Chapter 346: Waiting Before Launch
December 15th, 8:15 a.m. There was still light snow in the sky, and this was the first snow of the year.
Maybe it's because dozens of vinyl plants are frantically absorbing carbon dioxide, the greenhouse effect has eased somewhat, and this year's snow is a little earlier than last year's.
Zhang Zhi took Li Lingqiu's hand and walked towards the flying car.
They will go to the sea off Shanghai to visit the launch site and watch the first launch of the space shuttle on board the space base.
Zhang Zhi and Li Lingqiu boarded the flying car, started the flying car, and flew to Shanghai.
Yesterday, Wu Xia and Poplov had already rushed to the space base ship ahead of schedule. There the conductor goes, into the final preparations.
There are Ms. Natalia and Qu Xiaoyan left behind in the company, which can ensure that any problems in any part of the company will be urgently dealt with by the company's senior management on the spot.
The flying car piloted by Zhang Zhi is the latest experimental model, which has an ionization engine made of amethyst gold, a shell made of high-end starch plastic, and an anti-gravity suspension device.
The flying car slowly levitated in the air, and blue flames erupted from the rear of the car, and began to accelerate and fly out. Towards the sea off Shanghai, the location of the space base ship.
The vehicle starts and enters autonomous driving mode.
Zhang Zhi saw that his down jacket and woolen sweater were wrapped tightly, but Li Lingqiu was wearing a very thin autumn coat.
He asked with concern, "Lingqiu, aren't you cold in this dress?" I asked you to add a down jacket, and you don't even want to wear it. ”
Li Lingqiu shook his head and said: "I don't wear a down jacket, and it's not cold in the vehicle, so I waited until I arrived in Shanghai." It was very warm there.
Besides, my dress is custom-made, and now the material has just been produced in a lab.
It is developed by Professor Yan University, a kind of silk spit out by mutant silkworms, and is braided. It can form a dense layer of air on the surface of clothing. The warmth is much stronger than that of a down jacket. ”
"I see." Zhang Zhi nodded and said.
He knows that the warmth principle of down jackets is that duck down is filled with air, and the air has low thermal conductivity, which can be used to isolate the internal and external heat exchange.
On the way to Shanghai, Li Lingqiu told Zhang Zhi about the interesting things that happened in the process of studying the Sasolam ecosystem.
Time flies, the new version of the flying car is fast, and now it has reached the sky above the space base ship.
Zhang Zhi saw that in addition to the large tonnage space base ship, there were also many small boats around the ship.
He was on a boat and also saw the CCTV logo. He immediately knew that this was the enthusiastic crowd of onlookers watching the launch.
Zhang Zhi landed the flying car on the space base ship.
Li Lingqiu looked at the new version of the flying car happily and asked, "Brother Zhang, how long will it take for this flying car to be released?" ”
"Half a year later", Zhang Zhi saw Li Lingqiu's disappointed face, "It's not good to release new models too often, but the top management of our company can be equipped with a new version of the flying car." ”
Seeing Zhang Zhi's arrival, Wu Xia and Poplov both came to greet them.
Wu Xia said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, Mr. Li." Our space base ship is in perfect condition for launch, and the shuttle has been overhauled and refueled.
Just wait until the window around 10:48. We started launching the space shuttle. ”
The whole process was just Wu Xia explaining, and Poplov was only speaking on the key link.
Zhang Zhineng can see that technically, Poplov is still more favorable.
After he made up for the lack of knowledge, Zhang Zhi was shocked by the potential that burst out.
Wu Xia is better at enterprise management and project co-ordination.
The two of them work well together, and Star Discovery has been very efficient.
That's why they completed the conversion of the space base ship in a short period of time.
Li Lingqiu saw this large space base ship, as well as the space shuttle on its deck dozens of meters.
She asked Wu Xia curiously: "Manager Wu, I heard that this ship used to be a ship, why did you successfully refit it so quickly." ”
Wu Xia said respectfully: "Mr. Li, this ship was originally the site for the space shuttle to take off.
He was going to strengthen its hull structure and deck, as well as install electromagnetic catapult equipment.
This is a very long construction period, and it will definitely not be completed now. ”
He glanced at Zhang Zhi and continued: "The anti-gravity technology developed by Mr. Zhang has given us inspiration. We could quite well launch a space shuttle in the air.
In this way, the hull does not need to be modified, we just need to put the equipment in it.
Coupled with the high efficiency of the industrial robots, we were able to complete the retrofit very quickly. ”
Li Lingqiu heard what Wu Xia said, and she finally had a preliminary understanding of this space base ship.
Zhang Zhi walked with them to the command room, and along the way, Zhang Zhi saw a lot of CCTV reporters, filming various situations of the space base ship.
He didn't expect that after giving the broadcast rights exclusively to CCTV, CCTV sent so many authors to interview Xingyu Technology's first space shuttle launch plan.
They walked into the command room and saw a lot of people busy, some staring at the light curtain. There are also CCTV reporters interviewing.
He saw only a middle-aged man sitting in the command room, his expression very leisurely.
Wu Xia immediately introduced to Zhang Zhi: "Mr. Zhang, this is Bai Qing, deputy director of the China National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. ”
Zhang Zhi smiled and shook hands with Bai Qing, "Hello Director Bai, welcome to guide the work." ”
Bai Qing smiled and said, "How can we guide your work, you are too advanced here."
From here, I can see the development of space technology in the future. ”
Bai Qing said with emotion: "The space shuttle is too expensive, and even the strength of the United States cannot be maintained."
I've heard that your space shuttle is very low maintenance, and if your space shuttle is successful. Can it be sold to the state. ”
Zhang Zhi said with a smile: "Director Bai is too worried, we are businessmen, and this is a commodity." As long as the country is not too expensive, we welcome it with both hands. ”
Zhang Zhi had long planned to sell the space shuttle, and the early stage of space exploration could not generate enough profits, and he had to burn money.
He wanted to sell the shuttle to maintain costs, and the country was already within the scope of his sale. It's just that some countries resolutely can't sell it.
They talked very speculatively, and talked about some current international space technology and the future development of space technology. Applied technology into space. Space material fabrication and seed mutation.
The two of them were chatting when Wu Xia came over and interrupted them.
"Mr. Zhang, Mr. Bai. The window is coming soon. We're ready to count down to launch. ”
Zhang Zhi saw that the window was only about five minutes away.
"Now we can only wait for the results, Manager Wu, let's start the final preparations for the launch."
Zhang Zhi said indifferently, he knew the five-minute countdown to turn on all the functions of the space base ship.
"Okay, I'll start preparing now."
Wu Xia took a deep breath and cleared his nervousness into the state. CCTV reporters and videographers are also in working mode, and they have to shoot wonderful pictures.
Zhang Zhi saw that Li Lingqiu was not here, and after contacting him, he learned that she was on the deck, waiting for the moment when the space shuttle flew into space.
Wu Xia walked to the console of the command room, and the assistant told him that there were still five minutes and twenty-one seconds, and the best window was coming.