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.
To paraphrase Scott Manley; they got the rocket science down but need to work on their bolt science
(Fly safe)
By any chance, were the clamps filled with styrofoam or something? 😁 (Tofu-dreg joke)
I saw this movie. Did it involve bringing kids to outer space and an AI robot that just wanted to help?
That’s what happens when you build hardware out of cheese and spit like China is known for. One day it’s going to bite you in the ass.
I think we’ve all been there
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
Gotta admire the rocket’s enthusiasm.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anyone else curious about the off-camera person who sounds like a cowering goblin?
Video of the accidental ascent
Somebody just lost their job…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
The statement from Space Pioneer sought to downplay the incident, saying it had implemented safety measures before the test, and there were no casualties as a result of the accident.
Located in the Henan province in eastern China, alongside the Yellow River, Gongyi has a population of about 800,000 people.
Typically, during a static fire test, the mass of propellant on board a vehicle combined with strong clamps hold a rocket down.
This was a notable achievement, but the rocket’s engines were provided by a Chinese state-operated firm, the Academy of Aerospace Liquid Propulsion Technology, rather than the private company.
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