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#PREVIEW: From a conversation with BehindtheBlack.com Bob Zimmerman re an explosion in a test to fail test in China, reporting three injured in the explosion. As Bob reasons: it is odd that three engineers would be injured in a test to fail. This is Lan

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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#PREVIEW: From a conversation with BehindtheBlack.com Bob Zimmerman re an explosion in a test to fail test in China, reporting three injured in the explosion. As Bob reasons: it is odd that three engineers would be injured in a test to fail. This is Landspace, a quasi independent rocket booster company. Is there more to this explosion?

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/tank-explosion-in-shanghai-injured-three/

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is John Batcheter, a conversation with my colleague Bob Zimmerman behind the black about an explosion in China

0:25.1

during a test to fail on a tank of a methane rocket built by a Chinese

0:32.3

Rocket booster company that is very likely following Bob's

0:36.3

reporting connected directly to the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese military.

0:41.4

The explosion is odd and Bob makes a case. How is it

0:46.0

that there's injuries in a test-to-fail event and it shook windows nearby.

0:53.4

How close nearby?

0:54.5

Where and what does this explain?

0:58.3

Bob and I recall incidents during the Cold War.

1:02.1

Roscosmos. But before Ros Cosmos there was testing of

1:06.4

rockets, ballistic missile rockets, rockets for orbiting. And there were

1:12.0

explosion. There was one big explosion in Russia once.

1:15.0

And then subsequently we learned it damaged the rocket program badly.

1:20.0

A lot of major significant figures in the rocket program were either injured or

1:25.7

killed in that explosion. It's odd. It might be, well we don't know. So here's Bob Zimmerman

1:32.0

to explain this explosion somewhere near Shanghai

1:35.9

by a private company, so-called land space, with a solid, with a methane rocket similar to SpaceX Chinese imitating the

1:46.2

successful musk again. Bob Zimmerman behind the black.

1:50.3

Okay you know in, China has mimicked commercial space.

1:56.0

They, what they do is they allow individuals to form companies to raise investment capital to be

2:04.8

independent so-called independent private commercial rocket

2:08.0

companies. There's a whole bunch of these. They're all supervised by the

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