The maiden launch of China's Kuaizhou-11 rocket has ended in failure. Article by Rui C. Barbosa.https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/07/kuaizhou-11-fails-maiden-launch/ …
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China is in the early stages of experimenting with guided destructive reentry so boosters avoid buildings and towns. Likely that. Though there are notional recovery plans for future rockets, too. So the tests all feed together.
Actually this rocket uses solid fuel stages (the KZ-11 is broadly comparable with the Minotaur IV) so I wouldn't think this is the major reason. More likely that they are used a la missiles to provide stability in early parts of the flight.
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Hmm.... curious. Even spent solid stages could be controlled post-sep if hydraulic flow to the grid fins was built-in? But yes, the stability on ascent would also be a factor.
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