Rocket Takes Off Horizontally, Devastates Village | Last Moments

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[@Ebinspurdo]

Will Ireland into space?

[@ezekielbrockmann114]

Neutral leprechauns to the moon!

[@garfieldmcsniffit1030]

@@jackharle1251 white demographics

[@JoeyFranko]

You should do a video on Gary McKinnon, the pentagon hacker. He hacked into the secret ufo files, they tried to extradite him from London to the USA for 11 years. He threatened to kill himself so London decided it was cruel and unusual punishment and now he’s a prisoner of his own country. To this day he’s still wanted by the USA for espionage

[@steveshoemaker6347]

🇺🇸

[@NovemberOrWhatever]

This is why flight termination systems are essential, as much as they are the bane of rocket scientists. If you quickly turn a large, out-of-control missile into a bunch of tiny bits, those tiny bits don't get very far and don't break as much stuff

[@natelax1367]

I remember seeing an interview with the guy who’s hand was on the terminate button for some shuttle launches. Can’t even imagine the stress involved if you ever have to push it. Yeah the decision isn’t solely his but that isn’t much solace

[@cerberus1166]

flight termination systems detonate the rocket?

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

@@cerberus1166 yes

[@combinetheelite]

@Turbo Last Name yes,most American rockets have them

[@combinetheelite]

Some systems are automatic

[@officerwaifu6408]

The fact that China just removed the existence of hundreds of people who were killed to save face is absolutely terrifying. That entire country terrifies me.

[@piergiorgio919]

Idk i find the us equally terrifying with their war policies, aka destroy anyone who opposes the petrodollar.

[@baboon_92]

You gotta do what you gotta do

[@CristiNeagu]

@@piergiorgio919 So you were a Trump supporter, then?

[@Simon-xi7lb]

@@piergiorgio919 nice whataboutism. now please be quiet, the adults are speaking here.

[@andrewkuebler4335]

As well it should.

[@tieradlerch.217]

The Scientific rocket suddenly turn into Cruise Missile is terrifying

[@firstduckofwellington6889]

Going back to their roots

[@theman5887]

Only difference between a heavy lift rocket and a ballistic missile is its target, never forget that when you hear about the space race.

[@zennerstein]

Even more terrifying to see it coming towards you…lol. All of the videos posted throughout the years have removed the screams from the Chinese dignitaries that were running for their lives and the Americans yelling, “ Get Down!” while trying to take cover.

[@winged]

Short range ballistic missile.

[@HALLish-jl5mo]

​@@theman5887 Well, that hasn't really been true since the early 60s, and we no longer consider those rockets heavy lift. Ballistic missiles care about storable propellants. They are now basically all solid fuel based, with maybe a hypergolic final stage. Meanwhile heavy lift boosters are fine to operate with cryogenic propellants, necessitating long preparations to launch and infrastructure that is easy to see and destroy. Vehicles like Atlas did see double duty, but Atlas was retired as a missile in 1965. The R7 served double duty for the Soviets until 1968. It was almost useless as a missile, what with them having 6 launch sites total, and a maximum launch rate of 2 a day from each site. The only long term success was the Titan 2, which served in both roles from 1962 to 1987. Of course, none of these were heavily lift vehicles. Going the other way, retired Minuteman missiles are sometimes disposed of by being used as launch vehicles. But they are pretty awful at it, and again, aren't heavy lift vehicles.

[@mushroomsamba82]

The takeoff looks like a lot of my KSP excursions... unfortunately.

[@Georges_IV]

Seemed pretty successful to me if youre chinese party member

[@TaliyahP]

This is why Kerbin is uninhabited

[@jwalster9412]

Not enough mammoth engines I guess.

[@blackroberts6290]

China do be inside a game with bad AI

[@torbjrnsteinsland8985]

Git gud.

[@RedHeadForester]

You consistently find events to tell us about which I've not heard of before, and present them in a high quality manner without wasting time on filler material. I always appreciate that!

[@JTA1961]

athefumen ✅

[@scoldingwhisper]

I always appreciate it too. Shows respect to the victims

[@bluethorn]

Makes for a valuable story teller

[@FR4M3Sharma]

Why do you think he has so many subs?

[@SkatingAdventures]

Yessir

[@markharrison626]

No surprise at how China handle these type if scenarios. Just want to say how happy I am for you and how far your channel has progressed. The topics are always interesting and you do an amazing job of being informative without talking too much and dragging things out 👍

[@howardzhang5421]

I do agree that censorship exists in states like China, but the constant claims of "Chinese soldiers are there to force everyone to stay silent" is honestly sickening to watch. Keep in mind that China has a vastly different culture compared to the West. In China, there are special divisions in the army for construction, search and rescue, etc. Case and point - during the Sichuan earthquake, large numbers of PLA troops were used to assist in search and rescue operation, handle logistics, and airdropped into areas made inaccessible due to the earthquake to set up field hospitals, etc. In fact, this is a common practice here in Asia, especially south-east asia and east asia. The equivalent to this is if your aid workers were denounced as part of a cover operation. Do also keep in mind that western media will first and foremost portray China in a bad light and use misleading wordings and numbers.

[@albernard8751]

@@howardzhang5421I had a really well written comment but I go one second to spell check myself and then it deletes itself it’s night atm where I am and I’m tired so I’m just going to put what I was going to put at the end here as a point. Do I need to mention the Tiananmen Square massacre… and make no mistake it was a massacre…

[@howardzhang5421]

@@albernard8751 That's a whole different matter. People like you just zoom in on the massacre itself without considering the wider picture. There were definitely not peaceful protests that resulted in the deaths of many, though it was caused by the few, whom I believe were NED funded extremists. If you do not believe this, just do some digging into the colour revolutions and Maidan coup. There was no killing on Tiananmen itself, all of the deaths happened afterwards. I am not defending the massacre, just pointing out facts that you clearly do not understand. Before you claim to have some sacred script from western media aka. propaganda, my own father was part of the earlier protests, but returned home during one of the many warnings given by the government. It was a genuine effort on the part of many young students to improve China, but your government tried to use it to cause a regime change, the word they use when talking about CIA and NED funded coups. And yes, the news was broadcasted. My father learned about it on the train back home.

[@IchigoKurosakicool]

@@howardzhang5421 but he's right.

[@howardzhang5421]

@@IchigoKurosakicool Care to provide any evidence to back up your claim?

