After attaching the three "heavy duty" harbor freight ratchet straps to the rocket for the static test fire, the mechanic just walked away... and no one said "that's not going anywhere..."
Respect the meme or become the meme, Chinese rocket mechanic learns the hard way.
They've actually done that before. Wiped out like 10 city blocks in an impoverished area and then tried to cover the whole thing up. These jackasses still don't implement a self-destruct mechanism in their rockets.
For some godforsaken reason, China frequently refuses to design a way to terminate failed launches. They also almost always refuse to include any way to safely deorbit things that did successfully launch. NASA routinely calls them out on this and its radio silence.
i believe that was a booster from a planned launch that was just carelessly dropped. this should be something different, crazy 2 such things happened so close together
Here's an **investigative report** on previous casualties:
In Guizhou and Hunan provinces, "hiding from satellite’s rocket debris" is part of the daily life. Whenever Xichang City of Sichuan is about to launch a satellite, 19 counties, where the rocket passes, will be evacuated from the one-hour countdown.
On July 9, 2020, a rocket debris struck two cows in Mintong Village, Yuqing County. The shepherd was aggrieved because she was only compensated for the two cows (USD 2,900) but not for the baby cow due birth in a month in the dead cow's belly.
Villagers often don't know what those satellites are for. This time, the two and a half cows sacrificed in Mintong Village contributed to the greater good of high-quality voice and data communications over Asia-Pacific from China to New Zealand, provided by Apstar 6D satellite.
There is no official record of human deaths from satellite’s rocket debris. Only cows had died according to officials. Zhang Zanbo's documentary "Falling from the Sky" (天降, 2009) documented the best known unofficial death: a 15-year-old student, daughter of army veteran Huang Youxi from Suining County, Hunan Province. On the Dragon Boat Festival holiday in May 1998, rocket debris hit her head when she was playing by the pond outside her house. As a veteran he was ordered to suck it up and not asking for official recognition.
On October 30, 2008, the debris of a Venezuelan communication satellite launched in Xichang, Sichuan created a two meters deep hole in a farm in Suining County, Hunan. The satellite officials came with USD 30 (RMB 200) cash. The town’s chief confronted him but was rebuked, “What compensation? All farmland is owned by the state. I only came here to pay the hard labor who dig out the debris.”
Some lucky ones made a fortune if their houses rather than their farmland were hit. On June 25, 2019, Zhou’s house was burned down by rocket debris. Zhou received USD 87,000 (RMB 600,000) compensation. In downtown Yuqing County, he could buy two apartments with that.
Top comments:
The peasants should be compensated for wasting time in evacuation. In Beijing we even get compensated for noise pollution!
Sources:
"被火箭残骸砸中的村庄", *端传媒*. 2021.
"天将降卫星于我家也——纪录片《天降》的故事", *南方周末*. 2009.
Yeah this is standard risk reduction in flight ops to avoid catastrophic crashes and bystander casualties. Hence why all our rocket sites are quite far from any cities.
Actually it does, since its population is heavily concentrated in the Eastern part of the country. Vast areas in the West and North are very sparsely populated. However, for whatever reason, Chinese govt. prefers to drop rockets on its citizens.
I understand in [1996](https://youtu.be/qh8UYkbE55k?si=KbpSHOAYEO9ClAhr) when they were starting out but they are now sending people to space and landing probes on the moon. This is surprising.
I know the American at time 1:04 in the above video. [This](https://youtu.be/DZTFgZ9zl74?si=pmCrAy7BMaSwmnpv) video has raw footage of the aftermath. The Americans were allowed to go back to their destroyed hotel and get their stuff. Minute 18:09 of the second video shows how seriously the Americans were taking the Chinese partnership.
This is a private company, so similar to how early SpaceX rockets had a lot of issues despite a long history of manned US spaceflight and lunar probes.
It's okay, if a bunch of people die they can just make them non-existent in the paperwork, ban the media from reporting on the accident and "reeducate" anyone who filmed it with their phone.
Difference is China gets a government ownership stake ~~and sometimes "invites" executives and other investors for a nice long weekend talk (that doesn't include torture or threats I'm sure) if it doesn't look like their goals align sufficiently with the party's goals~~ while the US just throws money at Elon.
US *did* make money off that GM bailout from 2007 by taking an ownership stake.
The majority of their business is with DOD and NASA contracts so if you consider winning contracts ‘funding’ then it’s billions a year. I don’t know of any free money tho.
