The group chatted about the defense of the SS-Defense System against asteroids, and chatted about the development of the solar system in the near future.

It is said that if human beings want to build a space city in the future, they need to transform other planets and so on.

But asteroids are all threats to them, and SS-defense systems should be deployed throughout the solar system.

There are also jokes that the SS-defense system can deal not only with asteroids, but also with aliens.

……

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Su Zhe and his entourage of more than 20 people came to the control center of the base.

Everyone sat in the temporary viewing area and looked at the large screen in the control center.

The picture on the big screen has been switched to the launch site of the satellite launch center.

The main screen is detected by the SS-defense system, and the sub-screen displayed on the left side of the main screen is synchronized with the screen displayed on the large screen of the command and control center of the satellite launch center.

On the right side of the main screen, the data related to this rocket launch is displayed.

Zhang Gaoming stood next to him, looking at the big screen while explaining to everyone: "The launch mission of this rocket is to send the thirty-six probes deployed in space of the Xuanwu Program to the designated orbit, and the rocket used in the mission launch is ......."

When Zhang Gaoming introduced the mission rocket, the main screen of the large screen appeared the pictures and various parameters of the mission rocket.

After introducing the rocket, the main screen turns from a huge rocket to a strange-looking device.

"Look, this is the probe we're launching this time." Zhang Gaoming explained, "To be honest, this launch was a bit hasty, in order to cope with the two asteroids that were about to collide, the life of the probe could only be reduced, and this probe was ......."

The volume of the detector is not large, weighing more than 700 kilograms, and it has a complete energy system, power system and detection system

Due to the heavy load of the rocket and the tight time, the life of the probe is greatly limited.

The main reasons for this are the problems of the power system and the supply of energy.

The power of the detector is provided by a plasma engine, which requires a working fluid.

When the working fluid carried by the detector is used up, the detector loses power.

It's the power aspect.

According to common sense, satellites, probes and other spacecraft can still fly in orbit for a long time even if they have no power, and can continue to work as long as other systems are good.

However, the probe launched this time has great limitations in terms of energy.

The detection capability of the SS-defense system is strong, but its detectors are also anomalously energy-intensive.

The probe was launched this time, which carried a solar power generation device, but the electricity generated could not support the normal operation of the probe.

To do this, these probes carry three sets of nuclear batteries.

Under normal circumstances, these three sets of nuclear batteries can support half a year.

After Zhang Gaoming introduced the probe launched this time, the picture of the main screen changed again.

Zhang Gaoming pointed to the big screen and said: "What you see is the second-generation detector, which has been designed and is being manufactured, this detector is ......."

While looking at the big screen, I listened to Zhang Gaoming's explanation.

The total mass of this second-generation detector reached 25 tons, and the first-generation detector had the functions of the second-generation detector.

And unlike the first-generation detector, the second-generation detector has a power generation device that can not only support the use of the entire detector, but also have some surplus.

The most critical thing is that the second-generation detector is equipped with a set of first-stage dead light, or a modified one-stage dead light.

In this way, the second-generation detector has the ability to detect and intercept, which is quite a miniature SS-defense system subsystem.

After introducing the second-generation detector, Zhang Gaoming sighed: "The second-generation detector is powerful enough, but the lack is the power problem, and the great weight of the detector is still occupied by the working fluid. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Gaoming looked at Su Zhe.

Everyone looked at Su Zhe expectantly like Zhang Gaoming.

Su Zhe smiled and said, "I'll work hard!" A heavy photon aerospace engine will be developed as soon as possible. ”

Upon hearing this, the crowd burst into applause.

……

Satellite Launch Center Command and Control Center.

Bi Yuankui, Zong Lanyue, Liu Fen, Wang Dong, Ma Ping and others sat in the temporary visit area and looked at the big screen in the command and control center.

At this time, the launch mission is in the final stage of preparation.

Zong Lanyue and the five of them were very excited, sitting together and talking quietly.

"I've always wanted to see the whole process of rocket launching, but I didn't expect it to be realized so quickly, the key is to sit in the command and control center and watch." Ma Ping said excitedly.

