To paraphrase Scott Manley; they got the rocket science down but need to work on their bolt science
(Fly safe)
Real life Kerbal Space Program accident.
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.
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.
I feel slightly better knowing that the Chinese suffer from Chinesium-based products as much as we do.
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'.
I suspect it's actually worse there. This guy has a series called "China fakes everything" which is worth watching
I watched a couple videos from this channel and done a bit of research and:
I would recommend not to listen to a random guy who claims to be an "insider"
I feel better knowing that Chinese military partners get to feel the joy as well. (Curbs can be a bitch sometimes....)
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 (tm).
Not for long anyway.
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.
I'm pretty sure it's ridiculously hard to stop government projects in your backyard there. The best you can do is refuse to sell your land.
It‘s impossible. You can protest against mid sized manufacturers that pollute the environment but you cannot do anything whatsoever against directly state baked companies that do the real damage at which point you might rightfully ask yourself: „Why bother about the environment or safety whatsoever? The state says it takes care of it and I have no say in it anyway.“
It won't matter if you do, unless you're a Party member. Example: the completion of the Three Gorges Dam was accompanied by forcing upwards of 30 million people to move. No compensation or new housing provided...just move somewhere else or you'll drown. Fascinating book based on his long term reporting (I think New York Times IIRC), "River Town" by Peter Hessler. He was there, he lived it.
Chinese don't own the land, the government is. And even if they own it, local officials can always call in the bulldozers midnight.
I think we've all been there
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
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.
Unintended catastrophic disassembly due to structural failure.
I saw this movie. Did it involve bringing kids to outer space and an AI robot that just wanted to help?
Gotta admire the rocket's enthusiasm.
I hear Boeing ordered 6 of these rockets all ready
Getting all my aerospace technology on Temu.
Maoist rocket says, "Fuck your imperialist and capitalist clamps" and commits revolutionary suicide.
Somebody just lost their job..
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