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Old 1st July 2024 | 07:59
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Funny side note, after a little bit of investigation w/ others, the patent for the pad (which was originally for Tianlong-2) was only designed to support up to 600t of force. T3Y1 has a thrust of 820t, w/ 220t of propellant by the time cutoff occurred

How on earth was this supposed to work lol…..

This is an old patent but the organization has stated in the past that only the propellant system was modified, as a show of simplicity in ground infrastructure. They even tried to throw shade at LandSpace with their expensive hardware versus the "reusable" ground system between launch vehicles of Space Pioneer

I am actually laughing so hard right now what the hell is up with Chinese companies…..



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