When the first rays of the morning light fell on the earth, the Daystar 9 MAX launch vehicle was standing quietly on the launch pad.

It is like a mighty giant, ready to embark on a journey to conquer the stars and seas.

The launch site was gently shrouded in the early morning fog, adding a bit of mystery and solemnity to the whole scene.

As the launch time approached, the atmosphere at the launch site became more tense and excited.

The staff of Daystar Technology are nervously and orderly carrying out the final inspection work, and their eyes are full of expectation and determination.

The faces of the spectators around the launch site were filled with excitement and pride, and they were deeply honored to be able to witness this historic moment.

In the process of building the Qiongzhou launch site, the viewing needs of the surrounding audiences were taken into account.

Therefore, compared with several other launch sites such as the Northwest Launch Site, the launch here can arrange more spectators to watch it up close.

This is also very beneficial to the development of local tourism in Qiongzhou.

Fortunately, the audience's waiting time is not particularly long, and the relevant launch work will officially begin in the expected release time period officially announced by Daystar Technology.

In the limelight, Zhao Siyu gave the launch order.

Cao Yang stood there with a group of shareholders and high-level aerospace science and technology officials, and did not interfere with Zhao Siyu's command.

Accompanied by the ignition command, the Daystar 9 MAX launch vehicle seemed to be injected with life and began to rise slowly.

Its body looked like a black sword in the morning light, pointing straight at the sky.

As the rocket ascended, its tail 27 engines started at the same time, erupting blazing flames like a fiery dragon dancing in the morning light.

The flames carved a brilliant trail in the air, accompanied by a deafening roar, which shook everyone's heart.

The audience raised their cameras to record this unforgettable moment.

The rocket rose higher and higher, gradually disappearing into the clouds, leaving only a long cloud of smoke that lingered in the sky for a long time.

At this moment, the entire launch site seemed to be frozen at this moment.

People stood quietly, looking up at the sky, their hearts filled with awe and emotion.

The successful launch of the Daystar 9 MAX launch vehicle and its rapid departure towards the universe is definitely worth remembering in the history books.

With the launch of the rocket, many people's hearts also flew to the distant universe.

"Qingqing, every launch of Daystar Technology is a brave exploration of the unknown world and the ultimate display of human wisdom."

"It carries the dreams and hopes of mankind and marches towards the sea of stars."

Xia Hong also came to the Qiongzhou launch site today in person to watch the rocket launch with Xia Qingqing.

She is undoubtedly very excited now.

For the laymen, the successful launch of the rocket is half the success.

"Yes, at this moment, we seem to be able to feel the vastness and mystery of the universe, and we also seem to be able to touch the infinite power of human wisdom."

"The launch of the Daystar 9 MAX launch vehicle is not only a feat of science and technology, but also a baptism of spirit."

"It makes us more deeply aware that only by continuous exploration and continuous progress can we write a more brilliant chapter."

Xia Qingqing is also honored now.

After all, Daystar Technology and Honor Technology are both top-notch and well-known companies in the Nanshan system.

Everyone has played a complementary role in enhancing the influence of the group.

The most important thing is that the satellite call function of Honor mobile phones in the future is also closely related to Daystar Technology.

"The support of relevant departments for Nanshan Group is very huge, and you fully deserve this kind of support."

When the rocket disappeared from view, applause and cheers erupted one after another.

Xia Hong, who was so steady, couldn't help but clap his palms vigorously.

She applauded the successful launch of the Daystar 9 MAX launch vehicle and was even more proud of the prosperity of China.

The launch scene of the Daystar 9 MAX launch vehicle, like a magnificent picture, left a deep imprint on her heart.

"A private enterprise has made a rocket, and it is doing very well."

"It made us feel the power of technology, the wisdom of human beings, and the courage and determination to explore the unknown."

"It also allows everyone to see the different side of Nanshan Group from ordinary enterprises."

"In the days to come, Daystar Technology will definitely continue to carry dreams and hopes, move forward bravely, and write a more brilliant chapter in the future."

Xia Qingqing saw that the reporters and photographers next to her aunt were busy, but there were also special people following Xia Hong.

All conversations with Xia Hong may be sorted out into the follow-up news broadcast.

So at this time, she didn't care whether it was appropriate for her to say those words, and first helped Daystar Technology to raise the style.

