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In the Space Launch Center of Future Technology Group, a loud alarm sounded, and the rocket launch also entered the countdown of the last minute.

In the command center of the space launch center, hundreds of staff members all sat quietly at their grassroots posts.

Hundreds of people stay at their posts, occupying only a small corner of the entire command center, which is a satellite command structure capable of accommodating at least 5,000 people.

In the half floor of the command hall, this is the key place of the entire command center, and there are still a large number of posts on it, but all satellite launches are controlled by these posts.

When Cai Ruichen brought Musk here, it was already quite busy.

The central area of the command center is a central computer display area with a diameter of 50 meters, and the picture on the satellite launch platform is very clearly projected here.

The lens in the projection screen is pulled very close, and the projected satellite is standing quietly on the launch platform, and the fixed frames on both sides have all fallen down and are flat in the grooves on the ground.

In the entire launch site, there is only this lonely carrier rocket waiting for launch, and the white rocket paint clearly depicts the LOGO of the Future Technology Group.

The oval-shaped capsule is on top of the missile, which contains three test satellites, which, after liftoff, will be released into orbit at different altitudes.

The long carrier rocket is like a long sword leaning against the sky. Aim at the blue sky and wait for the final moment of ignition.

Standing with Cai Ruichen, Musk passed the augmented reality projection in front of him. I took a lot of time at the projected launch vehicle in front of me.

It still looks very different from the Dragon spacecraft developed by Musk himself, but there are also many similarities.

Like the Dragon spacecraft, one of the most critical places is the design of the space capsule, and the rocket thruster is based on the overall first-stage rocket technology.

This technology is used in order to be able to return the entire launch vehicle, after the capsule is put into orbit, directly back to the entire launch vehicle.

Otherwise, a multipolar rocket delivery method is used. The difficulty of recovering it will increase exponentially.

After all, in order to have enough fuel for each stage of rocket thrusters to return to Earth and land smoothly, there are multiple landing sites. At the same time, it is also necessary to replace those rocket thrusters with engines that can be ignited twice, and the cost is better than not recovering.

For such a design, Musk naturally approves, but for the future technology group, he didn't even test it in advance. It is directly about to launch this launch vehicle, which is named the Future Launch Vehicle Type 1. In his opinion, it is too confident and risky.

At the beginning, the launch vehicle recovery project led by him was to carry out many experimental recovery work on the developed missiles.

The rocket is launched to a certain height, and then successfully recovered, and the altitude is constantly increasing in the tests.

When the altitude reached 100 km, it was able to recover smoothly. That means that the technology of this launch vehicle can be recycled and can already meet the standard.

But Future Technology Group didn't take that step. Rather, as soon as the missile is launched, it is simply crazy to directly launch the launch vehicle.

If this matter is put on Musk, it will definitely not be done, after all, there is no certain certainty, and it will give people a feeling of overconfidence.

Of course, Cai Ruichen is different from Musk, Musk needs to take into account the thoughts of those investors, and it is naturally impossible to do so.

And he doesn't have any investors at all, and no one can influence his decision, and at the same time, he doesn't bother to engage in those completely unnecessary tests for the trust in the base's products, and what the outside world thinks, as far as this matter is concerned, it is negligible and has no impact at all.

Before, Musk also persuaded Cai Ruichen to say a few words, but Cai Ruichen just let him watch it with peace of mind.

So Musk didn't continue to talk about this problem, and he is not one of those people who eats radishes and worries about it, after all, this is not his company, and whether it succeeds or fails, it will not have much impact on him.

And for him, the interest of the launch vehicle in front of him is that it can surpass everything.

His eyes were now focused on the rocket in front of him, and through the proportions with the surroundings, he could see that the size of this launch vehicle was a little larger than that of the Dragon spacecraft.

This seemingly unimportant feature, but it is what he is most concerned about now, the size and aerodynamic shape of the launch vehicle, there are strict data requirements.

He is now calculating some data information about this launch vehicle in his mind, but since he does not know the overall material and weight of the launch vehicle, he can only get a little simple information.

After a simple calculation, Musk couldn't help but nod, because this missile is very reasonable in terms of aerodynamic shape and size.

As long as the thrust and fuel of the engine can meet the requirements, then this is an offtake launch vehicle.

For this launch, he couldn't help but feel a little more confident.

At this moment, the command center sounded the last ten seconds of countdown, and when the number was reset to zero, a large amount of water vapor was sprayed out on the augmented reality projection screen, where the launch vehicle and the ground were in contact.

This is the effect of evaporating a large amount of cool water under the launch platform after the heat from the tail nozzle of the rocket thruster is sprayed out.

In the mist, the launch vehicle first slowly left the ground, and a small blue flame erupted from the tail nozzle, but it was this small blue flame that pushed the entire launch vehicle off the ground at a rapid speed.

Seven seconds after launch, the speed of the launch vehicle has broken through the speed of sound at high speed, the speed is still climbing rapidly, and the whole process, the flight effect is very stable, the slightly inclined launch vehicle flight trajectory is exactly in the same direction as the earth's rotation, and then with the help of the traction of the earth's gravity, the purpose of gravitational acceleration is realized.

At this moment, the earth is like a long spring line, constantly pulling the launch vehicle, so that the launch vehicle has an additional acceleration effect of the planet's gravity in addition to the power acceleration it has, just like the earth adds a speed buff to the launch vehicle.

By the time the rocket completely disappeared from the field of view of the ground personnel, the speed had climbed to the first cosmic velocity, and it was approaching at a high speed towards a low earth orbit of 200 kilometers. (To be continued.) )