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Chinese Satellite Crashes Into House

Posted by timothy on from the in-china-no-less dept.

toggleflipflop writes "In China, a returning satellite crashed into a house. No one was hurt. More details in this article. Apparently inhabited by an eternal optimist: 'The satellite landed in our home. Maybe this means we'll have good luck this year,' the tenant of the wrecked apartment was quoted as saying by the newspaper. According to the People's Daily's article on the subject nothing seems to have gone wrong."

2 of 406 comments (clear)

  1. First Image by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a picture.

  2. Re:Misleading summary (surprise surprise) by Detritus · · Score: 5, Informative

    On 1996-02-15, a failed launch dropped a Long March 3B rocket on villages surrounding the Xichang space center. Unofficial reports put the damage and death toll much higher than figures (6 dead, 57 injured) reported by government news agencies. The concept of range safety seems to have been foreign to the Chinese space agency.

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    Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat