Chapter 117 Space-1 launch vehicle

readx;

Eastern region of the Hijara Desert, Arab Space Corporation. Pen&Fun&Pavilion www.biquge.info{{}}

In the flat desert, a number of modern buildings have already risen from the ground, and a dew and hair shè platform is the most eye-catching, which is the place to fly to the dome.

The tower is more than 40 meters high, and such a size, although not very large, can meet the current use of Iraq.

The launch vehicle developed by the DF-3 is only more than 20 meters high, and even if the second stage and fairing are added to it, the height is only more than 30 meters.

Although I have learned a lot of techniques from the big countries in the East, the big countries in the East are not willing to be teachers in these aspects, and many of them need their own design and practice.

On the top of the tower, there are various layers of workbenches, liquid, water, electricity, fuel and other projects, which are also carried out on this.

Underneath the platform is a large pool of water to overcome the reaction forces during take-off and to mitigate the effects of heat flow. {{}}

The launch vehicle is carried out in two ways, the Soviet rocket is assembled lying down, and after it is assembled, it is transported to the launch platform lying down, and then hoisted up for various tests to complete the preparations before the launch.

In other major countries, it is in the final assembly, that is, vertical assembly, in the assembly workshop to complete various test work, vertical transportation to the hair platform, you can send the shè, so as to avoid the change of state, caused by the re-measurement. For example, when the United States launched the Saturn V rocket, it built a super assembly building with an internal clear height of 136 meters to meet all the harsh external environmental risks, such as hurricanes, and internal assembly requirements, such as cleanliness, constant temperature and humidity, etc., before assembling this large rocket with a height of 110 meters. After the assembly is completed, it is also a very challenging task to transfer the vertical group of this big guy to the hair shè platform, because in the process of vertical transportation, it must also ensure that it cannot shake, for this reason, the United States specially designed a unique creeper transport vehicle to carefully transport the assembled behemoth to the hair shè platform.

And because Iraq is not able to develop such a big thing for the time being, the final assembly plant in Iraq is only more than 50 meters high, and a railway has been laid between the final assembly plant and the hair station to carry out the transportation work. {{}}

Compared with the more than 40-meter-high hair tower, the launch vehicle, which is only more than 20 meters high, is still relatively short.

In fact, it is more appropriate to say that this is a sounding rocket of the Arab Space Corporation, because it only has one stage, it cannot reach the first cosmic velocity at all, and the payload is sent into the earth satellite.

However, Arab Space did not announce it to the outside world.

Their White Spoon is a two-stage rocket capable of carrying a 300-kilogram payload to a 400-kilometer orbit.

Didn't join the meeting to take a look at their white spoon rocket, although there will be a lot of equipment, will track their white spoon this time to send shè, but, on the radar screen, it is just a point of light, there is nothing special at all, only when the second stage rocket needs to work, they will find out that the Arab Space Corporation is a failed launch this time, because the second stage rocket did not ignite, did not send the payload into the predetermined orbit, but, in fact, this time the shè, has been completely successful, The load in the fairing at the head of the rocket will also fall in the Thar Desert region in eastern Pakistan. {{}}

Since the earth rotates from west to east, all moons are sent eastward.

Now, on the hair shè rack, the first launch vehicle of the Arab Space Corporation, has been quietly staying there, and all the technical personnel are working nervously in the hair shè hall.

There is still more than half an hour left for the hair window, and the space-1 carrier rocket has been refueled on the hair frame, and the hair has entered an irreversible process.

Due to the lack of rain and dry climate in the Middle East, it is very unfavorable for agriculture, but it is a very good opportunity for the development of shè satellites. In a year, there can be more than 300 hair.

Journalists from various countries are waiting on the periphery of the Fa Shiè base, although Iraq has already placed martial law around the Fa Shiè site to prevent sabotage by unknown elements, and has also deployed anti-aircraft missiles around the Fa Shiè site, because there are many similarities between launch vehicle technology and ballistic missile technology, it is possible that it will be hostile to certain forces. {{}}

However, the fact that this is a desert area does not prevent these reporters from visiting the process outside the martial law area. With the help of high-powered telescopes, they could clearly see the rocket standing on the platform.

From top to bottom, they are the same diameter, some like telephone poles, and they just stand quietly.

