Chinese Villagers Allegedly Flee In Terror As Rocket Crashes On Earth
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After China launched a small X-ray satellite earlier today, fresh footage from the social media platform Weibo shows villagers running away in fear after the rocket made an uncontrolled landing on land. China, like other countries, does not have reusable rockets, and its launch vehicles are often criticized for landing too close to civilian sites. While supporters have stressed that all villages are evacuated before a rocket launch, this time around, it appeared that a few villagers were a little too close for comfort as they panicked and started to run away from the booster as it crashed and left orange smoke in its wake.
China's Long March 2C Rocket Purportedly Scares Villagers After Successfully Launching Satellite Developed In Partnership With French Space Agency
The launch took place from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China's Sichuan province. The satellite was developed by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the French Space Agency (CNES) earlier today. Called the Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) satellite, this spacecraft is a specialized imaging satellite that is designed to monitor gamma ray bursts from stars. A small satellite, the payload weighed 450 kilograms for a total weight of 930 kilograms and was launched on the Long March 2C rocket.
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The Long March 2C is a small lift rocket capable of lifting roughly 4,000 kilograms to low Earth orbit (LEO). According to the CNES, it launched the satellite into a circular LEO 600 kilometers in altitude. The rocket's first stage is powered by four Chinese YF-21C rocket engines, which use dinitrogen tetroxide and hydrazine as the rocket fuel and oxidizer.
After the launch, X user China 'N Asia Spaceflight, which regularly
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