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"The first stage of the rocket separates and begins to enter the recovery process!"

A few minutes later, the Daystar 9 MAX successfully reached the height of the separation of the first and second stage rockets, and Zhao Siyu's voice sounded in the hall again.

At this time, it can be regarded as another critical time for today's rocket launch.

The Daystar 9 MAX uses the engine and related technology of the Daystar 9, and there are not many real new parts.

In this case, the successful launch is also expected by many people.

But when it comes to recycling, it's a little different.

After all, this one is one belt and two, which is equivalent to tying up three Daystar 9s together for launch.

In this way, when the rocket is recovered, the situation is more complicated.

First of all, it involves the recovery of three first-stage rockets at the same time, which requires a relatively high ground control system.

The requirements for the overall control system when designing a rocket are also very high.

People like polar bears, who are not particularly good at computer software control, are the most aware of this difficulty.

So after Zhao Siyu's words were finished, Grotin, Dmitri and others looked more seriously.

It's as if you can see through something in this way, and it will be directly unfolded horizontally in the United Rocket and Space Corporation in the future.

"Mr. Cao, bundle the three rockets together, and the two on both sides can be completely consistent with the Qixing 9, but the rocket in the middle will have a very big change in the force."

"In this way, there should be higher requirements for the structural strength of the rocket. There's no way it's completely universal, right? ”

Qian Junfeng saw that the three rockets on the control screen had entered the recovery process, and couldn't help but ask a question.

In his opinion, the rockets on the left and right sides are relatively easy to recover, but the middle one is more troublesome.

On the one hand, when the left and right rockets are separated, it is easy to have a certain impact on the middle rocket.

On the other hand, if the specifications of the rockets in the middle are different, the requirements related to recovery control must also be different.

In this case, it is much more difficult to choose to recover three rockets than to choose to recover two.

"Because our rocket shell uses high-end carbon fiber material from Nanshan Carbon Fiber, there is more redundancy in terms of strength."

"Even if you bundle three rockets together, it won't affect the performance of the middle one."

"In this regard, we are much stronger than the Falcon 9."

"Although they use stainless steel, a relatively cheap material, as the rocket shell, the cost of materials is indeed lower than ours."

"But given the impact of the weight difference between stainless steel and carbon fiber, the cost savings are very limited."

"In particular, we have solved the mass production of high-end carbon fiber, and the price of carbon fiber is no longer as high as it used to be."

As soon as Cao Yang explained this, Qian Junfeng naturally understood.

It turned out that Daystar Technology really tied up three mass-produced Daystar 9 together, and only made changes to a small part of the parts, so it got the Daystar 9 MAX out.

In this way, the high efficiency of the other party can be understood.

"Nanshan Carbon Fiber has really made a great contribution to the domestic aerospace industry."

"More than ten years ago, if the rocket shell was made of high-end carbon fiber products, the cost could directly soar to the sky."

"At that time, even if the rocket can be recycled, the price will not be much cheaper than the ordinary model."

When it comes to carbon fiber, Qian Junfeng is very emotional.

Aerospace Science and Technology is also a major customer of Nanshan Carbon Fiber.

In order to get some T800 carbon fiber back, aerospace science and technology spent a huge price.

In the end, there is no way to fully meet your own needs.

It's different now, not to mention the T800, it's the T1100, and even the T1200 carbon fiber.

The price is much cheaper than that of the black market back then, not to mention, the performance has improved.

As for capacity, you can have as much as you want.

"Cao, we are also very interested in the T1100 composite material of Nanshan carbon fiber, I wonder if your company sells this material to the outside world?"

Polar Bear is also a customer of Nanshan Carbon Fiber, and some of the carbon fiber is sold to Polar Bear through various channels.

However, the really high-end carbon fiber composite materials are still rarely sold.

In particular, the products above T1100 are basically for self-use.

Of course, as long as the price is in place, it is not impossible to consider export.

As for whether the United Rocket and Space Corporation will use it to produce rockets or satellites, or to produce ballistic missiles after it is bought, this is not something that Cao Yang needs to worry about.

After thinking about this, Cao Yang can naturally give an answer very simply.

"Grogin, Nanshan Carbon Fiber is a private enterprise, and all our products can be sold to the outside world."

"However, the cost of different products varies greatly, and the selling price will also vary greatly."

"You can arrange special personnel to dock with Nanshan Carbon Fiber."

Cao Yang knew that Groking must have heard the conversation between himself and Qian Junfeng just now, and knew that the shell of the Qixing No. 9 MAX was carbon fiber.

In fact, this is not a secret at all, when Daystar No. 9 was officially announced to the public, everyone was very curious about why its color was black.

Other people's rockets are basically white, yours is black, and everyone will definitely have a lot of questions.

At that time, the reason given by Daystar Technology was that the rocket used carbon fiber material as the shell, so it was black.

Now everyone sees that the Daystar No. 9 MAX is also black, and the reason is naturally the same.

Of course, people sometimes need to play dumb.

Groking also didn't pretend not to know, and it was a bit abrupt to suddenly mention that he wanted to buy T1100 carbon fiber composite materials at this time.

After all, this composite material is definitely the most high-end material in the world, and most of its uses are in the military.

In the current situation of polar bears, even if they take a ton of gold and go to Toray or Hearst in the United States to buy it, people will not sell it to it.

That's not for sale!

Of course, Nanshan Carbon Fiber now has T1200 materials, and is still further researching T1500 carbon fiber.

In this case, it is something that can be considered to take out the T1100 and sell it and make a lot of money.

Anyway, both the T800 and the T1100 can be sold at that time, but the price difference is huge, and you can choose whichever you choose.

"The first stage rocket successfully ignited for the second time!"

At this time, Zhao Siyu's voice sounded again.

There are 9 engines on a rocket, all of which have successfully carried out secondary ignition, which can be regarded as a landmark node.

The key is that the 27 engines of the 3 rockets have achieved successful secondary ignition at the same time, and the technical background behind this is absolutely impossible to ignore.

Dmitry, who had not spoken much on the side, had the deepest understanding of this matter.

"Grogin, Daystar Technology's technology for the control of the engine ignition system should be very mature and very advanced."

"The more engines you bundle at the same time, the more difficult it is to ignite."

"To the naked eye, it looks like each engine is igniting at the same time, but there are subtle differences."

"These differences have a direct impact on the performance of the rocket."

Dmittli whispered beside Grotin.

Daystar's engine, he doesn't covet it very much.

Polar Bear has developed many models of rocket engines throughout history, and it is not for nothing that the performance is better than that of Daystar Technology.

But after bundling a large number of engines, properly controlling these engines, Dmitry especially wanted this kind of technology.

Historically, the Polar Bear's N-1 launch vehicle failed because there was no way to properly control these engines.

At 12:18:07 on February 21, 1969, the first launch of the Polar Bear's N-1 rocket took place.

Just 6 seconds later, the rocket just left the range of the launch tower.

However, at this time, the command center suddenly received a warning from the rocket: the sensors reported that 2 engines had suddenly stalled.

Since the two engines that stalled were No. 12 and No. 24, these were the two engines in opposite positions.

At the time, the engineers thought the task was still achievable.

Because the N-1 rocket had 30 engines, the technicians designed the power redundancy, and the loss of power from the 2 engines did not pose a fatal threat to the completion of the test mission of the rocket itself.

However, 25 seconds after takeoff, the sensor reported an overall lack of pressure in the engine's combustion chamber.

This command triggers the rocket's emergency plan.

The power of the turbine pump began to increase, but the coordination between this command and the actuator was not done well.

From the perspective of automatic control principle, the pipeline control system has encountered a serious "overshoot".

At 65.8 seconds, all 28 engines exceeded the maximum permissible power.

The entire piping system experienced severe high-frequency vibrations.

At 66 seconds, the liquid oxygen delivery line of 1 NK-33 engine exploded.

However, the design concept of the polar bear is also very good.

According to the design of the N-1 rocket, the explosion of the pipe of one engine should not affect the overall performance, only the pipe should be closed.

However, it is a pity that the response of the arrow-borne computer is somewhat slow, and the control system is the weakness of the polar bear.

By the time it closed the pipes, the fire inside the first stage rocket was out of control.

Subsequently, there was a large explosion of the rocket, at which time the rocket took off for 69 seconds, and the rocket altitude was 12,200 meters.

The next few launches were also due to some problems with the control system related to engine management, and all of them failed.

