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Chapter 138 It's Going to the Moon

"Throw the cowl!"

The fairing of the test arrow was thrown to both sides, and the live video showed the load situation.

At this time, the background voice began to introduce the load situation, saying that it was the first and second satellites of the "Constellation Project", each weighing 700 kilograms.

It’s not a big satellite. After all, it’s less than a ton. It belongs to the category of “small satellites”, but it’s actually not small. A single starlink satellite weighs only about 200 kilograms.

Everyone knows that the introduction of the background sound focuses on the "Constellation Project" and the Constellation Satellite, but what people are most curious about is this "certain type" rocket.

Most of the people who came to watch the live broadcast of the rocket launch are not the first time to watch a similar live broadcast of the launch, so the general process is still known.

Not to mention that there will be some senior fans among these audiences.

From the launch to the present, not to mention senior fans, even half-baked audiences who have watched it a few times feel that something is wrong.

In the past, when watching live broadcasts of rocket launches, before throwing the fairing, you had to throw away the booster that had burned out the fuel, and even the first-stage rocket that had burned out the fuel.

Some rockets do not have boosters, that is, after throwing the first stage of the rocket, the fairing is thrown.

This "certain type" rocket has no booster, which fits the latter one, but it has thrown away the fairing, and the first-stage rocket has not yet been thrown!

what happened?

"Hiss, it won't break, will it?"

"Maybe yes, I remember that there have been several launches in the aerospace industry that could not be separated normally, and finally the fuel was exhausted and could not enter orbit."

"Yes, yes, yes, I remember that there are indeed, some of which are inseparable from the first and second levels, and some are inseparable from the stars and arrows. It's a pity."

"After the ball, the new rocket is launched for the first time. It is really brave to dare to carry such an important payload without even having a name."

"No way, didn't you check it before launching?"

"This thing has a probability. Before launching, do everything that can be done, and after the launch, 'pray' and it will be over."

"Is there a possibility... In fact, the rocket is fine."

"Yeah, you see that the staff on the small screen are not messed up at all."

The audience was taken aback when they saw this barrage, they had indeed overlooked something.

The current live broadcast screen is split-screen. When the live broadcast was first launched, there were several camera positions, including the control room screen, close-up screen, long-range screen and the monitoring screen above the rocket.

When the rocket takes off, the close-up, long-range and rocket monitoring all provide wonderful pictures.

After takeoff, several screens are switched back and forth. One will show you the distant view, the other will show you the control room, and the other will be the monitoring screen of the rocket itself.

What was shown just now was the monitoring screen of the rocket with the fairing thrown, and now it has switched to the shot of the launch site. The audience can see that the staff are orderly checking around the launch vehicle, and they don't look anxious.

The control room is shown in the small picture next to it, but the audience can also see that the staff inside are not panicked.

This is strange, the audience all know that after the rocket flies to a certain height, some useless parts will be discarded, just like the fairing thrown away by the rocket test flight just now.

As a result, only the fairing was thrown away.

However, some viewers feel that no matter how much they watch, they are still amateurs, and there is no chaos at all among the experts. Maybe this is all within the plan?
Or maybe...

An outrageous thought came to mind.

'Is it really a single-stage orbital rocket? '

………………

Federal Space Agency.

"The data came out, it is a single-stage orbital rocket!"

The technical director, Su Geld, took the data report and said to the director, the minister of defense and Emalon.

Compared with the previous conjecture, this time is the actual data calculation result.

"Then the report can be drafted. According to Mr. Minister's intention, let's not talk about rockets, but compare it with missiles." Director Binal said.

If you want to talk about the "starry threat theory", you must talk about weapons, not rockets.

Because if you talk about the Rockets, the Federation says it's second... Forget it, it can only say it's first, and it's a hypocritical group to say it's second!
The Federation is the best on earth in terms of rockets, and it can't handle the "starry rocket threat theory" at all.

If you want to talk about the most powerful rocket in the world, then you have to talk about the Federation's Saturn V, and it is also known as the "Moon Rocket".

Even decades ago, the Saturn V is still the heaviest launch vehicle ever used in human history, and it is also the most powerful rocket.

It has a height of 110.6 meters, a take-off weight of 3038.5 tons, a total thrust of 3408 tons, a carrying capacity of 45 tons in lunar orbit, and a carrying capacity of more than 100 tons in low-earth orbit.

Of course, this is not to say that Lao Maozi’s two super-heavy rockets are not powerful. Their low-Earth orbit carrying capacity also exceeds 100 tons, but one of them failed in all four launches, and the other failed in the first launch and succeeded in the second launch. yes, and then...

The old man died.

The country is gone, and so are the rockets.

Their data is very powerful, but considering the practical use, the Saturn V has been successfully launched more than ten times, and even took humans to the moon, so there is nothing wrong with this "most powerful".

But they are so powerful, and now they have become history, and human beings can no longer make them.

Of course, it's not that human technology has regressed, so it can't be made, but it's too expensive to use.

Take the Saturn V, which was launched more than a dozen times. At that time, it was equivalent to launching a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. It was really unusable, even in that crazy era.

Crazy spending of money also needs to be rewarded, but in addition to the "fame and fortune" brought by the first moon landing, the next few times are pure "losing money", so the Federation does not need it.

Later, the Federation launched the mission of "returning to the moon", and people pinned their hopes on its successor, the SLS rocket. Who knew that this thing became a big ace pigeon.

In addition to the fact that the "threat power" of other countries is not enough to make the Federation feel the urgency of the aerospace field, there is also the fact that the Federation is no longer the original Federation, and the main manufacturer of SLS rockets, Poe Corporation, is no longer the original Poe company.

But generally speaking, the Federation's rocket technology is much, much more advanced than Fanxing's. After all, the Federation spent a lot of money at the beginning, developing aerospace technology like crazy, and raised the related technology to a very high level.

At the same time, Fanxing Country is still struggling in the mud, and is still working hard on how to feed the whole country.

Even if Fanxing has developed a powerful solid fuel that can make a single-stage solid-fuel rocket enter orbit, the word "solid" limits its development.

When the Saturn V sent humans to the moon, there was no solid-fuel rocket at all. Later, solid-fuel rockets could help the space shuttle go to the sky, but it was used as a booster.

The booster of the space shuttle was thrown away at an altitude of 45 kilometers, and it couldn't even cross the Karman line.

The SLS rocket also uses a solid fuel booster, which will help humans land on the moon again, but its positioning is still... a booster.

Now there are quite a few solid-fuel rockets that can directly send satellites into orbit, but they are all small rockets without exception. They can only send small satellites and have nothing to do with landing on the moon.

Emalon smiled and said: "The solid fuel of the stars is very powerful, but the competition after that is manned landing on the moon, which is an existence that solid fuel rockets cannot touch."

"And if you want to achieve manned landing on the moon, you must use liquid rockets, such as the stainless steel interstellar spacecraft super rocket that our company is developing, it..."

Before he finished speaking, a technician shouted: "OMG!"

"This solid rocket has actually entered the Earth-Moon transfer orbit, and it is going to the Moon!"

"Impossible! Its take-off mass is only more than 30 tons at most, not the carrying capacity of more than 30 tons. How can it fly..."

"Now it's not a load problem, but a problem of its own flight to the moon. You must know that if it has already entered orbit in a single stage, it would be an extremely waste of fuel. It can still fly to the moon with spare energy!"

"It's not going at the right speed, it's accelerating!"

"Shet, not only does it have remaining fuel, but it looks like it has a lot of fuel left, and it's accelerating non-stop!"

(End of this chapter)