The Red Alert Begins in the Wasteland

Chapter 753: Cai Ruichen Plays a Little Big (5 More for a Reward)

ps: Thanks to the "ss-skeleton master" in the fan group for the 200 yuan red envelope sent to Huali on QQ, this chapter will continue to add more updates for him.

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In the Space Launch Center of the Future Technology Group, a loud alarm sounded, and the rocket launch entered the last-minute countdown.

In the command center of the space launch center, hundreds of staff members are all sitting quietly at the basic level.

Hundreds of people stayed at their posts, only occupying a small corner of the entire command center, which is a satellite command organization that can accommodate at least 5,000 people.

On the half floor of the command hall, this is the key place of the entire command center. There are still a large number of posts above, but all satellite launches are controlled by these posts.

When Cai Ruichen brought Musk here, the inside was already quite busy.

The central area of ​​the command center is a central computer display area with a diameter of 50 meters. At this moment, the images on the satellite launch platform are clearly projected here.

The lens in the projection screen was zoomed in very close, and the projected satellite was standing quietly on the launch platform, and the fixing frames on both sides had all fallen down, laying flat in the grooves on the ground.

In the entire launch site, there is only this launch vehicle waiting to be launched alone. The white rocket paint clearly depicts the Future Technology Group.

The elliptical space capsule is on the top of the missile, and there are three test satellites inside, which will be released by the space capsule on orbits at different altitudes after lift-off.

The long carrier rocket, like a long sword leaning on the sky, is aimed at the blue sky, waiting for the final moment of ignition.

Standing with Cai Ruichen, Musk took a very careful look at the projected launch vehicle in front of him through the augmented reality projection in front of him.

It seems that there is still a big difference from the Dragon spacecraft developed by Musk himself, but there are also many similarities.

One of the most critical points in the same place as the Dragon spacecraft is the design of the space capsule and the rocket propulsion uses the overall first-stage rocket technology.

The use of this technology is to be able to return the entire launch vehicle directly after sending the space capsule into orbit.

Otherwise, if a multi-pole rocket delivery method is used, the difficulty of recovery will increase exponentially.

After all, if you want to prepare enough fuel for each stage of rocket propulsion to return to Earth and land smoothly,

There are also multiple landing sites, and at the same time, those rocket propellers must be replaced with engines that can be re-ignited. The cost is not as good as not being recycled.

For such a design, Musk naturally approves it, but for Future Technology Group, which does not even have a pre-test, it will directly launch this launch vehicle named - Future Launch Vehicle Type 1, in his opinion , is really too confident and risky.

At the beginning of the launch vehicle recovery project he led, at the beginning, he carried out many experimental recovery work on the developed missiles.

The rocket is launched to a certain height, and then recovered smoothly, and the height is constantly increasing in repeated experiments.

When the tested altitude reaches a height of 100 kilometers, and it can be recovered smoothly, it means that the recovery technology of this launch vehicle can meet the standard.

However, the Future Technology Group did not take this step. Instead, as soon as the missile was launched, it had to directly launch the launch vehicle, which was simply crazy behavior.

If this matter is placed on Musk, he will definitely not do it. After all, he is not sure, and it will give people a feeling of overconfidence.

Of course, Cai Ruichen is different from Musk. Musk needs to consider the thoughts of those investors. Naturally, it is impossible to do so. If it succeeds, it is okay. If it fails, it will lose the trust of investors.

And he doesn't have any investors at all, and no one can influence his decision. At the same time, he doesn't bother to conduct those completely unnecessary tests for the trust in the base's products, and what the outside world thinks about this matter, it's okay. Negligible, no impact at all.

Before, Musk also persuaded Cai Ruichen a few words, but Cai Ruichen just let him watch with peace of mind.

So Musk did not continue to talk about entanglement with this issue. He is not one of those people who eat carrots and worry about it. After all, this is not his company, and whether it succeeds or fails, it has little impact on him.

For him, the interest in the launch vehicle in front of him can surpass everything else.

His current gaze has always been focused on the rocket in front of him. From the ratio of it to the surroundings, he can see that the size of this launch vehicle is a little larger than that of the Dragon spacecraft.

This seemingly unimportant feature is what he is most concerned about now. The size and aerodynamic shape of the launch vehicle have strict data requirements.

He is now calculating some data information of the launch vehicle in his mind, but since he does not know the overall material and weight of the launch vehicle, he can only get a little simple information.

After a simple calculation, Musk couldn't help but nodded, because this missile is very reasonable in terms of aerodynamic shape and size.

As long as the thrust and fuel of the engine can meet the requirements, then this is an off-take launch vehicle.

For this launch, he couldn't help feeling a little more confident.

At this moment, the command center sounded the countdown to the last ten seconds. When the number was reset to zero, a large amount of water vapor sprayed out on the augmented reality projection screen where the launch vehicle was in contact with the ground.

This is the effect of evaporating a large amount of cool water under the launch platform after the heat from the tail nozzle of the rocket propeller is ejected.

In the water mist, the launch vehicle first slowly left the ground, and a small beam of blue flames spewed out from the tail nozzle, but it was this small beam of blue flames that quickly pushed the entire launch vehicle up from the ground. .

Seven seconds after the launch, the speed of the launch vehicle had broken through the speed of sound at high speed, and the speed was still rising rapidly. During the whole process, the flight effect was very stable, and the slightly inclined flight path of the launch vehicle happened to be at the same position as the rotation of the earth. direction, and then with the help of the traction force of the earth’s gravity, the purpose of gravitational acceleration is realized.

The earth at this moment is like a long spring wire, which keeps pulling the launch vehicle, so that the launch vehicle can not only accelerate its own power, but also obtain the acceleration effect of the planet’s gravitational force, just like the earth has accelerated the launch vehicle. Added a speed buff.

When the rocket completely disappeared from the field of vision of the ground personnel, its speed had climbed to the first cosmic speed, and it was approaching the low-earth orbit of 200 kilometers at high speed.

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