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Chinese rocket static-fire test results in unintended launch and huge explosion
Space News ^ | 6/30/2024 | Andrew Jones

Posted on 06/30/2024 6:02:35 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

A rocket stage test firing by Chinese commercial company Space Pioneer ended in catastrophic failure and a dramatic explosion Sunday.

Space Pioneer conducted what was intended to be a static-fire test of the first stage of its Tianlong-3 launch vehicle at a test facility in Gongyi country, Henan province, Sunday, June 30.

Amateur footage captured by Gongyi citizens and posted on Chinese social media shows the nine-engine test stage igntiing and then, exceptionally, taking off. Hold-down clamps and other structures are typically used to securely keep stages in place.

The stage is seen climbing into the sky before halting, apparently with its engines shutting off, and returning to Earth. The stage impacted the ground around 50 seconds after it took off, apparently with much of its kerosene-liquid oxygen propellant remaining, causing a large explosion.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: bloweduprealgood; boom; buffrightout; ccp; china; falcon9knockoff; gongyi; henanprovince; kerosene; oopsies; rocket; roguerocket; rp1; rud; runaway; spacepioneer; sumtinwong; tianlong3; xi
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21 posted on 06/30/2024 7:28:38 AM PDT by Rio
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To: marcusmaximus

Weather balloon


22 posted on 06/30/2024 7:37:27 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: marcusmaximus

The guy in charge was named, Ho Lee Sheet.


23 posted on 06/30/2024 7:46:38 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: marcusmaximus

oops


24 posted on 06/30/2024 8:06:39 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: marcusmaximus

If this happened to Elon Musk, all SpaceX launches would be postponed until 2030, and his assets would be sold off at fire sale prices.


25 posted on 06/30/2024 8:12:53 AM PDT by jmcenanly (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
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To: marcusmaximus

“What’s this button do?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlQkeKa4IKg

https://topwar.ru/uploads/posts/2024-06/snimok4.webp

Kerosene and liquid oxygen, nine engines, sounds familiar...

https://i0.wp.com/spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/tianlong-3-first-stage-space-pioneer.jpg

Legend of Ming Dynasty ‘astronaut’:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Hu


26 posted on 06/30/2024 8:17:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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Doin’ the old Peking “duck!”:

https://search.brave.com/search?q=chinese+rocket+launch+into+school&summary=1

Collapse of Lotus Riverside Block 7 Residential area in Shanghai, China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoeHxy-ewxY

https://search.brave.com/images?q=Lotus%20Riverside%20Block%207%20Collapse


27 posted on 06/30/2024 8:23:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: jmcenanly

Headline: American Starliner stuck in space.
Chineae test stand achieves new altitude record !!!


28 posted on 06/30/2024 8:23:46 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

China is way, way ahead of the United States and indeed every other country with respect to altitude attained with rocket test stands. America is falling behind!!


29 posted on 06/30/2024 8:32:01 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: marcusmaximus

That was quite the explosion.

Slow uke front news day? /s


30 posted on 06/30/2024 8:59:24 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
They will have to rethink their hold down straps.

Thanks for the early 4th of July firework show.

The people who filmed the second video were laughing and joking, as far as to make a “Boom” sound.

Has China progressed enough so these lads can laugh at the failure of the state and post it on the web ?

31 posted on 06/30/2024 9:03:14 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: marcusmaximus

32 posted on 06/30/2024 9:19:17 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: LIConFem

“Just like all the crap they sell on Amazon.”

Was that the cheap crap they just used to bring rocks back from the far side of the moon? How many countries in the world make crap cheap enough to do that?


33 posted on 06/30/2024 9:26:29 AM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: marcusmaximus

Static fire without hold down bolts transitions into maiden flight. What could possibly go wrong?


34 posted on 06/30/2024 9:33:10 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Delta 21
What could possibly go wrong?

What could go wong did go wong. The question now is, did the family of the soon to be deceased have to pay for the bullet.

35 posted on 06/30/2024 9:40:01 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (IThey intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
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To: OldHarbor
They will have to rethink their hold down straps.

I am wondering if the calculation of hold down tensile strength accounted for the fact that the rocket motor loses weight as it burns off fuel, but does not lose thrust. So if the net lifting force is 230 tons initially, it is reduced by one ton for every ton of fuel burned off.

36 posted on 06/30/2024 10:58:49 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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To: SunkenCiv

Marked.


37 posted on 06/30/2024 2:54:01 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: exnavy; Red Badger; Liz; SunkenCiv; Kaslin; BenLurkin

Well, actually, it “should have” “blown up real good.” But they failed doing that.

The (not ready for launch) range safety officer FAILED to destroy it in midair above the test station too.
Instead it fell (fully fueled) all the way back on top the Chinese test site building.


38 posted on 06/30/2024 3:44:13 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: smokingfrog

Good post.

And this is a separate incident that happened a few weeks before this one.


39 posted on 07/06/2024 1:04:49 PM PDT by ifinnegan (MDemocrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

Actual vid

https://youtu.be/Oe2-2_4dgQY?si=ZoNxNy1hvGItNslz


40 posted on 07/06/2024 1:22:13 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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