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Chinese Rocket Booster Crashes Near School - Oni - 09-17-2020
A Chinese rocket booster crashed and nearly hit a school. Had the trajectory been slightly different, the booster could have killed a bunch of kids. Video shows the destruction caused.
Quote:Video: https://twitter.com/LaunchStuff/status/1302933386990891008
A Chinese Long March 4B rocket successfully launched a new Earth-watching satellite Monday (Sep. 7) but the booster's spent first stage narrowly missed a school when it fell back to Earth, witness videos show.
The Long March 4B rocket lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China, at 1:57 p.m. local time (1:57 a.m. EDT, 0557 GMT). It carried the powerful Gaofen 11 (02) Earth observation satellite, an optical observation satellite capable of returning high resolution images, showing features as smaller than 3 feet (1 meter) across.
Read More: https://www.space.com/china-launches-gaofen-11-satellite-rocket-crash.html
RE: Chinese Rocket Booster Crashes Near School - mothered - 09-18-2020
My goodness, had It hit the school, there would've been quite a number of casualties.
RE: Chinese Rocket Booster Crashes Near School - Jiggly - 09-18-2020
Jesus. I'm sure China still considers the launch a great success. This shows how important SpaceX's work is, with reusable rockets that land ,to pinpoint accuracy, where you want them to.
![[Image: spacexfalcon.gif]](https://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/spacexfalcon.gif)
RE: Chinese Rocket Booster Crashes Near School - Skullmeat - 09-19-2020
You do not want to know how horribly toxic the hypergolic fuels they use in those rockets is. Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine, in particular, was nicknamed "Devil's Venom" by Russian scientists.