"Anthony, give up."

Eggie Marshall passed by Anthony's office and was speechless when he found the latter opening images from reconnaissance satellites.

Using optical reconnaissance satellites to find an unknown spacecraft in space is not as reliable as looking for a needle in a haystack.

The paranoid newcomer has to fill up the free window of the satellite every day, and always wears a headset to listen and warn if a satellite finds a similar communication band.

As usual, Anthony, who had fallen into the devil, did not pay any attention to the words of outsiders.

But just as he turned and took a few steps, a voice rang out in the office:

"Age, look at this!"

Marshall was stunned for a moment, then walked in, only to realize that the satellite image that Anthony was looking at was an image of the ground, and it had been magnified to a very high magnification.

Apparently, Anthony was not looking for the NX-17.

In fact, he himself is about to give up, and there are less than two days left for the satellite call authority, and the hope of finding NX-17 again can only be achieved by relying on shit luck and waiting for it to be delivered to the door on its own initiative.

Anthony, who had been numb by staring at the radio atlas, saw that the "keyhole" had just completed an image stitching when it passed through the Pacific Ocean, habitually glanced at the base of Xinyuan Company, and then moved to the Jingu rocket manufacturing base in Huaguo by the way.

Both of these places may be related to NX-17, and there may be follow-up satellites of the same type, so he occasionally took a look, but again to no avail.

Just now, when he zoomed in on the Jingu rocket base, he found several long white objects, and if he looked closely, two of them were still hanging on the head of the trailer, which should be in and out of the cargo, which is too normal for the aerospace manufacturing center.

Five of the same long containers, two shorter containers, and seven containers, how do they look familiar? I seem to have seen it somewhere...... Wait a minute!

He hurriedly summoned Marshall, who was an open intelligence gathering center and should be able to draw certain conclusions if he was well-informed.

Marshall first judged from the number of trailer heads that the probability is to be shipped out, and seven containers will be sent out at one time, what thing has seven components?

Oh, I saw it once earlier this year, and it was a video of a public report by the space agency, and it was also a convoy with long cargo boxes.

This terrible conjecture made Marshall instantly break out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly returned to his computer to start checking the movements of the "Yuanwang 22" rocket carrier, which can be publicly queried on the maritime website, which shows that it arrived at the port of Jingu six days ago.

Look at the time, today is June 15th, and Beijing time is June 16th.

The third Long March 10 rocket has completed the manufacturing and testing work, and is ready to be sent to Qiongzhou by sea!

Satellite images and Yuanwang-22 confirm each other, and there is no possibility of error!

Realizing the seriousness of the problem, the two immediately called their respective superiors, who then informed NACA.

……

SpecaX, Starship Town.

The Starship SN15 spacecraft took off from the square concrete recovery area and continued its flight-return test at an altitude of 12,000 meters, which had not yet been successful once.

Before the SN12 made its maiden flight with the B6, the SN13 and 14 were destroyed by an explosion that lost control of attitude when returning, and the SN12 is currently the only starship spacecraft that has broken through the altitude of 10,000 meters.

The launch of the SN12-B6 combo last month could simply be described as "a disaster", and the Starship team is working on improving the problem overnight.

First of all, the minimum deflector groove, the impact force of the tail flame of the 33 engines is far beyond imagination, and the repair plan of the launch pad decided to cover the main impact part of the main structure after the reconstruction of the main structure, and lay the deflector groove with steel plate at the bottom of the tower.

After investigation, the failure of two engines in the lower stage was directly caused by the debris of the launch pad that collapsed by the wake and crashed into it, and this problem is very serious, but it is best to solve it, and it can be reformed in ten days.

In the development of the SpecaX Falcon 9 rocket and other vehicles, Musk abandoned expensive and low-production spaceborne computer chips in order to reduce costs, and replaced them with consumer-grade chips with higher computing power.

Generally speaking, the overall performance of aerospace chips is much worse than that of civilian chips, but it is mainly high-speed processing chips (DSPs) rather than general-purpose central processing units (CPUs), which can replace the former in terms of performance, and have more and more complete functions, but have little resistance to radiation and strong shocks.

Musk's plan is to replace one dedicated DSP with three consumer-grade chips, which is still cheaper than buying the latter, a tactic that has been successful on both the Falcon 9 and the Dragon spacecraft.

But Starship is different, almost all control systems crashed when the first stage was started, and it all started one after another after half a minute, but the engine continued to ignite in an unreasonable state, and the computer that reacted could only desperately save itself and find a way to implement the order of self-destruction at a height of more than 10 kilometers.

Then there were a lot of minor problems such as the failure of the engine control system, the abnormal pressure of the fuel storage, and then the ground attempt to separate the second stage was unsuccessful, and the computer seemed to fail again.

The starship assembly that fell intact to the surface exploded the moment it came into contact, leaving the wreckage everywhere, and environmental groups are blocking the door of SpecaX every day in protest.

Other space companies have fallen into the trap of turning over the old accounts of the N1 and belittleing the SpecaX, while Lockheed has also disclosed the reusable giant rocket it will develop in the future in an attempt to replace Starship and gain support.

Fortunately, Director Claire has always given firm support to the "Starship", and the only requirement is that it must be successful before 2019 and launch John's "artificial moon".

The latter is vigorously promoting this impulsive decision of the project, and is really trying to promote its passage in Congress.

Musk, who was a little irritable, looked at the sky, SN15 had begun to slow down at a height of 100 meters, and it looked like a good posture, but the descent speed was still higher.

Dozens of seconds later, the body of the arrow was knocked out of a huge depression, and SN15 stubbornly stood for a few seconds before exploding due to the sudden change in fuel pressure caused by the dumping.

"Buzz...... Buzz ......"

"This is Elon." Musk answered the phone without looking.

“musk！ Where is the Heavy Falcon rocket ?! ”

Hearing that it was Claire's voice, Musk immediately became serious, thought about it and replied:

"The B1033 has been assembled and delivered to the launch pad, and the B1034 is still in the factory, what happened?" Isn't the Blue Moon's fuel tank still a week away? ”

"It's too late, we have to launch the fuel tank in 48 hours, then the lander in a week, and then Artemis II right away!

Assemble the B1034 now! ”

Musk: "There are no problems with the rocket, but what exactly is going on?" ”

"LongMarch10Y3!, it got ready!" ）”

I had back pain, and I went to see a Chinese medicine doctor and said that my pulse was weak......

A chapter to prove that this is a rumor

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