Chapter 795: Shocking the World (2)
At the launch site, preliminary work is being prepared.
The rocket was mounted on the launch stand, and the Firefly-1 and the Landing Pod were also ready to be transported to the top of the rocket by mechanical equipment.
The Brave robot showed off fiercely in front of the rice people, climbed to the top of Firefly 1 by himself, opened the hatch with the key and sat in by himself.
The deadline was so tight that the two-month window was less than forty days away.
Xu Limin stood side by side with Jim and the heads of the relevant aerospace departments in the fully enclosed observation deck, with reporters from all over the world behind them.
The reason why it is a closed observation deck is because the plasma spilled by the engine creates a powerful shock wave, which is to protect everyone's safety.
The launch will be broadcast live to the world, and everyone will see the power of a controlled nuclear fusion engine for the first time.
Pangu Technology is also very calm, welcome the media to broadcast the launch site live, there is no secret in the whole launch process, and some of the more confidential things are insignificant even if others see them, because they can't imitate them.
CNN reporters stood behind Jim and broadcast live.
After several rounds of painstaking negotiations, Pangu and NASA reached a cooperation agreement to form a joint rescue team to go to Martian to rescue astronauts Chiesa and Bradward, who were starved of food. Although it is a joint rescue team, all the rescue equipment, including rockets and landers, are developed or modified by Pangu Technology and Xia Guo Aerospace Department, and NASA only provides the raw materials needed for the controllable nuclear fusion engine for this rescue. ”
"Right now we're at the launch site, and in an hour, Firefly-1 will launch deep space to Mars. Although I don't want to admit it, I have to say that if Xia Guo's rocket launch is successful, it means that they have stepped into the first echelon of space powers. ”
At this point, CNN did not forget to add one more sentence. "Whether the launch is successful or not will need to be tested in practice for a while. ”
CNN, like NASA, is torn in the heart.
They hope that the launch will be successful, that the two astronauts on Mars can be rescued, and that this crisis of confidence will be calmed.
They also felt that it was better not to succeed, because the success of Pangu Technology meant the success of Xia Kingdom, which was equivalent to the fact that the United States would no longer be great. The era of the United States may have come to an end since the launch of today's rockets.
At 10:15 in the morning, Xu Limin communicated with Qinghe equipment and Xiao Ming to determine that the launch time would be five minutes later.
Xu Limin then walked to the central control room and pressed the launch button at the scheduled time.
After a loud roar, the high-energy plasma slammed into the ground of the launch pad, and the light blue flames had a powerful explosive power.
The shockwave spread out from the transmitter to all sides, and the grass on the distant lawn instantly turned to ashes.
The rocket went straight into the sky, and disappeared in a blink of an eye, and the lenses of many Western reporters simply did not have time to capture the scene of the rocket in deep space.
This is the powerful kinetic energy brought by the controlled nuclear fusion engine, which is intimidating.
Jim looked at the already calm sky, speechless for a long time, and he now understood why Pangu Technology did not want NASA to participate in this rescue operation.
Because of the generational gap in technology, NASA cannot help in this cooperation.
Behind Jim, NASA experts are stuck in the big screen in the control room, which shows the parameters of the rocket's operation - initial velocity, acceleration, time to break through the Earth's gravity, and so on.
NASA experts took out their laptops, recorded these parameters, and then entered their own analysis software for analysis.
Pangu Technology is very generous, they record these data at will, even if NASA gets the data, these data are dead things and have no effect.
The results came out, and the controllable nuclear fusion engine brought great thrust and acceleration to the rocket that was incomparable to ordinary chemical-fueled rockets.
NASA experts have a very bad face, and the parameters of the spacecraft are introduced into the passage between Earth and Mars, and then considering the effect of gravity, it can be concluded that the time for the Firefly to arrive at Mars is indeed less than 30 days.
The speed is more than six times that of the United States.
And NASA also knows that this is only the first generation of engines hastily developed by Pangu Technology, and there will be second and third generations in the future, and going to Mars will become the norm in the next week or two.
The technicians sent the data to NASA headquarters, and NASA cooperated with a number of physical research institutions in the United States to analyze the data in more detail.
The Stanford Physics Laboratory concluded, "Shockingly fast! This is the fastest speed of mankind so far, and Pangu Technology has left us far behind." ”
MIT responded: "In the past few months, we have been skeptical, distrustful, and even full of irony, and now it seems that Pangu Technology does have the ability to reach Mars in less than a month." ”
"Time Magazine" is a continuous follow-up report on the incident: "We still remember that not long ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics jury tried every means to prevent Xiao Ming and his team from winning the prize, and today's achievements of this team have far exceeded the achievements of any Nobel Prize winner, and the superstring theory and gravitational wave discussion can be compared to the "Theory of Relativity", I don't know if missing Xiao Ming is a loss for the Nobel Prize, or Xiao Ming's happiness." ”
At this moment, all the media in the West who were skeptical of Pangu Technology chose to shut up and no longer make any comments.
Reality is in front of us, and no one can change it.
At this time, the successful launch of the controllable nuclear fusion rocket did not end the shock to the entire Western time.
Outstanding students in the United States and Europe began to consider whether to choose to study in Xia and whether to study at the Pangu Academy of Science and Technology, which is directly affiliated to Pangu Science and Technology.
Researchers with modest accomplishments are also considering whether they can enter a virtual paradise after his death, like Peebles.
The ceremony is not over, this time the landing of Firefly 1 on Mars will be live video broadcast of the whole process, Pangu Technology has installed cameras on the rocket and Firefly 1 that can shoot videos under extreme conditions.
The video information of the camera will be transmitted to the relay signal of Pangu Science and Technology Park through quantum communication, and the signal will be handed over to the Xia Guo TV network by Pangu Technology for free to broadcast live to the world.
The live broadcast was also the first ever time that humans had explored space.
In the past, most of the live broadcasts were concentrated in a period of time before and after the launch of the rocket, and it would not be possible to do real-time live broadcast due to distance, transmission technology and data volume, but this time Pangu Technology did it.
On Twitter and Facebook, Xia Guo TV, which originally had less than 100,000 followers, has skyrocketed to four million because of the attention of millions of netizens attracted the attention of millions of netizens this live broadcast.
A large number of Omi netizens have come to watch what extraterrestrial space travel is like, and in the future, these fans will also receive the news from Xia Guo TV's Twitter for the first time, and they will also be able to see Xia Guo from a more objective perspective.
Xia Guo's netizens were in a state of complete excitement.
An hour after the launch, Pangu Technology officially announced the successful launch of the Firefly satellite.