[@anracc5302]

Company: "Hey chinese space agency, we need you to deliver this telecommunications satellite to orbit in order to supply the local village with TV and internet" chinese space agency: *delivers telecommunications satellite to local village*

[@firstnameiii7270]

marked fragile cargo aboard

[@partycrasher1569]

lmao ok

[@jwalster9412]

*mission failed successfully*

[@aeureus]

So nice of them to be helping others innit.

[@thesaddestdude3575]

I feel bad for lauging at this. But hey, the satelite worked so well everyone on YT gets to see the village on film!

[@notfiction9241]

It’s disturbing how easily people get disappeared in China.

[@itsorenji]

Yeah. Do something the government disagrees with or be in the wrong place at the wrong time and now you’re just a memory.

[@furanduron4926]

Wonders of CCP.

[@Kaleki935]

It'll be the norm soon, thanks to "every vote matters"

[@flimby872]

@@Kaleki935 lol wut?

[@psymons9133]

They only other way to disappear that many people at once is to send them to a US public school!!!

[@colour3340]

The real problem is the location of the rocket launching station. In other countries it is located close to the sea so if something bad happens no one gets hurt.

[@colour3340]

@@confusedoilpainter3294 exploding rockets don't vanish, it will fall down in pieces. Fresh water required for dampening sound is kept at water reservoirs near the launch pad. Salt water is corrosive and so it is not used.

[@muhammadabdullahwaseem3040]

the chinese built their launch complex inland because at the time of its construction they were paranoid that their enemies could easily destroy these sites if they were near the sea

[@risingmoon893]

China widely also uses hypergolic fuels, with most American and European rockets LOX and RP1 is used which is essentially liquid oxygen and kerosene. With the LOX and RP1 it gets pumped at very high pressures and then ignited in a directional chamber which helps lift the rocket, but rocket are difficult, and so even ignition systems are hard and expensive to produce. So hypergolic fuels are like a sort of solution, with the mixture combusting when in contact with the opposing oxidizer or fuel. This removes even the need of an ignition system for the fuels. It also makes it cheaper to make rockets and arguably easier, but it has a major downside as hypergolic fuels are highly toxic and carcinogenic which is essentially guaranteed future health and cancer problems. China in all its corruption and bid to save money also refused to install a launch termination system and since China doesn't care about its people, they launched and still launch rockets above populated areas with it being legally required with rockets in the U.S. to be launched in the direction of the ocean.

[@pitfall5124]

Thankyou for the interesting info

[@sigmamale4147]

Hypergolic fuels are also dangerous because they, well, are hypergolic

[@XemawthEvo2]

Russia's Roscosmos also uses hypergolic fuels in their rockets, leading partially to their "less expensive" nature

[@MrGryph78]

@@XemawthEvo2 very few Russian commercial rockets use hypergolic fuels these days. Almost all are kerolox or hydrolox fuelled.

[@teamscarletdevil6915]

man i dont think blowing a tank full of toxic fuels mid air would cause less damage than it hitting the ground

[@wurzel9671]

Village Takes Off Horizontally, Devastates Rocket

[@thecombarianempire979]

Underrated comment

[@alanwatts8239]

Laputa be like

[@cokeMONSTERps3]

that poor rocket's family ;_;

[@jwalster9412]

Usually most other countries have there rockets do this on purpose, and it usually goes across to ocean towards people they disagree with.

[@basilcurrie8138]

Relativity

[@obsoleteprofessor2034]

My GF worked at Loral as a redacter. When her job was explained to her, the conversation expanded to this launch. Turned out, the Loral technicians were initially cautious, thinking their room was bugged. One of the team members was Chinese and served as a liason between Loral and the Chinese techs. When questions came up if it was ok to discuss thoughts with the Chinese, their Chinese member said he had cleared it with the home office. When home office finally got wind of what was going on, the Chinese guy was recalled but he disappeared into the Chinese countryside. He was a deep spy.

[@bulletsunderpressure]

If you cant trust chinese deep spies, who can you trust? The local friendly neighborhood spy-ops sounds better by comparsion.

[@dezznutz3743]

Chian has been stealing secrets for decades. I dont know why we thought we could bring capitalism to them and theyd stop being a Communist country. It failed.

[@Seltkirk-ABC]

My GF said the same exact thing

[@notaulgoodman9732]

@@Seltkirk-ABC lol

[@colossalbreacker]

Nice

[@edp2260]

I worked for an American satellite manufacturer during that period of time. One of my colleagues was on the spacecraft launch team and was at that launch, and was also on the launch team of the earlier long march failure. She knew some of the Chinese engineers that were killed. It was at least 200 fatalities.

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

I worked there but recently and talked to one of the US engineers who was there. What a story.

[@darrellpalmer]

I worked for Space Systems/Loral and remember this launch very well. I wasn’t in China, but one of our people who was there shot video of the launch and smuggled it out of China somehow. We all exchanged copies and discussed it extensively among ourselves. A couple of young Chinese engineers working with us seemed shocked that their country was lying so blatantly about the death toll. 200 was a common consensus for the real number. It was said that the village contained women and children, not just workers. Because it was 3am there, we all assumed the children were probably asleep in their beds. Horribly tragic…

[@edp2260]

@@darrellpalmer What was also shocking to me is that apparently the Chinese launch system has NO range safety whatsoever. No command destruct, no AUTO destruct. Nothing. In Western rocketry we have both. It the launch vehicle strays off course the range safety officer would 'push the button' ending the flight. If the rocket started tipping out of control immediately after liftoff, the range safety officer would not have the change because the auto destruct would have halted the flight already.

[@tetraxis3011]

@@edp2260 Russia does not have self termination systems on their rockets either, but Russia launches from the literal middle of nowhere.

[@Edward.Rippett.]

Edp445? Lmao

[@hehahabababha4864]

It’s awful to know that we probably never will know how many people really died Edit: I would not recommend going to the reply’s, somehow there is a debate over weather or not people dying matters.

[@FnD4212]

China is known to hide that kind of detail.

[@partycrasher1569]

probably almost the whole village

[@alanwatts8239]

No one died, this event didn't even happen. In fact, this video is not even real, it's just a fabrication of your extremist thoughts. Luckly for you, though, we have a *school* that can help you erase your inner addiction for destruction, you start next week.

