Chapter Seventy-Four: Successful Launch!
On December 15, at the Jiuquan Space Launch Base, countless staff members were looking at the big screen on the wall with serious expressions.
After checking the data one by one, China's first round-trip aerospace aircraft is about to be launched!
In another hall, only a handful of people are watching the surveillance.
The big boss has arrived, and he is chatting with Yang Zhou at this time.
It's rare for the big boss to chat with Yang Zhou, this time he arrived at the Jiuquan launch base a few hours early, and he finally had enough time.
Yang Zhou didn't show the slightest nervousness, he was used to dealing with all kinds of scenes, and the big boss was just a kind old man in his eyes.
Zhou Guoqiang also came over to join in the fun this time, and now he is chatting with Yang Zhou, and the big boss has begun to chat with other technicians.
I haven't seen Yang Zhou for a long time, Zhou Guoqiang gave Yang Zhou a thumbs up and exclaimed: "You are really amazing, after half a month, the aerospace plane is about to go to the sky!" ”
"Hehe, I didn't want to enter the interstellar era sooner." Yang Zhou laughed.
Zhou Guoqiang was speechless for a while, and Yang Zhou was able to say this word so calmly, even if other scientists mentioned that they wanted to enter the interstellar era, they couldn't promote technological development so quickly, let alone speed up the project that had been stuck in the bottleneck.
He didn't bother with this question, pointed not far away, and whispered: "You seem to be very serious about what you said to the boss just now, and the boss is also very serious, what's the matter?" You're not really going to put all your energy into aerospace, so what can I do with a big mess here, and now I'm in big trouble here. ”
Yang Zhou knew that Zhou Guoqiang was deliberately exaggerating, but in fact, the trouble on his side was nothing.
It is that foreign countries have now come up with a lot of biotechnology achievements, and even many journals no longer accept papers from domestic biologists.
When you encounter two competing projects, you will definitely be biased towards the outsiders.
Many biologists must have complained in their hearts, and there are technical difficulties, Yang Zhou has not pointed out other biological project teams for so long, and many people are looking forward to Yang Zhou's inspection as soon as possible.
It's not that Yang Zhou deliberately didn't instruct everyone, but he did have too many things to do recently.
The big filter is like a bomb hanging overhead, who knows when it will explode, he has to hurry up everything, and other things are not so high priority.
I was talking to the boss just now about the big filter.
Yang Zhou explained: "I mentioned a very serious matter to the boss just now, and this is about saving the world!"
"What?" Zhou Guoqiang touched his hair, thinking that he had misheard.
When is Yang Zhou going to start saving the world again, he has only been separated from Yang Zhou for a month or two, how can he feel that he seems to have missed a lot of things.
"What the hell is going on, let's talk about it specifically." Zhou Guoqiang became interested, and approached Yang Zhou to put on a deaf look.
Zhou Guoqiang is naturally qualified to know a lot of things, and as a friend of Yang Zhou, he didn't shy away from it so much.
Yang Zhou whispered: "Have you heard of the big filter, that's what I'm talking about, I suspect that our world will soon experience a big filter crisis!" ”
"Well, 2012 has long passed." Zhou Guoqiang said speechlessly.
A lot happened in 2012 and a little earlier in 2000.
Many people felt that the world was about to end, but they didn't expect Yang Zhou to have such thoughts, and he also talked to the boss about this problem very seriously.
Yang Zhou's influence is different from other people who are worried about the sky, when it was 2012, there were also many ancient reference materials, after all, there have always been Mayan legends, so 2012 was more influential.
And here in Yang Zhou, although there is no legend as a reference, Yang Zhou itself is authoritative!
As long as he suspects when there will be another apocalyptic crisis, it will definitely affect a lot of things.
No wonder Yang Zhou has been immersed in aerospace recently, it turns out that Yang Zhou has discovered something.
Zhou Guoqiang was quickly taken aback by his association, nothing really happened! Now that everything is going well, and China's national strength is thriving, he really doesn't want any big changes.
"Tell me more, is there any evidence?" Zhou Guoqiang asked very seriously.
"That's not it, it's just a rainy day, the big filter was proposed by scientists decades ago, and I'm also fried cold rice, don't think about it." Yang Zhou smiled and shook his head.
There is really no evidence for this, to say that there is a meteorite crisis in 2029 and 2036.
There have been early warnings from scientists, and what Yang Zhou said is nothing new.
