This is how black technology should be used

Chapter 280
The white jade pillars that support the sky, and the purple golden beams that support the sea!
Optimus Sea!

Support the sky, support the sky.

Cross the sea, cross the sea.

This word often describes something that has extraordinary abilities and can take on important tasks.

The meaning of Skyrocket is literally. Although 80 meters is definitely not the tallest rocket in human history, its hugeness is fully revealed when it is photographed together with Li Future.

Especially when viewed from the bottom up, it seems to really support the sky.

As for "building the sea", that's even more okay.

But what Skyrocket builds is not the sea on the earth, it builds the sea of ​​stars!
It can build a bridge for human beings with super carrying capacity, allowing human beings to run into the space age.

What a great name!

The transition of the Optimus Rocket is different from other rockets, and it is similar to the Starship Rocket, which is also a super rocket.

It does not have a traditional assembly building, only a large manufacturing plant, large enough to manufacture the booster module and vehicle module of the Optimus rocket.

They will be inspected individually in their own manufacturing facility, and then rolled out to be assembled on the launch pad for stack inspection.

Since the Optimus rocket is only super large in diameter but "not very tall", it is only necessary to build a 100-meter-high launch tower, and then match it with a large crane with super lifting capacity.

The super launch tower is a pure white steel structure without any extra decoration or extra design, everything is practical, but the thick structural steel columns on it are enough to stimulate people's nerves.

The Skyrocket next to it is also painted in white, and it does not have half of the black insulation tiles, but only simple design lines, which looks full of technology.

At the same time, in order to cope with its super-large diameter and super-heavy weight, Practical Technology also built super-large ground vehicles.

The transfer platform carrying the propeller is the launch platform, which will be directly driven above the launch pool for fixing, and then the mobile platform carrying the carrier will be driven aside, and the crane on the launch tower will lift the carrier and place it on the propeller .

In just one moment, the Qingtian super rocket is assembled.

After the Optimus rocket is assembled, the launch tower closes several mechanical arms, which are respectively located at the connection between the carrier and the thruster, the closure of the carrier cargo compartment, the cargo compartment inspection "window" and the booster inspection "window".

Needless to say, the connection between the carrier and the thruster is the place where it needs to be separated when flying to a certain height. Engineers need to check whether the connection there fits well, and also need to check whether it can be separated normally after launch.

The inspection of the closure of the cargo compartment is similar. It was transferred here from the assembly building and then hoisted, so it is necessary to check whether the closure device is intact.

The cargo hatch cover of the carrier is very large, directly the same length as the cargo compartment, and the opening and closing shafts are at both ends of the diameter line of the circumference. Once the two hatch covers are opened, half of the space of the cylindrical cargo compartment can be directly expanded.

As for the cargo hold inspection "window", it is interesting. It is said to be a "window", but in fact it is a "doorway", located at the bottom of the cargo hold cover.

Engineers can open the inspection window and then enter the cargo hold to inspect the cargo. In particular, the fixed cargo bottom connection mechanism is the focus of their inspection.

Because the cargo was almost close to the cargo compartment wall, the audience did not see the full picture of the cargo. However, Practical Technology Aerospace Company has said that it is the core module of the "Future Amusement Park" space station. The audience can make an inference based on the previous CG demonstration picture. repair.

The booster inspection window is similar, and they all enter the interior of the rocket to conduct a final inspection of the equipment.

There are also inspections that do not require a robotic arm, that is, the connection and fixation of the booster and the movable launch platform, which also need to be inspected carefully.

Don't hold it in place after lighting it, that won't be fun.

After the inspection is completed, everyone exits and then begins to refuel.

It takes a lot of time to refuel, after all, such a big rocket.

However, its full-load take-off weight is not the same as what netizens guessed. Not only is it not over 10000 tons, it is not even 8 or 9000 tons, only about 6000 tons.

It is almost at the same level as the fully loaded take-off quality of the starship rocket.

Of course, only the take-off quality at full load is close, and everything else is different.

Although they are all about 6000 tons, the maximum carrying capacity of the starship rocket is 300 tons, while the maximum carrying capacity of the Skyship is directly doubled, reaching a terrifying 600 tons!
Of course, as recoverable rockets, most of the time they will not be fully loaded, because that means automatically giving up a super rocket.

The super rocket is not an ordinary one-time small rocket, throwing it away will make you feel distressed.

As for the recoverable transport capacity, the Starship rocket is 150 tons, which is half of the full capacity, and the Optimus rocket is 400 tons, which is two-thirds of the full capacity.

These terrifying numbers and proportions are all showing the power of the super fuel liquid metal hydrogen!
But that's not all, there's more.

The Starship rocket will run out of fuel when transporting cargo to space. If it also wants to fly to the moon and Mars, it must be refueled in orbit.

This technology is not only difficult, but also because the equipment is too large and requires a lot of fuel, and the more steps there are, the greater the chance of danger.

But the Qingtian rocket is different. It usually does not fill up the fuel, but adjusts the amount of fuel according to the weight of the cargo and the type of mission.

If the cargo is light or the mission distance is short, then refuel less.

If the cargo is heavy or the mission is far away, add more fuel.

For example, if the same goes to the moon, one of the criticisms of the starship is that it takes multiple orbital refueling to perform the lunar mission.

Although 150 tons of cargo can be transported at a time, the cumbersome task mechanism always makes people feel that the risk will increase.

The Sky rocket is different. If you want to carry out the mission to the moon, you need to add more fuel before take-off, so as to ensure that 400 tons of things can be transported to the moon at one time.

In order to ensure longer-distance missions, its fuel tank has a thick protective layer to ensure that "large-scale" evaporation of the fuel will not occur even if the fuel is stored for a long time.

This is also one of the reasons why the Optimus rocket is so big, but the mass of the final take-off with a full load is only more than 6000 tons.

And don't look at its insufficient fuel filling will cause the rocket's take-off quality to be insufficient, but the carrying capacity will not be reduced. Even if it takes off at 5000 tons, its maximum carrying capacity is still 600 tons.

It takes a while to refuel thousands of tons of fuel, so after reading the introduction, the remaining time is when netizens discuss.

"The name Skyrocket is so right, it looks so big that people walking by it feel like ants!"

"This should be the largest rocket ever built by mankind?"

"Yes, although the height is not enough, its diameter is really too large. If you want to replace it with the 9-meter diameter of the starship rocket, its height will be hundreds of meters!"

(End of this chapter)