Not quite sure how something like this happens.
https://spacenews.com/chinese-rocke...ults-in-unintended-launch-and-huge-explosion/
https://spacenews.com/chinese-rocke...ults-in-unintended-launch-and-huge-explosion/
Boeing bolted it down?Not quite sure how something like this happens.
https://spacenews.com/chinese-rocke...ults-in-unintended-launch-and-huge-explosion/
Pity the Chinese didn't steal those documents and learn from them.This sort of thing has happened before...at White Sands. The 8th Navy Viking sounding rocket (the first of the larger-diameter, shorter version) broke loose during an intended static test and was lost.....this was in June of 1952.
Indeed. There's been an interesting conversation about that today on Arocket in the wake of that happened in China and the supposed causes of that Viking mishap.This sort of thing has happened before...at White Sands. The 8th Navy Viking sounding rocket (the first of the larger-diameter, shorter version) broke loose during an intended static test and was lost.....this was in June of 1952.
I just re-read the chapter called "We Learn a Lesson" in Milt Rosen's The Viking Story, which tells the story of Viking 8's unintended flight. Structural failure of the part of the rocket bolted to the pad, caused by an unexpected set of conditions that occurred during the early portion of the static firing. Something like that might well have happened in China the other day....Indeed. There's been an interesting conversation about that today on Arocket in the wake of that happened in China and the supposed causes of that Viking mishap.
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This sort of thing has happened before...at White Sands. The 8th Navy Viking sounding rocket (the first of the larger-diameter, shorter version) broke loose during an intended static test and was lost.....this was in June of 1952.
It, uhm, wasn't supposed to fly. Supposedly.What I don't understand is why a flight termination system wasn't engaged once the rocket was high enough to not destroy the pad complex.
It was a static test and probably didn't have an FTS on it.What I don't understand is why a flight termination system wasn't engaged once the rocket was high enough to not destroy the pad complex.
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