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https://x.com/AJ_FI/status/1807339807640518690
Wow. This is apparently what was supposed to be a STATIC FIRE TEST today of a Tianlong-3 first stage by China's Space Pioneer. That's catastrophic, not static. Firm was targeting an orbital launch in the coming months. https://t.co/BY9MgJeE7A pic.twitter.com/L6ronwLW1N
— Andrew Jones (@AJ_FI) June 30, 2024
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China is progressing technologically at a very quick pace, but theirs is a reckless progress
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You can't be reckless with space though. Reckless construction means it dies during max q, reckless landing means kaboom instead of a reliable touchdown. Space and rocketry is an unforgiving frontier. Its fine to be quick like spacex and constantly do trial and error, but reckless = GG no re
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The thing is that recklessness isn't a great path to spacefaring progress, even if you don't care about the side-effects of being reckless. You can't brute-force much more than a basic launch into orbit.
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ok but they just brought back samples from the dark side of the moon
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And we have robots on Mars with built-in mobile labs.
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