In a historic blow to its space programme, China suffered two rocket launch failures in a single day for the first time over the weekend.
While Saturday’s failed launches gained immediate attention on social media, with some describing the day as “Black Saturday”, space observers said the setbacks were part of the growing pains the country’s rapidly developing aerospace industry would inevitably experience.
They also drew parallels with similar problems Elon Musk’s firm SpaceX had experienced,…
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