Chapter 771: One Launch, Two Breakthroughs!

With an order, the button for the rocket launch was pressed.

At the No. 3 workstation of the Xichang base, the "Second Cake Modification" ejected violent flames and white smoke.

Then it soared straight into the sky.

"Takeoff successful!"

"Takeoff time: 14:00:997 milliseconds, Beijing time!"

Zhou Rui, with his hands on his chest, stared at the big screen.

Listening to the continuous broadcasts from the command center.

"Telemetry indicators are normal! The fuel consumption of the first stage is normal!"

8 seconds after takeoff!

"Start the program turn! The thruster adjustment is normal!"

"The optical tracking of the first area is normal, and the change of track is detected."

"USB band tracking is normal!"

127 seconds after takeoff!

The sex scene is finally here.

As a technical verification arrow for rocket recovery, this is the time to test the "Second Cake Modification".

"First stage separation starts."

"First stage separation is successful, and the landing area is normal!"

"Second stage ignition is successful!"

At this time, if there is a camera in the sky, you can see the separated "first stage rocket" doing free fall.

From an altitude of 60,000 meters.

Due to the turbulence and disturbance of the airflow, this huge component is rolling and shaking rapidly.

Zhou Rui stared at the telemetry data on the big screen, and the animated simulation icon of the first stage on it was falling continuously.

But it was not time yet.

The "intelligent attitude adjustment system" naturally did not need to be controlled by the command center.

At 51,000 meters, the first stage arrow had reached the maximum speed of free fall.

At 30,000 meters, the atmosphere became thicker and the gas-heat effect of the first stage arrow became more and more obvious.

20,000 meters.

15,000 meters.

After takeoff, 230 seconds.

"The 'intelligent attitude adjustment system' was successfully started!"

"The wind adjustment plate was opened successfully, and the unpowered attitude adjustment was in progress!"

The roar of the driver also resounded in the channel.

"The tracking of the landing area is normal! The first stage is observed!"

However, it was not time to cheer. Soon, 237 seconds after takeoff.

At a higher position, the second stage rocket separated successfully and began its free fall.

The launch of a recovered rocket is a two-way monitoring process, which requires monitoring both the falling part and the remaining parts in the sky.

It is like two intersecting mission lines are being carried out simultaneously. If one has poor logical ability, he will be confused and messed up in a few seconds.

After all, in the past, once separated, those things don't need to be taken care of.

So it is also a big test for the command center.

"The second stage separated successfully, and the landing area is normal."

"The attitude adjustment of the first stage is normal, and the longitudinal axis is vertical to the ground."

"The payload compartment has left the atmosphere, and the fairing has separated."

"The first stage's 'brake thruster' started successfully, and telemetry shows that it is decelerating."

"The second stage's 'intelligent attitude adjustment system' started successfully!"

"The payload compartment's swimming engine started, and it is entering the predetermined orbit!"

"The fuel retention of the first stage is normal, and the deceleration curve is normal!"

Zhou Rui looked at the big screen and listened to the telemetry report.

This kind of two-line or even three-line information processing is not difficult for him, and everything is under control.

However, in the future, "rocket recovery" will become the norm, and the operation mode of this command center needs to be improved.

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At this time, "Landing Area 1" hundreds of kilometers away.

That is where Zhou Rui and his team conducted their first experiment.

Above the sky, a rocket component has been adjusted to a vertical posture, the wind plate has been opened, and the "melon seed" type brake thruster has been started, turning on and off to maintain stability.

The speed of the first stage is getting slower and slower. Che Gan's eyes are constantly switching between the monitoring screen and the sky, and cold sweat is pouring down.

Unlike last time, not only is it a real thing this time, but also a flat area has been sorted out on the ground, and a guidance signal source has been placed. When the component is close to 5,000 meters, it will adjust its position towards the target area.

Finally, when the rocket component is getting slower and slower, the wind plate is folded downward to form a bracket, and finally landed on the flat ground.

Che Gan immediately shouted excitedly in the channel: "Landing Area 1 monitoring is normal, the speed of the first stage is 0! Recovery is successful!"

He did not rush down to the scene immediately, but still stood at the monitoring point on the cliff, waiting nervously.

It was not until more than 100 seconds later that another message was heard.

"The monitoring of landing area 2 is normal, and the speed of the second stage is 0! Recovery is successful!"

The driver took off his headphones and waved his fist towards the sky.

Success!

Cool! ! !

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In the command center, the news that the first and second stages were all successfully recovered resounded throughout the hall.

Then there was continuous applause.

Behind him, Shan Chunyuan, who had arrived at some point, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Sun Ze, the chief engineer of "Chang'e 3" who came to visit and witness, also did not hesitate to applaud.

Zhou Rui took a deep breath. At least. The main goal was a complete success.

He looked around, then said to the microphone:

"Don't leave your post, keep up the good work."

Everyone stopped applauding after hearing this, and the command center returned to silence again.

Zhou Rui looked at the big screen, on which the simulated picture representing the payload compartment was still moving along the predetermined orbit.

"We still have things in the sky."

.475 seconds after takeoff.

In the sky, Erbing only has a payload compartment and a weak "swimming engine".

The so-called swimming engine refers to the final part of the launch vehicle that fine-tunes the orbit. It can be understood as the final kick and is only found in older models of rockets.

If there is a camera here, you can see that there is a strange thing fixed in the payload compartment without the fairing.

Like a two-meter-high cone.

It is about 350 kilometers above the ground. It is a satellite low orbit and is also the altitude with the most satellites.

.500 seconds after takeoff.

The load compartment is separated.

Leave the cone in orbit.

He used the reverse force to slowly fall downwards.

The cone appears to be stationary in this orbit due to the lack of reference.

In fact, he is waiting for his prey.

Generally speaking, the speed of satellites at the same altitude is the same, that is to say, two satellites cannot collide even if they are in the same orbit.

But if this "satellite" has a little power and can actively slow down, that's another matter.

Just wait and see.

.670 seconds after takeoff

It waits for its prey.

A defunct satellite is approaching it at an extremely high "absolute speed" and an extremely slow "relative speed".

The tip of the cone began to metamorphose. Oh no, it deformed and divided into four smaller heads, and a composite material net was pulled out from the cone.

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Inside the command center.

Zhou Rui looked at the icon representing the "capturer" on the big screen.

That was the payload he made for the "Er-Pie Kai" while he was waiting for launch permission.

The missile has been launched, but firing it from the air is very harmful to the body.

The inspiration came from that high-altitude experiment.

The capturer uses "internal networking" technology and has 36 nodes. In other words, it has a higher IQ than Wu Gang.

And its target is an early scrapped satellite that belongs to China.

"The capturer starts normally!"

"The regulator thrusters are slowing down."

"The trap deployed successfully!"

"Target captured successfully! Returning to the atmosphere."

At this time, everyone became quiet.

The look he looked at Zhou Rui was filled with surprise and suspicion.

Zhou Rui smiled slightly.

There’s just one more business in one day: “space junk cleanup”.

One launch to verify two technologies.

The province is the province, the flowers are the flowers.

Isn’t that a conflict? He always saves money!