The failure of this rocket recovery mission was very unexpected, and in the past, the performance of the "Starry Sky No. 1" heavy-lift carrier rocket was so perfect that people felt that the human space industry was about to enter a period of rapid development.

As a result, at this time, the "Starry Sky No. 1" heavy-lift launch vehicle, which has always performed perfectly, poured cold water on everyone's head-on.

The news of the recovery failure, Tang Feng knew it at the first time. Because although Tang Feng did not go to the scene to watch the launch mission, he saw this scene through the live TV screen at home.

The construction of the Mars spacecraft can be said to be the most important work in the history of human spaceflight, and it is even more exciting than the first human landing on the moon. Such a manned spacecraft is so expensive, and it carries the desire of humans to land on Mars, so every time a component of a Mars spacecraft is lifted off, almost all the media in the world will broadcast it live.

Even if some countries are unable to broadcast live, these countries will buy live satellite signals from other countries to broadcast them to their own audiences. Now, the semi-finished Martian spacecraft in outer space has become the hottest word on the planet.

In addition to lamenting the generosity of the Star Exploration Company, people are also lamenting the powerful technology of the Star Exploration Company.

You must know that before the emergence of Star Exploration Company, even NASA, the world's most developed space technology, had no plans to build a manned Mars spacecraft. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that because of the emergence of the Mars spacecraft, Star Exploration Company has now been regarded by almost everyone as the leader of human spaceflight.

But at this time, the leader suddenly stumbled

Although the recovery of the first-stage core rocket failed, the launch mission was still successful. After all, the main task of a launch vehicle is to ensure the successful delivery of the functional compartment to the Mars spacecraft and the successful docking, and this most important task, the "Starry Sky One" heavy launch vehicle has been successfully completed.

As for rocket recovery. That was only a secondary mission, in order to reduce the cost of launching.

But even so, Tang Feng called as soon as possible.

"Doctor, what is the reason for the failure of this recovery mission?" As the most important shareholder and investor of Star Discovery, Tang Feng is certainly qualified to ask this, although Tang Feng has a lot of money in his hands and doesn't know how to spend it (the huge profits from the European stock market). But Tang Feng could not accept this kind of failure.

No matter what task fails, even if it's a secondary recovery task, as long as it fails, it means that your skills are not up to par. Now it's just that the recovery mission has failed, what if there is an accident when launching the device? What if there is an accident when sending the astronauts up?

This is what Tang Feng is most concerned about.

"Tyrant, it's still unclear what the reason is, but according to the information fed back before the rocket body splits, I think the reason for the failure of this recovery should not be due to technology, I suspect that there is a high possibility that it is due to materials. However, the specific situation still needs to be recovered from the remains of the arrow body before the final conclusion can be drawn. Dr. Schmitz's answer was in the affirmative. It can be seen that this old man is still very confident in himself and the skills of his team.

It is no wonder that the old man has such self-confidence, after all, the "Star-1" heavy-lift carrier rocket has been successfully launched 17 times in a row and successfully achieved 16 successful recoveries, which can fully prove that Dr. Schmitz and his team are very mature in technology, and who is replaced will also be very confident.

Tang Feng nodded and said, "Doctor, I'm not complaining about you. Don't get this wrong. I'm just not willing to accept failure, so I want you and your team to find out why this recycling failed in the shortest amount of time. And we will draw lessons and experience and strive to improve the performance and safety of our heavy launch vehicles to a new level."

"Tyrant, I don't need you to say this, I know it very well. In fact, I can't accept this reality in my heart, but there is no way, things have happened, and the facts are in front of us. So I'm going to do my best to find out the reason for this failure. ”

After a pause, Dr. Schmitz seemed to be communicating with someone, and after a while he said, "Tyrant, the location of the rocket wreckage has been determined. I'm going to fly over by helicopter, and there's already staff collecting the wreckage of the arrow, and I think I'll be able to figure out the reason for the failure of this recovery in three days at most. ”

Tang Feng smiled with satisfaction and said, "Okay then, doctor, I'm very much looking forward to you submitting me an explanation." ”

When Dr. Schmitz hung up the phone, Tang Feng let out a sigh of relief, and the depression in his heart seemed to spew out a lot with this breath.

Standing up and stretching, Tang Feng began to pace around the study.

In fact, Tang Feng does not believe that there is a problem with the technology, you must know that rocket recovery, especially the recovery technology of the first-stage core rocket of the heavy-duty launch vehicle, is definitely not inferior to the rocket launch technology, and in some aspects, the rocket recovery technology even exceeds the rocket launch technology.

The recovery of the first-stage core rocket of the "Starry Sky No. 1" heavy-lift carrier rocket has been successfully carried out 16 times, and although the 17th time failed, in fact, in the most important stage of attitude adjustment, the recovery task was still carried out perfectly. As for the sudden fracture of the rocket body, in fact, there is no need for Dr. Schmitz to explain, Tang Feng also tends to be a material problem in his heart.

Although the materials used in the heavy-lift launch vehicle are the top aviation materials, in terms of human current technology, the top aviation materials do not mean omnipotent. After all, after the first-stage core rocket body is separated from the second-stage rocket, the height is near the Kármán line, and when the rocket body begins to fall, even if it remains vertically falling, the rocket body material must withstand high temperatures of up to several thousand degrees.

And when the 98-ton rocket body drops vertically from an altitude of more than 100 kilometers to a height of tens of thousands of feet and ignites the main recoil rocket, the impact force in an instant is extremely huge. Although Dr. Schmitz chose a lightweight, strong, and extremely high-temperature resistant high-strength aluminum-lithium alloy for the rocket when designing the Starry Sky 1 heavy-lift launch vehicle, after repeated use, who knows if this alloy will cause metal fatigue under such extreme conditions and cause the rocket body to break?

The high temperature of thousands of degrees generated by the friction between the rocket body and the atmosphere when it falls, and the impact between the strong thrust and the falling force generated when the main recoil rocket is ignited, these are all situations that belong to the most extreme category, even if this latest high-strength aluminum-lithium alloy can be said to be the best aerospace material so far, but no one dares to guarantee that this new alloy can withstand the test of the most extreme conditions for a long time.

Next door, there was a daughter's "giggling" laughter and a snoring sound that I don't know if it was Depp or Donnie, which immediately woke Tang Feng from his contemplation.

"Forget it, it's useless to just guess here, let's wait for Dr. Schmitz to come to a final conclusion." Tang Feng shook his head and muttered to himself, walking towards the outside of the study.

Compared with this kind of headache, Tang Feng prefers to spend more time with his daughter (to be continued.) )