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China's Rocket Fails After Liftoff (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader quotes CNN:
The second launch of China's new-generation Long March-5 carrier rocket failed Sunday -- dealing a blow to the country's ambitious space aspirations. Carrying an experimental communications satellite, China's largest rocket lifted off at 7:23 p.m. local time (7:23 a.m. ET) toward clear skies from the seaside Wenchang space launch center on the southern Chinese island of Hainan. But 40 minutes later, the state-run Xinhua news agency flashed a headline declaring the launch a failure -- without providing any details.
Dubbed "Chubby 5" for its huge size -- 5 meters in diameter and 57 meters tall -- the LM-5 rocket is designed to carry up to 25 tons of payload into low orbit, more than doubling the country's previous lift capability... The launch failure means further delay for a series of planned Chinese space endeavors -- including its robotic and eventual human lunar programs -- according to Joan Johnson-Freese, a professor at the US Naval War College and an expert on China's space program... China has announced plans to land a robotic probe on the dark side of the moon later this year and to reach Mars around 2020. All such future missions will depend on the LM-5 and space officials told reporters Sunday that the latest launch would help perfect the rocket design, including enabling it to send a space station into orbit "in a year or two."
This morning Elon Musk tweeted his condolences, adding "I know how painful that is to the people who designed & built it."
Dubbed "Chubby 5" for its huge size -- 5 meters in diameter and 57 meters tall -- the LM-5 rocket is designed to carry up to 25 tons of payload into low orbit, more than doubling the country's previous lift capability... The launch failure means further delay for a series of planned Chinese space endeavors -- including its robotic and eventual human lunar programs -- according to Joan Johnson-Freese, a professor at the US Naval War College and an expert on China's space program... China has announced plans to land a robotic probe on the dark side of the moon later this year and to reach Mars around 2020. All such future missions will depend on the LM-5 and space officials told reporters Sunday that the latest launch would help perfect the rocket design, including enabling it to send a space station into orbit "in a year or two."
This morning Elon Musk tweeted his condolences, adding "I know how painful that is to the people who designed & built it."
I went to go see a doctor to fix it.
I am waiting for them to get to Chubby 9
What's the next one gonna be called? The Creimer 6?
That would implied a more muscular rocket design. :P
Possibly you mean far side?
first Chinese launcher to fully use liquid propellant.
China (and seemingly India, though wikipedia's usage of "booster" and "second stage" without a first stage confuses me, since I expect SRBs to be strapped next to a liquid propellant first stage) still use solid motor rockets for their first stages???
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
ftfy
- In Soviet Korea, only old people loose all their bases to Natalie Portman's petrified hot grits overlords.
Maybe they could hire the engineers of Troposphere V.
https://youtu.be/bF55DtTx458?t...
lucm, indeed.
I assume the malfunction failed to get it into the correct orbital profile, since the limited videos available all look okay? (no kaboom) Or does someone have a more informative video?
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
You don't really, Elon. Unless you've started sending people to the salt mines.
You really think the Central Committee is going to send rocket scientists to the salt mines because they lost a vehicle?
This isn't Italy, you know.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
But not a more bettered grammar, huh??
I got to support all the budding grammar nazis on Slashdot.
Only Stalin's Russia was so harsh as to demand gulag time for a rocket failure. (And to his credit, Korolev took the full blame, knowing he was indispensable)
I'm not even convinced Norh Korea would be so shortsighted as to send a rocket scientist to a salt mine over a launch failure.
China definitely wouldn't... they save that for dissidents
-- Sometimes you have to turn the lights off in order to see.
Korolev himself was sent to work in a platinum mine where he lost his teeth when he was younger. If it wasn't for Tupolev getting him out, to work in his prison lab, he would quite likely have died there in the mines. Korolev was interested in rocket powered airplanes when he was younger. Those back then were considered to have limited applications, so he was basically sentenced for misusing state resources or something like that.
ROTFLMAO, this from a country that has about 1% of its adult population in prison. You have the highest prison population (per 100,000) in the world.
Worse, is those prisons are often work camps, you either work making stuff that makes the owners money or you go to solitary.
You have children sent to Juvi for disrupting class.
Never mind all the "back ops" sites where you can detain people without charge , with access to lawyers, etc etc indefinitely.
Clean up your own mess.
the state-run Xinhua news agency
funny how you never hear:
the state-run BBC news agency
so very funny
The rocket scientists? No. But I would sure hate to be their family right about now...
They make really nice Rolexes.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Although I did read (for free) your "best coffee in the world" story. It was almost something.
That short story first appeared in The MacGuffin in Fall 2009. Until the story got accepted, I wasn't even aware that I wrote a MacGuffin story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), 2,220,300 adults were incarcerated in US federal and state prisons, and county jails in 2013 – about 0.91% of adults (1 in 110) in the U.S. resident population.[2] Additionally, 4,751,400 adults in 2013 (1 in 51) were on probation or on parole.[2] In total, 6,899,000 adults were under correctional supervision (probation, parole, jail, or prison) in 2013 – about 2.8% of adults (1 in 35) in the U.S. resident population
And anyone can have one rocket mishap but to have 2 in a row for the same rocket type is a little puzzling. The Chinese are normally conservative and very risk adverse when doing anything that makes the country look bad.
The first launch succeeded.
The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), 2,220,300 adults were incarcerated in US federal and state prisons, and county jails in 2013 – about 0.91% of adults (1 in 110) in the U.S. resident population.
See! It's not 1%! It's only 0.91% Big difference! Huge!
Is that you Donald ????
The CIA has started new cults in China that weaken the best minds. A spreading internal brain drain that embraces meditation, exercises and morality.
The engineering cadres are very susceptible to what the CIA's best anthropologists, psychologists and psychiatrist have created to totally distract from the formality of science and the secrecy of the mil.
A type of faith based tune in, drop out US funded counterculture is been spread within the ranks of the best academics.
Finding a morality that the communist party never had is very new, tempting and attractive to very smart people.
Once practicing all the engineers want to do is relax, meditate, talk in groups and study theological questions.
Faith becomes a drug.
Work then becomes a distraction or chore that has to be done. The uniform becomes restrictive in many different ways. Orders become suggestions to be discussed or questioned openly.
The party and rocket work is something that is very external to the new found faith.
The day job and its good food, good housing, good education, better health care, holidays, party membership holds no value as the most skilled people slip into their own hidden world of faith.
The CIA gets smart people interesting in faith.
The NSA tracks their smart phones at meetings and then all the way back to work.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Still haven't heard what the issue was that defined the launch a failure. :)
Covfefe 7
All your rockets are belong to us.
Did the communist party ban all news outlets from viewing the launch? Confiscate cell phones from people in the area?
Otherwise it's hard to imagine how they launched such a big expensive rocket and not one person recorded it.