[@benjaminpitman2980]

@@alanwatts8239 +10000000000000000 Social credits

[@unitedstatesofmurder5012]

@@alanwatts8239 It scares me that even though you're joking, nothing you said is fictional. lol

[@thing4826]

China casually taking two zeros off the death report.

[@lifegeek5742]

Also a side note, China is the only nation that doesn't use a Flight Termination System on their orbital rockets (a line of explosives running up the side of the rocket to intentionally blow it up if something goes wrong during launch), this might have saved all those people if it had been triggered when it went out of guidance bounds (as soon as it tipped over).

[@anushpatel4003]

Doesn’t Russia also not use FTS?

[@user-sn8oe5sb1b]

@@anushpatel4003 Indeed, Russia also doesn't use FTS. Also, just like China, they insist on launching from landlocked areas, instead of from shore towards the ocean like everyone else.

[@lifegeek5742]

oh yeah Russia too

[@SuperCatacata]

@@discoloured3492 Yeah, they are finally doing stuff the western world did over 50 years ago in space. Very impressive, very innovative, very original.

[@yourdadsotherfamily3530]

*Bing Chilling*

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

Though being in my thirties when this happened, I don't remember hearing about it. There may have been a "Chinese rocket crashed on take-off" kind of report, but that wouldn't have raised an eyebrow. It wasn't uncommon. Had I heard about the poor victims, or "just" that a village had been destroyed, I'd absolutely remember it!

[@elllieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

China isn't exactly keen on spreading bad news about itself.

[@generalgungus]

@@quokka7555 they said thirties when this happened

[@quokka7555]

@@generalgungus yes they did lol my bad

[@ssjwes]

I feel a little weird because I remember all these things pretty clearly and I'm about the same age as you. This is what kinda drives me mad because so much stuff happens and people 99% of the time say "I never knew that!". What's the point of discussing things with people when they don't even know what goes on around them? I end up having to teach people about topics I want to talk to them about before I can even make my point. It gets really tiring.

[@ssjwes]

An easy off hand example would be talking about the USSR(Russia's past history) and people asking me "what's the USSR?"... When that happens I just think to myself "is it worth the trouble to explain it?"

[@deidra-v6575]

Bro thanks for the human subtitles, I REALLY REALLY REALLY appreciate it. English isn't my first language, so reading those subtitles help me cope up better.

[@feelincrispy7053]

I did a bit of a deep dive on rocket crashes a while back. As well as this launch I also remember reading about a Russian one that stuck in my mind because comically a telemetry angle of attack sensor had been installed upside down because the engineer who fitted it supposedly hit it in with a hammer to make it fit 😂

[@natesmodelsdoodles5403]

I remember that one!

[@elllieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

more like the rockets took a deep dive

[@PunksloveTrumpys]

It's a fascinating topic, NASA lost one in 1962 because one of the programmers omitted a hyphen/overbar in the guidance system coding.

[@capitalismsucks9590]

Soviet ingenuity comrade.

[@MattH-wg7ou]

That Russian one was a huge environmental disaster because it used hypergolic fuel/oxidizer which are extremely toxic.

[@12345.......]

More rocket malfunctions please. There was a launch that failed and blew out windows which was recorded by people inside. Scott Manley covered a bunch in one video, but each one is interesting on its own.

[@combinetheelite]

+1,as a space nerd,its important to teach about systems,ect...

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

Ok poor wording, it sounded at first like you were hoping for additional rocket failures lol

[@Harvester_OS]

The failure of the Brazilian VLS-1 V03 would be a good video.

[@12345.......]

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 yeah, I could have said videos. Oops

[@han-tyumitheconfusedcyborg1656]

if he did that he would need to also balance it out by recognizing everything that went right also (i am a space nerd)

[@DaveInBridport]

Similar thing happened to me last Nov 5th. Brocks Sky Rocket hit a branch and headed off at 90°. Hit Mrs Dawson's shed three doors down and frightened her dog.

[@Mishimized]

Who the Fok is Mrs Dawson and who the fuck are you ?

[@Kumquat_Lord]

The scariest part is that the Chinese rockets use hypergolic fuels, which ignite in contact with each other. The most common ones are hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide, both of which are HORRIFICALLY toxic and carcinogenic. So even if the explosion didn't kill them, the chemicals would have.

[@thesaddestdude3575]

Especially Hydrazine, i heard that some hypergolic fuels are worse than other, but only verry little exposure to hydrazine and you can wave goodbye to your nose and maybe even moth and eyes. "Gotcha nose"

[@douggaudiosi14]

Def didn't just copy another dudes comment almost verbadum

[@stellviahohenheim]

Stop copying other people's comments

[@bltzcstrnx]

@@thesaddestdude3575 their latest engine use kerosene instead. Looks like they're beginning to phase out hypergolic propellants.

[@eugeneoreilly9356]

Kerosene and nitric acid commonly used on early post war rockets.

[@christopherleveck6835]

My wife and I both worked for Space Systems/Loral when this happened. 1700 people from 2 villiages were killed. The damage was total. Because families don't leave the area entire families of multiple generations were killed. No surviving relatives to carry on a family name. The Bush administration asked Loral to work on this launch and while the engineers were encouraged to cooperate with the Chinese it was two of Lorals salesmen that actually went to jail for basically aiding the Chinese in providing state secrets. Something the President himself asked Loral to do.... We watched the whole launch and explosion on closed circuit TV live in the ampitheatre at Loral. Friends of ours who were actually there told us they had to stay at the launch facility for hours and hours and after it was dark, nearly morning. they were finally put on buses with newspaper taped over the windows so no one could see outside. Some of the paper blew or fell off once they started moving. The road passed through both villages and all along the route large trucks lined the road keeping the glowing ground mostly out of site of the Loral employees. Even that many hours later they said that the ground looked like the inside of a BBQ. As they drove through the area the heat was enough to make the windows of the bus hot to the touch.

[@SyndicateSuperman]

Damn. I can't imagine how difficult it was to hold onto that burden.

[@skoldmo762]

source?

[@michaeltheoret3842]

@@skoldmo762 , Safe bet that the Person giving their account of the disaster knows what really happened ,seeing that They worked at the Launch Facility for Space Systems /Loral .

[@wongcayven9893]

When you said they were put in a bus with covered windows I thought this was going a whole other direction

[@GoodlyPenguin]

More details please?

