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Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket (arstechnica.com)

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The rocket was undergoing a static fire test of the stage, in which a vehicle is clamped to a test stand while its engines are ignited, when the booster broke free. According to a statement from the company, the rocket was not sufficiently clamped down and blasted off from the test stand "due to a structural failure."

Video of the accidental ascent showed the rocket rising several hundred meters into the sky before it crashed explosively into a mountain 1.5 km away from the test site.

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[-] scrion@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Is anyone speaking Chinese able to tell me what the guy in the first scene of the video is crying out? The one where the rocket falls horizontally. I mean, I have a general idea what is being said there conceptually, but I'd love to get an actual, accurate translation.

[-] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Basically it's two people saying "Is it falling? Wouldn't it explode? I'm recording it. Fuck the rocket is falling!"

From 5-8 seconds, the person seems to be saying争着争着中火大了, which doesn't mean anything to me, but it may be something of the local dialect.

[-] scrion@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Hey, much appreciated!

[-] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Thank you.

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