The next day, under the emergency operation of the Cape Woods, a large number of low-orbit satellites were temporarily launched by military rockets, so that the satellite network in North America could be quickly restored and cover the signal interruption area, reducing economic losses as much as possible.

At 15:22 p.m. EST that day, SpaceX's flight control center.

The Falcon rocket, which has entered the launch process urgently, has been sent to Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, and the countdown to launch time has entered 10 minutes.

Elon Musk arrived at the company in advance, but he was not the commander of the rocket launch, and when he came to the flight control center, the company's technicians were working intensively.

Today is a very critical event for Musk, and the same is true for SpaceX, if you succeed, you will become a hero of the world, and if you fail, the company's reputation will suffer a lot of negative impact.

This time, the launch mission is the same as usual, and SpaceX's launch mission is still broadcast live to the outside world.

However, Elon Musk was extremely worried about such a hasty emergency launch mission, but he had to send it when the arrow was ready, and he could only pray that there would be no accidents.

Elon Musk, dressed in a gray and white suit, stood at a fork in the flight control center, and as the minutes ticked by, the hall resounded with the sound of an announcement.

"Launch status check complete."

"I'm the flight commander, ready to launch."

"Start counting down, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four (main engine start), three, two (ignition), one (liftoff)."

At the same time, at the launch site of Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, a heavy Falcon rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft slowly lifted into space, carrying the hope of rescuing six astronauts.

The Falcon Heavy is not the rocket with the greatest thrust in human history, but it is by far the heaviest rocket in the world that can be used for launch, in other words, only SpaceX can handle this space rescue.

The whole world is pinning its hopes on SpaceX, you must know that only two of the astronauts above are Americans, and the other few are from other countries, it can be said that the company is under great pressure even with Elon Musk, and if SpaceX messes up, the six astronauts who are flying away from the earth at high speed will not be saved.

The Falcon rocket rose steadily, and the debriefing from the flight control center did not stop.

"The thrust is good."

"All performance indicators are normal."

"The data is normal."

"The rocket is performing smoothly!"

The entire flight control center suddenly ushered in a warm cheer, and Musk secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this picture as usual.

As soon as he was relieved, something bad happened, and a data monitoring staff member in the flight control center suddenly changed his face when he saw the panel information.

"Commander, there is an anomalous oscillation of the rocket."

“What？”

At this moment, the flight control center was still drowned out by the sound of celebration, and the person in charge immediately ran over, and the people next to him seemed to have found something unusual, and they were dazed.

"A significant deviation in the data was detected."

"It's close to the red line, the extension shaft has a rotation, and the deviation has reached 17.2 degrees."

"The Falcon rocket overload reached 9.2g, rocket parameters have been lost, the commander ......"

The big screen in the flight control center really captured the image of the rocket taking off, and at this moment, the rocket in the picture suddenly exploded in the air.

“OMG！！”

“NO~~”

The sound of celebration came to an abrupt end at the moment of the sudden change in the picture, replaced by a burst of subconscious exclamations, and then the audience fell silent, and many people stayed in place and didn't know what to do......

It was a catastrophic moment.

Elon Musk, who looked up at the big screen, stared at it for two seconds, only for two seconds, and then withdrew his gaze and silently turned away from the control center.

This is a global live broadcast, and the popularity is undoubtedly more than any other event at the current point in time, and the footage of the rocket lifting off and exploding has also spread around the world.

All of a sudden, there was a global uproar, the news was overwhelming, and the world's mainstream media were the first to push the news that the Falcon rocket rescue plan was declared bankrupt.

The NASA building was directly besieged by hordes of media reporters, including SpaceX, and Elon Musk was fortunate to leave early, otherwise he would have been surrounded by the media.

Compared with NASA and SpaceX, you don't need to be cauldroned, but the pressure on the Woo Horn Building, especially the space-based weapons project, is breathless, this pot is impossible to shake off, it has already been blamed, and now the rescue plan is bankrupt, and the six astronauts can only wait for death in space.

As a result, the market value of United Technologies plunged again on the same day.

……

Shangdu, Tianqing Industrial Zone, Tianjian Plan R&D Center.

It's the second half of the night, and Professor Xu and other scientists are also paying attention to the space rescue, and the screen is playing a press conference held by a NASA spokesperson, explaining some problems about the failure of the launch.

Spokesperson: "...... The thrust of the launch, combined with the simultaneous lateral vibrations, led to an imbalance in the load. ”

Reporter: "Why didn't this problem be found and troubled during the inspection phase?" ”

Spokesperson: "Because of the launch window, there is a problem of relative speed and relative distance between the Falcon rocket and the ISS space station, the ISS space station is currently flying away from the earth at a speed of 28409.08 miles per hour, we have to be forced to speed up the launch procedure, otherwise we will not be able to catch up, the time will drag on for too long and the relative distance will be longer, and we will still face rescue failure, which is to get 100% accurate settlement results." ”

Professor Xu turned off the screen, and after a while, another veteran academician who participated in the Heavenly Blade Project sighed: "Failed......"

"The golden period of the launch window has been missed, and even if there is a second intact rocket now, it will be too late."

Professor Xu spoke: "There are still some, our Sky Blade fighter can do it, the data of the Sky Blade No. 1 fighter has been checked, and everything is normal." Although the Sky Blade is small, it has monster-level thrust, and it can completely support the space station to pull back to Earth orbit. ”

According to the established plan, the Sky Blade fighter will make its first sea trial in a week.

Another professor spoke: "How is that possible? The speed of the Sky Blade is Mach 37, or 12.5911 km/s, while the ISS space station is now at a relative speed of 12.7 km/s. ”

Prof. Xu: "Mach 37 is only the speed under the maximum thrust, but it can reach the speed of Mach 45 under the afterburner thrust, and then using the gravitational slingshot effect of the earth, the final speed can reach a speed of 15.9941 kilometers per second, which is more than enough to catch up with the ISS space station." ”

Another scholar present said with a wry smile: "But the problem is that the 'Heavenly Blade Project' is a top-secret plan. ”

"That is to say, the pilots on the ISS space station are currently only rescued by us, and once the rescue is launched, then the 'Sky Blade Project' will be exposed...... But I think we should jointly petition our superiors to intervene in this rescue, and aside from other things, Liu Wei on the space station is an astronaut of our country. There is no way to do it, but we have a feasible way now, I don't understand politics, I am a scientist, I only know that I can't be indifferent if I have the ability. ”

Professor Xu was silent for a moment, looked at everyone, and said, "Then simply make a statement and raise your hand in agreement with the petition...... Unanimously passed, well, then draw up an urgent petition as soon as possible, all signed on it. ”

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