[@JDLeonard74]

"Was it even on board?" I hadn't thought of that. Good 1 Qxir 👍

[@alexander0125]

They've had far, far far worse accidents since '96. every other year something like a factory or plant explodes. If it wasn't big enough to be seen from orbit we'd probably never even know

[@aaronhumphrey2009]

True. Chinese lives mean little to the CCP.. Three huge explosions recently occurred in Singapore, (6-18 or 19 ) with thick columns of black smoke rising up.. The CCPs C19 lockdowns there were briefly lifted for some..with food and hope running out, many are suiciding and going berzerk under the starvation conditions.. It's horrifically Orwellian..the screams from the trapped Chinese are CHILLING..

[@AeroGuy07]

It's interesting to hear details about stories like this. I was 25 when this happened, but aside from a news stories I don't remember hearing or reading much about it at the time. Keep it up, this content is great!

[@MrAB-fo7zk]

Because the CCP suppressed it...

[@SuperCatacata]

Yup. That's what happens when the state completely controls the media and needs to appear perfect to the outside world.

[@richardhenry1969]

Same here. I was just out of the military.

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

You should do a bit on the beginnings of The Ariane 5, and it's tendency to explode on the launch pad. My brother was a programmer for The ESA, at the time.

[@napalmholocaust9093]

A lot of components are regulated. Space grade capacitors for circuit boards are restricted from export or impossible to find. I was shopping for a set of caps for a leak point one and could only put russian aerospace caps in if I wanted quality. Kinda outta my depth but still an interesting rabbit hole of restricted electronics.

[@napalmholocaust9093]

I know their is no board in the leak but but it was just an example. No Sprague cans the size of an energy drink.

[@napalmholocaust9093]

I guess running all Sprague caps sounds bad.

[@theodorgiosan2570]

It took more than 6 months of searching for me to find a Texas Instruments radiation hardened voltage regulator for a homemade X-ray machine. When I did find it it was over $200. In my newer designs I have replaced the solid state control circuits with vacuum tubes because they are already resistant to X-rays and thus I can house them in the same housing as the X-ray tube and the high voltage circuit for a portable machine.

[@Sk0die]

@@theodorgiosan2570 Holy shit you guys just do that stuff for fun?

[@kvproductions2581]

super villain comment thread

[@charlessaint7926]

Chinese government, "Nothing happened." The People, "What happened to our loved ones?" Chinese government, "Who?"

[@donaldcampbell7755]

Government:. they were released from employment....

[@Truck-kun_01]

@@donaldcampbell7755 ....of living

[@asdf3568]

American government: We estimate 30x whatever the Chinese claims.

[@luftwaffle3766]

Scp foundation be like

[@thesaddestdude3575]

@@asdf3568 Which is probably accurate to be fair

[@TheTruthKiwi]

I realise that was a huge rocket but that seemed like an extraordinary amount of devastation from just one crash. It looked like the whole town was levelled which doesn't match the flash which seemed to be in a relativrly small area. Very strange

[@annoyingbstard9407]

It’s actually a video of the village Bacchu which was almost destroyed by an earthquake in 2003. This video is C & P copied from a video posted some ten years ago which was discredited as ridiculous…even by KZbin levels of misinformation.

[@annoyingbstard9407]

It’s actually a video of the village Bacchu which was almost destroyed by an earthquake in 2003. This video is C & P copied from a video posted some ten years ago which was discredited as ridiculous…even by KZbin levels of misinformation.

[@grantbroom405]

Chinese government probably finished the rest off so there was no witnesses

[@TheTruthKiwi]

@@annoyingbstard9407 Ahhh, thanks for clearing that up man. 👍

[@craigmau5]

It was loaded with all that fuel needed to launch

[@huggleskuishy]

Imagine dying to a stray rocket. Must suck.

[@fortunate9714]

Good one?

[@shadelich8417]

I have had some BF4 moments like that....strongest memory I had was trying to use a tow missile on a helicopter got sniped and the missile rushed downward to hit a 2 man jeep

[@huggleskuishy]

@@fortunate9714 Not sure what part of that made you think it was a joke...

[@DJ1573]

*looks at Ukraine*

[@huggleskuishy]

@@shadelich8417 F

[@KyrosTheWolf]

I remember that video. The way the rocket takes off at an angle is haunting, you immediately know something it very very wrong

[@pgr3290]

Long March 3B was a big rocket, serious kit. Well over 400 tonnes, with of course the majority of that mass being fuel. That's a heck of a big conventional bomb going off when it flew into terrain.

[@user-cj4fu8qq9b]

it looks like the only difference between last moments and tales from the bottle is if it has animations or not

[@mnm1273]

Tales from the bottle sometimes only include life changing injuries.

[@Lone_Star_Outdoors]

That's gotta be a big distinction for his animator 😅

[@luiginotcool]

@@Lone_Star_Outdoors i think he animates his own stuff :)

[@skaldlouiscyphre2453]

@@luiginotcool Wouldn't that make him his animator?

[@zenfrodo]

Nah, Tales tend to have darkly-humorous or darkly-awesome or batshit-insane situations that the main person of the tale did or brought on themselves somehow. Gallows humor, so to speak, or what TVTropes calls "Crossing the Line Twice". Last Moments never have anything funny about the situations told, and the lives lost are almost always innocent folks at the mercy of someone else's refusing to follow basic rules & safety or uncontrollable things happening that they couldn't prevent. Like the Tales ep about the WWII soldier who overdosed on meth -- yeah, the guy was in a bad situation and nearly lost his life, but skiing at top speed thru an enemy army camp while screaming at the top of his lungs & confusing the hell out of the soldiers? Fuckin' HILARIOUS. Killdozer? The poor guy was screwed at every turn, but instead of giving up quietly like most of us would have, he BUILDS A FREAKIN'TANK and takes out a huge chunk of the town. He dies, yes, and how he was screwed over was tragic, but damn, it was fuckin' awesome for him to go out like that. The ep with the terrorists getting the shit beaten out of them by regular folks at an airport? HELL TO THE YEAH. In contrast, Last Moments has stories like the cave diver who died while trying to recover the body of a fellow diver & his lines got entangled with the body, or the couple who were abandoned by their tour boat while they were diving & died horribly in the middle of the ocean due to the tour boat's incompetence, or the actor & two children who were killed on the set of the Twilight Zone movies because the director ignored safety and employment laws. Nothing funny or awesome about any of the Last Moments' stories...just horrible, horrible tragedy.

[@paopao.]