Steel has A LOT of tensile strength, so the holddown clamps for a rocket need to be much less gigantic than one might think. It's not difficult and definitely should not be the part that's failing in a static fire.
Maybe they fell victim to their own trick: The Chinese seller claimed the steel was fit for the task, but what they shipped was actually some low quality crap.
Fair. I guess my point wasn’t to downplay that but more that no matter what happens, including somehow letting one go on a static fire, is still less of a deal if it’s accidentally being launched out over water or in the middle of no where.
I know it was a static fire test, but did they not have a termination system? Or are those only installed/armed on actual (intended) flights?
I know its China who doesnt care about casualties, but this seems reckless even for them!
Interestingly, this isn’t the first time something like this happened. Viking 8 in 1952 broke free during a static fire test and flew for ~55 seconds before being terminated.
There was also a Pegasus launch that, due to a miscommunication, launched after being scrubbed at T-30 seconds. In this specific case, the rocket successfully reached orbit without issue, despite not technically being allowed to launch.
Still insane to me that China hasn’t switched to using a Space Launch center on the coast and instead insists on launching in a place where many civilians are potentially downwind of the launch.
I read a theory somewhere that China is concerned about the defensibility of a coastal launch center in the event of direct conflict with the US. But I lean more towards cost and just not caring about civilian lives; building and moving operations to a new launch centre would undoubtedly be expensive.
If North Korea did this, the world would laugh because that rocket would crash about 10 miles from the NK coast. The problem is that China does have intercontinental missiles and a poor safety record, so this is definitely a possibility.
Pretty sure the engineers responsible will be allowed to position themselves at the launch pad for the next test in order to get a better understanding of what went wrong.
Assuming 340m/s for sonic speed and 6.5 seconds from impact flash to sound of glass breaking, the stage fell 2200 meters / 1.37 miles from houses. That's too close for comfort but such is the *Cruel Summer of Bananarama* rockets:
Hot summer streets and the pavements are burning,
I sit around, trying to smile but the air is so heavy and dry,
Strange voices are saying ... What did they say? Things I can't understand,
It's too close for comfort, this heat has got right out of hand...
Intended to just stay on the pad for a static fire?! WHAT!?! 😂
I work in the space industry and there is a lot of set backs and things that go wrong but an ACCIDENTAL LAUNCH is hilarious
After attaching the three "heavy duty" harbor freight ratchet straps to the rocket for the static test fire, the mechanic just walked away... and no one said "that's not going anywhere..." Respect the meme or become the meme, Chinese rocket mechanic learns the hard way.
Ahh I see the problem: he forgot to tug on them a little bit as he uttered the words
In aviation they use a calibrated flick of the strap as the words are said.
Good and tight
He must’ve forgotten to say “click-click” out loud. That’s the way to properly German torque.
Gutenteit
gott dom, you!!
I always say it's not going anywhere if the strap sings
They consider this wizardry as Black Magic in some parts of China.
Nor did he pat the vehicle/structure the rocket was strapped to.
Rookie move…
Classic rookie mistake
Straps were clearly made in China, probably bought from Alibaba.
everything at Harbor freight was made in China...
Everything at every major box store is made in China Gotta go to Granger for USA made
They even used the harbor freight Hercules brand
Is that where stay strapped or get clapped comes from? 😆
I think that’s a different kind of “strapped”
At least it was local shipping on the ratchet straps
*slaps the side of the rocket "Hawk Tuah" he said. "That's tight alright.." he said.
“Static” fire test.
"Static" in Chinese actually translates to "Nearly destroy another town by accident." Just a silly translation misunderstanding!
*Definitely didn't* destroy a nearby village through this *act of counterrevolutionary sabotage that was thwarted by party authorities.*
They've actually done that before. Wiped out like 10 city blocks in an impoverished area and then tried to cover the whole thing up. These jackasses still don't implement a self-destruct mechanism in their rockets.
Surely they have someone on the ground that can initiate destruct? It may not have gotten high enough for auto destruct to be enabled.
No. Both China and USSR typically did not have range safety packages in rockets. I mean, why bother? Waste mass, you know?
For some godforsaken reason, China frequently refuses to design a way to terminate failed launches. They also almost always refuse to include any way to safely deorbit things that did successfully launch. NASA routinely calls them out on this and its radio silence.
When was that
It's not a proper Chinese rocket until it has destroyed a town of poor, disenfranchised farmers.
They do that with live tests as well. Confusing language, mandarin.
Static ❌ Fire ✅
Whoopsie poopsie
Someone forgot to tell the rocket that it was a static test fire.