"Yes! Me too! Bi Yuankui nodded hurriedly, "In the past, I just wanted to be able to see it at the scene, and I knew that I could watch it in the command and control center." ”

"That, we are all stained with the light of our research center, if we are not the boss's assistant, we can have such an opportunity!" Zong Lanyue said with a smile.

"It's true." Wang Dong looked left and right, "Look around us, the one who can come to the command center to watch the launch is a general, and it's just us." ”

"Indeed!" Liu Fen thought for a while and said, "Our planned Penglai Space City will be launched soon." ”

"It's going to be faster, and I'm worried that our imagination can't keep up with the development of science and technology." Bi Yuankui said.

"Yes!" Liu Fen nodded, "I believe that after the completion of the Tamu Gobi Space Portal Project, our Penglai Space City will be able to be built." ”

"Yes!" Zong Lanyue nodded, "But it's a pity that we can only stay here, if only we could follow the boss, then we can see more interesting things." ”

Liu Fen looked left and right cautiously, and said to Zong Lanyue seriously: "There are some things that we know ourselves, and we can't talk nonsense on this occasion." ”

"Liu Fen is right! There are some things that really can't be said nonsense. Bi Yuankui looked left and right.

The five of them knew the whereabouts of Su Zhe and Fan Xiaoming, as well as the SS-Defense System and the Xuanwu Plan.

They know what they know, but they can't talk nonsense.

A few people were chatting, and a staff member announced that everything was ready.

At this time, the time has come for the rocket to be launched.

In the large screen, the rocket is erected at the launch site.

At this time, the command and control center was quiet.

Suddenly, the staff shouted a countdown.

10、9、8……

After the crew shouted "ignition", blue flames erupted from the bottom of the rocket.

The rocket slowly rose in a thick white fog.

Slowly, the speed of the rocket is getting faster and faster.

After a while, only a small bright spot could be seen on the ground.

……

Ten kilometers from the satellite launch center is the SS-defense system subsystem base.

In the base control center 100 meters underground, Su Zhe, Fan Xiaoming and a group of more than 20 people looked at the big screen.

The sub-screen on the left side of the large screen is synchronized with the screen displayed on the large screen of the command and control center of the satellite launch center.

In the picture, a small highlight of the ground shooting is displayed, the engine flame shot by the rocket's own camera is displayed, and the simulation animation is displayed for a while.

In any case, you can't see the overall flight picture of the rocket.

But the main screen in the middle is different.

The main screen shows the full picture of the rocket's flight, whether it is the rocket body, or the rocket spewing flames and exhaust gases, you can see it clearly in the picture.

And on the right side of the main screen, all the rocket-related parameters are displayed.

Such as height, coordinates, speed, size and size, etc

Over time, the relevant parameters change in real time.

At this time, Su Zhe and the others mainly looked at the main screen, after all, the main picture was more intuitive.

Soon, the four boosters of the rocket separated.

At this time, you can see that in the left side of the screen, you can see four boosters that are quickly moving away, but these four boosters quickly disappear from the screen.

All that remains of the engine of the first stage rocket and the flames spewed from the engine are left.

In the main picture, the process of separating the four boosters is clearly visible, and after the four boosters are separated, they are getting farther and farther away from the main part of the rocket.

When only the main body of the rocket is left in the main screen, four sub-screens have been added to the right side of the main screen, each of which contains a booster that rapidly decreases in height.

At the same time, there are relevant parameters next to the four screens.

Zhang Gaoming said with a smile: "Let's take a closer look, after the four boosters are separated, the trajectory and landing site of their fall have come out, of course, there is an error, but it will be corrected in real time." ”

Everyone smiled and nodded.

If you compare the main screen with the sub-screen on the left, you can see that the two images are synchronized.

If the screen on the left is only a part, the main screen is open to God's perspective.

After a while, the first-stage rocket engine stopped, followed by the separation of the first-stage rocket and the ignition of the second-stage rocket.

The left side screen is a combination of real-time pictures and animations to present the separation of the first and second stage rockets.