Imagine sleeping in your small village never to wake up again.

[@ParkerDD]

I’ve heard the common practice for counting bodies in China is to rely on reports of missing people to identify a body, and thus person as deceased. So it makes sense then that if an entire town populous was wiped out, they would report the death toll low, as no one is left to report anyone missing. Very sad and disturbing.

[@01DOGG01]

They outright just cover everything up. Remember that flooded tunnel where a ton of people died? They went and removed the flowers that people left so it wouldn't look like lots died. Worst country!

[@alexanderl.6207]

I googled it and the village is still around…

[@realtissaye]

@@alexanderl.6207 LMAO

[@HeyYouYouAreFinallyAwake]

@@alexanderl.6207 They had lots of sexy sex and rebuilt it

[@kamalakrsna]

Hmmm... makes perfect sense

[@robertnichols78]

"The Long March"? Maybe they should have named the rocket,"The Great Leap Upward"

[@thesaddestdude3575]

"The Great Leap Sideways"

[@YukariAkiyama]

The Great Leap Forward

[@Vespyr_]

It's terrifying that a country so lacking in human empathy and integrity can be considered a superpower.

[@bigtime69420]

I don’t think you talked about it in the video but this is also why most countries have launch facilities on the coast and launch in the direction of the ocean. Chinas government cheaped out and built this facility really far inland near the village. Hundreds of people died to save the government a little money.

[@xirenzhang9126]

No, the launch site was originally built inland with the goal of making it harder for the US to nuke the launch site

[@oldlincolnpipewelder]

Communists have very little regard for human life. 😉

[@amentco8445]

@@TSZatoichi China has more than enough room to pull off building one far enough away from civilization. And you act like if they wanted to they couldn't evict a lot of people to make enough space. Still better than pointless deaths. Ignoring that their coasts have many similar areas to florida, and they could expand if they needed.

[@fe3613]

To expand on this (not to minimize, that wouldn't make sense), millions of mining and "farming" operations around the world devastate local communities of people and our wildlife neighbors. Even something that seems as harmless as graphite for pencils, has been shown to pollute local indigenous people's air causing "sparkly air" at night and covering crops in dust, not to mention the illnesses it causes people and animals.

[@l1ttel_y699]

@@TSZatoichi There is now a lauch facility in Hainan with the benefits of having lower latitudes and capable of using sea transportation. I think the earlier Chines launch sites are inland for defense and secrecy reasons.

[@1TakoyakiStore]

This is one of the few topics in your video catalog that I had some knowledge of. There was a great article about in a better part of a decade ago in either air & space or popular mechanics. In it the small number of US engineers witnessed to the disaster noticed dozens of bodies. Far more than what China reported, as well as the vanished village.

[@markmark5269]

I bet you can't produce that article .... I have read writings direct from 2 engineers who were there, and they didn't see any bodies at all, just the flattened village.

[@Flipflopskipskop]

​@@markmark5269 that is interesting, I bet you can't produce those writings.

[@olivercharles2930]

@@markmark5269chinese bootlicker

[@usmale49]

Very interesting and informative. Pretty frightening, too! Thank you for uploading and sharing! 😊👍👌 PS: I subscribed to your great channel two videos ago. It was after the video about the Tazman Bridge. Your channel is great...thanks!!

[@LTPottenger]

I'm glad we're back to more feelgood stories

[@sthomas6369]

Nice read of the Wikipedia page on Intelsat 708. I actually knew one of the US company scientists on the review board. What I heard was that the whole process was extremely frustrating because the commercial satellite manufacturers had "bought" a certain number of launches, and that, plus additional failed launches, would be extremely bad for business. There was a lot of motivation to get the launches straightened out (literally and figuratively.

[@redhen2123]

And all because they were lowest bidder. /sigh

[@bradsanders407]

@@redhen2123 yeah cause the us has never had rockets blow up before because parts were bought from the lowest bidder.

[@sashimiroll5055]

The fact that this is the first time I’ve heard about this, is goddamn heartbreaking

[@MikinessAnalog]

The sound of the explosion looks to have been heard approximately 13 seconds after we see it, making it about 2.8 "miles" away. (For anyone that wanted to know.)

[@aeureus]

Ey that's still good info. Cheers!

[@cataclystp]

that's 4.5km for the rest of us

[@manofculture4249]

For anybody wondering that's almost ~943 Lamborghini aventadors in length.

[@Drunkmeister91]

@@manofculture4249 Americans really will use any method of measurement rather than the metric system

[@airplanemaniacgaming7877]

@@Drunkmeister91 At least he didn't use the length of an AR-15 from muzzle to stock.

[@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88]

I remember making model rockets as a kid and learning the further your center of gravity is from your point of thrust the more stable your rocket will be. Seeing those stubby little solid rocket boosters strapped onto the bottom just screams instabilities. You'll be relying more and more on your guidance controls to remain stable and less on natural weight distribution. That's why you can balance a broomstick with the bristles in the air for far longer than you can a stick with the weight in the middle or at the bottom. It's just more stable that weigh, er, way.

[@NorDank]

You go tell those Chinese rocket scientist

[@keithdavis938]

And go tell the American rocket scientists too - have you seen the design of the up coming Vulcan Centaur rocket?

[@profile.]

Please stop guys. This is complete bullshit. With rockets, the weight distribution compared to the point of thrust doesn’t matter. (Except maybe for unstabilised, finless, small, unguided model rockets). A rocket’s rotational inertia as well as engine placement compared to CG affects how fast it spins up from uncorrected assymetrical thrust. But with large rockets, guidance is everything. Anything that has enough of a gimbaling engine or thrust differential control can be as unstable as you want, if you have a suited guidance computer. (For Long March, the computer was well suited and the rocket’s layout had nothing to do with a guidance sensor completely malfunctioning and the rocket having a wrong idea where it was pointing. No “natural weight distribution” would have helped on that.) Having your center of mass forward compared to your center of pressure is needed for aerodinamic stability, but with thrust vector control, not even that is needed. Aero didn’t cause this failure, the failure of the guidance itself did. The analogy to balancing a broomstick is quite similar to the “pendulum rocket fallacy”. Your comparison is completely flawed, because unlike your hand that has more reaction time with a higher-placed CG stick to balance before it falls over, a rocket will always have its thrust pointing throught its CG, or at least it will move with the rocket since the engine is on the rocket, so the higher CG doesn’t improve stability. You can’t just challenge a hundred years of rocket design, and “those stubby little solid rocket boosters” which are actually liquid-fuelled strap-ons, have absolutely no effect on inertial stability. This is an insult and misinformed arrogance towards aerospace engineers, who routinely figure out much harder problems than this.

