On January 28, 2019, the former Pacific Satellite Launch Center.

At six o'clock in the morning, a stout rocket was already ready to go at the launch pad.

The rocket body clearly reads Long March 10 (to commemorate Qian Lao and the astronauts who have been silently dedicated), and the commander-in-chief Yan Bingsan looked at this rocket with some moistness in his eyes.

This numbered Long March rocket was designed by Qian Lao himself for heavy-duty cargo or manned landing on the moon, and was originally scheduled to be launched in 1975, but for various reasons, it died only on paper.

Unexpectedly, after a lapse of 44 years, this serial number can be reborn, from the time I heard this serial number to the launch site today.

It's only 45 days!

When did the most rigorous aerospace industry in China have such a short process of project establishment, demonstration, design, production, and launch?

And such a launch will be carried out for five consecutive days, at a rate of one a day, which is simply a joke.

If Yan Bingsan had not made a trip to Haidu 25 days ago, he would definitely be resolutely opposed, let alone personally go out to be the commander-in-chief of the launch.

Thinking of the trip to Haidu, Yan Bingsan couldn't help but feel a little distracted.

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Rewind the clock to 25 days ago.

Just after the New Year's Day holiday, Yan Bingsan received an urgent notice and rushed to Haidu with a group of well-known aerospace experts and several academicians of the ultra-high-speed aircraft project team.

There, they collectively visited an intelligent manufacturing factory jointly owned by a company and the Haidu Space Agency.

It is said that the plant will create a completely new launch vehicle for the Space Administration, which will have a payload of up to 180 tons.

This is a staggering number, considering that the Long March 9 under development has a design capacity of 140 tons, and the first launch time is expected to be in 2028, but this factory will complete the production and manufacturing task in more than ten days.

The overall test will also be completed quickly. The initial launch is expected to start on January 28.

When these materials were placed in front of these Yan Jin's scientists, they were almost angry and scolded their mothers.

It's just that after all, they are all knowledgeable people, but they also held back their anger, just canceled the scheduled report meeting, and went directly to this so-called smart factory.

But when they stood in the visiting corridor, they looked at the spotless workshop inside the transparent glass, and various fully automatic machining centers, quickly producing parts of various shapes and assembling them step by step on the production line.

Even if they have been deeply involved in their research field for many years, they are also well aware of the production and manufacturing links, and they also have a deep understanding of the unmanned factories and intelligent manufacturing that are currently being hyped in the manufacturing industry.

But when they saw the scene in front of them, they were still shocked by this kind of unmanned and dustless manufacturing method.

Obviously, the glass in front of you is also a new type of soundproof glass, and the dust-free production workshop and assembly line inside the glass do not need a worker at all, and the whole process is controlled by the central computer, even if it is a screw, it is automatically screwed by the intelligent assembly center.

If this kind of intelligent manufacturing makes them feel a revolutionary change in industry, then what they will experience next is a software revolution that they have not experienced in their lives.

When the group was led to a room, there were items that looked like escape pods in a spacecraft.

Before Yan Bingsan and the others could figure out what was going on, they were asked by the reception party to enter the hibernation cabin.

So each of them entered a sleeping pod, and muttered to themselves, this has just been visited for a while, will they arrange a rest?

As they entered, the hatch closed, and a soft female voice prompted them to adjust to their lying position, and then felt several probes probe from their heads sticking out of the bulkhead, and then touched their heads.

The arm was wrapped in some kind of ring, and there seemed to be a slight pinprick sensation, and then they fell into a deep sleep.

But their consciousness seemed to be awake and they felt as if they were entering a rocket launch site.

What stands on the launch site is what they saw from the data, the carrier rocket named after the Long March 10 designed by Qian Lao on paper back then, and it is also the rocket they just saw in the intelligent production workshop and is in production.

Yan Bingsan: They are very strange, how come there is a ready-made carrier rocket waiting to be launched? Isn't it not built yet? Also, why is this launch site so similar to the original Pacific satellite launch site?

At this time, a few staff members came and invited them to personally carry out the preparations before the launch of the rocket, which was very familiar to them, so they started to do it.

When all the processes were completed, the rocket lifted off and then carried out various controls on the attitude, and there were some minor problems in the process.

There is no trivial matter in spaceflight, and even small problems can make the launch a failure.

So Yan Bingsan and the others quickly found out the clue, because then they saw a new rocket prepared at the launch site again, and the staff invited them to carry out various tests and preparations again.

In this way, Yan Bingsan and his entourage carried out another rocket launch, this time because the launched satellite had problems in orbit determination, so they started again.

Now they finally understood that this was a simulation program, but was there such a realistic simulation in the world?

Look at each other, you pat me, I pat you, how can it be so real?

Later, I asked the staff and was told that it was indeed a virtual world where the simulation test of the Long March 10 rocket was being carried out.

