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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at spacenews.com ...


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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1 posted on 06/30/2024 6:02:35 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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Blowed up real good.


2 posted on 06/30/2024 6:04:30 AM PDT by exnavy
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Sum ting wong.


3 posted on 06/30/2024 6:04:46 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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4 posted on 06/30/2024 6:08:45 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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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.


5 posted on 06/30/2024 6:09:16 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: marcusmaximus

Unscheduled rapid disassembly.


6 posted on 06/30/2024 6:09:18 AM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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7 posted on 06/30/2024 6:12:30 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: marcusmaximus

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.


8 posted on 06/30/2024 6:12:51 AM PDT by BobL
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“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!”


9 posted on 06/30/2024 6:16:14 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: marcusmaximus

Just like all the crap they sell on Amazon.


10 posted on 06/30/2024 6:19:13 AM PDT by LIConFem (DOJ's new motto: Fair is foul, and foul is fair.)
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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.


11 posted on 06/30/2024 6:27:02 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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Looks like somebody forgot to pay the bill for the rocket fuel.

OR, maybe they were experimenting with re-entry ala SpaceX?

12 posted on 06/30/2024 6:31:02 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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How many apts. did it destroy?


13 posted on 06/30/2024 6:34:52 AM PDT by bgill (.)
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To: BobL

China has built cities that no one lives in.


14 posted on 06/30/2024 6:45:19 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Gender dysphoria is now a federally protected mental illness.)
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15 posted on 06/30/2024 6:46:01 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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Bim Bop Zao!


16 posted on 06/30/2024 6:51:04 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Biden is the evil marionette. Who is pulling his strings?)
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To: marcusmaximus

New rocket named “Xiden Debate.”


17 posted on 06/30/2024 7:13:18 AM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: BobL

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.

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.


18 posted on 06/30/2024 7:17:55 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Captain Compassion

ANOTHER DESCRIPTION OF BIDEN’S DEBATE


19 posted on 06/30/2024 7:19:51 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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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.”

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.


20 posted on 06/30/2024 7:21:15 AM PDT by BobL
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