In 2000, Lao Ma was preparing to enter private aerospace for the first time, and flew to Lucia like a stunned young man, wanting to buy missile technology for the research of rockets, but was swept away by a sneer.

The humiliated old horse returned to the United States and began to make serious efforts, and aimed at reusable rockets at the beginning, because he already believed that the cheapness of space was the only way to go.

A few years later, the empty fork built a small rocket codenamed "Grasshopper", which flew many times between 2012 and 2013 and recovered vertically, with a maximum altitude of just over 700 meters, which is really like a grasshopper jump.

After that, Lao Ma Bao bet all on the Falcon 9 rocket equipped with 9 Merlin engines, and on September 21 last month, the 11th Falcon 9 rocket launch mission failed to recover the first stage, blowing up a beautiful firework.

At this time, although there were also ridicules in China, there were many cents such as "data collected" and "this is the price of exploring the future".

As for the yin and yang weirdness of foreign netizens on the little blue bird, it accounts for the vast majority, because the recycling of rockets feels unreliable intuitively.

Lao Ma actually paid attention to Huaguo's Xinyuan Aerospace for a long time, and was somewhat interested in Huaguo's first private spaceflight, but the poor data of the Xinyuan-1 rocket did not make him care too much.

The K120 engine is also, although it was previously known as the first in Asia, and the thrust is stronger and more advanced than the Merlin engine of the Falcon 9, but he is not too convinced.

Insiders know that the words of private space cannot be trusted, and he also said that he wants to build a Martian city, but he himself is the first to disbelieve it.

As a result, as soon as Xinyuan No. 1 B came out, Lao Ma became interested, because its recovery route is exactly the same as that of Falcon 9, whether it is successful or not, doesn't it prove that his route is still agreed?

I'm not alone!

The next day, the domestic media reprinted the news that Lao Ma interacted on the little blue bird and forwarded the likes, and a hot group of people came to praise the mentality of foreign entrepreneurs.

As for the reaction of domestic netizens to Xinyuan No. 1B?

Of course, I don't believe it, either I don't believe that the recycling technology is feasible, or I think that Xinyuan No. 1B will inevitably fail.

After all, the matter of recovering rockets is too evil, and Ami can't do it in aerospace, and Huaguo definitely can't do it.

Whether it was cynicism or questioning comments, Lin Ju didn't take it to heart, he knew how much he didn't believe it now, and how strong the influence would be after success.

Think about the fact that after the first successful recovery of Lao Ma at the end of next year, it will really turn the situation around, even if the later heavy starships fail again and again, no one will say bad things, because you don't know what if it blows up?

As for the confidence in Xinyuan No. 1B? Lin Ju chose to believe in the system, anyway, the parameters are given by the system, and now the priority of the system in this universe is higher than physics.

He just needs to do a good job of promoting and increasing the settlement buff of the system's final task.

For example, the camera of the live broadcast is a little more high-definition, the launch control room is a little more sci-fi, and the UI of the live broadcast screen is a little more advanced.

To put it simply, copy specaX's homework first, and you still have to do it for show.

He specializes in guiding from a layman's point of view, bringing the layout of the launch control room closer to that of science fiction films.

Button-filled, gray-metal consoles are moved to the back, and under the cameras are neatly arranged large screens, with each operator wearing headphones and black-and-white overalls.

There must be translucent globes and glittering rocket icons on the screen, and numbers and line charts flashing through the alien frames.

In the eyes of Guo Shen and a group of system engineers, they don't understand why they want to show a group of new employees to the live broadcast staring at the pictures with no useful information at all, and bells and whistles.

The only thing that is a little useful in the entire live broadcast area is the position of the launch command, and directly removing this part can also simplify the launch process.

The UI of the live broadcast is also,Obviously, you can figure it out with a few numbers, but you must change it to a real-time dynamic map.,It's completely redundant.,Even the arc-shaped rocket flight trajectory is completely scribbled.。

They don't understand, is this the legendary sense of luxury? It seems to be a little interesting.

Lin Ju was very satisfied, after all, this was one of the few jobs he could fully participate in.

"What about the launch site? Is the painting good? ”

"It's painted, but there's no need for the boss, the rocket tail flame will be white as soon as it burns, and there must still be a plastic smell when recycling."

"Chief Guo, as long as it doesn't affect the safety of the launch, it's a small problem."

That's right, Lin Ju even painted the rocket launch site and landing site.

What is science fiction (leaning back).

Guo Shen was already numb to this, anyway, as long as it didn't affect the safety of the rocket, he turned to others:

"Xinyuan Town is too small to launch such a small rocket, and to be honest, this place is not very suitable for launching rockets in the first place.

Both the Xinyuan-2 and the space shuttle return will require new landing and launch sites, and we should choose a new place, preferably in a lower dimension, which can add a lot of capacity. ”

As we all know, the Earth is not completely circular but a slightly longer ellipse at the north and south poles, and the closer it is to the equator, the closer it is to orbit, and the shorter the distance the rocket can fly.

Therefore, except for some tasks that require secret launches, rocket launch sites are located in low-latitude areas as much as possible, which can increase the transportation capacity by a few percent, which is really not a small number for rockets.

Lin Ju agreed with the idea of choosing another launch site, and the answer immediately popped up in his heart: Qiongzhou.

...... 2014 It seems that it was in this month, 09 years of construction, the Wenchang launch site prepared for the Long March 5 has been completed?

Lin Ju searched on the Internet, and sure enough, this was the case.

This means that Qiongzhou has complete launch facilities and construction experience, and can build its own launch site as long as it spends money.

Let's take a look at how much money was spent on the construction of the Wenchang launch site? Du Niang searched, the total investment amount was ...... 20 billion!

Lin Ju covered the screen of his mobile phone and said to Guo Shen:

"Actually, I don't think the dimension of Xinyuan Town is very high, and our rocket is not short of that capacity."

“……”

Guo Shen was silent for a while, thinking to himself, boss, can't you just watch the news a few more times? Pointing to the top of the phone screen, there is the first introduction about the Wenchang launch site:

“…… The first launch site to be fully open to the public and for extensive international cooperation...... Hey, that is, it is possible to undertake the launch business externally? ”

Lin Ju couldn't believe it, but Guo Shen said instead:

"There are four launch sites at the Wenchang launch site, and now the space agency has no launch needs there, and the rockets they designed to be launched in Qiongzhou have not yet been developed, and the launch site is empty anyway, why can't they be lent to us?"

Guo Shen thinks it's nothing, this may be because of his work experience in Aramco Space on his resume, after all, Aramco Space is like this, and Lao Ma's Falcon 9 rocket is still launched at Aramco Air Base.

However, this also moved Lin Ju, he remembered that the first mission of the Wenchang Launch Center would be carried out in 2016, that is, it would be empty for two years? Then he could really ask.