[@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88]

@@profile. Congratulations, you just inserted the largest ship covered foot into your mouth I think I have ever seen. Half the people reading this are below average intelligence. Of the other half how many do you think give the slightest fu¢ about how "not correct" a very, very over generalized explanation is, when they know it is an over generalized explanation. The way to teach people information isn't by insult, unless your lesson is about how big of a Richard you are. So, please, try again. Would you like to add to the conversation in a non pompous way? Maybe you can remind me of the finer points I've forgotten over the last forty years. Or better yet, maybe you can add to the conversation in constructive way? Maybe? Is that something you're capable of?

[@XemawthEvo2]

@@profile. Finally, a comment that isn't complete nonsense. Amazing how people can spew assumptions as if they were complete fact like children

[@thevanishingsaxon663]

I love that Moog DFAM sequence playing in the background. It's actually the default sequence.

[@cruzaider5339]

“Hey I think that water wasn't good” “Why?” “It's in the middle of night yet there's still the sun”

[@zach11241]

It wasn’t a rocket failure, it was an Emergency Village Relocation Program.

[@TheZoltan-42]

Nothing happens unplanned in China. There was a relocation plan and most villagers have been moved to modern housing in advance. A few saboteurs stayed behind, and the agile security system spotted them, and used the rocket to execute them.

[@5UPREP1CG4MER]

average survive the disasters gameplay:

[@tharv120]

relocated straight to heaven

[@MM22966]

I guess you can call it a "Short March" rocket.

[@secretslayer1234]

And this is why rockets have a self destruct, at least I believe most do….

[@KiwiExpressCream]

Certainly in the west they have (had?) an explosive strip down the side of the fuel tanks that could be detonated by the range safety officer in cases like these. This would disperse the fuel which meant a) the rocket wouldn't get much further and b) when it crashed, it wouldn't blow up. Maybe the Chinese attitude was, if it blows up, all evidence will be erased!

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

and then it plummets out of the sky and explodes anyway?

[@OmegaTou]

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan no, it explodes high in the air, so only small piece of debris fall to the ground without the explosive fuel load. Though in this particular instance it might not have made a difference given how quickly the failure happened.

[@KiwiExpressCream]

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan if the fuel has been dispersed by the range safety officer, there ain't nothing left to explode. Well, not much anyway 😉

[@jwalster9412]

They had one on the Challenger, although it was more of a 'USIRD' system (uncontrollable sudden Inter rocket destination system)

[@freetunes2077]

"The missile doesnt know where it is at all times. It doesn't know this because it doesn't know where it isn't, by subtracting where it is, from where it isn't, or where it isn't, from where it is, whichever is greater, it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance sub-system uses deviations to generate false commands to drive the missile from a position where it is, to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it was, and it follows that the position where it was, is now the position that it wasnt. In the event of the position that it is in is not the position that it was, the system has required a variation. The variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too, may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computance scenario works as follows: Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is, however it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subracts where it should be, from where it wasn't, or vice versa. By differentiating this from the algebraic sum og where it shouldn't be, and where it was. It is able to obtain a deviation, and a variation, which is called "air" " - Gandhi

[@thoumotherdearest9041]

tldr

[@Narcrate140]

so real

[@flynick]

That makes sense

[@gaiusjuliuscaesar9296]

Actual rocket science

[@flynick]

I don't think I'd let Gandhi service my lawn mower, let alone lecture me on rocket guidance systems.

[@eliwithey]

Holy shit. A content creator that shows his face and real clips…🙌🏽

[@thekommunistkrusader3921]

Sounds like a missile to me...

[@thekommunistkrusader3921]

@Abomb 32 based

[@Hahayoureadmyname]

@Abomb 32 missiles are just high tech suicide bombers

[@adw.offline]

Made in china

[@user-cj4fu8qq9b]

ROCKET LAUNCHER

[@jimwest4060]

Well nothing goes to space apart from your imagination.

[@adw.offline]

Your videos are great, keep up the good work!

[@terrordarky]

guarantee they were more upset about the destroyed rocket than all the people who died.

[@multipletanksyndrome]

I've seen other videos about this incident, but never heard the aspect about defense intelligence. Nice.

[@cool_armadillo7545]

Bro, I've done that before. I was launching model rockets with my cousin at the park when I was like 8, and it took close to the same trajectory. I had the perfect side view to watch as the rocket shot up, took a sharp left turn, and went right through a neighboring house's chain link fence, cleanly slicing off the fins. He hopped the fence to grab the rocket, then we left.

[@MadScientist267]

They used the same gyro from ali of the baba.

[@DeTroiT187]

Great documentary 👍👍

[@kokobwild2413]

Ireland needs to get into the space race. I for one would like to see a Fenian space station and the idea of Tuam being the new hub between earth and outer space excites me greatly so it does.

[@2bidfilmsguy]

Do you think Britain would claim a small northern part of that space station as their own and cause the troubles 2.0 space edition?

[@bamxire8845]

​@@2bidfilmsguyThey'll erect a border on the side of the space station so they will not even on the sun side of the station either, just incase the Earth falls towards the station yano, so it'll be a united space station in all but name. There will be representatives from all communities on board also

[@walkinaxyl]

It’s the whiskey and creme.

[@alanstevens1296]

Lived near Cape Canaveral in the 1960s. Many rockets failed in flight and had to be destroyed before they landed in a populated area.

[@philyew3617]

The question I would ask is... Was the Satelite actually on board when the rocket lifted off ? Or was it perhaps in a Chinese Lab being reverse engineered ? That blast could have concealed much more than an indeterminate number of casualties.

[@dannialkhakdoust4518]

This is insane! Keep up the good work man 👍

[@Syracuse_rail_product]

3:26 imagine waking up at 3am and seeing the bright light and saying the sun is up early

[@thesaddestdude3575]

To be fair that might be the last thing all of us experiance here in 2022

[@WhatWouldVillainsDo]

I lived not that far from Cape as a kid and I actually saw the Challanger while in my front yard, it's was rather terrifying.

