Engineers ID Fault That Caused Long March 5 Failure

Credit: YF-77: Casc
BEIJING—Chinese space engineers have identified the fault that caused the failure of the second flight of their country’s largest space launcher, Long March 5, a problem that appears to be pushing back the mission schedule by about a year. The failure’s cause was simply a manufacturing defect in one...
Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.

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