In addition, there have been long meteorites in the past, which seem to be about to hit the earth, and at that time, this meteorite scientists still suspected that it was an alien spacecraft, because this shape and speed are completely different from meteorites.
It's a pity that because various human equipment could not photograph the specific situation of this meteorite at that time, everyone can only guess now.
In front of the big boss, Yang Zhou only raised the worries in his heart.
The big boss asked him why he had focused on the aerospace field recently, and even set up a separate aerospace company, and Yang Zhou naturally wanted to explain.
The reason he gave was to prevent all kinds of accidents and at least leave a way back for the development of aerospace.
Yang Zhou also focused on the development of new colony bases on Mars and the Moon, and we are temporarily lagging behind foreign countries in the development of the earth.
And because of the existence of the atomic bomb, there is not much to be gained from competing with each other on Earth.
On the contrary, because the competition on the earth may eventually exacerbate the conflict, and the gun will be misfired.
Then simply do not compete with others for resources on the earth, and we will go all out to develop aerospace.
There are countless minerals in the universe that allow us to develop.
Even the Mars base and the moon base have been developed, and the population can be immigrated in the future.
Yang Zhou even patted his chest and assured that as long as he established bases on the moon and Mars, Yang Zhou would be able to come up with various super plants that were suitable for survival in outer space and could transform outer space planets.
In this way, our territory remains unchanged on Earth, but it can expand infinitely in outer space!
The boss was naturally very interested in listening to Yang Zhou's bold words, he had been paying attention to Yang Zhou for a long time and knew that Yang Zhou was not a person who liked to talk big.
I am also looking forward to it, when even if Yang Zhou needs anything in aerospace in the future, he will definitely find a way to clear the obstacles for Yang Zhou.
Yang Zhou naturally put forward some small suggestions, such as in the field of culture, it is necessary to encourage the birth of some science fiction works.
Whether it is written or filmed, I hope that the scale will be relaxed a little bit, and not limit the imagination of these creators.
There are more interstellar science fiction works in movies and TV series, which will affect countless people who are interested in outer space.
In addition, in terms of talent, it is also necessary to support aerospace.
For example, now that college students are already very well-rolled, it is completely appropriate to encourage everyone to learn some special knowledge, and in the future, they can go on business trips to outer space, and then go to the moon base and Mars base to work as miners.
Yang Zhou has a lot of ideas and thoughts about the development of the interstellar era, and he took advantage of this opportunity to tell the boss.
Of course, Yang Zhou is not clear about how it will develop in the future, anyway, he does his best to obey the fate of heaven, and he doesn't know where the specific crisis is.
In the unlikely event that the future crisis is in the universe, humanity has no choice but to retreat back to the earth, and everyone will have to dig shelters underground to survive.
It can only be said that you are prepared now, hurry up and prepare, develop outside first, and then consider other things when you encounter problems.
While chatting with Zhou Guoqiang, the aerospace vehicle was finally ready to be launched.
There was no more noise in the hall, and everyone was looking at the big screen seriously.
The boss did not take over the command, but asked the staff of the base to follow the original launch process.
Ye Fei was shouting in a majestic voice at this time: "Countdown to 10 seconds to prepare!" ”
“10”
“9”
....
In the surveillance footage, a chubby, massive craft that can fly through space is being fixed to the launch pad.
At this time, it was ready to go, with Ye Fei's last fall, countless flames erupted from the tail, and in the huge roar, the aerospace plane successfully broke away from the ground, and the two guardrails comparable to the building on both sides opened, and the entire aircraft flew higher and higher.
"Bang Bang Bang"
Countless people began to applaud, and Yang Zhou also laughed and kept clapping his hands.
Professor Zhang, Secretary Zhou, the boss, and countless staff members of the base all cheered and applauded excitedly.
Ye Fei announced: "Huaguo's first aerospace plane took off successfully! ”
"Wow! That's great. ”
"It's a success!"
"Woo woo woo ...
All kinds of voices filled the entire base, and Yu Yuntian was even more tearful, the project he had insisted on for almost ten years had finally taken off!
In the future, I will go to Yang Zhou, I don't know what new challenges will be encountered in the future, Yang Zhou wants to "plant" the spaceship, and I don't know if it is reliable.
There were still some reporters who accompanied him, and they took this exciting picture at this time.
