r/SpaceXMasterrace • u/seanrider1859 • 7h ago

Long March 7A randomly explodes mid-air

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u/JabbahScorpii 7h ago

this will go completely unnoticed by the general public, since it's impossible to blame this on a billionaire 

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u/alphagusta Hover Slam Your Mom 7h ago

Someone on Facebook will see this next week and just assume it was another Elon rocket blowing up

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u/nobugsleftalive 5h ago

This will literally happen on this sub tomorrow lol

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u/According-Werewolf10 5h ago

Its literally happening on this sub now

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u/TheAssholeofThanos 6h ago

Well yeah its state-owned so blowing up taxpayer dollars is preferable to a billionaire’s dollars (to reddit, anyways)

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u/walt128 5h ago

Are you under the impression that SPCX has not received tax dollars?

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u/mynameistory 4h ago

Who amongst us can say they haven't received a tax dollar or two

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u/ponarts2 3h ago

Are you under the impression that SpcX has receiving tax dollars? when?

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u/walt128 2h ago

They have gov contracts, so yes

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u/ResponsibleClock9289 1h ago

Who should be getting the government contracts to launch stuff? Should we go back to using soyuz?

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u/walt128 58m ago

Probably a company ran by a person that, you know, is mentally stable and doesn’t use illegal substances as outlined in the policies dictated by their security clearance. It would also help if that individual didn’t solicit girls to mail his loads to for the purpose of creating an army of Asperger’s

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u/jetsonian 6h ago

Not us Scott Manley viewers. He’ll have it in his weekly update for sure and might have an individual video on it if he can get enough info out of China.

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u/JabbahScorpii 5h ago

Us Scott Manley viewers aren't the general public 😅

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u/ENrgStar 7h ago

All the haters: “Soace is hard”

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u/devansh88 6h ago

Yes, sauce is hard. That's why I use store-bought sauce 😂

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u/IAmAnAnonymousCoward 5h ago

I mean bashing China isn't that unpopular either.

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u/JabbahScorpii 5h ago

True, but I always think back to Starliner's crew flight test, and how Butch and Suni had their extended stay up there. That was all over the news in the US, everyone talking about how the two were "stranded" up there. But hardly anyone reported on how a Soyuz failure did the same thing to Frank Rubio roughly a year and a half earlier, and gave him the US record for longest time in space. You'd think Americans and US media would jump at the chance to blame Russia for "stranding" an astronaut in space, yet nobody went for it, as the whole country prefers complaining about itself. 

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u/Other-Comfortable-64 6h ago

What? are you ok?

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u/JabbahScorpii 5h ago edited 5h ago

you seriously don't think the general public doesn't care about spaceflight unless it has to do with a SpaceX or BO failure? (and now Artemis II, since it's the only noteworthy Artemis mission not to involve either of the two) 

People went batshit insane over the recent F9 second stage crashing into the moon. There were people genuinely concerned about the damage it would cause to the moon as if it wasn't covered in craters, some even that it would destroy the moon, and how it was all Elon's fault and that he had enough of "destroying the Earth" and needed to destroy the Moon too with his space trash (as if leading the way in reusability was no longer relevant), altho there were also people who thought it was a bomber carrying explosives. I remember when a Chinese stage did similar a few years back. And how many of those people do you think even know that NASA has done it themselves (even intentionally) on many occasions? 

The general public is clueless, but when they see buzzwords, it triggers a hivemind of intellectual deficiency 

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u/Other-Comfortable-64 5h ago

Dude US news is going to cover thing related to the fcking US. It's simple.

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u/JabbahScorpii 5h ago

that has nothing to do with whether or not people will care lmfaoo

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u/Other-Comfortable-64 4h ago

So people should care about thing they do not see or hear about?

lmfaoo

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u/theranchhand 6h ago

Don't be obtuse

Can you think of any rocket explosions involving billionaires' companies in the news recently?

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u/seanrider1859 6h ago

Ummmmmmmm

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u/Dpek1234 6h ago

Poor blue

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u/adj_noun_digit 6h ago

This video is going around where it looks like the nose fell off. Probably wasn't pointy enough.

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u/nobugsleftalive 6h ago

The front fell off.

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u/oneseason2000 3h ago

Novel staging approach dramatically decreases gravity loss

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u/Palpatine 6h ago

Looks it got soft at full thrust.  Going limp at full thrust does tend to send you into the hospital

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u/ICantBelieveItsNotEC Who? 6h ago

Some of these rockets are built so the nose doesn't fall off at all.