And this is the real work they have to carry out when they are invited to Haidu this time, because only after they have completed all the rocket launch tests in this process, will the Long March 10 rocket make its real debut.

So their group is here, not only testing the rocket launch process, but also carrying out various tests on the ground.

Little by little, time passed, and they worked tirelessly, and it seemed that there was no need to sleep, no need to eat, no need to rest.

Unless your consciousness takes the initiative to rest, you can work all the time.

After five full months of testing and repeated intensive launches, the Long March 10 rocket finally completed all the test projects, and they finally finished the work and withdrew from this place.

When they came out of the hibernation pod, it was like a world away, and then they realized that in the real world, only ten days had passed.

For 10 days, they lay dormant in the hibernation pod, as if animals were hibernating, but they did not lose weight, because the hibernation pod would replenish them with certain nutrients.

Since the metabolism of the whole body has entered an extremely low level, even after ten days, they have no problems such as internal urgency.

Just the thought that they had been working like crazy in the virtual world for five months still made them incredulous.

Later, it was learned that after their full testing, the Long March 10 rocket has been finalized, the first rocket has been shipped to the Yuantai Satellite Launch Site, and the follow-up rockets will continue to arrive.

The rockets will be assembled here for final assembly and final field testing, after which they will launch on January 28 for the first time, just like the ones tested in the virtual world.

The launch is a new type of satellite, which will form a brand-new "Ziwei" satellite navigation and communication system, consisting of 50 satellites, so they will be launched intensively for five consecutive days.

This seemingly crazy intensive launch move has no objections to the experts, because they have already tested and verified this situation in the virtual world many times.

And the various hardware conditions they need to test the intensive launch in the virtual world, the real Yuantai launch site will also be fully prepared.

The experts were all talking to each other about their feelings, and although they had already communicated with each other in the virtual world, they couldn't help but talk about it when they came back to reality.

At this time, Liu Mingchuan, general manager of Fengshen Technology, who hosted the party, came to a banquet and expressed his gratitude for their contribution to the finalized production of the Long March 10.

Of course, it is also indispensable for the leaders of the China Aerospace Industry Corporation and the military to speak, and these leaders have actually entered the virtual world before and learned about the relevant processes.

So at this time, I was also very excited, and there seemed to be endless words for all kinds of feelings.

Of course, it is also known that this urgent intensive launch mission, there is also a part for the virtual world that is about to be listed, the state has given considerable support in this regard, and coordinated the three major communication providers, and reached a series of cooperation agreements with Fengshen Technology in terms of civil communications.

In the future, Fengshen Technology will share the revenue of the communication part of the VR "Xingyu" mobile phone with the three major communication providers according to a certain share ratio.

At the same time, the three major communication providers will use a new generation of communication technology provided by Fengshen Technology, currently named 6G technology, which will realize the integration of heaven and earth through the new "Ziwei" satellite system, and can receive signals anywhere on the earth.

Telecom providers do not need to build new base stations, and this part of the cost will be invested in the construction and maintenance of satellite networks.

There was a lot of buzz about the upcoming virtual world, and the biggest concern among experts was whether they could do what they had done before or be able to do more in the virtual world in the future.

Liu Mingchuan replied one by one, saying that some were free and some were charged.

There are a variety of modes for the charging part, some of which require specific development by Fengshen Technology, and some of which are developed by users themselves.

After understanding, the experts understand that if you want to work or do activities for a long time in the virtual world, you must do it through the hibernation pod, if you access it through other means but carry out long-term activities, the virtual world will remind the user to quit, and after two reminders, if the user unconsciously quits, the virtual world will force it to quit.

These settings are designed to protect the user's body from damage caused by prolonged activities in the virtual world without corresponding maintenance measures.

With the end of the banquet, Yan Bingsan will rush back to the original Tai Satellite Launch Site, and the launch mission is coming.

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"Commander-in-chief, everything is ready, request a launch." A report interrupted Yan Bingsan's recollection.

Yan Bingsan looked up at the launch tower in the distance, his heart was full of confidence, and then ordered the rocket to enter the countdown to ignition launch.

"Ten, nine, eight, seven...... Three, two, one, ignition! ”

Blazing flames erupted from the bottom of the rocket, and the Long March 10 rocket successfully ignited, and the rocket rose steadily into the air, flying out of the atmosphere a few seconds later.

Immediately afterwards, a series of monitoring data was fed back, and as the satellite and arrow separated, the ten satellites entered the fixed-point orbit one by one.

The solar panels were turned on, and the ion engine changed the orbit according to the ground command, and finally all the orbits were successfully determined.

When the news came, the monitoring hall of the launch site was cheered.

Huaxia astronauts have created a miracle again!

In the coming week, this miracle will continue......