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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    9 months ago

    I feel slightly better knowing that the Chinese suffer from Chinesium-based products as much as we do.

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      9 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.

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      9 months ago

      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.

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    9 months ago

    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.

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    9 months ago

    Maoist rocket says, “Fuck your imperialist and capitalist clamps” and commits revolutionary suicide.

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    9 months ago

    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.

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      9 months ago

      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.