Deng Lei also felt that he was boiling, and his heart was rushing upwards with the liquid oxygen escaping from Xinyuan No. 2A.

Xinyuan's moon landing team is also in the selection, Deng Lei is the only candidate for commander with old qualifications, although it is not necessarily to take Xinyuan No. 2 A, but the Xinyuan No. 2 A mission has already represented the official launch of Xinyuan's moon landing program.

This unmanned test launch is a three-stage configuration, and the next time it will hit a 50-ton super-large lunar space station to the moon, which also has 5 node modules, and it is no problem to squeeze into 7 astronauts to live for 30 days.

Next to him was Lucia Kononenko, head of the mission of the Soyuz TMA-17M.

After the TMA-17M accident, Kononenko took up some management work at the Lucia Space Agency, but he was not out of space.

The joint lunar plan reached between Lucia, Italy, and the space agency is to establish research camps on the surface of the moon for the three countries, which can station more than seven astronauts for a long time.

The space agency produced the rocket, the habitation module was jointly developed by the four countries, Lucia was mainly responsible for the nuclear technology part, and France and Italy contributed both technology and money.

The mission, codenamed Chang'e-10 within the space agency, is expected to be completed around 2021.

Around 2020, the space agency will use a Long March 10 rocket to send four astronauts from four countries to the surface of the moon to complete the initial manned cooperation.

Of course, it is not known what price the three countries paid for this, but the government will certainly not suffer.

Section Chief Oleg Kononian was very eye-catching, his eyes were like two olives squeezed on his face, and he kindly hugged Deng Lei's shoulders at this time:

"Deng, your Xinyuan company's plan is to land on the moon in 2019, one year earlier than our four-nation cooperation, I hope I can see you at the moon base when I go up."

Deng Lei: "Davarich, if Lucia is willing to pay 10 billion US dollars, maybe we will go to the moon together." ”

"Hehehe......"

Just kidding, if Lucia had 10 billion dollars, she would dare to carry out her own mission to the moon.

After two dry laughs, Oleg said: "Deng, the rocket is about to be launched." ”

At the launch center, Guo Shen and Li Xi, the chief engineer of Changwu University, were exchanging the design of Xinyuan No. 2A.

Li Xi: "Our new Long March 5 will be released soon, and like Xinyuan-2A, the Long March 15 in CBC configuration will look similar to Xinyuan-2 at that time, but the arrow body will be higher." ”

Guo Shen: "It's really about the same, even the number of engines is 7, but the thrust of YF135 is much larger than that of M220, 360 tons of thrust." ”

Li Xi: "To be precise, the thrust at sea level can reach 372 tons, and the diameter of the nozzle is only 1.8 meters, which is only a little worse than your K380, which can actually have 400 tons of thrust, right?" ”

Guo Shen: "Yes, in fact, if you increase the pressure of the K380 and expand the nozzle a little, you can achieve a single thrust of 500 tons, which can catch up with the YF130." But I'm curious, how will the Long March 5 be recycled? ”

Li Xi: "The grille rudder is recovered, and the Eighth Academy will find a way to transform a Long March 6 to verify this method, but now the space agency tends to use rope nets to capture the grille rudder, so the fault tolerance rate is higher." ”

Guo Shen: "The performance of the soft materials available to us now is really good, and it is actually similar to our steel bracket recycling, and maybe even better." ”

Li Xi: "I suddenly thought of a scene, one day in the future, the Long March 15 and Xinyuan-2A will be erected together at two stations, it looks like the Long March 15 will be taller, but the carrying capacity of the Long March 15 is 180 tons, which is a cut larger than yours, unless it is the Long March 9, no rocket can surpass it." ”

Guo Shen was silent for a moment, and Li Xi reacted after more than ten seconds.

The Xinyuan-3 rocket plans to fly this year, with a low-earth orbit carrying capacity of 247 tons, who dares to compete with it for the first place?

While the two were talking, Xinyuan No. 2A had already entered a fifteen-minute countdown.

On the beach in the distance, more than 400,000 people looked uncomfortably at Xinyuan No. 2 A, which had crooked necks.

What is the most uncomfortable part of Xinyuan No. 2A? Although it is placed at an angle of 45 degrees, the paint is still painted in the same way that it faces the tower, which looks very awkward.

But awkwardness is awkwardness, and awkwardness can't hide the might of the world's first rocket.

Griffin and Aldrin managed to buy a vacant lot of land with their money, but they could still feel the terrifying heat of the crowd, and the scattered fire brigade was spraying water mist over the crowd with special sprinklers to prevent widespread heat stroke.

Griffin: "Buzz, the advancements in technology are sometimes amazing, the X2A is bigger and heavier than the Saturn V, but I believe that if they were in the same era, the X2A would still be cheaper, even if it wasn't reused. ”

Aldrin: "All I know is that it must be cool to sit on. ”

"Countdown, thirty seconds!"

The sound of the launch center was heard from the radio erected at the tourist beach, and the eyes of hundreds of thousands of people were focused on Xinyuan No. 2A.

In the VIP seat, Yun Hongjun thought of the Long March 10, and replaced the appearance of the Xinyuan No. 2 A with the appearance of the Long March 10 in his mind.

"Ten, nine, eight...... Three, two, one, ignition. ”

In fact, when it comes to 6, the engine starts to ignite, and the ignition of Xinyuan No. 2 A is also in order.

The 21 engines of the core stage and the two boosters were all ignited synchronously and sequentially, but when the 18 engines were ignited, Xinyuan-2A had already begun to break away from the launch pad.

21 engines, a lot to say, but not much.

The current record holder for the largest number of engines in the world is still the former alliance's N1 Fireworks, with 30 NK-15 engines, and the Falcon Heavy is not to be outdone with 27 units, compared to 21, which is really not much.

On the contrary, the space agency has always thought that more than 10 units are not stable, well, NACA thinks so.

But no matter what they think, now, Xinyuan-2A, which has won the world's No. 1 rocket throne with 21 engines, has begun to rise in the sky and the earth, and the sound of rocket engines is deafening.

How to describe the movement generated by 4,700 tons of thrust? Just look at the silent crowd in the live news footage.

The microphone detected a loud noise and turned down the volume, with the result that none of the reporters' voices could be heard, leaving only the processed continuous explosions.

The wake of the 21 liquid oxygen methane engines mixed together and enveloped the entire tower, and the powerful air currents blew the surrounding trees to the point of almost breaking them, and spectators on the beach saw the water ripple.

Director Huang of the Launch Administration only glanced at the size of the tail flame and called the fire brigade, he had deliberately cut down the surrounding trees in order to prevent the tail flame from igniting the woods, but the result was still underestimated.

The firefighters waited for the rockets to rise a little higher before rushing over.

From their point of view, the 21 engine vents looked as if a short bar of table lamps was rising in the sky, and the engine that spewed out a white and blue tail flame was a huge lamp bead.

Xinyuan-2A is rising at 7 times the speed of sound.

(End of chapter)