Very early, Tang Chao wanted to build a space launch center on Sweet Potato Island, but at the beginning, he focused on practicality, first built the company's site, and only started construction of the space launch center on Sweet Potato Island after the company's factory was completed.

In the blink of an eye, we are almost entering the third year of the establishment of the Navigator.

The Sweet Potato Island launch center would not have been built so quickly, at least for a few more months, but now that everything is being accelerated, this construction site will naturally have to be accelerated.

And it doesn't have to be 100% built, the required infrastructure construction is completed first, and it can be used.

Other "bells and whistles" can be done slowly later.

The predecessor of Sweet Potato Island was Sweet Potato Reef, which was oblong in shape, like a sweet potato floating on the sea, hence the name.

It's just that this sweet potato is quite large, 120 square kilometers.

Its long axis is 26 km long and 8 km wide on a northeast-southwest trend, and its southwest, north-central and northeastern ends are filled with solid land formed by large reef pads, and the south-central part is a large lagoon.

The lagoon is 55 square kilometers and occupies almost half of the island.

As a lake, or a lake in the sea, its depth varies from 14 to 40 meters, resulting in a slightly different color of the water.

Because the lake is so large, the island is basically divided into two halves, that is, the north-central part of the island is connected to a land area of one or two kilometers wide, and the south-central part of the island is only a few dozen meters wide.

The southwestern tip of the island was the first to be reclaimed, and a large infrastructure has been built on it, with a large enough scale of subsistence communities, such as residential areas, vegetable gardens, supermarkets, hospitals, schools, airports, ports, etc.

The most important thing is that this sea island has fresh water resources, which is very important for an island.

Because of the availability of fresh water, it means that the island is a "living island", where flora and fauna can live. That's the value of development, a bright future use, and everything that has now.

The Navigator Space Launch Center is located at the northeastern tip of the island and belongs to the second phase of the project.

The Sweet Potato Island Space Launch Center is a full 10 degrees lower latitude than the original southernmost coastal launch site in Tianxia, and is within 10 degrees north latitude, very close to the equator.

Not only does the 10 degrees save a lot of fuel, but the rocket takes off and flies directly southeast, across the Sulu and Sulawesi Seas, and then into the vast Pacific Ocean, along the equator all the way to the east.

The Navigator's Space Launch Center is originally located in the far northeast, and the route is full of sea, so there is no need to worry about the landing point of the rocket wreckage.

Perfect.

Although the Voyage rocket does not need to be considered for the wreckage landing area, it is reusable, but the large ocean to the east is important for its optimal landing area, which can also save a lot of fuel.

Moreover, the Navigator company also has the "First Voyage" rocket, which does not have the ability to be reused.

It's just that this kind of "small rocket" with a load of more than ten tons cannot be recycled, and its position in the Navigator company is a little embarrassing.

Don't look at the past two years.

In the past two years, the Navigator company has developed too fast, and this kind of guy who can be used as the main rocket in other companies or countries really can't keep up with the development speed and task positioning of the Navigator company.

From the very beginning, the "Chuhang" rocket was an emergency product, which was only used by the Navigator company to open up the situation and enter the space club, so there was not much follow-up.

Because of this, at the beginning, the pilot did not do the launch of small payloads, and even did not do other companies, specializing in national orders and their own business.

And this kind of national-level order does not have a small load, and the pilot's own load is getting heavier and heavier, only one "Mars probe" is 30 tons up, so this "small load" rocket is gradually useless.

Now its technology is mothballed or licensed to other space companies.

However, the seaside advantage of the Sweet Potato Island Space Launch Center has not disappeared, as it is a commercial launch center for the whole world.

Very close to the equator and minimal restrictions on the fall of rocket debris make it very attractive to other commercial rocket launch companies.

In addition, it is also on the main busy international shipping road, with many ships coming and going, which also means that it is very convenient for special large components such as rockets and aerospace equipment.

After all, it is located at the junction of two oceans and two continents, and can provide services such as ship docking, cargo transshipment, material supply and sea rescue.

This ease of transportation is too important for commercial space launches, or for any industry.

When Tang Chao stepped off the plane, he was standing on this island for the first time.

At first impression, this space launch center is huge!

Huge!

It's not that the Marina Launch Center's super-heavy vertical assembly building isn't big enough, and because the other buildings are smaller, it's more significant and huge, but the Sweet Potato Island Space Center is huge, and all the buildings are on the same level as the super-heavy vertical assembly building.

Even the same super-heavy vertical assembly building, which has two more assembly halls than the Marina Launch Center building, obviously has more assembly tasks in demand.

He found out when the plane was still in the sky.

In addition to this, there are huge rail shuttle hangars, huge waiting halls, huge airstrips, huge control towers, and much more.

When I look at the renderings, it's a feeling that I'm really standing in front of these huge buildings, no, I can't say in front of you, I should say under my feet, it's a completely different feeling.

If you let the average person see it, you will definitely only sigh that this space launch center is too huge, but if you look at it by professionals, you will definitely be able to see some signs.

In terms of the Navigator's current announced plans and vehicle scale, it is certainly not possible to use such a large-scale space launch center, unless the Navigator has a larger space construction plan, larger space launch equipment, and larger ...... Ambition!

And Tang Chao said, of course there is, where is this.

Not to mention the rest, the huge runway is not just for ordinary passenger planes and orbital shuttles, after all, even if the take-off movement is larger, the wingspan of the orbital shuttle is only 20 meters, and as far as the aircraft is concerned, it is just a small guy, so the huge runway can only be for more powerful guys.

"Finally, it's almost built, and there is no need to borrow the site of the Marina Launch Center."

Tang Chao took a scooter around the launch center, and then took a few people to the roof of the assembly building, looking down on the entire sweet potato island.

He looked at the large and small ships moored in the harbor and the ships waiting to dock outside, and was very sure that he had chosen the right place for the Navigator Corporation's space launch center.

Because he didn't just want to make this a single space launch center, it would eventually become an international spaceport.

Connecting the earth and space, connecting the bustling human world with the vast universe.

It will become the first ground port for mankind to go to the stars, and it will become the most famous space transit station in human history, along with the spaceport in Earth orbit that is being planned.

"Alright, let's set up the equipment, and we'll shoot from the roof of the assembly building."