"Courage AI model? This is good, this is good. ”

"That's a military cooperation project that is secret!"

"Boss, I know there must be a civilian castration version, right?"

“……”

Chen Jun had a posture of not leaving if he didn't give it to me, and Lin Ju could only reluctantly agree to give some of it in the end.

Why did Xin'anlai reach out for robotics? Presumably because of Tesla Robot, Lao Ma came to the magic capital for a short time for two days in the middle of the year, and finally talked about the Tesla Gigafactory, and at the same time released the "Tesla Bot" intelligent robot plan.

Chen Jun, who has been coveting the base robot project for a long time, finally found an excuse to be a hand-out party, and he got his wish.

Lin Ju suddenly thought that the No. 1 and No. 2 robot project teams would have to go out independently sooner or later, and the base would not be able to squeeze out a robot factory, but he felt that there would be more and more outstretched parties in the future.

……

Florida.

"Starship Town", a name given to the Starship Manufacturing/Launch Base by Aramco Internet, where SpecaX built a sprawling Starship Factory from scratch to produce "exploding steel cans."

It's not a deterrent to visitors, and it's often visited by aerospace enthusiasts, and today it's especially crowded.

Because, the super heavy booster B6+ starship SN12 is about to be launched today as planned, which is currently the second largest rocket in the world, and it is a super rocket with the potential to send a 250-ton payload into space.

The familiar stainless steel assemblage was now hoisted on a concrete concrete base, and at a height of more than 120 meters, it looked spectacular.

Elon Musk sat calmly in a chair in the control room, no less excited than flying into space on a Dragon spacecraft.

No matter how much the outside world doubts, it is impossible to deny the status of the starship itself, it is a cheap rocket that can be completely reused in two stages, the fuel is clean and the price is low, and in his opinion it is the most advanced rocket in the world - the Storm is not counted, and the nuclear power is open!

In an interview with reporters, he said: "Elon, do you think this launch will be successful? He smiled and responded:

"SpecaX is moving forward in the midst of an explosion, and every trial gives us the best data."

Although the clouds are light on the surface, he is still looking forward to succeeding, at least one level of success.

NACA's demand for superrockets after Storm flew to the moon has been pathological, and support for Starships has never been greater.

They don't require Starship to really be able to achieve as much power as PPT, as long as the 33 engines in the first stage can work properly - it can be recycled without recycling.

As long as the super-heavy booster can be stabilized, then it can be used to stack various upper stages to derive a series of rockets, and it doesn't matter if it is not reused, because SpecaX's Starship Town can produce a first-level booster every two months, and the price is only more than 100 million dollars, which can be used at one time.

In the old horse's apprehensive mood, there were only 15 minutes left before the estimated launch time.

The control room did a final self-check of the engine, and the 13 oscillating Raptor V1s in the inner ring twisted in a clockwise direction like sunflowers, which looked quite pleasing to the eye.

In the last century, the N1 rocket mainly relied on adjusting the flow of engines on both sides to achieve thrust differential steering, which was not flexible enough and has been abandoned by Starship.

Nearly 4,000 tons of liquid oxygen and methane were filled into the upper and lower stages of the rocket body, causing a thick layer of frost to form on the surface of the starship, turning from a stainless steel background to white, and constantly emitting white smoke.

After passing the last self-test, the control room looked at Lao Ma's resolute eyes and entered the launch procedure.

“ten、nine、eight……”

Musk followed the countdown of the screen and counted silently in his heart, and when he counted to 6, he "chuckled" in his heart.

It stands to reason that the 13 engines in the center have begun to ignite one after another, but nothing happens in the live footage.

The countdown quickly zeroed, and the robotic arm connecting the electrical lines and refueling had disengaged, but nothing happened except for a trace of white smoke coming out of the starship's tail in the picture, which was supposed to be the fuel released before the engine started, and there was still no ignition.

The control room fell silent for a moment, and they thought about all kinds of scenarios, but they didn't expect that there would be a situation where not a single engine started after the launch command was given.

Tom Mueller immediately ordered the starship to be checked for various signals, but the results were shocking.

"We lost control of all the engines, and the signals were all offline."

These are the words that Musk heard from the headset five seconds after the countdown ended, at which point he had not yet reacted, or did not know how to react.

Losing control of the rocket is the worst-case scenario, when the starship has already been filled with thousands of tons of fuel, who would dare to release the fuel when the ignition order has already been given?

You can only wait for the fuel to evaporate itself or self-destruct, and the result is to destroy a launch pad.

The people in the control room were at a loss for what to do, and they were in a state of confusion along with the spectators waiting outside for the launch.

30 seconds after the countdown ended, Musk was about to take off his headphones to tweet, when he suddenly saw a cluster of flames from the tail of the starship.

One, several, half a minute after the launch order was given, 33 engines began to ignite one after another under the control of the starship's automatic computer, although it looked a little strange, but it was finally ignited.

The crowd waiting for the launch outside the venue was unknown, and they began to cheer when they saw that the starship had finally ignited.

The launch pad of the starship was not set up with a diversion groove, only a gap of more than ten meters in height was left under the annular launch pad, and dozens of engines began to start one after another, and the converging tail flames leaked out from the west to form a thick smoke that wrapped the entire rocket, making it impossible to see the situation below.

In the control room, the rocket computer finally restored the control signal of the engine after starting the engine on its own, and transmitted back the working status of all engines.

Musk saw that the 33 circles representing the 33 engines began to light up in turn, but a few circles flickered and then returned to the state of extinguishing, and if you count carefully, there are 5 such circles.

The failure of the five engines to start means that the thrust dropped by almost a thousand tons, but fortunately it still exceeded its own weight, stubbornly pushing the starship tilted away from the launch pad.

Why oblique? Because the outermost two adjacent engines were extinguished, the thrust was already unbalanced.

Starship's computer apparently spotted this as well, and it tried to correct this oblique force by the deflection of the central engine, but the thrust difference was too great to be reversed.

The crowd of melon eaters on the beach watched as the starship took more than 10 seconds to burst out of the smoke - and emerge from the right, diagonally upwards as if it were panning.

At this point, ground-based tracking cameras were finally able to see the engine operation in its tail: six engines had stalled.

There is no doubt that another one broke down during takeoff.

Musk looked at the launch pad, where the smoke had cleared, as if he had understood the reason.

The simple concrete launch pad was already unrecognizable at this time, the concrete blocks on the surface were almost blown off by the tail flame, revealing the steel bars inside, and the ground without the design of the diversion groove was even more rushed out of a large crater, and all kinds of debris were scattered everywhere, including the launch pad and the engine.

Looking at the sky again, the remaining 27 engines are finally not broken, but at this time, the trajectory of the starship has been completely skewed and it is impossible to enter orbit, and it seems that the tail is dropping something again?

The starship flew for more than three minutes, the fuel consumption made it faster and faster, and the fuel supply of the first stage also began to have problems, and the control room decided to separate the starship ship of the upper stage, although it could not enter orbit, but at least struggled a little.

Orders are given, orders are given.

The starship, which was already close to 40 kilometers altitude, did not respond, and the changes in the atmospheric environment began to disturb the engine working environment, and the already unsmooth fuel supply and the unstable pressure in the combustion chamber began to shut down one engine after another.

A minute later, all the engines of the starship, which had more than 3,000 tons left, stalled and plummeted in a spiral off the coast of Florida.

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