Looking at the rocket from afar.

Soon after, a large fire erupted from the bottom, spewing far along the flame pipe, and the loud noise could be clearly heard from more than two kilometers away, and the big guy, which weighed more than 500 tons, began to rise slowly.

Musk's face was full of nervousness, his hands were clenched into fists, and he was most afraid that the rocket would suddenly appear abnormal, causing an explosion or something, but fortunately this did not happen, just like a pen that was on fire under it and quickly rose into the air, and the flame trace was longer than the rocket itself.

He muttered something in his mouth, his eyes kept looking at his watch, and the rocket kept going up, and soon all he could see was a ball of fire.

Han Xuanhua didn't spend more than one percent of his mind on rocket manufacturing, so he felt okay, and asked Pooh for the telescope, gave it to Musk, and said to him with a smile: "Take it, I feel like you need it more than me." ”

Elon Musk was also laughing, and did not be polite to him, and after taking the binoculars, he said thank you.

He looked through the telescope in the direction of the rocket's lift-off, and after a while, he muttered, "The first stage of the rocket fell off." ”

As soon as the words fell, the flame disappeared, and the ignition of the second-stage rocket was critical, and this guy kept whispering "God forbid", picked up the radio communicator, and asked how the rocket was on the command station.

The R&D team of the Orion-1 rocket has a total number of more than 1,300 people, more than 1,000 on the American side, and more than 200 experts working for Han Xuan in the research institute located on the outskirts of Moscow, the capital of Russia.

At the beginning, they were going to bring them all to the United States, but they were banned by the Russian authorities, and the good times of wantonly scavenging talents from there have passed, in fact, many high-end talents want to come to live in the United States.

Several years after the disintegration, Russia is still in chaos, with scarce living materials, extremely low incomes, and the wool of foreign financial predators has been reduced again and again, and their talents are useless.

It can be said that SpaceX has just stood in a very high position, and the "Fat Ding" supercomputer is often lent to them for use.

A rocket is a high-precision object, a loose small screw can cause an explosion, and he was already prepared to fail once or twice, but he was very happy when he heard a voice from the communicator saying that the data was normal.

The conditions are much better than in the previous life when Musk developed the rocket himself, Han Xuan was not surprised by its success, if he invested so much money and finally went wrong, then he should find out the reason.

The launch has lasted about seven and a half minutes, and Orion-1 has not had an accident, which is enough to show that it is very safe, but this launch is not just a launch, it also carries a communication satellite worth nearly 200 million US dollars, and it has to be successfully put into orbit......

"I'm sorry, boss, I'm going to the conning tower first, there are some things I need to take care of." After receiving a phone call, Musk said to Han Xuan.

Han Xuan nodded and replied to him: "Well, you go and get busy, don't worry about us." ”

Then, Musk trotted all the way, got into the car, and drove away by himself, as if he was in a hurry.

Anya just looked up at the sky, and now her neck was sore, and she asked, "Did you succeed, Han?" ”

"The rocket launch is probably successful, and there are other tasks, which will put our company's satellites into orbit later.

In the afternoon, I sent someone to NASA to sign the business worth $1.64 billion, and if there are no problems with the next launch, SpaceX should be able to make a lot of money from it by then, and it will soon be able to get rid of my investment and become self-sufficient.

In addition, there is an order to transport supplies to the space station, but unfortunately SpaceX does not have the strength to win it for the time being, and the food and water that the astronauts in the space station eat and drink is probably the most expensive in the world. ”

Anya heard Han Xuan say that the cost of each launch is as high as tens of millions of dollars, and said: "It's just that the freight is expensive, and the taste may be very bad, I have seen how they eat in the documentary." ”

"I tasted it once, and it really wasn't very tasty......"

The space station he refers to refers to the "Mir" space station left over from the former Soviet Union.

The International Space Station, jointly invested by Japan, the United States, Canada, the European Union and other countries, is being spliced in the past two years, and has recently been put into use, and the space transportation market will be quite large in the future.

The launch time was more than ten minutes, and Mr. Michael Griffin was so excited that his face turned red, he didn't dare to say that the launch was successful before, but now it has really succeeded, and the SpaceX employees who came with him shouted!

Han Xuan was also very happy, because with the successful launch of the rocket, his worth instantly skyrocketed by about three billion US dollars, and he officially owned a private enterprise with huge development potential that could launch rockets, whether or not the satellite was put into the predetermined orbit, it was considered a success.

That's when Mr. Michael Griffin threw out a question.

He asked Han Xuan, "Boss, have you thought about cleaning up space junk?"

I think it's going to be a very huge market, and recently a spy satellite of the U.S. military became scrap because of the impact of space junk, but some parts were damaged, but there was no way to go to space for repairs, and the loss was more than $300 million......"

Han Xuan's attention was attracted by this sentence, and he looked at him and asked, "What, you guys have come up with a good way to clean up space junk?" ”

Since entering the universe in the 50s of this century, mankind has launched 2,000 ultra-high space launch vehicles, leaving a lot of garbage in space one after another, and they are floating in outer space indiscriminately, and they do not know which day they will be affected by gravity before they fall to the earth.

Among the space junk, there are not only scrapped satellites, rocket bodies, but also spacecraft parts, and even satellite paint pieces.

According to the observation data released by NASA in 1998, there are now more than 60,000 space junk with a diameter of more than one centimeter, and more than 190,000 pieces of garbage with a volume larger than one millimeter!

Like the asteroid belt between Venus and Jupiter, it is dangerous.

Despite the small size of some of the debris, because they can travel at extremely fast speeds, reaching about six to seven kilometers per second, they contain great lethality, posing a serious threat to the safety of satellites and manned spacecraft in orbit.

How to clean them up has always been a difficult problem for countries around the world.

Michael Griffin didn't have a good idea, he told him: "Recently, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came up with a novel idea to remove space junk by weaving a huge space fishing net to salvage space junk floating in Earth's orbit.

The hole is only one millimeter in diameter, and when it encloses too much garbage, it begins to descend and burns out as it enters the atmosphere......"