Chapter One Thousand One Hundred and Ninety Four The Age of Spaceflight
After a while of pleasantries, Wu Hao was immediately invited to the command and control hall by Wei Hongyu and the others. There are several such halls here, just like the ones on TV, but compared to the TV pictures, he actually arrived and saw more
Things you can't see on TV.
The middle picture on the big screen is the Jianmu-2 modified rocket with its protective cover opened, and it is standing quietly in front of the launch pad.
Compared with Wu Hao's own launch vehicle in the Northwest R&D Center, the launch site in the launch center naturally looks much more majestic.
As the commander-in-chief of this launch mission, Gao Jinguang of course refused to introduce it to Wu Hao: "Currently, our preparations before the launch are being carried out in an orderly manner. According to the preliminary plan, we have set the launch window for tomorrow morning.
Twenty-seven minutes past eleven o'clock, it is already less than twenty hours before the launch time."
Wu Hao looked at the countdown time on the big screen, and then nodded involuntarily. This launch mission has attracted so much attention, and to be honest, Wu Hao felt a little nervous and unsure.
Although the Jianmu-2 rocket has performed well in the previous launch missions, it can be said that it is always on target. However, no one knows the result without launching. The launch success rate of the rocket is only 50%. This is not their fault.
This Jianmu-2 rocket is like this, and all other rockets are like this.
The success rate of a rocket launch is only 50%. Either it succeeds or it fails, there is no other option.
Therefore, for every launch mission, everyone will be very nervous, including the seniors who have been at the launch position all their lives. Faced with such a launch mission, everyone's face is not easy.
In addition, what was launched this time was an improved Jianmu-2 rocket. In addition to the huge changes in the second-stage rocket, other parts of the rocket were also improved and optimized accordingly, and some new technologies were used.
Whether such improvements and optimizations will work and whether these new technologies are reliable are also unknown.
Seeing that Wu Hao didn't speak, Gao Jinguang continued: "In fact, we originally suggested that the launch time should be at night or in the middle of the night, because this would make it easier for ground telemetry equipment to track the rocket.
However, considering that this launch is a retractable rocket, it means that after the launch, the first-stage rocket body of the rocket must be recovered off-site, and the fairing must be recovered in the air.
As for the rocket's secondary body, it also needs to undergo a fixed-point landing test.
So for the sake of convenience, we put the launch window at noon, which is also conducive to live broadcast and more people watching."
Thank you for your trouble. Wu Hao smiled and thanked me.
Where, this is what we should do. Gao Jinguang said with a smile: "To be honest, I have been dealing with rockets all my life. Being able to launch your Jianmu-2 rocket this time can be regarded as filling a gap in our careers."
Well.
In addition, I also want to witness history. You know, this is the first truly retractable commercial launch vehicle."
Hahahaha, Wu Hao smiled and shook his head and said: "You are joking, we are still far from what you said. This time we are just conducting a secondary rocket fixed-point landing. To put it bluntly, it is a controlled fall, similar to a missile.
, we are still far from being able to truly achieve recyclability.
Moreover, we are all engaged in rockets, and we also know that in addition to the carrying capacity of a launch vehicle, the cost is the most important. How to launch the maximum mass aerospace payload at the lowest cost is a difficult problem that all of us are studying.
And our recycling and reuse technology is just opportunistic. If the cost of recycling is much higher than the cost of manufacturing, then this project will be meaningless."
It still makes sense.
After hearing what he said, Wei Hongyu smiled and said: "First of all, let's not talk about the cost. This launch vehicle reuse technology is very meaningful and very valuable.
It may be that the advantages of this technology are not shown in normal times, but once we encounter an emergency and we need to launch a large number of satellites or other spacecraft into the sky, then this ready-made rocket can play a very critical role.
Secondly, all technologies are the same. The cost investment may be relatively high at the beginning, and some may not be able to make ends meet. But this is only temporary. As the technology is improved and optimized, its advantages will gradually become apparent.
Many equipment, many products, and many technologies are like this. There are many examples.
Finally, the development prospects of this technology are very broad. As countries pay more and more attention to space, and the earth's resources have begun to gradually decrease day by day, the arrival of the era of large spaceflight may be greater than you and I imagine.
There are still many more.
Just like the great voyages, now we lack a sharp weapon that can enter space. I think your technology may be a key or a ferry that opens up our human beings to enter the universe on a large scale."
You were joking.
Wu Hao smiled and shook his head, then looked at a few people and said with a smile: "I have the same point of view as you. I think the era of big spaceflight may come early, especially now that all countries have proposed ambitious space programs.
So I predict that the next twenty years will be a critical period for us humans to enter the space era on a large scale.
If we miss these crucial twenty years, we may have to be locked on the earth like others and repeat the tragedy that happened more than 500 years ago. It may happen again.
We have already missed the Age of Discovery, and we must not miss this Age of Spaceflight."
Wu Hao's words made everyone present nodded. Gao Jinguang even said with a serious face: "You are right, we really can't miss it anymore.
If we miss it, our entire country and our entire nation's path to rejuvenation and rise may be completely ruined.
This universe is too vast, and there are really too many treasures hidden in it."
Wei Hongyu laughed heartily when he heard Gao Jinguang and said, "Let me just say, your previous worries are completely unnecessary. We will definitely have a common topic with Xiao Wu."
Speaking of this, Wei Hongyu said to Wu Hao: "Before you came, Lao Gao was worried that you were relatively young and would be difficult to get along with. Now it seems that the worry was really in vain and completely unnecessary."
I was overthinking it. Gao Jinguang said with a smile, then looked at Wu Hao and said with a smile: "My worries about you before were completely unnecessary. Now I see that we have met too late.
Come on, let’s sit down and have a good chat. I’d like to hear more from you about our country’s aerospace technology and development direction.”
With that said, Gao Jinguang couldn't help but grabbed Wu Hao and walked to the lounge. This made Wei Hongyu behind him shake his head repeatedly and quickly followed.