China's newest carrier rocket fails in debut mission:
The debut mission of Kuaizhou 11, the newest in China's carrier rocket fleet, failed on Friday, according to its maker.
The rocket blasted off at 12:17 pm at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi Desert to send two small satellites to two different orbits. During its flight, some abnormalities emerged and resulted in failure, China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, one of the nation's major space contractors, said in a statement, adding that engineers are investigating the incident.
A Kuaizhou 11 is 25 meters tall, and has a diameter of 2.2 meters. With a liftoff weight of 78 metric tons, the rocket will be able to place a 1-ton payload into a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 700 kilometers, according to CASIC.
(Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday July 15 2020, @03:30AM
Didn't know the term. For the convenience of others [wikipedia.org] like me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @03:42AM (3 children)
It was "made in China."
Thank you and goodnight!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @04:31AM (1 child)
Made in China too? [wikipedia.org]
Must've been, because the Americans don't waste rocket fuel when they can fry their cosmonauts on the ground [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday July 15 2020, @03:03PM
Nice try, but this makes three major failures for China in just the past few months.
https://spacenews.com/first-launch-of-chinese-kuaizhou-11-rocket-ends-in-failure/ [spacenews.com]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @05:27AM
Bwwwwahahaha explosives are easy!
(Score: 2, Funny) by fustakrakich on Wednesday July 15 2020, @03:54AM (1 child)
...into a sun-synchronous orbit
Oh well, not this one
Where did it "place" its payload, by the way? Somewhere more geosynchronous, right?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @05:28AM
Probably in a tree above your house, watching you peeeee. Dirty Chinese!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @05:13AM (3 children)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=pvs1QIhUM-8 [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @06:15AM (2 children)
OK, so I went down that rabbit-hole and as I suspected, it's mostly junk. There *are* unusual sounds that do occur, but the footage you linked is most likely dubbed over with Hollywood sound effects. Some sources cite the War of the Worlds remake (I think Tom Cruise was in it), and some other movie that had a "battle trumpet" scene. When you play those clips, the sounds are very similar. There's also a video out there where a woman records a scene with her iPhone while her laptop is playing sounds in the background, and it's really eerie sounding too. Some people even admitting uploading this BS to get more page-views and build up their subscriber base of gullible people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @06:57AM (1 child)
Fair enough. Just because that video is fake doesn't mean a real one of the same thing won't come out in the future though.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday July 15 2020, @07:15AM
It won't [indiatoday.in]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @10:40AM
It landed on a Uyghur camp, re-educating hundreds of Moslems at once.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @11:45AM
Some insignificant IC with a hidden circuit deep inside woke up and altered a sensor input 0.03° off kilter.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday July 15 2020, @12:34PM
"快粥?", "Fast Rice Porridge?" I guess it sort of makes sense, if it quickly carries rice porridge to astronauts in orbit.
Washington DC delenda est.