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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Blowed up real good.
Sum ting wong.
At the 15 second point it looks like the engines had a significant failure. Something blew out. Not an intentional engine cutoff.
Yep Blowed Up REAL Good.
Unscheduled rapid disassembly.
They’ll need to get some Russians over to review their engineering. I was going to give China a pass on a test-firing gone bad, as that is the purpose of testing - but no excuse for the damn thing flying away!
Two other observations from the very beginning of the video. Note how all 4 apartment units in the view have air conditioning...China is no longer Third World as much as we may wish otherwise. Also note the burglar bars on the first and second floors of the building - further showing that China is closing-in on First World status in the bad ways too.
“Dang it, Harvey! You had one job! One job! You had to tie the rope to the rocket so it wouldn’t take off! What’s your excuse this time? You thought the portapotty was the rocket? Well, you’re going to become very familiar with that portapotty, Harv. You’re going from Rocket Technician to Professor of Portapotty! Grab your toothbrush!”
Just like all the crap they sell on Amazon.
Lemme see: 530 ton rocket motor. 820 tons of thrust. We’ll need about 300 tons of total tensile strength in the tie down clamps, but we can get a better price on 200 tons.
OR, maybe they were experimenting with re-entry ala SpaceX?
How many apts. did it destroy?
China has built cities that no one lives in.
Bim Bop Zao!
New rocket named “Xiden Debate.”
Also note the burglar bars on the first and second floors of the building - further showing that China is closing-in on First World status in the bad ways too.
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Those bars aren’t to keep bad guys out, but to keep the residents in. They were put there during the last Chinese covid panic on orders of Xi Jinping to keep covid cases confined.
Lots of people died from starvation because of that, others burned to death when their buildings caught fire.
ANOTHER DESCRIPTION OF BIDEN’S DEBATE
“Those bars aren’t to keep bad guys out, but to keep the residents in. They were put there during the last Chinese covid panic on orders of Xi Jinping to keep covid cases confined.”
Good point and better explains why they are also on the second floor as jumping from there is somewhat doable for healthy people, but breaking-in from there, very unlikely.
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