The start of the Chinese “Great trip-5” failed
Running the most powerful Chinese rocket “long March 5” (“Changzheng-5”) was unsuccessful. On Sunday, July 2, reports the Agency “Xinhua”.
What was the cause of the failure is still unknown. To investigate the incident created expert Commission.
China’s 2nd heavy-lift carrier rocket blasts off carrying the nation’s latest technology experiment satellite pic.twitter.com/TlhceCLiMY
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) July 2, 2017.
“Great trip-5” was launched from the spaceport Wenchang in Hainan province on 2 July at 19:23 local time (14:23 GMT). It was planned that the launch vehicle will orbit a communications satellite “Lizzani-18”.
China to launch 2nd heavy-lift carrier rocket on Sunday; it will send a communication satellite into orbit https://t.co/FJI7bXh9rN pic.twitter.com/wokWUXMSl5
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) July 1, 2017.
This was the second running of the “Great trip-5”. The first was successfully held in early November of last year. Then the carrier rocket put into orbit an experimental satellite “Lizzani-17”.
“Great trip-5” — China’s largest carrier rocket of new generation. Its height is 56,97-meter-diameter core stage — five meters. According to scientists, when it was created was used by over 200 of new technologies.