From being poor and white, to the current moon landing, landing on Mars, space station, and the aerospace plane launched today, China's achievements in aerospace are becoming more and more amazing.
Next, the boss also spoke at the invitation of Ye Fei, praised everyone's spirit of hardship and hard work to climb the peak, and encouraged everyone to make persistent efforts, our goal is the sea of stars!
The boss's speech is expected to appear in the newspaper tomorrow.
The plane was already in mid-air at this time, and at this time the footage could be captured in many parts of the world.
The NASA headquarters in the beautiful country is urgently mobilizing satellites at this time, trying to figure out what project Huaguo has started to take off.
Generally speaking, you will see the launch plan in some public announcements, but this time the Jiuquan base did not make a public announcement, so NASA can't figure out what the launch is about.
The data was quickly transmitted back to the base, and NASA scientists were shocked to see the launch data.
They naturally know that Huaguo has the strength to launch heavy rockets, and now they are still far ahead, reaching a thrust of 3,500 tons, and the White Bear Country ranks second and has reached more than 3,300 tons, and Huaguo's current heavy rockets are much behind, only more than 1,000 tons.
Now, based on the size, they have deduced a statistic that stunned all scientists.
Guessing by this size and speed, the thrust of the entire rocket is likely to reach 4000 tons!
Unconsciously, Huaguo seems to have surpassed everyone in the giant rocket again and become the first in the world!
NASA naturally can't figure out what the hell is going on, and with such a large thrust and such a large super rocket, what is this going to transport to space?
What kind of secret weapon!
Today, many people are destined to be unable to sleep peacefully, and as long as people abroad can observe this super rocket, they are making technicians stare at the big rocket.
At the original speed, it is generally possible to circle the earth in 60 to 90 minutes and fly into the predetermined orbit, so Yang Zhou and the personnel of the base continue to wait.
This launch is an autonomous space plane, and there are many things that are prone to error.
Everyone is actually quite nervous, in case they fly into the sky and don't listen to the call, it is equivalent to launching a big toy into space, where it is very difficult to inspect and repair.
In addition, it looks like a large rocket, but it is actually a spacecraft of an aerospace aircraft, and there is an external compartment of the space station of more than 10 tons inside.
Today's task is to reach the designated orbit, open the hatch and place the space station external module in space, and the other is to refine the operation to dock the external module and the space station.
It also needs to be done by the astronauts themselves.
Of course, the goal of the space plane is to drop the capsule and then return autonomously.
The whole process will be completed within 4 hours.
Ye Fei was still reporting various data, and everyone was working nervously.
The data detected by NASA is not very accurate, in fact, it has not reached 4,000 tons of thrust, and the engine is not so powerful, and it still does not exceed 2,000 tons of thrust.
With such a large thrust, there are still very few items that can be carried.
For example, in the past, the maximum load of large rockets was only a dozen or twenty tons, and the remaining hundreds or thousands of tons were actually fuel.
Originally, it would cost hundreds of tons or thousands of tons to launch such a heavy thing into space, but now the aerospace plane needs fuel to go back and forth, and the weight is naturally exaggerated, so NASA has come to the conclusion that it has a thrust of more than 4,000 tons and China has become the world's first.
Of course, this is a wonderful misunderstanding, and it is estimated that tomorrow all the international newspapers and media will be overwhelmingly propagandizing, and China has a secret weapon again!
Yang Zhou was a little bored to watch, after all, before flying into space, there was no monitoring screen due to atmospheric friction and other reasons.
So you can only see on the screen, a line connected to the outer space orbit, and this process lasts dozens of minutes.
After waiting for a long time, I finally heard Ye Fei shouting: "Successfully break through the atmosphere, reach the second cosmic velocity, adjust the orbit and prepare to release the cargo!" Units ready! ”
Yang Zhou suddenly came to his senses, and now he can see the surveillance.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the outline of the blue earth to appear, and space appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
At this time, the shooting footage of the space station was also transmitted, and everyone finally saw from the third perspective that the space plane was appearing in the predetermined orbit with a stable flying attitude, and was accelerating to catch up with the space station at this time.
"But it must be successful! This big guy doesn't know how much it costs just for fuel, and it's not easy to fly once. Professor Zhang muttered.
Yang Zhou was also a little nervous, although he knew that the outer shell was made of supermelted materials, and the metal inside was reinforced with pyrotechnic plants.
But who knows if there will be accidents!