China's Space Program Thread II

[siegecrossbow]

Pretty sure it has failed.

 

[taxiya]

is it normal to be this quiet? Seems like previous launch failures had at least some kind of official acknowledgement or response.

I think it is normal. For example, the previous successful 10km VTVL tests were only reported after the tests were conducted, there were no prior official anouncement of launch. The failures were reported either due to pre-launch anouncement or there were damages/incidents on the ground due to the failure.

So the practice is "official begining has official ending", anything else is selective.

1. Prior anounancement -> report any outcome, example are the recent explosion of test rocket, earlier CZ-5 2nd launch.
2. No prior anounancement -> report only on success, example, the previous 10km VTVL

People here may felt strange because we dig things up, but these companies and government agencies only deal with general public.