{"id":156199,"date":"2026-08-17T21:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156199"},"modified":"2026-08-17T21:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:30:06","slug":"chinas-space-race-has-a-new-problem-finding-room-for-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156199","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s space race has a new problem: finding room for failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThere is something about the speed of consensus on China\u2019s rocket failures that should give us pause. Within hours of Long March-7A rocket\u2019s disintegration over the South China Sea on August 10, trade reports were pointing to an engine as the likely culprit. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) had said nothing of the kind. An official Xinhua report about three hours after the launch described only \u201ca flight anomaly\u201d and an investigation under way.<br \/>\nThe cause is unknown,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3364147\/chinas-space-race-has-new-problem-finding-room-failure?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThere is something about the speed of consensus on China\u2019s rocket failures that should give us pause. Within hours of Long March-7A rocket\u2019s disintegration&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156199"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}