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Even if we accept that it wasn't supposed to launch (which is a big 'if'), why was it not fitted with a destructive abort/ Flight Termination System?
by ang_cire 2y ago
Even if we accept that it wasn't supposed to launch (which is a big 'if'), why was it not fitted with a destructive abort/ Flight Termination System?
- throwup238 2y agoThey don’t use an FTS on many launches. It’s caused problems before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783870 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783870 IMO their space program is very cavalier. This was apparently a secret facility near a residential area so they should have at least been distributing safety and emergency information. Not even telling the people living next to it that the facility exists is inexcusable.
- hagbard_c 2y ago> This was apparently a secret facility near a residential area How 'secret' can an engine test stand be when the sound level produced by those things is enough to kill at short range while producing thick clouds of noxious fumes?
- maxglute 2y agoThis is not a secret facility. It's a test facility, not a launch site, i.e. there's public news on activities at facility when searching 河南巩义市综合试验中心 [0]. Catastrophic failure made it one, but that's like people saying they don't know XYZ industrial complex was located out side of town until it explodes spectacularly. Tianlong3 actual launches is anticipated to happen at Wenchang Commerical in coastal Hainan, a cordoned off space port like Kennedy [1]. I would say (relatively) commercial players like Space Pioneer less cavalier than the national space program because bad optics can kill them. [0] http://www.ha.news.cn/20240108/ec69118ca90245dda0213e92436d184b/c.html http://www.ha.news.cn/20240108/ec69118ca90245dda0213e92436d1... [1] https://archive.ph/sUk8i#selection-458.0-486.0 https://archive.ph/sUk8i#selection-458.0-486.0