National Affairs Express: Rationally view China's space exploration, facing setbacks twice in one day: There are no absolute victors on the journey of space exploration

On the 17th, China's aerospace industry experienced two rare launch failures on the same day—one from the battle-tested Long March 3B rocket and the other from the private company’s new rocket, the Ceres II, drawing public attention. Experts interviewed stated that these two failures are merely small setbacks on the road to space exploration. The two types of rockets are unrelated in terms of technical routes, development entities, and mission backgrounds, and their simultaneous failures are purely coincidental and should not be overinterpreted. However, the simultaneous setbacks of rockets with vastly different backgrounds remind people of a simple yet profound objective law: there are no absolute "victorious generals" in the journey of space exploration, and the road to the stars and the sea has never been a smooth one