The Tianlong-3 rocket accidentally took off during a ground test.
Footage has surfaced of a Chinese rocket accidentally blasting off on Sunday, during what was meant to be a ground test, before falling back to earth and exploding in a fireball.'Due to the structural failure of the connection between the rocket body and the test platform, the first-stage rocket was separated from the launch pad,' Space Pioneer, a private aerospace company and a rival of the U.S.'s SpaceX, wrote in a social media statement.
Videos shared on Chinese microblogging platform Weibo show the Tianlong-3 , a two-stage kerosene-liquid rocket similar to SpaceX's Falcon 9 medium-lift launch vehicle, making its unplanned liftoff, reaching an apogee, slowing, and falling while nearly parallel with the earth.'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.
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