Posted on 04/13/2020 4:45:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Chinese rocket carrying a new communications satellite for Indonesia has failed to reach orbit in a launch gone awry, the second failure for China's space agency in less than a month, state media reported today (April 9).
The Long March 3B rocket lifted off today at 7:46 a.m. EDT from China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan, where the local time was 7:46 p.m. on Thursday night, according to the Xinhua News Agency. The rocket was carrying the Palapa-N1, also known as the Nusantara Dua, a next-generation satellite for broadband and broadcast communications built for the Indonesian joint venture of Indosat Ooredoo and Pasifik Satelit Nusantara.
The first and second stages of the three-stage Long March 3B rocket appeared to perform well during the outset of Thursday's launch. But something went wrong with the third stage, raining debris back to Earth and destroying the Palapa-N1 satellite, Xinhua reported.
Videos posted on China's social media site Weibo showed several views of the initial launch. Other videos from Guam showed what appeared to be fiery debris streaking across the sky.
Officials with the Guam Homeland Defense and Civil Defense (GHS/OCD) and the Mariana Regional Fusion Center (MRFC) said the fireball was likely connected to China's failed launch. They were monitoring all events in the region, "including widely circulated videos of a fiery object over the Marianas sky this evening," the officials said in a statement.
"In concert with federal partners, GHS/OCD and MRFC identified that the object was likely connected to a scheduled satellite test launch from China," they added.
The failed Long March 3B launch marks China's second launch failure in less than a month. On March 16, a Long March 7A rocket failed to launch a classified satellite into orbit during a debut test flight
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A Russian Soyuz rocket successfully launched a new U.S.-Russian crew to the International Space Station from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:05 a.m. EDT (0805 GMT). That mission successfully reached the space station six hours later, and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and cosmonauts Anatoli Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner joined the station's Expedition 62 crew.
a bunch of people probably won’t be going home anytime soon
Geee.....I wonder what could possibly be “going wrong”?
China should sue Bernie Schwarz for delivery of faulty technology.
Well China just needs to step up their espionage theft efforts.
awww. my guess is that Chinese launches won’t reach orbit for another year...
They should call bent - one willie clinton. He would have no problem sending those Commies more USA technology...as he did in the past. What a malignant loser. May he rot.
With a REAL President slowing down their theft of ideas and designs, we will jump even further ahead of them more than we are now.
I know I’ve read the dour comments. They’ve overtaken us.
Their military is a BEAST now I tell ya.
#### that. #### China.
We’d bury them in a battle at sea.
China’s rockets are as dependable as their statistics
RE: China’s rockets are as dependable as their statistics
I’m worried about their ballistic missiles.
Maybe the Clinton Launch Codes......expired.
Perhaps you can’t just steal stuff, without understanding how it works, and then MAKE it work...
Two rocket failures, a fire on their newest aircraft carrier, and the “accidental” release of a bioweapon, all in a four month period.
Hmm.
Oh, they probably understand how it works, but not how we are able to sabotage it undetected.
Fireball on the sky on April 10 2020 over Mariana Islands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koPm5Q6vxRY
Communism has never, ever worked for more than the blink of an eye.
It’s just a little “cough” in the system....
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