China's Chang'e-6 has just returned to Earth with lunar soil, and countless Chinese people are proud of the progress made in the motherland's aerospace, but at this time, a sudden accident made Chinese aerospace fans completely extinguish the pride in their hearts!
According to media reports, on June 30, a first-stage rocket fell and caught fire in Gongyi City, Henan Province. According to the information obtained by the media, the rocket accident was caused by the rocket Tianlong 3 developed by the private enterprise Tianbing Technology, and the cause of the accident is even more embarrassing!
What exactly was the cause of this rocket accident? What did the accident teach us? Is the participation of private enterprises a blessing or a curse for China's aerospace?
The cause of the accident of the first stage rocket is incredible
According to the news released by the media, the Tianlong-3 rocket developed by Tianbing Technology is a nine-stage launch vehicle connected in parallel, and its theoretical maximum thrust can reach 820 tons!
This kind of thrust is quite good among domestic rockets, and the target of Tianlong 3 is the Falcon 9 of the United States, which is a recyclable rocket and China's first recyclable rocket!
So what is the reason why this rocket, which represents the highest point of science and technology of China's private enterprises, crashed? It may be incredible to say why, but the real reason is so absurd!
According to media reports, when the Tianlong-3 rocket had an accident, it was not a launch operation at all, but the project team was testing the thrust of the rocket!
As the name suggests, the rocket thrust test is to fix the rocket in a certain place, and then turn on all the engine power of the rocket, and finally check whether the rocket power meets the requirements through a series of equipment!
What led to the accident of Tianlong-3 was precisely the failure of the device at the junction between the rocket fixture on the ground and the rocket body, which directly led to the rocket taking off under the action of huge thrust without preparation!
In fact, according to the operation of the Sky-3 recoverable rocket, even if the connecting device fails to lift off, as long as the rocket's recovery program is turned on, Sky-3 can be re-landed on the ground.
But coincidentally, after the rocket was lifted off for a period of time, the computer on it took the initiative to shut down the rocket engine, which caused the rocket to lose power to fall straight to the ground, and finally fell into the deep mountains not far from the rocket launch.
The remaining fuel in the rocket exploded violently after the collision, and according to the video transmitted from the scene, it was even seen that a small mushroom cloud was created after the explosion, although it was located in the middle of nowhere, and there were no casualties! But the huge explosion still caused a lot of panic!
Although this is only a mistake of China's private aerospace company and cannot represent the highest level of China's aerospace, such a low-level mistake will still discredit China's aerospace industry!
China's aerospace industry has finally relied on its ultra-high launch success rate to create a safe and efficient impression in the international community, and it is very likely that it will be completely destroyed because of this low-level fall! We need to learn enough lessons from this!
Is it a blessing or a curse for private enterprises to join the aerospace field?
After Musk's spaceX entered the aerospace field, everyone thought that private enterprises like him engaged in aerospace were just a kind of ticket or dream, but no one thought that Musk would push spaceX to the first place in the American space company by himself, and now Musk's spaceX's achievements in some fields have even far surpassed the NASA space agency of the United States!
Because of Musk's experience, China has also opened up aerospace companies in the private sector in recent years, and then China's civil aerospace has entered a vigorous stage of development!
But there is development will inevitably be accompanied by accidents, after all, the level of private aerospace is uneven, and the technology of each company is also high and low, and the more rockets launched will naturally fail or be damaged and explode! This is indispensable in aerospace, and Musk's spaceX could not avoid this back then, and it was precisely because they fell and damaged a lot that they finally developed the world's leading rocket launch technology!
For China's private aerospace companies, making mistakes is inevitable and the only way to success, but we allow aerospace companies to make mistakes, but we don't allow them to make such low-level mistakes!
This rocket accident of Tianbing Technology Company is completely avoidable, and as long as we check diligently and increase vigilance, this tragedy can be completely avoided! Although Tianbing Technology has made a lot of excellent achievements in the aerospace industry in the past, they still have to learn lessons from this accident.
In addition, China's relevant departments should also strengthen the management of China's private aerospace companies, after all, judging from this incident, rocket launch is still a huge dangerous industry, and it is fortunate that Tianlong-3 did not cause major casualties. No one can guarantee whether there will be such good luck in future accidents, so we should appropriately raise the threshold of private enterprises in the aerospace field, and at the same time strengthen the training and management of safety awareness for existing companies, and strive to eliminate dangers and hidden dangers in the bud!