Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

Cless_Aurion t1_iv0xglb wrote

Funny to read this now, hours after one of China's space rockets made Spain close off part of their air traffic because they lost control of it...

4

Dragon___ t1_iv0y9j1 wrote

They never had control in the first place. Their launch architecture is to intentionally sow chaos and terror as their expended stages randomly tumble back to earth. You can watch the reentry prediction and the trajectory pretty much always has a nonzero probability of crashing into the US or Europe. It's insanity.

−3

Bensemus t1_iv1rgwc wrote

> Their launch architecture is to intentionally sow chaos and terror

This isn't true. They aren't trying to cause a panic. Some of their rockets uses a sustainer centre core that makes it into a very low orbit. They haven't invested in the tech to relight the engines or add deorbit motors to deorbit it in a controlled fashion.

4

toodroot t1_iv44wxh wrote

The easiest solution is what Energia and Shuttle did: don't put the big thing into orbit. People even talked about this before the first CZ-5B launch.

0