In order to complete the task of the system and maximize the influence of aerospace, Lin Ju spent a lot of extra money and energy.

In addition to finding a way to get the space agency to contact CCTV live broadcast, he also asked the Shuchuan Education Department.

Most schools in Shuchuan now have old CRT TVs, and the launch day is Tuesday, so it's better to leave the students to watch the rocket launch.

As a result, most high schools and junior high schools with evening self-study received instructions: At 18 o'clock this evening, the TV set will be turned on.

As for places other than Shuchuan, Lin Ju doesn't have that ability yet, and he can't know if he has a chance until he sends people up.

On the other side of the ocean, in addition to Lao Ma, there is also a rich man who is engaged in rockets, who also squatted in front of the screen and watched Xinyuan 2.

Jif Bezos, CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce website, founded the space company Blue Origin in 2000.

In 2012, Blue Origin proposed the "New Glenn" rocket program, which will use seven BE4 liquid oxygen methane engines with a thrust of 250 tons, and a single stage into orbit can send a payload of 45 tons into low earth orbit.

Until now, however, the BE4 engine has not had a single successful test run.

But when he saw Xinyuan 2 erected, when comparing the new Glenn rocket, which is highly similar to his own PPT, Bezos always had a feeling of being NTR.

Looking at the screen again, it was already 15 o'clock in the afternoon Beijing time, and there were still 3 hours before the launch.

At this time, it is very hot on the beach with a view, but in order to occupy the best position, and more than 200,000 locals gather together, there is a great risk of heat stroke.

However, what is surprising is that, in addition to the patrolling police cars, a line of light trucks drove up on the beach, on which stood people wearing panda-decorated hats and constantly handing out mineral water and fans.

They gave a bottle of mineral water to everyone in front of them, and directly sent a Tianfu special tourist hat with panda ears to those who did not have a hat, and at the same time did not forget to say:

"I have time to come to Tianfu to see pandas."

"Shuchuan has attractions and high-tech, come and see the rocket to go to the beach attraction management office to get a coupon for a group travel package in Jiuzhaigou!"

"It's too hot in Qiongzhou, or our Shuchuan is cool, and Hongyuan is a summer resort in July and August."

“……”

In order to maximize the value of its 10 million paints, the Tourism and Culture Bureau has made sufficient plans, aiming at those who can fly to Qiongzhou with money and the ability to fly to Shuchuan, and vigorously promote the three major specialties of Shuchuan: pandas, scenic spots, and rockets.

If it weren't for Lin Ju's firm attitude, maybe the Progress would have become a Panda......

"There are still three hours until launch."

Although the rocket has entered the launch preparations at this moment, the staff in the launch tower are still busy sweating.

After all, it is a heavy rocket weighing 1,300 tons, and the Long March 5 and Long March 2F add up to this mass, and the No. 1 station will have to be scrapped after the explosion.

Huang Huang, deputy director of the Launch Administration, placed an incense altar outside the launch station and worshipped the local indigenous gods, Buddha, Jesus and his younger brother Hong Xiuquan, the Jade Emperor, von Braun, and Qian Lao, and prayed that Xinyuan-2 would not be blown up.

At the Haidian Astronaut Training Center, Zhou Rui and Zhao Xiaowen looked at the Xinyuan-2, which was more than 70 meters high, and their legs trembled when they thought that the Progress would be installed on the top with a height of nearly 90 meters.

However, Deng Lei's face was full of excitement, he took a deep breath and clenched his fists, looking forward to the moment when he sat on it and went to the sky.

CCAV：

Moderator: "It's only one hour before the launch, and through the reporter's screen, we can see that the Xinyuan-2 Yao-1 rocket is almost as tall as the launch tower. ”

Engineer Xinyuan: "...... (Don't want to speak, look at the guests from the space agency)"

Guest from the Space Agency: "What about our launch station, the way we do it is different from Aramco......"

"Fifteen minutes countdown."

At 17:45 p.m., the setting sun turned into a huge fiery red circle and hung above the sea level, almost the same height as Xinyuan-2.

The coconut groves by the sea cast long shadows in the slanting sun, and the bright lights of the launch tower shone on the body of the Xinyuan-2 rocket, revealing a smiling panda.

At this time, Guo Shen, the chief engineer of Xinyuan No. 2, and Androv, the deputy chief engineer, stood in front of the console together with the people of the space agency, looking at the screen seriously.

"Countdown, one minute."

The engine is powered on again for self-check, and the control system checks the condition of the ignition system.

On the beach, more than 200,000 people counted down at once.

"Fifteen, fourteen...... Four, three, two, one!! ”

The final countdown fell, and white smoke rose first from two of the seven engines diagonally on the outer ring.

The seven engines at the bottom first ignite the outer ring and then the middle, and the outer ring is ignited in the order of 2-2-2-1 in the same way as the two engines start at the same time.

The shower heads of the launch tower began to spray a mist of water, cooling the hot gas around the engine.

In the mist of water and the escaping oxygen, the thrust of the engine gradually increases, and the fiery red flames can't wait to pour out of the diversion groove.

Unlike the Xinyuan-1 modification, with ten times the thrust, the camera at the beach first saw the air around the rocket distorted by the heat wave, and only felt a strong vibration of the ground and air after a few seconds.

It's still a few kilometers away, and there's a sea in between!

Within a few seconds of being off the ground, the orange-red flames of Xinyuan-2 merged with the setting sun, looking like two suns, one large and one small.

At this time, according to the sensor detection, the total thrust output of the first stage of the rocket is as high as 1550 tons, and with the decrease of fuel and the increase of thrust, the speed of the rocket's ascent gradually increases.

Outside the launch tower, Deputy Director Huang looked at the stable Xinyuan-2 and breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, there were already many clouds around the launch site, which scattered the light of the rocket's tail flame to the ground and spread it on each raised face.

At this time, the strong air jet from the rocket finally crossed the water, turning into a strong gust of wind that carried the water vapor of the ocean on the faces of the tourists on the beach, but it was not long before the cool water vapor turned into a warm wave.

In the launch control room, the remaining amount of fuel in the first stage of the core is decreasing, and the rocket is getting faster and faster, and at this time it has become the brightest star in the sky.

From the surface of the sea to the sky, the place where the rocket flew created a trail of cloud gaps, which resembled a ladder under the light of the tail flame at the top.

In the CCAV reporter's footage, the female reporter shouted with all her might, but the sound was still covered by the cheers of the crowd and the rumble of the Xinyuan-2 engine working, and the final scene could only cut to the ground tracking camera, looking at the seven engines at the bottom of Xinyuan-2 that sprayed light blue flames.

In the observation area of the space agency, they have already begun to applaud slightly.

Such a heavy rocket, even if it can't be recycled, as long as it can be put into orbit, is a great achievement, and it is basically the highest pursuit of the space agency in the next decade.

The first-stage rocket pushes the whole through the atmosphere, and the perspective cuts to the camera at the tail of the second stage, and with the separation of the first and second stages, a mild white light of the atmosphere appears in the picture, and then the vacuum version of the hydrogen-oxygen engine in the center of the second stage starts, silently spraying an almost transparent tail flame.

The second stage of the rocket will make a U-turn and return to the atmosphere after touching the simulated payload into low-Earth orbit, and its mission is only to test the hydrogen-oxygen engine, which is burned out by the violent friction of the atmosphere.

In the second stage camera, the first stage rocket is turned off, and it begins to move away from the second stage as if lying upright.

The first stage will rise to an altitude of about 160 km with the help of inertia, and only then will it adjust its attitude and begin its descent.