Satellite images shared on social media suggest a Chinese rocket explosion took place at a test site in October of 2021.
The images show what appears to be a rocket test site. The site itself is located a good distance from the actual launch pad. Around 16km away from it, to be exact. The site was most likely used as an assembly and test facility before the rockets were moved to the launch pad. So far there have been no reports from state media about the Chinese rocket explosion.
Space enthusiast Harry Stranger shared the images on Twitter in early June. Stranger noticed the aftermath of the explosion in commercial satellite images captured by Airbus and CNES. According toThe good news is that the Chinese rocket explosion doesn’t appear to have involved any kind of crewed launch.notes that the site where the explosion took place may have been used for testing solid rocket motors.