Chapter 172: Toss
In the early morning of June 16, about 400,000 people gathered around the Mukara launch site, far exceeding the local carrying capacity.
In order to prevent people from suffering from heat stroke, Ah Bo urgently purchased thousands of power generation vehicles and more air conditioners, which were placed next to the crowd on the side of the road, and the high-power air conditioners whirred to bring cool air to the crowd.
Although the low temperature area is very limited, Abel can make up for it with money, and the air conditioners on the street are one after another, and they are just working against the weather.
This kind of extravagance made the media from all over the world who came to Mukara smack their tongues, and for the first time they really felt what it means to be a big dog.
Even Ami is not arrogant to this point!
Although it was an unmanned test launch from Mecca today, the number of people who came to the launch site was still exaggerated, and it did not decrease at all because there was no one.
The Xinyuan engineers, who were in place two months in advance, had already adjusted the supporting facilities here, and the rocket was transported over and the final assembly was successfully completed.
Of course, it was claimed that it was Xinyuan engineers who provided technical guidance, and the Abor Space Agency completed the assembly, although everyone knew what was going on.
At the top of Xinyuan-2, on the side of the Mecca, the Aber Space Agency's ASPACE logo is clearly visible and constantly being featured in close-ups.
The white mist of liquid oxygen slowly rises around the verses of the arrow, adding more mystery to the Quran.
In the launch center, the eyes of the royal family members and high-ranking officials never leave the rocket, and the scriptures above are recited from time to time.
Reyana Alcari sat with a group of members of the royal family and discussed the process of flying.
Alkari is a veteran astronaut who has been to the International Space Station and later went to China for training and will serve as the commander of the June 28 launch mission.
Alkari tells them what the Sheila space station can do in the future, how to perform the five o'clock salutes in space, how often Mecca can be launched, and how much chance the royal family will have in the future to take to the skies on the space shuttle.
Don't think that religious people don't like to take risks, on the contrary, these royal family members who are full of food and sleep all day long because they have stood at the top of the human race, always feel that life is boring and like to spend a little bit of work, and going to space is naturally an excellent option.
It's just that they all know that the strongest will is still Crown Prince Hamand, the future King of Hamand.
Now, His Royal Highness the Preparatory King, who was bent on heaven, stood in front of the microphone and shouted:
“…… I approve, rocket launch! ”
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"JAXA has agreed to develop a new module with Northrop Grumman, which is expected to be launched on an H3 rocket, and possibly by SpecaX."
When Arbor successfully launched the last module of the "Sheila" space station into orbit at the Mukara Space Launch Site, it marked the success of the Sheila space station ranking second in the world with a mass of 215 tons and the first in movable area.
The configuration of the Sheila space station is relatively special, which is in the shape of a "gong".
Cabin No. 1 "Hashem" has two nodal compartments, connecting two modules on one side.
The reason for this is that if only one nodal compartment is used, then no matter how you arrange the other four compartments, they will look like a cross from several angles.
I'm afraid the Vatican will be very excited, and Prince Svetan will be stoned.
Although this orbital space station with a size of 88 x 44 meters does not have a scientific research facility, this refers to scientific research facilities that are worthy of going to space, not a number.
But the "Sheila" space station still established an unshakable position for Aber.
Lucia repeatedly wanted to join the "Sheila" space station, and said that after cooperation, she could provide Arbor with a free astronaut transportation quota, but was ruthlessly refused.
The reason for the refusal was simple, the counterpart of Lucia's Soyuz spacecraft was a rod cone connection, and it could not be docked.
Lucia immediately said that the interface could be changed, and Abel said that you should first go to Xinyuan to get the interface technical standard authorization......
Then the matter dragged on, and the Lucia space agency was preparing to convince the space agency, and they also knew that the "Sheila" space station had a strong political element, and there was a saying for who added and who didn't.
In addition, other countries, especially small countries, also want to join Arbor's space program, but they can only end up in ideas.
Only the island nation, after being greatly stimulated, also wanted to build its own space station and spaceship, and hooked up with Aramco's Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman's commercial rocket, to be honest, is not quite good, and the Antares rocket uses two AJ26-62 engines, modified from Lucia's NK33 liquid oxygen kerosene engine.
The predecessor of the NK33 was the NK15, that is, the engine used in the N1 rocket.
The Antares rocket capacity is okay, but it cannot be recovered, and they have also developed their own "Cygnus" unmanned cargo spacecraft, and they also plan to carry out a resupply mission to the International Space Station in October this year, with a resupply mass of 2,300 kilograms.
In the turmoil caused by the departure of Masashi Okada, JAXA's H3 team suffered a heavy blow, and the former deputy chief designer took over the task to continue the research and development, while JAXA shifted its attention to the space.
Originally, they wanted to launch an independently operated module, but in the end they chose to dock with ISS and become the island module of the International Space Station.
At the same time, Northrop Grumman and JAXA will improve the Cygnus spacecraft to develop a new generation of manned spacecraft that can be launched by Antares or H-series rockets to send astronauts into space.
The improved manned spacecraft is reusable, and JAXA will jointly develop the H4 (Antares 2) rocket with Grumman, which is also reusable.
The island nation will inject about $4 billion into the program, and it is expected that in 2020, the island nation astronauts will be able to travel to the island nation on a joint manned spacecraft.
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At the B-level base, Lin Ju sat on a chair and tilted his head to watch the speaker on the stage flip the PPT.
"The reusable rocket we developed Suzaku 1 will be powered by a 220-ton liquid oxygen methane engine, with vertical take-off recovery, take-off mass of 180 tons, and a low-earth orbit capacity of 5 tons......"
"Okay, next."
“…… The hyperbola-3 has the potential of CBC, with two hyperbola-1 core stages in parallel, with a core stage diameter of 5 meters, equipped with 9 K120 engines, with a low earth orbit capacity of 30 tons, a CBC configuration capacity of 90 tons, and a recovery ......"
Seven private enterprises gathered in Xinyuan, mainly for one thing: investment, technology, and products.
After the storm of private rockets set off by Xinyuan Aerospace Power, many private aerospace companies were established under the impetus of a large amount of capital, and then it was found that aerospace was not so easy to do.
A year has passed, these private enterprises have completed the initial financing, the plant and personnel are basically in place, and they feel that they are going to do a big job, and the result is a series of fiascos.
Except for a certain private enterprise with an official background, which has successfully launched several solid rockets, the rest have been fooled by Lin Ju to do big, the route is radical, directly hundreds of tons of engines and medium and large rockets, the worst one exploded three on the launch frame.
The Aviation Development Commission couldn't stand it anymore, so they discussed it, and Lin Ju simply said that you don't have to toss around, why do you want to come to me to buy it!
(End of chapter)