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Chinese rocket static-fire test results in unintended launch and huge explosion

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Chinese rocket static-fire test results in unintended launch and huge explosion A rocket stage test firing by Chinese commercial company Space Pioneer ended in catastrophic failure and a dramatic explosion Sunday.

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You'd think making a big clamp is easier than making a rocket...
- They're rocket scientists, not clamp scientists.
  
  It'd be easier to train clamp scientists to static fire than to train rocket scientists to clamp.
- There's a reason management courses all insist that you focus on your core competency.
  
  Next time maybe they’ll shell out for The Clamp

Temu NASA.
- CNSA would be "Temu NASA".
  Space Pioneer is more like "Temu SpaceX". Their aforementioned Tianlong-3 rocket is pretty much a Falcon 9 clone.

"No casualties were found."
Nice.
On the positive side, they really stuck the landing.
- None died or none was found?
  
  Everyone died and the bodies were not found (they exploded)
  
  Or none were looked for. Coverups are easier when you ignore the evidence.
- To shreds you say...

Static fire quickly became dynamic one

Wow, that's wild!
Space Pioneer issued its own statement later, stating there was a structural failure at the connection between the rocket body and the test bench.
Sounds like the hold-down clamps failed. Have there been any previous cases in history where static fires unexpectedly turned into non-static fires?
- In surprised a failure like that led to it being launched straight up like that.
- It means the rocket was just too good for those clamps

W O W
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5050998629862652#&video
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5051020881691029#&video
- Bruh why the fuck are they doing this in the suburbs
  
  I was thinking the same thing. You can kind of figure out the distance from the time the rocket disappears behind the cloud/hill to the time you hear the explosion in the second video. The rocket disappears at 41 seconds and the explosion is heard at 49.5 seconds. Even if the rocket had hit the ground as soon as it disappeared from sight we're talking 2-3 kilometers away.
  
  China is a very small country, obviously.