[@canyounot4706]

Ok so I wasnt expecting the ship to EXPLODE in that manner. When I heard the part where the satellite hit thr village I had assumed it just hut the ground and the debris would just damage a few buildings and maybe kill or injure a few people. Seeing it was a different and much more disturbing experience.

[@tetraxis3011]

The rocked acted like a fricking missile.

[@tristan6509]

@@tetraxis3011I mean missiles and rockets are the same thing if you think about it... Missiles are just explicitly made to destroy

[@nashvilleslim]

I hit a like at the very beginning of all his videos because I already know it's gonna be good.

[@JamesKelly89]

Will you ever do one on the Challenger disaster? (Assuming you haven't already. I'm still working my way through this series.)

[@jackrackham3406]

As sinister as it sounds, it's equally likely that the Chinese government decided to relocate the villagers to avoid a repeat of the accident, not necessarily as part of a cover-up. There's a reason Cape Canaveral is surrounded for several miles by a nature reserve.

[@vulpes7079]

If this wasn't a cover-up, then the whole thing wouldn't just have literally been replaced. And how many people just mysteriously disappeared there?

[@jwalster9412]

Why is there no documents or evidence of this? Why wouldn't they mention the victims of the disaster on a plack near the original location of the village? Why rebuild the worker areas , not relocate them somewhere safer?

[@sgtjawa]

@@jwalster9412 Governments aren't usually keen on handing out the exact locations of their citizens to other nations. Also, the worker areas are there for the launch site, so they need to be near the launch site.

[@jwalster9412]

@@sgtjawa but no manorial for the victims of the tragedy?

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

Relocating them would also serve to help cover it up though. If 100% of the villagers are gone then you can never do the math to figure out what percentage died

[@harlech2]

Where was the Range Safety Officer with his finger on the Flight Termination button? Oh yeah... China....

[@skippyguy3]

Alright, calm down Elon....

[@stevenbillz9880]

@@skippyguy3 Has nothing to do with Elon. Basically every “spacefaring” nation has such a feature on their rockets. With the notable exceptions being China and Russia. Who also both refuse to launch from their coastlines.

[@skippyguy3]

@@stevenbillz9880 sarcasm is lost on you isn't it!? 🤣

[@oldlincolnpipewelder]

😂😂😂😂

[@alexanderveritas]

Alternative title: _How China’s magic trick made an entire village disappear._

[@itsorenji]

Great video! I say it a lot and I’ll say it again, I’m loving the recent last moments videos!

[@jackwarren3080]

I watch another Irish KZbinr and can confirm the Irish are the best at retelling events. I only want things explained to me by the Irish now. Or worst case scenario, told by someone putting on an Irish accent.

[@skaldlouiscyphre2453]

Have I got a story for you, now your patience while I work on me Lucky Charms accent.

[@jackwarren3080]

Haha can’t wait

[@thesaddestdude3575]

@@jackwarren3080 Agreed ^^

[@FijiLaw]

World: we have explored more of the universe than our planet earth China: lets send rocket to earth Villagers: yes

[@mrs6968]

Your uploads have always been top notch bottom line my favorite channel on KZbin because you seem like a fella I could easily shoot the shit with having a Pabst blue ribbon thank you for all that you do

[@flashgordon3715]

I worked for Space Systems Loral who built the intelsat 7. the enormity of what happened was slow to comprehend. I did see some debris from the crash. ok,, that's my 2 cents

[@thesaddestdude3575]

Damn, what did you do within?

[@ThePdog3k]

Did you know Christopher Leveck or his wife?

[@flashgordon3715]

@@thesaddestdude3575 There was to much speculation, but I was kind of embarrassed for the company.

[@Oldbmwr100rs]

I remember some people had crushed bits of the satellite on their desks. I was told most of it was recovered with the exception of critical guidance and other secure components the Chinese weren't allowed to have. Whoopsie! Oh well, what's a few hundred or more lives when you have so many and want something you'd rather not have to figure out yourself?

[@MrMiD.Life.Crisis]

ive always been confused with this. I've heard that the video aftermath is not of the village but I'm still unsure what to believe!

[@falzar3381]

First heard about this disaster from an lid 90's air disaster show that probably wouldn't be aired for today audience. Glad to see more details about this incident that wasn't on the show.

[@sudonum3108]

I’m surprised you didn’t bring up the possibility of the Chinese having stolen the satellite and deliberately scuppering the launch to cover that up.

[@jwalster9412]

That's a less likely conclusion considering it would involve risking valuable rock scientists, but just again they did erase a village for there own benefit so anything is possible.

[@consumerofbeer1716]

@SteamCat86 they hate the rural people. 3rd tier cities are often entirely expendable to the CCP

[@prime_optimus]

If they stole it then why blow it up?

[@k03dz0n3]

"erased perhaps"... or, more reasonbly, relocated elsewhere to avoid a similar incident.

[@maddoxmcdermott8384]

I love your educational yet non scholastic approach to your videos. Though they have taken a dark turn which I like and will continue to watch because your content falls into my random interest. I love your comical approach to history and would enjoy it if you mixed some of that into the video line up also. Keep it up!!

[@AnotherPointOfView944]

Satellite companies now know that you get what you pay for. If it's Chineseum, then it's not going to end well in the long run.

[@JONINXBOX]

New to the channel.. good video and a subject I had never heard before!, crazy

[@madscience76]

Imagine somehow miraculously surviving the blast blast and being happy to be rescued only to find out you will be epsteined so that you cannot tell anyone else what really happened there.

[@ComaDave]

"There were dozens, maybe hundreds of them." Were. Side note: ITAR didn't actually cover the designs of the US Space Shuttle Program; which is a key reason why the Soviet's Buran was a very close copy.

[@tetraxis3011]

Buran didn’t use US shuttle technology.

[@jhdsfalsjhdfjashdkhvjfldld8301]

Buran was different in everything, in fact it was better. They only shsred the outer shape, and not even that.

[@stoneforest2639]

I need to stop watching these before bed

[@jaybee9269]

Thanks for covering this. CCP is deeply disturbing as they don’t care about human life.

[@lightningstrike5024]

BECAuSE wHAT tHe Us goVErMEnt mUSt alLwAYS bE rIgHT did you ever think that maybe they were just re-homed somewhere else because its was cheaper and safer

[@n111254789]

@@lightningstrike5024 The fella making this video lives in Ireland with an extremely Irish accent. The guy making this comment didn't say anything about where he lives. What does the US government have to do with this?