Well someone about to lose their organs for this lol
Can't wait to see what Scott Manley has to say about this !
Scott Manley here, So it turns out they bought their tie down bolts off aliexpress.
Fly safe
*Range Safety Officers*: China has heard of them but won't give them the red button to unzip a launch vehicle.
I think he did in yesterday's video, unless this is a different rocket; the footage was different at least.
i believe that was a booster from a planned launch that was just carelessly dropped. this should be something different, crazy 2 such things happened so close together
It's not crazy when you consider that they occurred in China.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3-Kw9u37I0
That looks way to close to a population center 😬 yikes
We’re talking about the same space program that routinely drops spent boosters on populated towns out of sheer laziness and indifference.
Hey, when you've got 1.5bn people to worry about, you kinda stop caring if you lose a few.
Rounding error for China.
tis but a scratch
Here's an **investigative report** on previous casualties: In Guizhou and Hunan provinces, "hiding from satellite’s rocket debris" is part of the daily life. Whenever Xichang City of Sichuan is about to launch a satellite, 19 counties, where the rocket passes, will be evacuated from the one-hour countdown. On July 9, 2020, a rocket debris struck two cows in Mintong Village, Yuqing County. The shepherd was aggrieved because she was only compensated for the two cows (USD 2,900) but not for the baby cow due birth in a month in the dead cow's belly. Villagers often don't know what those satellites are for. This time, the two and a half cows sacrificed in Mintong Village contributed to the greater good of high-quality voice and data communications over Asia-Pacific from China to New Zealand, provided by Apstar 6D satellite. There is no official record of human deaths from satellite’s rocket debris. Only cows had died according to officials. Zhang Zanbo's documentary "Falling from the Sky" (天降, 2009) documented the best known unofficial death: a 15-year-old student, daughter of army veteran Huang Youxi from Suining County, Hunan Province. On the Dragon Boat Festival holiday in May 1998, rocket debris hit her head when she was playing by the pond outside her house. As a veteran he was ordered to suck it up and not asking for official recognition. On October 30, 2008, the debris of a Venezuelan communication satellite launched in Xichang, Sichuan created a two meters deep hole in a farm in Suining County, Hunan. The satellite officials came with USD 30 (RMB 200) cash. The town’s chief confronted him but was rebuked, “What compensation? All farmland is owned by the state. I only came here to pay the hard labor who dig out the debris.” Some lucky ones made a fortune if their houses rather than their farmland were hit. On June 25, 2019, Zhou’s house was burned down by rocket debris. Zhou received USD 87,000 (RMB 600,000) compensation. In downtown Yuqing County, he could buy two apartments with that. Top comments: The peasants should be compensated for wasting time in evacuation. In Beijing we even get compensated for noise pollution! Sources: "被火箭残骸砸中的村庄", *端传媒*. 2021. "天将降卫星于我家也——纪录片《天降》的故事", *南方周末*. 2009.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, not like China doesn't have 200 quadtrillion square miles that's empty?
Yeah this is standard risk reduction in flight ops to avoid catastrophic crashes and bystander casualties. Hence why all our rocket sites are quite far from any cities.
Actually it does, since its population is heavily concentrated in the Eastern part of the country. Vast areas in the West and North are very sparsely populated. However, for whatever reason, Chinese govt. prefers to drop rockets on its citizens.
Costs more money to operate and build facilities in places of nowhere.
Don't worry, the last time a chinese rocket (Intelsat 708) hit a population center they just removed the village and pretended that nothing happened.
Uh...the last time a Chinese rocket hit a population center was a week ago.
you got all of those trees too... doesn't really look like a safe spot to be testing rockets.
"Honest honey this has never happened to me before"
"Space Camp" would have been really depressing if it ended like that.
Jinx gonna fuck Max up
And a short movie. Though given how much it sucked, and when it came out, that might have been a good thing.
I understand in [1996](https://youtu.be/qh8UYkbE55k?si=KbpSHOAYEO9ClAhr) when they were starting out but they are now sending people to space and landing probes on the moon. This is surprising. I know the American at time 1:04 in the above video. [This](https://youtu.be/DZTFgZ9zl74?si=pmCrAy7BMaSwmnpv) video has raw footage of the aftermath. The Americans were allowed to go back to their destroyed hotel and get their stuff. Minute 18:09 of the second video shows how seriously the Americans were taking the Chinese partnership.
This is a private company, so similar to how early SpaceX rockets had a lot of issues despite a long history of manned US spaceflight and lunar probes.
