15/01/2018 Chinese Long March 3B Rocket Booster Falls From Sky And Explodes Near A Small Town

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January 13, 2018

Chinese Long March 3B Rocket Booster Falls

From Sky And Explodes Near A Small Town

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On Friday, a booster from a Chinese Long March 3B

rocket crash landed and exploded near Xiangdu, a town in
Guangxi province. The booster caught fire immediately
after exploding. Luckily, no injuries were reported in this
Devender
Kundaliya incident. The locals, who were initially shocked to see the
rocket falling from the sky, captured videos of the incident
and shared them on the social media.

China’s Long March 3B rocket was launched on Friday

from China’s Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan
province to send the 26th and 27th Beidou satellites
(Beidou-3 GNSS) into orbit, according to the GB Times.

The incidents of unused rocket parts falling near inhabited

towns are not very rare in China. The initial rocket MUST READS
launching sites in the country were established during the
Cold War era. At that time, the government decided to
China’s Tiangong-1 Space
establish rocket launching facilities deep inland due to Station’s Potential March
security concerns. The Xichang rocket launching facility is Crash-Landing Shaping

also located hundreds of kilometers away from the

coastline, which means all rockets launched from this Lava Tubes Found Near
The Moon’s North Pole
facility fly over land to reach their orbit. When these
Might Have Skylights
rockets shed their strap-on boosters, they fall in some
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specific “drop zones.” Xiangdu town, where rocket booster

SpaceX’s Zuma Mission:
fell on Friday, also lies within a designated “drop zone.” Fate Of ‘Secret’ Satellite
Still Unconfirmed As
Xiangdu is located about 700 km away from the launch
site. Although “drop zones” for rocket stages are precisely
calculated and people are informed about the launching Chinese Construction
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events in advance, incidents of unused rocket parts falling 30 Perfectly Preserved
near inhabited areas could result in fatal accidents
someday, according to experts.

The Verge
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Falling rocket booster explodes near a town in China

theverge.com/2018/1/12/1688…
2:20 PM - Jan 12, 2018

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Recently, China has constructed some new rocket

launching facilities located near the coastline. The
Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Hainan Island in the
South China Sea is now being used to launch the Long
March 5 and 7 rockets.

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The booster that fell near Xiangdu on Friday did not hit
any buildings or people, although it could have posed
serious health hazards to curious locals that immediately
went near the site to shoot the incident with their mobile
phones. These locals making shouts and noises, as shown
in the video, were unaware of the fact that a falling rocket
booster contains highly toxic hypergolic propellant that
could be dangerous if inhaled or after coming in contact
with the skin.

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