Chapter 508: The first satellite lifts off
At the Wanglong Mountain Observation Deck in Tomorrow City, the orcs are surging, and everyone is looking forward to it.
This is a planned park, with only a concrete road to the top of the mountain, which is about 800 meters above sea level.
Wanglongshan Park is five kilometers away from the Tomorrow Space Launch Center, and from the observation deck at the top of the park, you can vaguely see the outline of the launch center in the distance.
The evening breeze was blowing, and the orcs crowded the viewing platform.
The viewing platform could not accommodate more than 10,000 people, others stood on the mountain path of the park, and some people got into the uncultivated forest, they themselves were awakened and were not afraid of getting lost and wild beasts, so it was not a big problem.
At this time, two cute cat-eared Lori also squeezed onto the mountain road.
"Ephiena, don't run so fast!" Minister of Education Hoss shouted in the back, the two cat-eared Lori in front of him drilled hard, and the adults on the road humbly gave in to the two cute little ones.
"Dad, you're too slow, let's go up first!"
The two sisters are black and white, and their fluffy cat ears are small and cute, and no one can bear to block each other's way up the mountain when they see them.
Hoss was the Minister of Education, and he often appeared in front of people, and the orcs did not embarrass him, saying hello to the back side to get out of the way and let the Hoss and his wife pass.
Ten minutes later, the two cat-eared Loli had squeezed to the forefront of the Wanglong Mountain viewing platform.
At the forefront, they don't need to tiptoe, as long as they open their big cute eyes, they can see that five kilometers away, the white rocket on the launch tower is in place, the light cast by the tower base illuminates the launch center, and the long arrow body is like a famous painting in the world, perfect.
"The rocket is so far."
"It's a pity that you can't get up close." The two loli wagged their cat tails, their faces full of pity.
"Didn't you know that Brother Allen was there?" The white-haired Ena muttered quietly.
"When a rocket is launched, there must be no one next to it."
"I know this......
The two Lori's Allen were in the control room of the space base, staring intently at the big screen in front of them.
There is a live broadcast in the control room, and the footage comes from multiple cameras in the launch center, and a few network cables are specially pulled to the control room, so that Alan can watch the launch center look like.
On the screen, the personnel of the launch center have already been evacuated, and the rocket under the light is 54 meters long, with a pure white body, and the rocket body is printed with the flag of the country of tomorrow, as well as the model of the rocket - Tomorrow 1.
It is bundled with two boosters with a thrust of about 1,04 kN, and the thrust of the first stage rocket engine is also more than 3,000 kN, and there are also the second stage engines and the third stage engines above.
And the first cosmic velocity of this planet is about 8km/s, which is slightly larger than the original Earth.
"The countdown to the rocket launch is one minute and ready!"
An electronic synthesized sound came from the speakers, pulling Allen's thoughts back.
“10,9,8……”
Alan stared at the screen intently, the machinery that fixed the neck of the rocket quickly withdrew, and the fixed hand at the bottom was also withdrawn.
Under the rocket, two spray guns spewed incandescent flames, and the white mist focused on the mouth of the rocket, and the flames were about to come out.
“2,1!”
As zero hour arrived, huge flames erupted from the bottom of the rocket, only to be *** and flash away.
The orcs exclaimed, thinking that the ignition had failed, and the next second, the bottom erupted a more violent flame than just now, no, there was no flame, it was like a pure white laser, shooting directly into the pool below the launch pad.
There is a large pool of water under the launch pad, and a huge flame beam as thick as a laser shines on the pool, and the terrifying heat evaporates the water, and the amount of water vapor is too large, spraying out along the diversion groove that the launch pad has already designed, unstoppable, flooding the camera, and making it white.
One screen was white, and there were other screens, and the controller immediately switched to a camera a little farther away, and saw that the launch pad was surrounded by a sudden burst of water vapor, and it kept rising.
The researchers watching the live broadcast all shook their heads and tails excitedly at this moment, screaming excitedly.
On the screen, the bottom of the launch vehicle is already red, which is the color of the gas reflected in the flames.
In the seventh second, the rocket shook, and Tomorrow No. 1 erupted with dazzling white flames, the flames shining like a triangular beam.
It slowly ascended, and after three seconds, it surpassed the tower in height and flew higher and higher.
At this time, the No. 2 camera failed, and the staff quickly switched to the No. 3 camera a little farther away.
In the shot, the rocket is in the sky, the white smoke is gathering more and more, and the black night is as bright as day, illuminating an area for miles.
The powerful thrust of the thrust propelled it through the night to become the brightest star in the night, and no star was brighter than it.
"Wow!"
"Success, Your Majesty, we succeeded!"
"The first rocket of the country of tomorrow is too powerful!"
The staff of the space base wept with joy, jumped and hugged each other.
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Wanglong Mountain viewing platform.
Ephiena was playing a game of cat tails scratching each other, and they were bored after waiting for half an hour, when they suddenly heard the crowd scream loudly, and then the whole mountain screamed.
They jerked their heads up and looked at the launch center, where the white mist spread outward at a breakneck speed, enveloping the launch center inside.
The white beams of light illuminated the dark land, revealing a large area of sand and buildings hidden by white mist.
In the center of the beam, the rocket body rises into the air, as if wearing a small dress woven of light, and under the skirt is a long white flue.
"The night is gone!"
"Rockets take off! Ha ha! ”
The two Loli hugged each other, and the joy of this moment was nothing compared.
The orcs of Wanglong Mountain looked up at the sky, watched the rocket take off vertically, and then flew in a turn, and the exclamations were startled one after another.
The orc couldn't help but start worrying, afraid that it would suddenly fly down.
It turned out that the fears of the orcs were unnecessary, and the rocket safely flew over the head of the man, entered a state of zero angle of attack, broke through the sound barrier.
Tomorrow City.
The orcs stood on the street, looking up at the starry sky, and waited for a long time, when suddenly someone in the crowd shouted: "Look, rocket! ”
Then the voice spreads like a virus, "Look, rocket!" ”
The orcs stared at each other, blinking their eyelids less often, for fear that the rocket would leave their field of vision in an instant.
In the night sky, the rocket submerged into the clouds, the beam of light was hazy like a butterfly, and it left the sky above Tomorrow City in a short time.
The orcs could no longer see what the state of the rocket was at this time, and the rocket followed the set program, the first stage rocket engine was shut down and separated, and the second stage engine ignited and flew out of the dense atmosphere.
The booster leaves the main body of the rocket, it is still burning, and it can fly in the air for a while.
The fairing detached autonomously, and after a while, the second-stage rocket engine was shut down and separated, and Tomorrow-1 flew by inertia under the action of the earth's gravity.
After a while, the rocket reached a tangent position to the intended one, the third-stage engine fired, and the flames rumbled and squirted for the final acceleration flight.
When Tomorrow-1 taxied in the set parking orbit, the rocket completed its mission and officially separated from the main body.
When the set time arrives, the first satellite of Tomorrowland unfolds its solar panels, and military-grade cameras are aimed at the dark night side of the home planet, waiting for the first rays of sunlight to illuminate the land beneath the feet of Tomorrowland.