Chapter 501: Rushing Out of the Atmosphere

The Kadena radar station in the island nation yesterday monitored an unusual atmospheric flight over the mainland of China.

An aircraft of unknown type took off from the inland region of southwest China, hovered at an altitude of 10,000 meters for more than half an hour, accelerated to 15 Gs, taxied several hundred kilometers, and directly rushed out of the atmosphere.

Since then, the vehicle has been rocket-boosted and has been flying to a low orbit of more than 800 kilometers above the ground.

During this period, the rocket engine was shut down several times and the flight was carried out in a gliding mode.

This is the first time that humans have a flying machine that takes off directly from the ground, flies into space, and reaches low orbit.....

The International Space Station confirmed that yesterday, a new model of Huaxia's transspace vehicle successfully entered a low orbit and flew around the Blue Star along the orbit.

Subsequently, the vehicle made several maneuvers using its built-in propulsion system, changed its orbit, and finally escaped the gravitational pull of the blue star and flew into space."

Mao Russian cosmonaut Sergei believes that "it is time for Huaxia to join the space club, and politics should not be allowed to become a stumbling block that hinders countries from carrying out space exploration."

The Houston Space Center confirmed, "Huaxia's new model of vehicle did take off from the ground and directly into outer space, and its behavior of flying around the blue star is showing off or what, it is not clear for the time being."

The European Space Agency issued a document saying, "Yesterday, Huaxia carried out the feat of taking off from the ground for the first time in human history and directly entering deep space."

"After hearing the news, many scientists said that it was both unexpected and reasonable for China's scientific and technological progress."

"With a population of 1.3 billion and more than 6 million university students graduating every year, China has the richest talent pool in the world."

"From the development of science and technology in recent years, it can be seen that China is bound to become a world power, and the 21st century is destined to be the century of China, and Europe is willing to work with China to carry out broader cooperation for the progress of human civilization."

An unnamed member of parliament from the European Space Agency said, "The European side is interested in leasing Huaxia's transatmospheric spacecraft to build a new space station for scientific research."

"Is it a threat, or is it an opportunity? We need to think soberly about this issue, and the government of the island country said that the situation of political cold and economic heat should be thoroughly corrected."

"China and the island countries are separated by a strip of water, with a history of thousands of years of exchanges, and it is a foolish act to contain them, and we should change our ways..."

"The Korean Ilbo reported that more than 2,000 years ago, the Chinese people came to the Northeast Asian Peninsula, and the earliest ancient kingdom was established by the people of the Central Plains..."

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Zhang Yan was overloaded and pressed into the seat.

Hands could barely move.

He felt the skin on his face, as if it was being overloaded, pulled and deformed, as if it was about to fall off his face.

This is already their twenty-second test flight.

The first few times were to test ground take-off and landing, and low-altitude flight capabilities, and did not fly directly to high altitudes.

Although the aerospace aircraft is a vehicle that can fly in the atmosphere and in outer space, it is still quite difficult to maneuver in the atmosphere because of its special shape design.

Although there is a Tiandao intelligent system to assist in the operation, every time they take off and land, they still feel nervous.

They don't dare to completely surrender their lives to cold artificial intelligence.

Although this thing reacts quickly, if it is to fly the plane, it relies on the data transmitted by various sensors.

In case something fails, it will still drive as normal.

If you believe it completely, you'll have to sit back and wait.

The exterior of the aerospace aircraft is coated with stealth paint, which can effectively reduce the reflection area of radar waves.

From the radar, one gets the impression that this is a small aircraft.

Of course, this is the time to do low-altitude and low-speed flight, as long as the speed increases, even a fool can judge it, this is one

Hypersonic aircraft.

And the size of the reflected wave from the radar, many people will mistake it for a hypersonic fighter.

Zhang Yan's crew first used a turbine engine and circled at low altitude for a while.

The air flow in the mountains was very unstable, and all the crew members were on the highest alert, sweating in their hands, for fear that the plane would hit the top of the mountain.

After that, under the command of the ground, Zhang Yan and the others began to drive the aerospace plane to hover upward, and the speed gradually increased to Mach 3.

In the case of a turbine engine, such a speed is already close to the limit of this model.

Because aerospace aircraft are equipped with more than one engine, no one dares to raise it to the theoretical limit of Mach 5.

They prefer to use a rocket boost to accelerate.

Researchers at the base have improved the rocket engine so that it can be started and shut down several times, so as to maximize the effectiveness of the rocket engine.

Instead of wasting precious fuel in the process of acceleration, you can use taxiing to increase the range.

At this time, the overload is not small, and ordinary people may not even be able to withstand this level of pressure.

But for Zhang Yan and them, this is just a piece of cake.

Under the protection of the compensatory suit, this overload only made them feel slightly uncomfortable.

But as soon as the rocket booster turned on, they instantly felt a heavy pressure that pressed them against their seats.

An overload of Mach 5 reached the limit of their normal human body.

Many movements, at this time, are extremely laborious.

It was only with the help of the anti-load suit that they were able to resist the increasing overload and continue to control the plane to climb upward.

The rocket booster was only turned on for a short time and then shut down.

Because at this speed, the scramjet engine has reached the starting conditions.

A loud roar, even though it was in the enclosed cockpit, was clearly heard in the cockpit.

The aerospace aircraft has already flown to an altitude of twenty kilometers above the ground.

This is the ultimate flight altitude that a conventional fighter is capable of.

Zhang Yan, with the assistance of the co-pilot, is still increasing the speed of the aerospace plane in a balanced manner.

Mach five, Mach seven, Mach eight.... It wasn't until the high-altitude cruising speed of Mach 12 that he stopped accelerating.

At high altitude, he felt that the heavy aerospace plane had become much lighter, and many movements could be made more freely.

Although the anti-load suit made his movements a little sluggish, the operation skills also made his control of the aerospace plane more convenient.

Sure enough, it's a transatmospheric vehicle!

Only in this thin air can its true value be reflected!

"Attention to the Aerospace 1 Special Service Group, let's take the test of the second subject: transatmospheric flight!"

The sound in the headphones, because of the ultra-high-speed flight, the signal reception is unstable, and it becomes a little strange and transposed.

"Aerospace 1 understands that this is the next test subject."

Zhang Yan repeated the command to the ground command, and then turned on the intercom, "Everyone check the fixtures, we are about to accelerate above Mach 23 and fly across the atmosphere."

"Roger!"

The members of the Aerospace Task Force all checked their fixtures.

At Mach 23, the first cosmic speed of a high-overload flight, everyone knows what will happen if you fall off the flight seat.

Everyone didn't want to become a pile of flesh, and they didn't want their own flesh and blood to destroy the instruments inside the cabin.

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