PS: Thanks to the book friend group's "You are the most beautiful in my eyes" for the 100 yuan red envelope sent to Huali on QQ, this chapter adds more for him.

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In the heart of Iraq's northern desert, in the middle of the endless Gobi Desert, a satellite launch center protected by a high wall.

Located in the core area of the launch center, on the edge of a huge artificial lake, surrounded by a wide orbit and connected to the launch platform in the middle.

This place has never been entered by outsiders, even if it is the current future media company, the camera only focuses on the area where pre-launch preparations are underway, and no other places have taken any shots.

When Cai Ruichen accompanied Musk to the satellite launch center, after seeing the huge layout inside, Musk, who was definitely a well-informed technology maniac, also had an extremely shocked expression.

SpaceX also has its own launch site, but when compared to the satellite launch center in front of it, it is simply a gap between rural and urban areas.

Because this launch center is so big, it is no less than a small city.

On the periphery of the launch center, there were all high walls, and according to his eyesight, these were tall defensive structures that looked like ancient city walls, at least twenty meters in size.

The 20-meter-high fence not only blocks any prying eyes from the outside, but is also equipped with various defensive weapons, and it is obvious that you can see all kinds of monitoring equipment installed on the wall, and there are also heavily armed soldiers patrolling.

Such a tight protection is no less than any military base. This made Musk feel for the first time that the biggest difference between Future Technology Group and any company in the world is that it has its own army. Or a legitimate army.

However, what really shocked the tech maniacs was not the tall city walls around them, but the various layouts in the satellite launch center, which simply reached a very perfect level.

Behind the wall, there are tall factories that cover an area of no less than 10,000 square meters, and these factories are all closed. But the front and back sides are completely open doors.

The front and back doors of each factory are connected to the factory by tall railroad tracks, and you can also see some launch vehicle railway transporters parked next to it.

The transporters are of different sizes. But there is one thing in common, and that is the tools used to launch vehicles.

The first place where the railways connecting these factories meet are four larger, fully enclosed factories, both in length and height, which Musk has seen for a long time.

And this way. Cai Ruichen also gave Musk a brief introduction to the situation here. In the smaller factories, the parts are dedicated to the production of launch vehicles, and then these parts are assembled into rockets, and then transported to the larger factories for overall assembly.

Finally, the assembled complete launch vehicle will be transported to the launch point by railroad tracks, as long as it is inspected. You can launch it directly.

In fact, there is no need for Cai Ruichen to explain these things, and Musk can also see what these factories do.

He has also seen many rocket production plants. But this is the first time he has seen such a huge scale and such a huge factory.

Even those small factories are larger than many launch vehicle assembly workshops, and with such a large factory, it is completely possible to directly assemble the launch vehicle in it, and there is no need to transport it to a special factory at all.

But Cai Ruichen did not explain why the size of these factories is so huge, and Musk was not curious enough to ask, after all, this is people's territory, and in terms of the competitiveness of the core of technology, it represents interests, and in his opinion, it is in vain to ask.

And when he officially saw the rocket launch center in the car, his face was once again replaced by shock.

Musk once again felt that he had not yet seen what it meant to be generous, and in front of the rocket launch center in front of him, his company's Dragon spacecraft launch center was like a playhouse.

In this huge launch center, there are eight satellite launch points, and all of them are built around the Gobi artificial lake in the middle, so that cold water can enter the base of the rocket launch platform nearby, and cool the high temperature damage caused by the tail nozzle to the launch platform during the launch of the launch vehicle.

However, in Musk's view, this is all secondary, and the main thing is that the eight satellite launch platforms in front of him have a strong visual impact on him.

According to his guess, the launch center is about 30 square kilometers in size, and almost every space here is fully utilized, and it is a small city, with residential areas and supermarkets.

The launch center in front of us occupies at least one-third of the land area in the center of this satellite launch base.

The entire satellite launch base is crisscrossed by various wide railroad tracks, but without exception, all converge on the eight launch vehicle launch platforms.

Each of these eight launch platforms is much larger than any launch platform in the world.

Musk is 100% sure that this satellite launch center is definitely the best layout and largest launch center in the world.

If there are enough launch vehicles and demand, then this satellite launch center can definitely launch a large number of rockets in a row, and only need to use the eight launch platforms in an octagonal layout.

And he didn't know what was going on, but looking at the eight launch platforms neatly divided around the circular artificial lake, and the size looked very uniform, it gave him a very strange feeling.

That is, the eight launch platforms in front of you and the artificial lake with sparkling blue waves in the middle are also a launch platform combined.

It's just that this platform is too big, and the diameter of the circular artificial lake alone is about 100 meters, and if there is really a carrier rocket with the size of this artificial lake as the main body, then the eight launch platforms around it can be used to install the boosters of the main body of the rocket.

But is there really such a large launch vehicle, no, should it be said that it is a space vehicle?

Musk, who thinks that he has always been at the forefront of the world's scientific and technological trends, shook his head directly and decisively, unless it is powered by a high-power nuclear fusion reactor, it is impossible to build such a large spaceship, even if the aerodynamic layout is perfect, there is not such a large thrust-to-weight ratio at all, so that this big guy can get rid of the gravitational pull of the earth.

As soon as this idea appeared, Musk glanced at Cai Ruichen, who looked confident beside him, and thought of the scientific and technological miracles that this young man in his early twenties had created, and couldn't help but ask himself again in his heart: Is it really impossible? (To be continued.) )