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Chinese rocket static-fire test results in unintended launch and huge explosion (spacenews.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/spaceflight
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[–] threelonmusketeers 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

In surprised a failure like that led to it being launched straight up like that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

It means the rocket was just too good for those clamps