BEIJING, June 30The Tianlong 3 liquid-propellant launch vehicle developed by Chinese private aerospace company Space Pioneer crashed in the mountains during testing, causing no casualties, the company said on Sunday. .
According to the report, on Sunday at 15.43 (10.43 Moscow time) the Tianlong-3 missile was tested at a test center in the city of Gongyi in the central Chinese province of Henan. 
< br />During the testing process, due to violations in the design, the first stage of the rocket came off the launch pad, the company specified.
«After takeoff, the computer on the rocket automatically turned off, and the rocket fell in the mountains one and a half kilometers southwest of the test site,» the company said in a statement.
According to the company, before the tests, security measures were strengthened with the help of local authorities, and the evacuation of residents from nearby areas was organized in advance. No victims of the incident were found, the company clarified.
They also said that Tianlong-3 is a heavy-duty liquid-propellant launch vehicle with characteristics comparable to the Falcon 9 rocket of the American company SpaceX. Its diameter is 3.8 meters, take-off weight is 590 tons, payload capacity in low Earth orbit is 17 tons, payload capacity in sun-synchronous orbit is 14 tons.
In April 2023, Space Pioneer launched the Tianlong-2 rocket into space. , which became China's first commercially produced liquid-propellant launch vehicle launched into space.