Chapter 1074 Successful launch

For this launch mission, Zhao Zhongyao is of course confident. But even if he is very confident, he cannot guarantee 100% that the launch will be successful.

Political Commissar Li was also a little worried now, he looked at Zhao Zhongyao and asked: "Zhongyao, do you have confidence! Now, there are many national leaders who are also at this launch site! Your rocket will not go wrong!"

"Don't worry! There will definitely be no problem with the rocket I developed. This time, although it is only a launch experiment, it will definitely be successful. ”

Of course, Zhao Zhongyao is confident. After all, the rocket he developed, it was the most advanced rocket in the world. It can be said that it is more advanced than the rockets in the world when he was alive!

In the world before Zhao Zhongyao's death, as long as it was a high-thrust rocket, it was basically a liquid propellant. Why use liquid fuel. This is because liquid fuels are able to produce higher temperatures and also produce higher specific impulses.

If you want to send a very heavy iron guy like a rocket into space, it is impossible to achieve it without strong thrust. For example, if you want to send this hundred-ton heavy rocket into space, the thrust of the rocket engine must be at least a few hundred tons.

And to generate more than a few hundred tons of thrust, it is necessary to use liquid fuel. Only with liquid fuel can ultra-high temperatures be produced and huge thrust can be generated.

There are two drawbacks to the availability of liquid fuels. One is that liquid fuel consumes quickly. It's like sending a big thing like the space shuttle, a few tens of tons, into space. The tonnage of the rocket must be 2,000 tons. But almost one-third of the weight of these 2,000 tons is the weight of fuel.

We've all seen the U.S. launch of the Space Shuttle. A huge rocket, and outside, there is also a huge auxiliary fuel tank. The entire rocket weighed more than two thousand tons. From the ignition of the rocket to the rocket soaring to an altitude of hundreds of kilometers. It only takes about 20 minutes.

But in just 20 minutes, hundreds of tons of liquid fuel can be consumed. It can be said that this liquid rocket is made of fuel. The whole rocket is a fuel tank 'exploded'. And then flew into the sky.

This shortcoming of this liquid rocket makes people very helpless. But there is no solution.

Of course, in addition to the disadvantage of this huge size, this liquid rocket also has a disadvantage, which is also very fatal. In other words, the fuel used in this liquid rocket is a mixture of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.

Liquid hydrogen and oxygen are not the same as ordinary liquid water. These two things are liquefied, although they look like water. But their nature is completely different.

As we all know, the boiling point of water is 100 degrees. The boiling point of liquid hydrogen is minus 255 degrees. The boiling point of liquid oxygen is also minus 195 degrees.

Therefore, these two fuels cannot be preserved in a normal environment. And if you want to send a rocket into the sky, you must use such fuel. In this case, high requirements are placed on the development of the rocket itself.

Generally, the fuel is injected into the rocket's fuel tank two hours before launch. This is to ensure that these liquid fuels do not vaporize.

Liquid fuel is very unstable and not easy to preserve, which makes rockets and launches a very dangerous thing.

In this way, it is very dangerous to launch a rocket. The previous liquid fuel had these two major drawbacks. Despite these two major drawbacks, this liquid fuel can only be used in distress when humans have not found a better alternative fuel.

But Zhao Zhongyao has solved this problem now, and the new rocket he is researching no longer uses this liquid fuel, he uses solid uranium rods as reaction fuel for miniature atomic reactors.

In this way, the weight of the rocket itself can be greatly reduced, and at the same time, it can also produce a lot of thrust.

For example, the 100-tonnage solid-fuel rocket now developed by Zhao Zhongyao can produce more than 1,000 tons of thrust when launched. That is, this is a rocket of only a hundred tonnage, which can carry at least two hundred tons of cargo. It's unthinkable. In the know, in traditional rockets, the weight of the cargo is much smaller than the weight of the rocket itself.

But the new rocket developed by Zhao Zhongyao is different. This solid-fuel rocket can carry much heavier cargo than itself.

This time, the rocket launch was originally only an experimental launch, so it did not need to carry too much cargo, but only carried a communications satellite weighing several hundred kilograms.

The rocket that Zhao Zhongyao is developing now is to overcome the shortcomings of the world's advanced rockets during his lifetime. He used the atomic engine he had developed in this world. A nuclear rocket developed from nuclear energy.

This nuclear rocket is to be able to produce more thrust than ordinary rockets, and at the same time have a longer endurance.

Now the rocket is placed on top of the launch tower. All the staff members also returned to the command room.

For the staff of the Xixiang Satellite Launch Center, the rockets they launched before were all traditional liquid rockets, and they had not yet launched solid-state rockets. Now I heard that a solid-state rocket was going to be launched, and I was very curious.

These staff members are now also surrounding Zhao Zhongyao in the middle, wanting to know more about this knowledge. After all, the staff of this launch center are also some scientific researchers. They heard that this time, they were going to launch a new type of nuclear rocket, and they were all very curious.

Now these staff members are scrambling to ask Zhao Zhongyao a series of professional questions.

Zhao Zhongyao also patiently answered them one by one. After listening to Zhao Zhongyao's explanation, everyone gave Zhao Zhongyao a thumbs up. After all, they could never have imagined that now they were going to launch a nuclear rocket, the most advanced in the world.