There are many rumors about this launch vehicle, but most of them are the same version, which is a launch vehicle developed by Iraq on the basis of the Scud missile.

Although it is called the Arab Space Corporation, it is obvious that Iraq is leading the research on ballistic missiles in the name of developing shè carrier rockets, especially in the current international situation, and Iraq has chosen this time so forcefully to launch shè, and the reaction of the US side is very much expected. However, even the United States cannot prevent a country from developing its own aviation industry, this is a country's own choice, just like the nuclear power plant in Iraq, which is now in the process of generating electricity steadily, and the United States has no right to intervene.

Moreover, this is the Arab Space Corporation, a joint project of Arab countries, and the United States cannot oppose it. {{}}

Even the defeated countries of World War II, RIBEN, are conducting research on launch vehicles. The United States has no reason enough to oppose the aspirations of the Arab countries for the peaceful use of space.

However, they are not optimistic about this launch, Bi Jing, it is one thing for Iraq to have Scud missiles, and it is another thing for carrier rockets, and the Scud missiles are just short-range missiles with a range of less than 500 kilometers, and launch vehicles need at least long-range missiles or even intercontinental missiles, and there are many technologies to be overcome.

Judging only from the height, the Scud missile is 11 meters long, this missile is more than 20 meters long, and it is a second-class missile. Moreover, this comment has also won the approval of many people. It seems that they don't know at all that one Scud missile, on top of another Scud, can't fly at all.

Time passed minute by minute, and finally, in the hair shè hall, a solemn voice counted down, ten, nine... Two, one, ignition, hair shè!

With this sound, the person in charge of ignition pressed his hand on the ignition button.

The footage from the camera was shown on the big screen, and at the bottom of the rocket, a puff of smoke came out, and then, the fire appeared, and after a second, they felt a slight vibration on the ground, and the rocket had begun to rise!

Hair shè was a complete success!

Suddenly, the entire hair shè hall was full of jubilation.

Although the DF-3 missile has already been equipped with Unit 3, and although Iraq has not conducted a single test of the shè, it has tested the shè many times in the eastern powers, and its effectiveness has been fully confirmed. So, how can this kind of missile made by Iraq itself compete? No one knows that this experiment is also a verification of the Xing energy of Dongfeng-3.

The success of the development is proof that Iraq has taken another solid step forward in the field of space technology.

In the desert, two American men looked disappointed, they were experts from NSAS, and through long-range observations, they felt that this launch vehicle had nothing to do with the Scud missile, especially from the wake at the time of ignition, the situation at the bottom of the situation with at least three engines in parallel. On the one hand, this shows that Iraq has not succeeded in developing a rocket engine with high thrust, and it is impossible to think about it, and Iraq's scientific and technological progress cannot be so fast; on the other hand, it shows that Iraq has mastered the difficulty of parallel engine technology, which is a necessary condition for the development of carrier rocket technology.

Originally, I thought that the Arab Space Company, which did not have any technical reserves, would fail this time, and it was best for the rocket to explode on the platform, so that the arrogant Arab Republic would know that space technology is not something that can be played casually. But now it seems that this rocket actually succeeded in sending shè.

Reconnaissance satellites in space began to track this target in Iraq.

Although many of Star Wars' costly projects have been delayed indefinitely, Bi Jing still has some scientific research results, and some sub-projects are progressing rapidly, such as the discovery of missiles in the booster stage, which is a key research object.

On the one hand, when the missile returns to the atmosphere, several warheads or false targets will be separated, which will increase the difficulty of interception, and on the other hand, after re-entering the atmosphere, the speed will become greater and greater.

In the booster phase, a more favorable result is that the destroyed missile will fall into the opponent's territory, and the radiation caused will also affect the opponent's ecological environment.

Although the weapons that can destroy the opponent's missiles in space have not yet been realized, the early discoveries are relatively mature.

At the same time, the US Navy in the Arabian Sea also began to observe the launch of this missile, especially the radar of the Aegis system, which is able to detect such targets.

The launch vehicle is flying normally, according to the law, after the first-stage rocket engine burns for 200 to 400 seconds, the fuel will run out, and at this time, the second-stage rocket should be ignited, and the first stage will be thrown at the same time, which is a necessary condition for accelerating to the first cosmic speed.

However, they observed that now, this launch vehicle, as if it was malfunctioning.