Chapter 429: Landing on Europa

Of course, the completion of the launch mission is only half completed, and the rocket recovery must be completed.

The test rocket did not fly over the Kármán line.

The first-stage rocket returned to Earth at a distance of fifty kilometers.

When the first stage rocket lands in sight.

The drone swarm flew again and regrouped.

Flew towards the place where the rocket landed.

The first-stage rocket last hovered at an altitude of about a kilometer.

The drone swarm clamped the rocket and finally sent it back to the ground smoothly.

Seeing this, the crowd cheered again.

Not long after, the second stage of the rocket also returned the same way.

No one went again to bring the second stage rocket back to the surface as well.

The test of the UAV take-off and landing platform was a complete success.

The medium-sized rocket of the vast company also entered the era of three hundred tons.

In terms of cost performance, it has already crushed the super rocket of the Dragon 5000.

Su Han decided to develop a smaller, three-hundred-ton rocket.

Although the tonnage is smaller.

But the transport capacity for near-earth orbit also reached a hundred tons.

It is more than enough to cope with some small launches.

……

Longhan Technology then officially announced the successful test of the rocket aerial take-off and landing platform.

Although it is only a text official announcement, it is not accompanied by videos and pictures.

But it still caused a lot of sensation around the world.

The kind of thing like an aerial rocket launch is beyond human imagination.

No one knows how Longhan Technology does it?

What kind of technology can complete the aerial launch and aerial recovery of rockets?

Although a large number of media hope that Longhan Technology can release the live video.

Longhan Technology said that it would be said after the official launch.

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September.

The first launch of Longhan Technology's aerial take-off and landing platform began.

Because Longhan Technology officially announced this matter.

Many media also rushed to the scene to watch.

They were also surprised when they saw that a large number of drones could be freely combined in the air.

But what's even more surprising is that these drones can carry huge rockets into the air.

That's too powerful, isn't it?

The rocket really started in the air, and finally broke away from the drone swarm and flew into the air.

Seeing a scene also shocked the global media and couldn't say anything.

Illustrated reports then made headlines in the global media.

The news has once again been on the global hot search.

There has also been a heated discussion on the matter among experts in related fields around the world.

The first thing that strikes them is how these drones can have such power.

Although these rockets are only medium-sized rockets.

But even the medium rockets of the vast company are larger than the heavy rockets of other companies.

These drones can lift six or seven hundred tons of rockets off the ground.

And it can accelerate to more than three hundred kilometers.

This means that these drones have a huge amount of kinetic energy.

What's more important is that so many drones work together.

The resulting air currents will inevitably turn into complex vortices that interfere with each other.

How on earth do these drones be able to counter this complex interference and generate so much power at the same time?

In fact, in the eyes of most experts in the field, this is almost impossible.

But the problem is how Longhan Technology does it, no one knows.

More importantly, some experts believe that since the unmanned take-off and landing of Longhan Technology has been able to tow hundreds of tons of heavy objects.

Then there should be no problem in creating a flying aerospace carrier.

Then an aircraft carrier that can move in the air at a speed of several hundred kilometers per hour.

Its power will be far greater than that of an ordinary aircraft carrier traveling on the sea.

This statement certainly caused a global uproar.

……

Subsequently, the official units in the relevant fields in China also contacted Su Han as soon as possible.

Want to see their unmanned take-off and landing platform.

Of course, Su Han couldn't refuse.

After the end of the tour.

The relevant person in charge is also very amazed by the technology of Longhan Technology.

At the same time, the possibility of an aerospace carrier was also inquired about.

In Su Han's view, air-conditioned aircraft carriers are theoretically feasible.

But the problem is that its own unmanned lifting platform cannot guarantee a long flight, unless it is nuclear-powered.

But when it comes to nuclear power, it's no small matter.

A flying nuclear power plant is even more dangerous.

Therefore, we want to build the unmanned lifting platform into a super aircraft carrier platform.

The technical hurdles that need to be faced are absolutely unimaginable.

Of course, the government is also aware of the various problems it is facing.

And the creation of an aerospace aircraft carrier is not a trivial matter.

It takes a collective argument to make a final decision.

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October.

The Dragon's Eye moon has been orbiting Europa for months.

and again during this period.

The Dragon's Eye takes a closer look at Europa's topography, atmospheric composition, and climate change.

Among them, Su Han is most concerned about the area where the alien spacecraft crashed.

This area is located in the area where Europa's geological activity and water vapor eruptions are more intense.

The ice spikes here are big and tall.

It doesn't seem to be that easy to land nearby.

What's more, it was found after long-term observation.

Europa's outer ice and inner ocean are layered.

Ice and ocean movements are fundamentally inconsistent.

Then this brings up a problem.

The system gives the location of the alien spacecraft.

In the ice, in the end.

Or in the ocean under the ice.

If the ship is in the ice.

The ice is moving away from the ocean.

At the speed at which the ice is moving.

I'm afraid that the spaceship has moved to another location.

If in the ocean.

Then the trouble is even greater.

After all, Europa's ocean depth may have reached more than a hundred kilometers.

The ocean is already more than ten times the deepest ocean on Earth.

Even if there really is a spaceship inside.

Can you catch it yourself?

Of course, due to the presence of a large number of ice spikes at the landing site of the alien spacecraft.

These ice spikes made it extremely difficult for the landing craft to land.

So how to land successfully is also a problem.

What's more, the temperature at the landing site reached minus 200 degrees.

The ice spikes here are as hard as steel.

It's almost impossible to make a hard landing.

If not, you can only land a little farther away.

For this reason, it took a month of observation for the Dragon's Eye to determine a location.

The landing craft was then released from the Dragon's Eye and flew towards Europa.

Since Jupiter is hundreds of millions of kilometers away from Earth.

It takes forty or fifty minutes for the signal to reach Earth.

The landing process of the landing craft is fully controlled by the dragon's eye computer.

Dragon's Eye computer uses an AI program generated by Shenlong.

Europa's atmosphere is thin.

The landing craft can only be slowed down by the fuel it carries.

After several speed adjustments.

The landing craft most hottest hovered at the landing site.

The landing site was surrounded by huge ice spikes.

But it's better to have a gap in the middle.

Just enough for the landing craft to land.

After the successful landing of the landing craft.

The landing capsule slowly opened.

A white robot slowly stood up.