
Getting all my aerospace technology on Temu.
Uh, I guess that’s why many of the more reasonable static test rigs have the rocket flat on the ground with a hill on the pointy side just in case.
That’s for testing engines alone. Static fire is separate yes way further down the line when you have the rocket built and ready to fly
That’s a different type of test for a different type of rocket.
Plus some bay or gulf, relatively quiet, very close by the site helps. It’s too bad the Chinese don’t have any of those.
Yeah, it was crazy how close a city was - one of the things Scot Manley went over
Gotta admire the rocket’s enthusiasm.
Somebody just lost their job…
well at least they know the rocket works now
Until that mountain got in its way anyways
I saw this movie. Did it involve bringing kids to outer space and an AI robot that just wanted to help?
Maoist rocket says, “Fuck your imperialist and capitalist clamps” and commits revolutionary suicide.
Is anyone speaking Chinese able to tell me what the guy in the first scene of the video is crying out? The one where the rocket falls horizontally. I mean, I have a general idea what is being said there conceptually, but I’d love to get an actual, accurate translation.
Basically it’s two people saying “Is it falling? Wouldn’t it explode? I’m recording it. Fuck the rocket is falling!”
From 5-8 seconds, the person seems to be saying争着争着中火大了, which doesn’t mean anything to me, but it may be something of the local dialect.
Hey, much appreciated!
Thank you.
