Chinese Space Program

Are these types of incidents normal or a freak accident ? I know there was a horrific accident in China during the 90's when a wayward rocket plowed into a village killing scores of people, but I assumed the chances of debris falling near civilians in this day and age was close to zero ?
 
alberchico said:
Are these types of incidents normal or a freak accident ?
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It's actually very common and I've seen photographs of spent booster-stage that has crashed into someone's house in a village, Scott Manley I do believe has done a video about it.





alberchico said:
I know there was a horrific accident in China during the 90's when a wayward rocket plowed into a village killing scores of people
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That was in 1996 when a Long March rocket carrying an American Comsat had a total guidance failure just after liftoff going horizontal and crashing into a nearby village killing hundreds of people.


Now I wonder when ever the Long March 2F flies (This is the rocket used to launch China's crewed Shenzhou spacecraft) what happens to the LAS when it's jettisoned, does it explode or just burn on impact?
 
https://twitter.com/x/status/1804769150696316976
View: https://twitter.com/aj_fi/status/1804769150696316976


Here's a surprise of sorts. State-owned Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST) just demonstrated a 10-km level (first in China) VTVL test with a 3.8m diameter test article. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/iUBksFIvM-zY…
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1804773001109344296
View: https://twitter.com/cnspaceflight/status/1804773001109344296


Coming up next will be a planned 70km VTVL test on this D3.8m prototype, to cover the whole flight profile of the first stage. And the maiden orbital launch is planned for 2025.
x.com/CNSpaceflight/…
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1804780907112649184
View: https://twitter.com/cnspaceflight/status/1804780907112649184


Leaked footage of the landing
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Chang'e 6 landing is planned between 05h41 and 06h11 UTC on June 25th, it will be broadcasted on chinese TV.



Flyaway said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1804769150696316976
View: https://twitter.com/aj_fi/status/1804769150696316976




https://twitter.com/x/status/1804773001109344296
View: https://twitter.com/cnspaceflight/status/1804773001109344296




https://twitter.com/x/status/1804780907112649184
View: https://twitter.com/cnspaceflight/status/1804780907112649184
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Definitely intrigued by SAST's 4m diameter reusable launcher (also sometime called "XLV22").

As far as we can tell it's serious, it was listed alongside the Long March 10 (the lunar rocket) in this year's Blue Book of CASC. But SAST would have debuted 3 launchers in the same 4.5-6.5t SSO payload range (CZ-6A, CZ-12 and this launcher) within the span of a few years, and why 4m (the diameter that has consistently been mentionned) when CZ-12, and this demonstration rocket have 3.8m diameter tanks?

It's speculated that these two launchers shown in a SAST video that was released for the maiden launch of the CZ-6C are these 4m reusable launchers, with a tricore version. If so, and if it is to scale, that's a launcher that's definitely larger than a Falcon 9.

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Did the cruise-stage burn in Earth's atmosphere after the reentry capsule separated or did it perform a burn to insert it into a heliocentric orbit?
 
You know, for roughly the last millennium or so the Chinese seem to really excel at being the first to be good at copying any Western invention...
 

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