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China's first private rocket fails after launch
2018-10-28
[NY Post] The first attempt by a private Chinese company to send a rocket into space has failed.

Beijing-based Landspace said late Saturday that the first and second stage of its ZQ-1 rocket worked normally but something went wrong with the final of the three-stage rocket.

It was the first three-stage rocket built by a private company in China.

Video posted by a Chinese news site shows the 19-meter- (62-foot-) tall red-and-white rocket lifting off Saturday against clear blue skies.

Landspace said that "cowling separation was normal but something abnormal happened after the second stage." The statement posted on its social media account did not elaborate.

Chinese media reports say the rocket was carrying a satellite for state broadcaster CCTV.
Posted by:Frank G

#10  One word - Vanguard.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-10-28 21:24  

#9  walk out into the wilderness and live on locusts and wild honey

Careful. Some of those locusts are actually bugs, if you know what I mean. Nudge nudge, wink wink. Don't get me started on the "squirrels". Just ask the Paleostinians!
Posted by: SteveS   2018-10-28 19:54  

#8  I was actually using the Amazon tablet as a kindle. I don't really have anything to replace it with to read my kindle books on right now if I smash it.

As I think I pointed out to 3dc earlier, I can't just throw out all the modern technology that might be eavesdropping on me, I'd probably have to walk out into the wilderness and live on locusts and wild honey, and there aren't any good places to do that any more. I'd probably just get a giardia infection.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2018-10-28 19:41  

#7  Faraday Cage, Thing, Faraday Cage. I wonder is one of those Mylar "space blankets" would make a good pouch for your tablet?
Posted by: magpie   2018-10-28 18:55  

#6  Hammer.
Use a hammer, Thing.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-10-28 18:05  

#5  In the Middle Kingdom, TV watches you.

Whereas in America it's Alexa. Built into the tablet you got from Amazon, like the one on my desk here that I can't seem to turn off.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2018-10-28 17:55  

#4  Small satellite launcher, solid fuel. Most likely built from Chinese IRBM.
Posted by: Ebbaitch Squank4369   2018-10-28 16:29  

#3  90's tech by Clinton/Loral
Posted by: Frank G   2018-10-28 15:58  

#2  but something abnormal happened after the second stage

The piggyback covert load didn't separate.
Posted by: Javith Jort8765   2018-10-28 15:48  

#1  rocket was carrying a satellite for state broadcaster CCTV

In the Middle Kingdom, TV watches you.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2018-10-28 15:13  

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