China's Space Program Thread II
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Seriously, it’s silly for Chinese space community and even more so other space startups to be making fun of the other’s failure. Failure is normal in space industry especially when you are still testing/building a new rocket. So for them to be making fun of this is wrong. It might discourage other private space players from taking risks and daring to venture into newer more ground breaking projects and instead adopting a more conservative mindset of adopting only tried and tested solutions(essentially being eternal followers ) for fear of failureOne year anniversary of the mishap. Tianbing has become the butt of jokes in the Chinese space community, receiving regular ribbing from fellow launch startups and observers whenever the topic of safety is broached.
Failure should not being laughed at but instead seen as just an inevitable necessary learning curve and be encouraged . If not space X will not be where they are today if they were scared of failures and risks or venturing into projects which nobody thought was feasible before
by78
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It doesn't apply to this particular mishap, the nature of which is laughable and should be laughed at.
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Nobody is laughing at them because a rocket failed, indeed as you say failure is common in the space industry and many chinese startups have failed launches. But that's not what happened in this case. In this case it was a static test that was never meant to fly but it broke free and flew anyway, an unsafe situation for all involved. This is not your typical rocket launch failed situation, indeed I can't think of any other recent "static" test mishaps that resulted in the rocket flying. So this is definitely an unusual failure that can deservedly be mocked.
by78
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Isn't that a concept video of what the company intends to test in the future?
I think there's an ideal level of risk-acceptance that SpaceX tends to hover around, sometimes above and sometimes below. Old Space (Boeing, Lockheed, NASA, etc) are way below that level & their conservatism is killing their viability in launch (/procurement, for NASA). Tianbing was way above that level & needs to be more conservative to actually make progress, unless they want to transition into fireworks manufacturing.
If it helps to think about it this way, you could say Old Space is right deviationist and Tianbing is left deviationist
You are correct. this is what they intend to test in the future.
It's a pretty crazy idea to landing, the question is, is it crazy enough to be right...