Just for this statement, he, along with his hiring manager and executives should be fired.
That's not the sort of attitude and culture you want in the space industry.
The more they speak, the worse they make it for themselves. Just stfu
China's Space Program Thread II
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That's not the sort of attitude and culture you want in the space industry.
The more they speak, the worse they make it for themselves. Just stfu
Truly bizzare, considering there is no upside to actually speaking. They can simply state there was an malfunction, it's under investigation as public speak and be done with it. Yet they keep coming up with these statements that do nothing but make their company seems more incompetent.
A static firing stand should have a safety factor above 2, so the excuse of rocket too strong shouldn't even be entertained.
This sounds more like an excuse attributable to a southwestern neighbor. Shame.
Bad apology. No explanation or anything. If you read carefully the letter, you can see that they are bad at PR too.
They even say that the rocket fell in the planned safe area. See? All according to El Plan, they are actually competent lol
No mention that this was just pure lack. If the damage or debris was a bit more, who knows, the rocket could have completely spiralled out of control and went straight to the urban area.
Garbage in, garbage out
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A glimpse of the launch control center at the Hainan Commercial Spaceport.
High-resolution images of the launch control center at Hainan Commercial Spaceport.
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The chief of the Chang'e-6 mission that the lunar lander was capable of autonomously obtaining soil samples and returning them to earth in case communication link with the lander was lost –– for example, if Queqiao-2 relay satellite somehow became inoperable.
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The French made radon gas
The French built radon detector carried by Chang'e-6 has successfully conducted a 111-hour mapping mission of radon and polonium distribution on the moon, ionizing radiation on the lunar surface, and measured charged particles in lunar orbit. This concludes the first cooperation project between China and France in deep space exploration.
The French built radon detector carried by Chang'e-6 has successfully conducted a 111-hour mapping mission of radon and polonium distribution on the moon, ionizing radiation on the lunar surface, and measured charged particles in lunar orbit. This concludes the first cooperation project between China and France in deep space exploration.
That's what I'm saying, that they're quite reckless. It doesn't cost much to strengthen the clamps to give a good safety margin, they skimped where they shouldn't. From safety standpoint, even if the rocket blow up on the stand is still much much preferable then this.
Having said that I don't think the company deserved to be crucified as some angry member here expressed, a large part of the responsibilities lies with government regulatory department to make sure things like this doesn't happen again.
With the number of private space enterprises in China now it is unrealistic to expect each and everyone of them will have perfect internal discipline, it is up to the government to provide clear and precise regulation to keep everyone following the rule
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Reckless. Incompetent. Adjectives not usually attached to rocket scientists. Sabotage? Just food for thought.