"Oh! Our Mr. Zhao is really good, he can actually develop a nuclear rocket. ”

"yes! We didn't even think that we could launch rockets with nuclear energy. ”

"Even country M doesn't have such technology! Their rockets are just ordinary liquid rockets, not solid-state rockets. ”

"Now it seems that our Huaguo's rocket technology has surpassed that of country M again. We will certainly continue to lead the world in the field of aerospace. ”

These staff members were very surprised when they heard what Zhao Zhongyao said. After listening to this, they began to talk to each other.

There were also some leaders at the scene who were very curious, and they also came to Zhao Zhongyao and asked some professional questions.

Zhao Zhongyao gave a detailed explanation to everyone, so that everyone also had a general understanding of this solid-state nuclear rocket.

And just like that, after another two hours of waiting, the rocket launch officially began. Although the rocket launched this time is very different from the previous rockets. But the process of this launch is still about the same. The procedure for the entire launch is the same as for the liquid rocket launched before.

This time, Zhao Zhongyao also personally participated in the launch process of the rocket, and he personally pressed the launch button of the rocket.

"Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Ignition. ”

The whole rocket launch process is the same as before. When Zhao Zhongyao pressed the ignition button. The rocket roared and burst into the sky.

The whole launch process looks the same as a normal rocket launch. If you don't tell someone. Others will not know that this is a nuclear rocket launched.

After the rocket lifted off, there were staff in the rocket monitoring room, who had been tracking the launch process of the rocket. Let's see if the rocket can successfully reach the predetermined target orbit.

When everyone saw the rocket successfully lifted off, the entire command room was also thunderous applause. Everyone is congratulating China on the successful launch of its first nuclear rocket.

Of course, this is only the first step. Being able to launch successfully is only an important first step. The next step is to see if the rocket can successfully reach the predetermined orbit and then put the communication satellite into orbit.

After another half an hour of tracking. In the command room, another round of applause erupted. This is because the communications satellite has successfully reached orbit and started to operate on its own.

Zhao Zhongyao is also relieved now. Although he was very confident, he was still a little worried when the launch was not successful.

Now that the launch has finally been successful, and the satellite has been safely and smoothly delivered to the scheduled orbit, Zhao Zhongyao can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

After the satellite was successfully launched, Political Commissar Li was in the command room and began to speak. After all, he is the supreme leader on the scene, and he wants to speak a few words to everyone on behalf of the national leader.

"Well, now our 'Feitian-1' high-thrust carrier rocket has successfully completed the task of sending communication satellites into space.

This rocket launch is not quite the same as the previous one. This high-thrust rocket is a new type of nuclear energy rocket developed by our expert Zhao. Now that we have successfully developed this nuclear rocket, we can develop a manned spacecraft in the next step.

Our country now has a great dream, which is to send our country's astronauts into space.

It sounds like a fantasy. But as long as we have such a high-thrust rocket, everything is no longer just a dream.

Now, our adversary, that is, country M, is also carrying out a manned space program, and they are going to follow the same path as us. First of all, they also have to work on high-thrust launch vehicles. But in their country, there is no top military talent like Expert Zhao.

Therefore, although country M also wants to carry out this manned space program. But their progress is slow. Until now, they have not developed a high-thrust rocket. And our country has already developed a high-thrust rocket, and it has been successfully launched.

Then the next step is to study the manned spacecraft. As long as the manned spacecraft is also successfully studied, then we can consider conducting manned space launch experiments.

And to realize these dreams, of course, it is necessary for the efforts of expert Zhao. If there is no expert Zhao, then our dreams will always be dreams. Here, on behalf of the leaders of our country, I would also like to thank Expert Zhao.

Okay, I won't say much else, now, let our expert Zhao also tell us a few words! I think he must have a lot to say to you now!"

After Political Commissar Li finished speaking, he let Zhao Zhongyao start to speak.

Zhao Zhongyao also came to everyone, he looked at everyone, and began to speak.

"Comrades, now, we have finally developed a nuclear rocket. It was also successfully launched just now. This is not only my own credit, but also the common credit of all our researchers in the Feitian Group. It's the result of everyone's joint efforts.

Of course, we just developed this rocket. And the people who sent this rocket into the sky were also the staff of our Xizhan Satellite Center. It was you who worked together to send our country's first high-thrust nuclear rocket into the sky.

Although it was just an ordinary rocket launch, it had some very unusual significance. This rocket launch marks the beginning of China's departure into a space power.

In this world, there is no country that has been able to develop a high-thrust launch vehicle. Our country has now come to the forefront of the world.

It is not the purpose of our research to be able to develop a high-thrust launch vehicle. The purpose of our research is to send astronauts into space. Let our five-star red flag flutter in the depths of space.

Of course, just sending astronauts into space is not our ultimate dream. Our ultimate dream is to send astronauts to the moon and even further to Mars. From now on, China will become the most developed country in the world. Our country's space technology should also become the most advanced space technology in the world.

I don't know if you have heard what other leaders have said, but I think you must not have heard it. You may have just listened to Political Commissar Li's speech. You know, our country wants to send astronauts into space.

But what Political Commissar Li said is only the first stage of the entire space program that we have to do. Our entire space program, that is going to be divided into three phases. The first stage is to send our astronauts into space. The first step in completing the manned space program. In the second stage, we are going to send astronauts to the moon. Complete the second step of the manned space program. In the third stage, we are going to send astronauts to Mars, which is 45 million kilometers away from us.