But the main picture is different, one shot to the end, the whole process is like someone holding a camera not far from the rocket shooting, what is even more exaggerated is that the details can be presented completely.

There are only two rockets left in the left screen, and the same is true for the main screen, but another screen pops up on the right side of the main screen.

The protagonist of the sub-screen is the first-stage rocket that has just been separated, and the first-stage rocket is falling rapidly like the four boosters.

From the relevant parameters, it can be found that the first-stage rocket is doing a parabolic fall, and the speed is getting faster and faster.

At this point, the side of the four boosters facing the ground already had a fire, and the speed of descent was getting faster and faster.

The trajectory of its fall and the landing site are constantly being corrected, but they are basically consistent with the original prediction, and there is not much error.

On the left and in the main screen, the start of the rocket is synchronized with the fairing.

Soon, the two fairings detached from the rocket, revealing the neatly arranged detectors in the rocket.

The rocket continued to fly.

According to the plan, the first target of the rocket was an orbit at an altitude of a thousand kilometers.

Once in orbit, the rocket will release six probes in turn.

After releasing the probe, the rocket will continue to climb to an altitude of 2,000 kilometers.

Once in orbit, the rocket will release the remaining thirty probes.

While the rocket was climbing, four boosters and a first-stage rocket landed one after another, and according to the feedback from the satellite launch center, their landing sites and SS-defense systems were not bad at all.

As the minutes passed, the base control center burst into warm applause.

The launch of the rocket into orbit was successful.

At this time, the main engine of the rocket has stopped, and the auxiliary engine is adjusting the attitude of the rocket.

After a while, the rocket began to release probes.

After the successful release of the first probe, enthusiastic applause rang out again.

The rocket has to reposition itself after releasing a probe.

In this way, the release and adjustment were carried out, and six detectors were successfully released successively.

After the successful release of six probes, the main engine of the rocket re-ignited, and the rocket flew out of the orbit at an altitude of 1,000 kilometers towards an altitude of 2,000 kilometers.

At this time, the base control center burst into applause.

"Good! Now that the six detectors have been successfully released, we will soon be able to take over the six detectors. Zhang Gaoming said excitedly, "Okay! Here it comes. ”

As soon as Zhang Gaoming's words fell, seven sub-screens popped up on the left side of the main screen.

The six screens correspond to the six probes, and the remaining one shows a 3D Earth with six moving red dots on the Earth's periphery.

Each small red dot represents a detector.

"Of the six probes, three will remain in orbit at an altitude of 1,000 kilometers, three probes will continue to descend, and finally these three probes will come to an orbit at an altitude of 500 kilometers." Zhang Gaoming explained.

The large screen shows the six detectors in the sub-screen, and the six detectors are unfolded synchronously.

It didn't take long for the solar power plant to be fully deployed.

Soon, in the 3D screen, six red dots turned into green dots.

"This, let me explain, the red dot represents the successful connection, and the green dot represents that the detector has entered the working state." Zhang Gaoming said with a smile.

At this time, five of the six detectors changed their trajectory.

In the beginning, six probes were in the same orbit.

Next, two of the detectors will maintain the same orbital height, but the orbits will be different.

Finally, the three detectors will be evenly distributed on an approximate spherical surface with a radius of more than 7,000 kilometers.

The other three detectors will continue to descend their orbits, and finally they will be evenly distributed on an approximate sphere with a radius of more than 6,500 kilometers.

Zhang Gaoming looked at the five probes in the side orbit and said with a smile: "The deployment of these probes will take a while, but it will not be too slow, and when these probes are deployed, then we will be able to detect the space with the earth as the center and a radius of 300,000 kilometers." ”

The crowd applauded and watched the big screen.

The six probes that were successfully released are already working, while the remaining thirty are still on the rocket, waiting for the rocket to reach an orbit at an altitude of two thousand kilometers.

As the minutes passed, everyone stared at the main screen of the big screen.

In the main screen, the rocket engine is still spewing flames, and its height is getting higher and higher.

1500 km, 1600 km, 1700 km......