probably would be better if they didn't have these flying over populated areas with a bunch of terrifying fuels aboard but what do I know, we have trains carrying the worst stuff ever in our back yards
@Mia-eat62 1 hour ago
Chinese build quality moment .
Cool just casually ignore China's entire state space program which was a massive success for one failure of a privately owned company because you hate the government and not the people.
ah yes, and when that tesla rocket blew up the launch pad and itself, that too was chinese build quality, yes yes yes. yapping clowns.
commercial company
That is a really bizarre structural failure of the test rig. I'm been a space nerd for my entire life and I've never seen footage like this. For this rocket to lift off vertically, all the mechanisms holding it down had to have failed simultaneously. If they failed at different times it should have gone wildly off-course from the start. That simultaneous failure is statistically unlikely to say the least. I'm wondering if it wasn't mechanical failure, but a failure of the control system managing the hold-down mechanisms.
For comparison, here's what a Falcon 9 static fire looks like. They don't just use the normal launch clamps at the base of the rocket, they also have a heavy cap on top (the orange part) with a cable rig system anchoring it down to make damn sure it doesn't go anywhere. They run all systems of a production rocket at the full thrust and full duration of an actual launch to test everything as a unit.
Further update: the last known incident of a static fire test accidentally launching was in 1952 with the Viking 8 suborbital rocket (no relation to the Viking space probe series).
The video is insane. Whoever fucked up is not going to have a good time.
Even when they fail they fly, folks 
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