Chapter 369: Giant Rocket
"The status is okay."
Tang Chao looked around the closed fairing, and then looked at the tablet computer handed over by Zhang Liyan, and the inspection process marked on it was a green light.
Zhang Liyan followed to the side, looked up at the huge fairing and said, "Boss, I have to say, this is definitely the strangest rocket I have ever launched." ”
"I've fired it many times." Tang Chao said.
Zhang Liyan: "??? ”
"Of course it's in the game," Tang Chao smiled lightly: "The rockets launched in the game are only more strange, not the strangest, don't tell me that you are still serious about design when you play the game?" ”
"Uh......"
Zhang Liyan was speechless for a while.
Well, then there is no need to answer again, Tang Chao already knows the answer.
The small simulated gravity capsule was packed smoothly and transported to the Sweet Potato Island launch center perfectly, and it could be loaded onto the rocket after inspection.
Once assembled, the rocket is pushed onto the launch pad, refueled, and launched on time.
It's just that this transfer of venues is destined to be in the big news.
Who made this rocket so weird.
Sure enough, when the doors of the assembly building were opened one by one, the people who paid attention to it were directly shocked by the shape of the new rocket!
“!!! ∑(?? Д?? ノ)ノ”
"Damn?! What the hell is this? ”
"This is a rocket? What rocket, Big Head Voyage? ”
"I've never seen such a strange rocket, and this head is too big, right?"
"The rockets I've seen before are all smaller than the body, especially manned rockets, and the cargo-carrying rocket fairing is only one lap larger than the core stage, and the fairing of this rocket is ...... diameter than the core stage. It's three times bigger, right? ”
"The diameter of the core stage of the Yuanhang rocket is 5 meters, and in comparison, the diameter of this fairing is almost 15 meters, slot! This is outrageous! ”
"I've decided, it's definitely on the ugliest rocket list, I'm going to recommend it to be on the list!!"
"I have to forward the photos quickly, I can't be blind alone, everyone will come and see it."
"I think it's pretty good, you look at its arc, look at its structure, the painting is also good, the parentheses are deleted, this article is a piece."
"Haha, I don't think it's pretty, but aren't you curious about what's in it? The things that have to be transported with this special shape are certainly not ordinary things. ”
"I also think so, whether it looks good or not, since such a shape can be launched, it must be able to launch, such a large fairing, the thing inside it must be very large, I don't know what it is?"
"This should be the space station upgrade plan that Mr. Tang said, such a big thing, is it a huge amusement module?"
"The Starry Sky Inn is already quite big, especially the 'living room', there is no obstacle for tourists to turn their heads in it, and they still need a bigger place?"
"Well, according to the information that Mr. Tang said during the live broadcast, it should be the thing in the fairing, but this time there was no publicity, obviously Mr. Tang is very confident in this thing and wants to give the world a big surprise, let's wait and see it with peace of mind."
Outsiders don't know, even the Merriken Space Agency is speculating, but some people from the Tianxia Space Agency already know what it is.
When Tang Chao first explained the "Heavenly Court" plan, there were high-level officials of the Space Agency present, and there was a figure of this special rocket inside, and it was launched today, of course they could see it at a glance.
It's just something that is planned to be unveiled next year, why did it come out this year?
You know that the navigator is all about speed, but this speed is also a bit too fast, right?
Fortunately, Tang Chao communicated with them in time and let them know the latest progress of the Navigator's plan.
Then they fully understood the current plan of the Navigator, oh, it was actually Tang Chao's idea.
Tang Chao is the boss of the navigator, and his idea is naturally the navigator's plan.
The launch of a small rotating simulated gravity capsule was originally planned, but now it is only because the manufacturing speed of the ground manufacturing center has increased and the production of parts has accelerated, but the expansion of the warehouse cannot keep up, so it can only be launched into the sky.
The official space agencies of various countries have also encountered similar things, the space equipment is manufactured and cannot be launched, and can only be stored in warehouses, but most of them are because the production and service of rockets used for launch cannot keep up with the plan, so that the corresponding payload can only stay in the warehouse.
And they need to launch less space equipment, just a space station cabin or several tons of lunar exploration equipment, etc., can be placed.
The planned Tianting Space Station is so big, it is composed of many components, and the Navigator has obtained the production contract for most of the components, and now that its production speed has increased, it is natural that a large number of finished products will be crowded into the warehouse.
Originally, it was enough to continue to expand the warehouse, but the area demarcated by the pilot was so large that not only the aerospace company should be built, but also the manufacturing, technology, and entertainment companies in the group would also need to expand, and they all needed to occupy space.
Further on, there are factories of other companies, which have also been built, and it is impossible for them to expand in the past.
If you want to expand, you have to find a new place.
However, there are two ideas within the company, one is to directly find a place to expand, and the other is to spread the technology, so that other space companies in the space alliance can upgrade their technology and increase their participation.
Most people tend to spread technology to alliance members, after all, the navigator still carries the name of "alliance leader", but the navigator is developing too fast, and even the people inside the navigator don't know why they can develop so fast, anyway, it is under the leadership of the boss to "take off", so that the other allies seem to be a little stretched.
In fact, those allies in China are basically the average level of commercial aerospace, which is not slow.
At first, the company's insiders felt that the newly upgraded technology was the company's core technology, and it was not easy to spread outward, but later Tang Chao let them understand what was the "core technology" of the Navigator Company, that is...... The Navigator company does not have the core technology, it is the biggest core.
The most important thing is always in his head.
That...... The company doesn't have any core technology, and it can spread to other allies, and it can also increase the influence of its own company, as long as the new technology appears within a month is kept secret.
From the perspective of the company, the technology that appears within a month is called the "secondary core technology", and after a month, it becomes a technology that can be used to cooperate with partners.
Anyway, today, everyone knows that a strange-looking rocket has been erected on the Navigator's rocket launch pad, and people are wondering what exactly is in its fairing.
Immediately, the nickname came out, and people affectionately called it "Giant Rocket".
The fairing of the rocket is of three modes, one is smaller than the diameter of the core stage, one is the same as the diameter of the core stage, and the other is that the fairing is a little larger than the core stage of the rocket, for example, the core stage diameter of the Long March 3B is 3.35 meters, and the diameter of its fairing reaches 4 meters, which is a bit large, but the contrast is not strong.
And Merrican's Hercules 4 rocket is a standard "big-headed doll", its core stage diameter is only 3 meters, but the fairing diameter has reached 5 meters, and the length is about 20 meters, which looks very ...... "head-making" and not very coordinated.
But that's the case with rockets, the fairing is constantly adjusted according to the size of the load.
As long as you can fly.
3.35 to 4 is normal, 3 to 5 is "big", so 5 to 15 is not a "giant".
It just so happens that now the position of the Navigator in the field of earth aerospace is comparable to that of a giant, and it is appropriate to give this special Voyage rocket such a nickname.
Human curiosity is never-ending, especially the weirder something is, the more curious people are about it.
Now that rockets of this appearance have appeared, many people are worried about whether it can take off and enter orbit normally, so they naturally want to come over to see the excitement.
So the live broadcast room of the navigator was instantly jammed with people.