It has to be said that this is a huge harm to the development of polar bears' space industry.

If this aspect is not solved, the Polar Bear's heavy rocket will not be able to use the scheme of bundling a large number of engines in the future to reduce the difficulty of development and production costs.

We can only continue to make some large engines with special structures to achieve our own goals.

Some of these engines are coveted by Cao Yang, but for polar bears, they are helpless.

"Is it possible for us to cooperate with Daystar Technology in the control technology of rocket engines?"

Grotin moved to the side and whispered to Dmitri.

Today's rocket launches, they are not the protagonists, so whether they succeed or fail, the mood is relatively stable.

"This technology should be regarded as the core technology of Daystar Technology, if we don't come up with some dry goods, it is estimated that it will be difficult to really get the other party's technology."

Dmittli, of course, wanted to prostitute the skills of the star, but it was obviously not that easy.

None of you are stupid.

If you think of others as fools, then you will find that you are fools.

"Daystar Technology has relatively few rocket engine models, they should be interested in some of our rocket engine technology, right?"

Groking is still very confident in his own rocket engine.

Even the United States will buy rocket engines from the polar bears to use them back, which fully shows that their rocket engine level is quite good.

As long as the technical bottleneck in the control of multiple engines is solved, the rocket technology of the Polar Bear will definitely have a huge level of improvement.

This year, the polar bears have just reorganized the domestic aerospace industry, and Groking also needs to make some achievements.

Otherwise, he was worried that the position under his ass would be coveted by others.

"If we are willing to cooperate with one or two engine technologies that the other party is interested in, it is possible to achieve a win-win result."

"Daystar has previously advertised that it will develop a larger starship rocket in the future."

"According to their plan, the starship will also use the same engine as the Daystar 9."

"Although this can reduce the difficulty of engine development, it is not necessarily the best solution."

"After all, there are too many engines combined, the difficulty of management is very high, and the possibility of problems is also very high."

"If you can use an engine with more thrust and bundle it together, you can drastically reduce the number of engines and reduce the associated risks."

"In this regard, the situation within Daystar Technology should also be relatively clear."

As soon as Dmittli analyzed this, Groking immediately became interested.

The archives of the United Rocket and Space Corporation contain a lot of information on various rocket engines, and even the polar bear was preparing to design a nuclear engine as a large rocket engine.

As long as you take out some information from the archives, you will have the opportunity to obtain some advanced engine control technology from Daystar Technology, and this business is completely possible.

"After the launch is over, I'll talk to Cao Yang again to see if they are interested in this."

Just as Grotin was talking to Dmitry, Zhao Siyu's voice sounded in the control room again, "The first-stage rocket has been successfully ignited again!" ”

By this time, everyone was in no mood to speak.

Because the recovery of the rocket has entered the most critical link.

In the next minute, you can see whether the rocket successfully landed in the designated position or accidentally became a big firework.

Fortunately, Daystar Technology did not disappoint everyone, and saw that the three rockets on the screen were lined up and slowly landed in the designated area.

This scene was watched by countless people through the live broadcast.

"Three rockets were recovered and landed at the same time, just like three dragons landing from the sky, it was really spectacular!"

"The launch of Daystar 9 MAX, is this considered a success?"

"It was successfully launched at one time, and Daystar is too good!"

"If I'm not mistaken, SpaceX in the United States rushed to launch a recyclable Falcon 9 last year, and it ended up being able to mitigate the volley explosion at the end, right?"

"There is no gap without comparison!"

"I always thought that the rocket technology of the polar bear and the United States was the most powerful, and now it seems that our Huaxia is not bad at all."

"Why is such a powerful rocket not made by aerospace science and technology, but such a private enterprise as Daystar?"

"This scene is so shocking that people want to watch it again!"

"I really want to go to the scene and experience that kind of exciting scene."

……

All kinds of comments quickly sent Daystar No. 9 MAX to the hot search.

This made some stars who were about to release albums very depressed.

And even more depressing is the competitor of Daystar Technology.

On the American side, in the Space Exploration Technology Company, which is also preparing to launch another improved version of the Falcon 9, there are naturally a group of people watching the scene of Daystar Technology's global live launch.

When the three first-stage rockets were successfully recovered, the mood of Musco and Dills and others was extremely complicated.

(End of chapter)