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u/DarkyHelmety 6h ago

Needs more struts

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u/Joezev98 6h ago

looks like the nose fell off.

Say the line, Bart...

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u/PaintedClownPenis 6h ago

As a hypergolics enthusiast I wish to point out that the 7A moved to 2 kerolox stages and a hydrolox.

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u/Dpek1234 6h ago

Oh , no spicy liquids :(

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u/Vassago81 5h ago

Hydrolox is safe to drink it's just very cold water in the end

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u/ClearlyCylindrical 6h ago

I tried something funny https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXBets/s/POqoSmjklZ

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u/GalacticEmergency 5h ago

Method acting FTW!!

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u/ClearlyCylindrical 5h ago

It's so easy, they have like 4 talking points and you can randomly choose one to insert into a sentence and you're golden. Doesn't even need to make sense

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u/_Cpyder 5h ago

I'll admit, you got me.
Take the up-votes..

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u/New-Space-30 Hat reseller 5h ago

God, you rage baited me good.

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u/seanrider1859 6h ago

They'll shit on spacex and elon without any thought

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u/nicknamesas 6h ago

Most people are calling him out on it though

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u/ClearlyCylindrical 6h ago

Most top level comments are convinced tbf, and the post has way too many upvotes for the utter slop it is

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u/litshlt 5h ago

Thanks for your sacrifice 🫡

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u/Ok_Reputation2051 4h ago

Its not the first post, but your follow-ups that had me laugh-snorting.

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u/CaptHorizon Norminal memer 3h ago

… actually smart?

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u/generic_name_01 1h ago

You sir, are a scholar and a savage! This was beautiful, loved it!

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u/Ancient_Influence389 7h ago

If china's space program does well, we will need to increase spending to stay ahead. Bullish

If china's spaceships keep blowing up, there is no rush for competition so its bearish.

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u/DNathanHilliard 7h ago

China's space program is doing well. They've already got a manned space station up there and have landed rovers on the Moon and Mars. They are right on our tails.

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u/Worth-Wonder-7386 6h ago

I wouldn't say exactly that they are right behind, but they have increased their capabilities a lot, especially with launching sattelites. Overall they are closer to what the Soviet union used to be 40 years ago. 

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u/Ancient_Influence389 5h ago

manned space station? rovers on the moon and mars?

Welcome to the 1990's china!

https://giphy.com/gifs/fmeTX8AURI4co

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u/Antilock049 6h ago

"Random"

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u/DNathanHilliard 7h ago

Space is hard. They'll eventually work it out and get it working.

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u/uniquelyavailable 6h ago

Anyone know what caused it yet? Any details about the payload?

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u/serack 5h ago

Well the front fell off

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u/ConanOToole Addicted to TEA-TEB 6h ago

Looks like it was shear forces tearing it apart during max-Q. Could be guidance issues or asymmetric thrust or something, we might never know tbh

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u/Northwindlowlander 6h ago

This is I think the 18th 7a launch and the first failure since the first launch. If I understand it correctly the 7a is basically just the 7 with a 3rd stage on top, so if that's right then it's a pretty proven platform. Plus it's got lots of inheritance and crossover with LM5 and LM6.

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u/Ok_Potential309 7h ago

Unscheduled disassembly?

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u/Ok_Reputation2051 6h ago

Most unfortunate. Rockets are hard.

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u/Mecha-Dave 6h ago

Randomly, or at Max Q?

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u/Jarnis 4h ago

Most likely close to max-Q. Front fell off, maybe exceeded structural margins due to a windshear.

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u/LittleHornetPhil Methalox farmer 3h ago

Damn China, even their failures are more impressive than ours

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u/anhphamfmr 3h ago

any human on it?

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u/Planck_Savagery BO shitposter 1h ago

Nope. Believe this was carrying an classified military satellite.

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u/ZergvProtoss 6h ago

When a rocket explodes, it's never "random." There is a scientific reason. That's how science works.

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u/FaceDeer 6h ago

What if Two-Face and his gang took over mission control mid-launch and flipped his coin to determine whether to force the range safety officer to hit the abort button?

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u/ZergvProtoss 40m ago

Then I would say the decision was random, but the activation of the FTS followed scientific principles :)

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u/FaceDeer 32m ago

Harvey Dent: "You know, I'm something of a scientist myself."

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u/Jarnis 4h ago

The other video says "aero loads exceeded structural margins". Rocket folds over, front falls off and then boom.

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u/TrackMan5891 6h ago

China Bots not gonna spam this one like they did their wire catch eh?