The Start Of Technology Live Broadcast To Build Rockets

Chapter 14 – Launch site

China, South, Changhai Space Launch Site.

This is a coastal launch base and one of the few low-latitude launch sites in the world. Geosynchronous orbiting satellites, massive polar-orbiting satellites, large-tonnage space stations and deep space probes are all launched here.

The “Tianwen-1” Mars probe to be launched this time also chose the Changhai Space Launch Site.

The space agency’s colleagues have long been prepared. On the sea launch platform, the “Tianwen-1” Mars probe has been loaded on the Long March 5 Yao 4 (B) carrier rocket.

This rocket is different from the previous ones. It has been modified and equipped with a rocket recovery system designed by Du Xingyu, so it is more interesting.

“Are you sure?” Cao Liang, the leader of the space agency, stood outside the launch site, looking at the 56.97-meter-long rocket, and asked He Jingcheng.

“The rocket recovery and simulation test results are all successful. For a real launch, the success rate should be more than 50%.” He Jingcheng said.

“Fifty percent?” Cao Liang frowned slightly, and said, “Old Ho, you can give me some details. The Mars Exploration Mission has been preparing for nine years! The last time the Mars rover borrowed a Russian rocket in 11 years. Launch… we have to fight for our breath!”

“I can’t guarantee anything else, but there will be no problems with the launch process!” He Jingcheng vowed, “Our rocket can definitely put the Tianwen-1 into orbit. If it can be recovered successfully, it would be a surprise! ”

“More than a surprise!” a middle-aged man with sparse hair said on the side, “then you will be world-famous and set a new record in the history of aerospace!”

He is the head of the Mars Rover design team, Mo Shen, and this mission is related to his and his team’s nine years of hard work!

Mo Shen said: “At present, only the US National Space Administration and Space Exploration Corporation have mastered the basic rocket recovery technology in the world. However, the rocket engines they recovered cannot be used again.”

“If we can take the lead, not only will the whole world be admired, but it will also create a tens of billions of billions of aerospace markets for us!”

At present, the world, even the country with the most advanced aerospace science and technology, has to treat expensive rockets as disposable items. If Huaxia can master the mature rocket recovery technology and allow the rockets to be reused, I am afraid that countries all over the world will have to come to the door and pay to ask for help in launching satellites and spacecraft.

The hundreds of billions aerospace market is really no joke!

“Look, you can’t expect too much. After all, we don’t have much experience in this area, and I’m ready to fail a hundred times.” He Jingcheng said.

“Today’s first task is to send Tianwen No.1 into the ground fire orbit!” Cao Liang said with his hands behind his back, “Get ready, don’t let reporters from other countries read jokes!”

Today’s launch is a public launch, and reporters from various places and countries have come to the launch site to watch and interview.

The rocket will be launched at 12:41 at noon. Du Xingyu arrived at the launch site at 6 in the morning and checked the state of the rocket for the last time with his colleagues, and everything was normal.

Next, they must wait patiently in the command center until the launch.

After seeking the consent of his superiors, Du Xingyu was allowed to use his mobile phone to live broadcast the launch process.

At 12:20, Du Xingyu opened the live broadcast.

Tens of thousands of people flooded into his live studio immediately, all of them came to watch the rocket launch.

“It’s on, it’s on!”

“What about the Rockets, let me see the Rockets?”(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

“The anchor has finally started. I have been waiting for two months!”

“Where is the rocket you modified?”

The audience kept firing barrage. Du Xingyu stood outside the auditorium at the launch site with the camera facing the launch pad and said: “Look, everyone, that is the Long March 5 Yaosi carrier rocket we are going to launch this time. The Mars rover is already installed in the rocket.”

“In another twenty minutes, the rocket will fire on time.”

The audience looked at the launch site and were amazed.

“6666! The live rocket launch site!”

“Last time it was a model, this time it was really played!”

“Has the anchor participated in the rocket design?”

“Definitely not. The anchor has only been in the space agency for two months. How can it be so fast?”

Du Xingyu explained: “Everyone, the Mars rover and the rocket are all designed and manufactured by the space agency’s predecessors. What I participated in was to install a recovery system on this rocket.”

“Everyone should know that rocket recovery is currently a worldwide problem… There were many voices questioning me on the Internet, saying that the Star Sky One rocket I made is just a toy!”

“Look at it, today this rocket has a total length of 56.97 meters, a wingspan of 17.3 meters, and a take-off thrust of 10,524×1000 Newtons. The rocket body alone has 867 tons!”

“Today I recovered this rocket. The first-stage rocket body, the second-stage rocket body and the fairing are all recovered to ensure that they can be reused.”

After Du Xingyu finished speaking, there were still many people who didn’t understand, and asked on the barrage: “What’s the use of this?”

“Speaking of a big one, it is technological advancement, which makes aerospace technology a big progress. If it is small, this time, if it succeeds, at least one billion yuan will be given to the country!” Du Xingyu said casually.

After he finished speaking, the barrage was immediately filled with “6666!”

“Big guy bullshit!”

“It saves 1 billion at a time, and 10 billions in ten times. Our country launches dozens of rockets every year, and it saves tens of billions a year?”

“Blow, you can blow hard. There is also a group of mentally retarded people who believe it, this guy can do it, I ate the keyboard!” Some people started spraying if they didn’t agree!

“Tsk tsk, no, no? No one really believes this liar, do they? Other space experts openly smashed him online!”

“I just want to ask, if it fails, how many years will the anchor be sentenced?”

Du Xingyu looked at the barrage and said, “That’s called’Zaodandan’, do you want to eat the keyboard for a successful launch? Don’t persuade you later.”

Zaodandan: “Hehe, afraid of you? Who counsels grandson!”

Audience: “I want to cheat and drink again!”

“Remember, wait for him!”

Du Xingyu is broadcasting live here, and reporters and photographers have set up their equipment and started shooting.

“Du Xingyu!” A clear voice called his name. Du Xingyu looked back and saw that it was the last TV reporter, Lu Jiajia.

The weather in the south is relatively hot. She is wearing a cool white t-shirt and shorts, showing healthy wheat-colored skin and a slim figure.

“Sister Jiajia, are you here?” Du Xingyu asked.

“I’m a reporter from the Science and Technology Channel. Basically I will come to interview news about aerospace.” When Lu Jiajia smiled, her eyes were slightly narrowed, like crescent moons.

“It’s amazing to read the news that you have entered the space agency!” Lu Jiajia praised, seeing his mobile phone camera, and curiously said: “Are you live?”

“Yes.” In Du Xingyu’s live broadcast room, there are already many viewers playing the barrage of “Pretty Little Sister”.

“I have something to do, we will talk later.” Lu Jiajia was called away by a colleague, and Du Xingyu continued the live broadcast.

At 12:40 noon, with only one minute left before the rocket launch, He Jingcheng, Mo Shen, Tao Ran, Liu Yuan and others were already nervous in the command center.

In Du Xingyu’s live broadcast room, there are already hundreds of thousands of viewers, waiting for the countdown to fire.

He Jingcheng’s voice came from the speaker, “Ten, nine, eight… three, two, one!”

“ignition!”