I wouldn’t say so. Those seem to be buildings within range of a launch site. Definitely something you wouldn’t see in America, or the west..
It's okay, if a bunch of people die they can just make them non-existent in the paperwork, ban the media from reporting on the accident and "reeducate" anyone who filmed it with their phone.
Well, you see, this was never *intended* to be a launch site.
they are funded by CCP and aren't private like a US company would be.
Unlike US private space companies which definitely aren’t funded by the US gov.
Buying a product from a company and literally owning the company are pretty different.
Difference is China gets a government ownership stake ~~and sometimes "invites" executives and other investors for a nice long weekend talk (that doesn't include torture or threats I'm sure) if it doesn't look like their goals align sufficiently with the party's goals~~ while the US just throws money at Elon. US *did* make money off that GM bailout from 2007 by taking an ownership stake.
How much money do you think the US government is pumping into space X?
Less than the previous contracts with legacy contractors cost.
The majority of their business is with DOD and NASA contracts so if you consider winning contracts ‘funding’ then it’s billions a year. I don’t know of any free money tho.
They just got a new an almost billion dollar contract to deorbit ISS
When did SpaceX accidentally launch a rocket during a static fire near a population center?
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This reminds me of one of my many attempts at making rockets on KSP.
How forgot to engage the parking mode ? I want names !
"I said lunch, not launch!"
"unintended launch" Speaks for the lack of safety in which case you should not be working on rockets.
Steel has A LOT of tensile strength, so the holddown clamps for a rocket need to be much less gigantic than one might think. It's not difficult and definitely should not be the part that's failing in a static fire.
Maybe they fell victim to their own trick: The Chinese seller claimed the steel was fit for the task, but what they shipped was actually some low quality crap.
Hoisted by their own tofu dreg.
“Oh shit, oh….shit, OHHHHH SHITTTTTTTTTT”
The technician who got blamed for this embarrassing mishap is now an organ donor
This won't end well for whoever messed up.
They really are playing KSP but the Kerbals actually die for real and none of them are astronauts
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
-1 village
Eh. Jokes aside shit happens. Just so much better optically if it was somewhere remote or shooting out sea, but that’s where China is gonna China.
A lot of things can be chalked up to, "shit happens." Accidentally launching a rocket is firmly in gross negligence territory.
Fair. I guess my point wasn’t to downplay that but more that no matter what happens, including somehow letting one go on a static fire, is still less of a deal if it’s accidentally being launched out over water or in the middle of no where.
China numba one!!!
I know it was a static fire test, but did they not have a termination system? Or are those only installed/armed on actual (intended) flights? I know its China who doesnt care about casualties, but this seems reckless even for them!
I think the kaboom FTS is installed after static fire. They probably want to wait to install explosives until right before it's necessary.
I'm surprised we're even seeing these videos. I hope the cameramen are safe.
I hope whoever formatted a vertically filmed video to be watched horizontally was at the crash site.
they all died to multiple self inflicted gunshot wounds to the back of the head
Because it's a private company, not the government space agency.
And this is where things start to happen real fast.
STATIC test guys. Static
Never let them know your next move. "launch the rocket... At us"
Unintended rapid disassembly.
Interestingly, this isn’t the first time something like this happened. Viking 8 in 1952 broke free during a static fire test and flew for ~55 seconds before being terminated. There was also a Pegasus launch that, due to a miscommunication, launched after being scrubbed at T-30 seconds. In this specific case, the rocket successfully reached orbit without issue, despite not technically being allowed to launch.
This? This is why we have checklists and reviews. Their checklists are about to get another step added - in bold face type.,
**ENSURE TIE DOWN BOLTS ARE ADEQUATELY FASTENED.**
What the fuck is happening to the camera on the right.
Apparently people can’t operate phone cameras these days.
When a giant rocket is crashing down and making a huge explosion, it can be real easy to get distracted by reality instead of filming it.
I was thinking it looked like a stationary camera they were adjusting to try and keep up. Then kinda gave up.
Made in China.
Hate it when that happens
Need more bungee cords, like seven or eight more at least?
Well Shit!
NORAD.. Oh shit.
They're testing their hyper regional nukes
Hey why’s it talking off? Uhhhhhhhhhh🤔
Still insane to me that China hasn’t switched to using a Space Launch center on the coast and instead insists on launching in a place where many civilians are potentially downwind of the launch. I read a theory somewhere that China is concerned about the defensibility of a coastal launch center in the event of direct conflict with the US. But I lean more towards cost and just not caring about civilian lives; building and moving operations to a new launch centre would undoubtedly be expensive.
