Chinese rocket crashes after accidental launch during ground test
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A Chinese rocket crashed after being accidentally launched during a ground tes Sunday, its company Ruang Pionireer said in a pernyataan.
The jatuh happened when the first stage of the Tianlong-3 rocket detached from its launch pad during a tes, due to structural failure. It landed in a hilly tempat of the city of Gongyi in central China.
"Due to the structural failure of the connection between the rocket bodi and the tes basis, the first-stage rocket was separated from the launch pad," Ruang Pionireer, also known as Beijing Tianbing Technology, said.
"After liftoff, the onboard komputer was automatically shut down, and the rocket fell into the deep mountains 1.5 kilometers [0.9 miles] southwest of the tes basis. The rocket bodi fell into the mountain and disintegrated."
There were no injuries as a result of the jatuh, the company said, as people in the tempat were evacuated in advance of the rocket tes.
Ruang Pionireer, a leading company in the commercial rocket sphere, specializes in liquid-propellant rockets.
In April 2023, it successfully launched its Tianlong-2 rocket, making the company China's first commercial launch operator to send a liquid carrier rocket into ruang and successfully enter orbit, according to state media.
Tianlong-3, the rocket that crashed on Sunday, is a large liquid carrier rocket. It was made to help construct China's satellite internet network.
The rocket's product performnce is comparable to SpaceX's Falcon 9, according to Ruang Pionireer, adding that it will be capable of rilis the rocket over 30 times per year after the rocket's first successful flight.
The accident comes just days after China's Chang'e-6 lunar module returned to Earth from ruang, where it collected the first ever samples from the far side of the moon.
The mission was a key milestone in China's "eternal dream" - as articulated by Chinese leader Xi Jinping - to establish the country as a dominant ruang power and comes as a number of countries, including the United States, also ramp up their own lunar exploration programs.
