Chinese space rocket that fell into the village exploded with deadly chemicals (video)

Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! The Changozhen-2C rocket has successfully sent a spacecraft to study gamma splashes, created by the joint efforts of scientists of China and France. But shortly after launch, the first degree of space rocket accelerator fell near the village in the southwest of China. There were many videos on social networks, which recorded this event, which, of course, was very scared of locals.

The video shows an uncontrolled fall of the missile cloud and at the same time in the sky you can see a cloud of yellow smoke, which comes from the accelerator, which falls. The Chinese authorities did not inform whether the affected people were, and it was unknown whether any material damage was caused. The videos show that fuel release has occurred from the accelerator of the rocket and, judging by color, is most likely tetraoxide of nitrogen.

According to American astrophysics Jonathan McDauella, this chemical is a strong oxidant used in rocket engines. But it is very toxic and can be deadly for humans. This rocket fuel oxidizer was used in the 1950s in the former USSR and the USA. According to Makdll, it was later used much less because of high toxicity. In the case of skin, the eyes or respiratory system, it can destroy the human tissues, and when inhaled through the lungs can lead to death in extreme cases.

"This is quite scary, but that's how the Chinese are doing. They have a different level of acceptable social risk," Makdoll says. In most countries, cosmodromes are located far from settlements and deserted areas or in coastal areas so that the first stages of rockets can fall controlled into the ocean. But in China, there are three cosmodromes, including Sican, which launched a Changzhen-2C rocket located inside the country.

Therefore, the fragments of rockets usually fall next to settlements, as it has recently happened. Although China has another cosmooder, the Venchan, located on Hainan Island in the South China Sea. It is known that the next generation of Chinese rockets will use kerosene and liquid hydrogen, thus giving up toxic fuel. But still in China rockets with such substances are still launched into space. According to McDowell, China will probably stop using old rockets in the next 10 years.

But so far, launches such dangerous for people are about once a week. As focus has already wrote, NASA astronauts were unable to get into the Open Space with the ISS. For the second time, astronauts were unable to leave the boundaries of the International Space Station in June. In this case, the problem is almost similar-something is wrong with 40-year-old space suites. Focus also wrote that a huge black hole accelerates gas to 58 million km/h and rebuilds the galaxy.