[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[jiggyboy]

[Sacajaweau]

IIRC, all their rockets have failed.

I send the Koreans Greetings and Remember: Spit in the sky, come back in your eye. Bye, bye!!

[moovova]

Dear Leader touts missile launch as a smashing success.

[Venturer]

Perhaps they self-destructed it.

With threats from Japan to shoot it down, and threats against it’s violating other countries airspace maybe they dedcided to show their arrogance by firing it ,but thought better about allowing it to force them into a more dangerous confrontation.

[BillM]

The US has an experimental High Energy Laser platform based on a 747. I wonder if it might have been cruising in the area. It has been used to cause exactly this type of failure. It’s unlikely that anyone would have noticed it up there.

[ElkGroveDan]

Cause of failure? It exproded.

[Wurlitzer]

Simple they are inferior to us. Not that we did not have many failures but being superior we have advanced much further and much quicker that these, Oh so easy to be offended, central planners. Like China, if they cannot steal the technology, they would be another 20+ years behind the times. But they would be offended if anyone said that. TFB.

Which brings up a point: Did you ever notice that what ever group we may be discussing, those who are easy to offend are also inferior and are not advancing at the same rate as the rest of civilization. Mudslimes come to mind immediately.

[Little Ray]

Or maybe an accidental collision with an SM3? Or a laser?

[Tallguy]

The explosion is believed to have been caused by a fuel leak from a propellant engine or a turbopump malfunction rather than booster separation.

Airborne Lasers will do that!

[JohnBrowdie]

made in china

[AmericanInTokyo]

My take? They are self-handcuffed victims of their very own odd, eery, obsessive preoccuption with Great Socialist anniversaries of this, than and the other. Endemic in Ccommunist socieies, and particular in the most dictatorial of them. It is one of the only ways to keep the starving, enslaved and otherwise deprived "People" preoccupied on Bread and Circuses so they dont get pissed off and turn on the National Palace of the Maximum Leader.

I guess they rushed it, to keep from losing face, the foreign press there made additional pressure. My guess? Next time, they will invite no foreign press observers.

[AmericanInTokyo]

My take? They are self-handcuffed victims of their very own odd, eery, obsessive preoccuption with Great Socialist anniversaries of this, that and the other. Endemic in Ccommunist socieies, and particular in the most dictatorial of them. It is one of the only ways to keep the starving, enslaved and otherwise deprived "People" preoccupied on Bread and Circuses so they dont get pissed off and turn on the National Palace of the Maximum Leader.

I guess they rushed it, to keep from losing face, the foreign press there made additional pressure. My guess? Next time, they will invite no foreign press observers.

[Lx]

Those turbo pumps are tricky. I read an account of the failures of the Shuttle Main Engines, SSMEs. A lot were due to turbo pump problems but what really stood out was that a run away turbo pump could reach 400,000 RPMs in one second leading to self destruction before it reached that number.

The engineers were complaining that the monitoring they were doing couldn't react fast enough due to slow computers to stop the overrun in time to save the engine and turbopump.

I think this is the writeup:
SSME history in several parts

From part III:
If only the normal operating torque were applied to the HPOTP without the fluid load applied (gas in the pump or in cavitation) it could accelerate from a dead stop to a destructive overspeed condition in less than a tenth of a second. The acceleration rate under this condition is almost 400,000 rpm per second.

[T-Bird45]

I believe I have found the culprit:

[Da Coyote]

Their rockets fail because their rocket scientists know as much about rockets as the Obamaloon knows about the constitution.

[jda]

It’s quite simple: Inferior, Chinese-made tinker toys.

[blueunicorn6]

Natural gas leak.

[Cronos]

All chinese made products are poor quality....

[B.O. Plenty]

Zer0 could get some street creds if he would claim responsibility for the NORK bottle rocket blowing up shortly off the launch pad.