Chapter 41: The spaceship lifts off
The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs held an urgent press conference
At the press conference, it said: The Pan-Earth Alliance attacked the American space station today, causing a tragedy of 46 deaths! The Pan-Earth Alliance must pay for this!
For a time, the whole world became full of gunpowder, and the third world war was on the verge of breaking out. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info But the result was unexpected, the United States said it very loudly, and in fact did not do anything, just silently re-launched the space station components.
Obviously, the United States also does not want to have a violent conflict with the Pan-Earth Alliance, everything has to be queued behind the acquisition of the wreckage of the spaceship! Whoever gets the wreckage wins the next war!
October 20, 2025, Hainan Spacecraft Launch Center.
After several months of intense expansion, the site has the capacity to launch twenty launch vehicles simultaneously. Today, the components of the Red Dragon II spacecraft will be launched here and assembled in Earth orbit.
Twenty huge rocket launchers stood in a huge circle around the launch command center. Outside the launch center is the four-nation coalition forces that circle several times, and the coalition anti-aircraft radar constantly scans the sky, and if the enemy dares to disrupt the launch, it will be torn to shreds by several different types of anti-aircraft missiles.
In the launch command center, the four leaders of the Pan-Earth Alliance sat in the center of the hall, and in front of the hall was a huge screen that occupied an entire wall, in which twenty carrier rockets were quietly leaning against the launch stand.
"Your Excellency, the spacecraft has fifty seconds to launch!" A staff member said into the microphone, and the Chinese were translated into Y, F, and Xiong and passed to the ears of the leaders of the four countries.
The leaders of the four countries nodded in acknowledgement, and the staff began the countdown.
“10、9、......... 3, 2, 1, ignition! As the timekeeper counted down, several staff members pressed the button in their hands.
The huge launch rack around the launch control center pulled out the cooling valve on the rocket, the huge launch vehicle started the engine, yellow flames erupted from the jet port, and the launch frame slowly opened the mechanical arm that held the rocket in place.
With a loud roar, twenty launch vehicles left the earth in turn, gushing fire. At the airfield not far from the launch pad, five aerospace fighters also ignited their engines and began to enter the runway, and their mission was to keep the Red Dragon II safe before it was assembled!
The aerospace fighters quickly formed a formation and came to the climbing launch vehicle.
"This is Dapeng 001, the shells of each launch vehicle are normal, and the escort team has begun to escort at equal speed." After the debriefing, the pilot set the fighter to cruise automatically.
Twenty rockets quickly crossed the Pacific Ocean and continued to climb upwards, and the observation ship in the Pacific Ocean transmitted the data information back to the launch center.
After a long time, the rocket sheds its booster and flies into the atmosphere. The intense friction burned the heat shield on the outside of the rocket red, and it didn't last long for many launch vehicles to go into space.
The launch vehicles that entered orbit broke away from the fairing, revealing the spacecraft parts inside. After a short flight and reaching the intended orbit, the rockets no longer move, but hover.
At this time, dozens of engineers wearing exoskeletons flew out of the escort aerospace fighters, and the engineers carefully took out the spacecraft parts on the launch vehicle and assembled them together.
A few hours later, a bloated ship was assembled, shaped like a cigar, thin at both ends and thick in the middle. Immediately after that, the group dismantled the fuel compartment from the rocket, and attached twenty cylindrical fuel compartments around the tail of the cigar.
At this moment, the manned compartment was also put into orbit by the rocket launched later, and the engineers spliced the living module into a ring shape and put it in the middle of the "cigar".
After all the main bodies were completed, two specially modified aerospace fighters carrying four astronauts slowly docked on either side of the front of the cigar.
The Red Dragon II was finally completely completed, and the entire assembly process went surprisingly smoothly, and even the people of the Pan-Earth Alliance wondered why the American-stirring stick didn't come to find fault.
Li Jialu was huddled on the sofa and watched today's morning news: "Welcome to the morning news." ”
"Today, the Red Dragon II expedition ship, jointly designed and built by the Pan-Earth Alliance, has finally been completed. They will fly to distant Jupiter for 120 days! Let's take a look at the detailed report from our reporter at the launch center. ”
"Hello host, hello audience, the big screen behind me is showing the orbit of the Red Dragon II spacecraft"
"We can see that although the Red Dragon II is equipped with the most advanced thrusters in the alliance, it is still too slow, so it has to use the planet's gravitational pull to accelerate to shorten the trip. First, it will be accelerated into the orbit of the Moon after orbiting the Earth, and then it will continue to accelerate towards Mars after the acceleration of the Moon. ”
"After using the gravitational pull of Mars to accelerate again, we finally flew to Jupiter, the destination of this mission. After 10 days of observation, it returned to Earth, taking a total of 350 days. ”
"The audience must be curious, why it only took 120 days in the past, but it took 220 days to come back, it is because this exploration will capture an asteroid in the orbit of Jupiter, so that we can learn more about this universe!"
Li Jialu turned off the TV and kicked off her shoes. The mind drifted to an unknown place, such as someone who had disappeared.
America at this time
"Mr. President, this is the latest spacecraft that our companies and NASA can build, and it is much faster than the Pan-Earth Alliance spacecraft, even if we launch a few days later, we can reach Jupiter ahead of the Pan-Earth Alliance spacecraft." A technician said, pointing to a giant space shuttle-style spacecraft.
"We don't have to outdo them, we just need to kill them!" The president said viciously.
Many technicians nodded.
Two days later, the U.S. Eagle III spacecraft ignited from a launch center in Mexico, and a huge booster rocket launched the Eagle III's massive hull into orbit.
This time the United States sent only two astronauts, saving a lot of living space and supplies, and with these saved supplies, they carried a large number of armed drones.
As long as they meet the fleet of the Pan-Earth Alliance, dozens of armed drones will teach them to be human! Obviously, the United States did not expect the Pan-Earth Alliance to integrate the aerospace fighter into the spacecraft, otherwise it would not be so big.
After the rotation of the Earth accelerated, the tail of the Eagle III spacecraft erupted with a blue tail flame and chased towards the Red Dragon II of the Pan-Earth Alliance.