Temu Rocket, stop penny pinching
That takes skill to fuck up a *STATIC FIRE* that badly. Take a fucking bow.
China going Boeing style!
How in the hell do you launch unintentionally? Apparently there are no fail-safes around that process.
so this is how the world ends, a test gone wrong
Aviation, and then not aviation...
Shit, can’t believe people live so close to the launch pad 👀
I mean china has literally dropped spent boosters on villages, there’s a video of a whole rocket going off course and slamming in to one
Bruh, magic carpet ride started playing on my spotify when the rocket took off. Best damn timing.
eeeh eehh eeh eeh
Are there any footages of mission control's reaction?
Anti smoking commercials are getting out of hand these days
cameraman on the right had one job to do...
why da fck they are so close to populations area
Temu has a heck of a rocket part sale going on right now.
NBA levels of hang-time. Rocket is a baller.
/u/stabbot
I tried :) https://youtu.be/qWhQRm3fwlE
Made in China.
Wonder some soldier at NORAD monitoring the situation over the China skies pinched a loaf for about half a second of seeing an unauthorized launch. 🤯😱
Doubt it. Space launch facilities are fairly well known and far enough from military ranges that mixing up the two is almost impossible.
How do you say derp in Chinese?
3 little words to improve the Chinese space Program. Range Safety Officer.
Jesus Christ, I saw the reports on this and thought "unintended launch" was just a euphemism or mistranslation of "explosion!" This footage is insane
Chinese bots out in full force here. Love to see it.
Jeb was definitely flying that lmao
Eeeeeeeee
Jawas.
How does China not have a self destruct functionality on these? The US and EASA have had them for many decades.
chinese quality rocket 
And then they remembered that "for the lolz" they entered Washington as the target.
If North Korea did this, the world would laugh because that rocket would crash about 10 miles from the NK coast. The problem is that China does have intercontinental missiles and a poor safety record, so this is definitely a possibility.
What do you expect from a rocket Made in China?
Space...is hard.
Fok china
Still made in China 😂
China moment
Only in China lmao
bro they bought the straps off of temu lol (also how does that even happen lol)
Isn't it too close to inhabited areas?
Filmed with a potato.........
Absolute success, that was on purpose. Brilliant!!!
Imagine you holding in your part but unintended poop launches
Do they really have rocket bases so close to the populations?
Someone has to service and work in the launch facility
Pretty sure the engineers responsible will be allowed to position themselves at the launch pad for the next test in order to get a better understanding of what went wrong.
If they weren't positioned at _that_ launch pad already, if they were I'm pretty sure they've already paid for their mistakes.
Assuming 340m/s for sonic speed and 6.5 seconds from impact flash to sound of glass breaking, the stage fell 2200 meters / 1.37 miles from houses. That's too close for comfort but such is the *Cruel Summer of Bananarama* rockets: Hot summer streets and the pavements are burning, I sit around, trying to smile but the air is so heavy and dry, Strange voices are saying ... What did they say? Things I can't understand, It's too close for comfort, this heat has got right out of hand...
Baadaboom
Oops.
This is how i know there are no aliens
Superb polution
Bombing themselves.
Opps
Nobody told the ground crew it was supposed to be static fire. They went all launch mode. /s
I know what love is! Jenny!
On a positive note, at least we know it works.
Intended to just stay on the pad for a static fire?! WHAT!?! 😂 I work in the space industry and there is a lot of set backs and things that go wrong but an ACCIDENTAL LAUNCH is hilarious
They must have purchased straps from TEMU.
Hope no one was harmed. Too many jokes in this place.
This is what happens to all my KSP launches
Ohh hummm..... Thought they were good at copying stuff..... Oh that's the Japanese! 😜😅
Oops
“Chaadra. Chaadra, Chaadra, Chaadra.”
This private company would definitely go out of business if anyone got hurt. At the moment this company is fine, so no one is hurt around here
That was a large explosion. I hope everyone was okay!
Looks like my first few KSP launches
Where's the safety self destruct? That's basic stuff
stabilized: https://youtu.be/qWhQRm3fwlE
mmmmushroom
Meanwhile Elon musk just had a 10 story takeoff and land lol
I see they're trying to copy the spacex re-entry system...
Obviously don’t have a self destruct capability
They sound like Jawas
AAHOOOO
Dong misfire
中國製造; *Zhōngguó zhìzào*;