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Tianlong 3 booster static fire test lifts off instead (youtu.be)

submitted 4 months ago by JohnDClay to c/[email protected]

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Scott Manley video, looks like the hold down claps may have ripped the bottom off the booster, allowing it to take off.

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

How do you even handle that? Do they load an actual flight program for these tests, or does it just go off uncontrolled until range safety hits the destruct button? (Do they even have range safety and a destruct button?)