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To paraphrase Scott Manley; they got the rocket science down but need to work on their bolt science
(Fly safe)
By any chance, were the clamps filled with styrofoam or something? 😁 (Tofu-dreg joke)
I saw this movie. Did it involve bringing kids to outer space and an AI robot that just wanted to help?
Maoist rocket says, "Fuck your imperialist and capitalist clamps" and commits revolutionary suicide.
Unintended catastrophic disassembly due to structural failure.
Uh, I guess that's why many of the more reasonable static test rigs have the rocket flat on the ground with a hill on the pointy side just in case.
That's for testing engines alone. Static fire is separate yes way further down the line when you have the rocket built and ready to fly
That's a different type of test for a different type of rocket.
Plus some bay or gulf, relatively quiet, very close by the site helps. It's too bad the Chinese don't have any of those.
Yeah, it was crazy how close a city was - one of the things Scot Manley went over