China’s second launch of its Long March 5 rocket fails
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The new colonial movement: China has announced that the second launch of its Long March 5 rocket was a failure.
They have provided no other details. Since this is the rocket that they plan to use to launch their space station modules as well as launch this year’s unmanned lunar mission, this failure is probably going to impact those schedules.
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The new colonial movement: China has announced that the second launch of its Long March 5 rocket was a failure.
They have provided no other details. Since this is the rocket that they plan to use to launch their space station modules as well as launch this year’s unmanned lunar mission, this failure is probably going to impact those schedules.
What happened to the previous 12 comments?
Danny Daniels: I think the comments you are looking for are in a later post: Long March 5 failure occurred at satellite separation