[@breannathompson9094]

Ive had nightmares exactly like this, quite terrifying and im so sad to know just a tiny portion of the terror and doom they felt. The missiles come out of the ground but go defective and turn down right in front of me.

[@adamkl20]

I had a vivid nightmare about this too when I was younger. In my dream my dad was BBQing in the backyard, he said there would be a rocket launch later. Then I saw it lifting off, the 2nd stage detached too early and then failed to ignite.. the wind was pushing it towards my neighborhood and it destroyed several city blocks right behind my house... I jumped in my car to help people but they were all burning to death and their skin was falling off their body.. I was overwhelmed and didn't know how to help, then I woke up. I think it's really fucked up the Chinese allowed this to happen as recent as the late 90s, all rockets have a self destruct feature to be remotely destroyed after launch to prevent this exact scenario, the fact that they chose not to utilize this system and instead opted to "see what happens" as they watch it fly towards the village for 26 seconds instead of pushing that button speaks volumes about the CCP.

[@majestic._]

Pray you never see war in your lifetime then.

[@jetpond7904]

I’m sending a rocket to your houus

[@ZuluGamingSeries]

Could of been how you died in youre past life

[@Son.of.Saturn]

You dream about missiles?

[@deletedwaffles]

Imagine getting up from bed, looking out your window and a giant rocket is blasting it's way towards you.

[@tyler9703]

The fact that there is quality footage of this is fucking horrifying. Really does gravely demonstrate the dangers of space travel for all parties.

[@ChemEDan]

Space travel can be made safe; the primary lesson is about government. You want a government to be afraid of its people, not the people to be afraid of their government.

[@alexanderl.6207]

@@ChemEDan but in that harvard report the overwhelming majority of the people in china support the government…

[@ChemEDan]

@@alexanderl.6207 Exactly. Beatings will continue until morale improves

[@conservat1vepatr1ot]

The CCP says *six* people were killed lol… It blows my mind that people still have ethical political conversations. It’s all money and power. “Russias evil!” “Iran is evil!” “Did you know Saudi Arabia doesn’t have rights for women?”. We’re all terrible and if we can look at messed up crap like this incident and how it affects the “little people” maybe we can change something.

[@sperzieb00n]

It's not pointless to have those conversations though, some places are in a different league when it comes to "systematic ethical terribleness", even the worst 1st world countries get chances to change for the good because they actually run on a decent level of democracy, wich can't be said as much about Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, and (to a lesser extent?) Iran.

[@conservat1vepatr1ot]

@@sperzieb00n I absolutely agree that the discussion isn’t pointless. The discussions that we are manipulated into having like “these are good guys and those are bad guys” or “your democrat/republican and I’m on the other side” are the useless discussions that we are meant to have, in order to keep us devised and stupid.

[@thesaddestdude3575]

@@conservat1vepatr1ot "Only the dead has seen the end of war"

[@rtyuik7]

3:30(ish) - the fact that the fireball was nearly out by the time the Explosion was heard tells me just how crazy-far that thing got, crazy-fast...so to be on the Receiving end of it, with little to no warning at all, mustve felt Apocalyptic...

[@TheCaptainSplatter]

japan actually does the same thing. only intentionally. they launch their rockets at an angle.

[@boldCactuslad]

hopefully, all launched rockets will eventually make their turns. for many target orbits, most of your fuel should be expended to increase your speed eastwards, giving you some "free" delta-v as the earth rotates beneath you getting out of the way of your falling

[@ElementofKindness]

Gotta love propaganda and how effective it can be. Claim six dead, and manage to keep the locals from ever stating how many loved ones went missing.

[@oracuda]

The americans literally admitted that launch complex had a good history of evacuating the surrounding towns. Fluttershy knows better than this.

[@jimhofoss9982]

12 seconds of agonizing terror, knowing this will not end well

[@shuriken2505]

when a rocket travels horizontally, i think it becomes a missile

[@PeterMaddison2483]

Nah, the Earth shifted it's rotation 🤣

[@existing3628]

Man reading the early comments give me cancer

[@thesaddestdude3575]

Just like the Hydrazine

[@celebrityrog]

Except since 1996, there has been villages around this whole area built up again, so you'd never know there was a disaster or any other previous village existed. It's not some nefarious "1000 people vanished and so did the village" as if they all vaporized. A new village replaced the old one which is why you'd never know any other village existed prior.

[@sendthis9480]

I like going to Lompoc to watch SpaceX launch and land their rockets. I never thought about what would happen if one headed my way. There’s always thousands of people…all over the place.

[@cessnacitation-x]

Flight termination systems would protect you, although spacex and all of elons other companies are extremely cheap and he tries to cuts costs whenever possible, so it's likely spacex rockets don't have flight termination systems.

[@kittyyuki1537]

@@cessnacitation-x SpaceX do have Flight Termination Systems in their Falcon family of Rockets. And they used it plenty during the early days of the Falcon 9 development. If I recall correctly the latest use of the FTS was 2 years ago in a scheduled activation when they were demonstrating the inflight escape system of the Dragon Capsule. Also, I don't think NASA would have approved SpaceX not including FTS in their launch vehicles. SpaceX got their cost reductions via Vertical Integration and the Reuse of their rockets Edit: checked the Launch Escape System test 2 years ago, FTS wasn't used at that time, my bad. The Rocket broke up and propellants ignited due to aerodynamic forces after Capsule separation. But SpaceX having FTS on their rockets still stand, their rockets as of 2017 use an Automatic FTS called Autonomous Flight Safety System or AFSS. Before that they were using the Traditional Ground Based manually activated FTS. They might still have the capability to override the Automatic system and activate it manually anyway.

[@cessnacitation-x]

@@kittyyuki1537 No, I didn't fact check the FTS but I'm obviously willing to believe it's integrated, but that's certainly not how SpaceX saves money, their rockets are cheap pieces of shit, and Elon cuts costs wherever possible, like missing rust-resistant coating on his Teslas.

[@michaelmichaelagnew8503]

@@cessnacitation-x They do.

[@n0cturnalSFX]

​@iso_line10 idk what you've got against Elon Musk but having fts is a requirement for their ships to launch and spaceX can be grounded if they don't have them for their rockets. Also, any company cuts cost if their product works without turns of expensive stuff that they may not need. As you can see falcon 9 has had hundreds if not thousands of continuous successful launch after successful launch.