October 5th, the National Day holiday week, is the peak period for tourism.

This year's Golden Week has two traditional programs: a military parade and a record number of tourists, as well as a new program: at 14 pm on October 5, Xinyuan-1B made its first flight and carried out the first core level recovery.

At 11 o'clock at noon, more than 700 people had gathered outside the launch site in Xinyuan Town, of which more than 100 were melon-eating people from other places.

Employees of Xinyuan Aerospace, acquaintances of the South Institute of Machinery, and several people from the Sixth Academy all came to the launch site to observe the launch of Xinyuan 1B.

Since it is a 2nd stage rocket, Xinyuan-1B looks shorter and fatter than Xinyuan-1, and the four retracted support legs make it look more rugged.

This time, the launch control room and the observation field were moved, a full 3 kilometers away from the launch site of the rocket, and only a small white object could be seen clearly through the terrain.

No way, after all, this is also a landing site, if the rocket deflects and explodes in the crowd, it will be a copy of the Nederin disaster (note: an illegal missile launch in the former Soviet Union caused the death of most of the personnel of a rocket design bureau, and Marshal Nederin, who was in charge of the matter, was vaporized along with more than 160 designers).

There was also a big guy present this time: Tang Weitian, this old guy heard that there was a reusable rocket, and he came over to see the joke.

"Lin Ju, don't care if your technology is feasible for the time being, first of all, this process is not right.

Xinyuan-1B itself uses too much new technology, from the engine to the rocket body are new, which does not meet the safety standards of spacecraft at all, and the proportion of new technology is definitely more than 70%

In addition, there is no pre-research on rocket recovery, and it is necessary to do it directly in one step. Moreover, this route is fundamentally unfeasible, and in the future it should belong to aerospace aircraft rather than reusable rockets. ”

Tang Weitian unceremoniously poured cold water, and Lin Ju was not very surprised, because at this time, he did not believe that the success of rocket recovery was the consensus of the industry.

A certain bigwig of the space agency has publicly expressed his opinion that vertical recycling technology is completely unrealistic and delusional, and it is normal for others to have the same opinion.

To tell the truth, this rocket recovery experiment did not make a splash in the aerospace industry, everyone was waiting to see the joke, except for Lin Ju himself and the system engineers, the onlookers were generally not optimistic.

During the discussion, they all looked at the rocket and shook their heads, muttering words such as "too radical" and "the technology is in the wrong direction", full of distrust.

In order to avoid the control room being affected, Lin Ju directly forbade the control room personnel to enter and exit, and the system engineers inside would only keep cheering up.

Of course, there are still people among them who will not be confident, such as Ai Yuanwei, who was dug from the Sixth Academy and was monitoring the status of the engine in the launch control room.

I have to admit that although he has only been here for a month, he quickly understood most of the technology of K120, and he is also very aware of the high reliability of K120V.

But the vertical recovery of rockets is too mysterious, and he has no confidence at all.

Ai Yuanwei, who was extremely bored, walked to the live broadcast position and wanted to see the situation.

There are many live broadcast platforms for rocket launches, but they are mainly concentrated on blogs and official websites, among which there are still the most blogs.

The number of people on these two platforms alone exceeds 50,000, and it is estimated that there may be 100,000 people watching the others combined, which makes Ai Yuanwei sweat.

From time to time, a barrage floated across the screen, most of which were asking about the launch time, and Ai Yuanwei felt that they might not be able to see the countdown in the lower right corner of the screen.

A small part of the discussion was as he expected whether the recovery was successful, and netizens did not doubt whether the launch would fail, mainly focusing on the recovery.

Some people even opened bets on what stage the rocket will be blown up when it is recovered, whether it will be in the air or on land, and whether it will land at the landing point as planned.

The publicity department chose a girl with a sweet bel voice as the host, and from time to time asked the system engineer as a technical guest some mentally handicapped questions (at least he thought so), and occasionally made some small jokes to liven up the atmosphere.

The screen switches between the launch site, the live chat room, and the control center.

When switching to the beautiful host, there is a series of compliments on the host's beauty, and when you switch to the control room, you see a row of small screens and oversized screens on the wall, a row of serious staff wearing headphones, and ...... Lin Ju lying on a single sofa facing the image of the launch site on the big screen.

At this time, Lin Ju was like an anchor with his mobile phone flipping through barrages and comments, and opened a live broadcast room to interact with netizens.

"Why not call it a tractor factory? This netizen, you can come to our company to see, I still keep the signboard of the tractor factory to hang together, welcome to visit if you are free. ”

"Xinyuan is copying the old horse? Of course...... No, how can the aerospace thing be called plagiarism? This is called technological convergence evolution. ”

"The old horse has already blown up ten, how many are Boss Lin going to blow up? This netizen, I now think that I will definitely succeed, but if I don't...... I'm streaming handstand to wash my hair! ”

Lin Ju remembered a stalk in later generations, which immediately aroused a warm response, and the comments increased at once, and they all said that they were not allowed to regret his words.

Fortunately, short videos have not yet risen at this time, otherwise he might have 100,000 likes per minute when he posted a video, and he would have to be hung out for several years.

Of course, if it really fails, Lin Ju can't wash his hair upside down.

However, this immediately livened up the atmosphere, and the comments began to gradually distort.

"Mr. Lin has made a note, and he is not allowed to regret it!"

"Mr. Lin NB, too young and vigorous."

"Is the anchor married?"

“……”

Before the launch, the atmosphere was still passing, but if it failed, the wind review would definitely be reversed in an instant.

Countless tabloids and fledgling self-media outlets are already writing manuscripts, and the vast majority of them are based on failed recycling, and they are scrambling after launch.

There are also many bigwigs in the space agency who have noticed, but they are all shaking their heads and are indifferent to this.

Of course, there are still some people who are watching Lin Ju's live broadcast with enthusiasm.

They are also private players who are interested in entering the aerospace industry, and according to history, they will start their own private aerospace in a few years, but now they have received encouragement in advance.

Originally, they all had the idea of being scared and worried that the difficulty would be too high, but now that there are forerunners in front of them, their minds are all restless.

Why can't I?

There is also a live broadcast on the Internet, but there will be some delays, and the number of foreign netizens watching is not large.

Old Horse ...... He studied how to hang a ladder for a long time, and now he was watching Lin Ju easily blow water with netizens, and couldn't help but say to the assistant:

"This Chinese Lin is very similar to me, we are the same kind of people, we just don't know what will happen to him when he encounters failure. The technology of X1B is also very risky in my opinion, and the technical strength of Xinyuan is far inferior to ours. ”

Lin Ju didn't care much about the reaction of all parties, but he was in a good mood now, because the influence was one more section higher than before, and the settlement gain would definitely be higher.