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Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket (arstechnica.com)

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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.

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[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] Morphit@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

I don't think that was a malfunction...
That was 'working as intended'.

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