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Chinese rocket static-fire test results in unintended launch and huge explosion (spacenews.com)

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[-] threelonmusketeers 27 points 1 week ago

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 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

It means the rocket was just too good for those clamps

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

well there was that incident in '86 when the shuttle Atlantis was 'accidentally' launched with 4 kids aboard during an engine test. The documentary about it called Space Camp is riveting.

[-] Jumuta 2 points 4 days ago

it's fiction lmao

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Few people know that one of those kids was now famous actor, Joaquin Phoenix. I watched that documentary many times and was shock to find out that people speak in a type of slow motion when in zero G.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Technically speaking it was low-G. None of Joachim Phoenix’s movies are strictly “zero-G”

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