Chapter 1,274 The huge umbrella flower blooming in the sky
The airdrop experiment landing site is located deep in the desert next door about fifty kilometers northwest of the base. The terrain here is relatively flat, which is very conducive to the airdrop experiment and the final return capsule recovery operation.
When Wu Hao and others arrived, the ground experiment team at the landing site was already ready, and all the work was basically ready.
Generally speaking, there would be no problems in this experiment. However, for safety reasons, they did not enter the core area of the landing site, but on a hillside about one kilometer away from the landing site.
An observation platform has been established here, with various observation instruments installed on it.
At the same time, the search and recovery fleet on the ground is also ready and ready to go at any time.
In addition, there are multiple drones placed on the simple take-off and landing platform not far away. Before the experiment officially begins, these drones will be released. They are used to search and observe the landing situation of the return capsule, and are related to
The images will also be transmitted in real time to several large high-definition screens on the observatory.
Wu Hao picked up a high-powered telescope and carefully observed the flat landing site under the hillside in front of them. After carefully observing the circle, he put down the telescope and asked Zhou Xiangming beside him.
"Has the landing site been carefully inspected?"
Zhou Xiangming nodded immediately after hearing this and said: "We had it checked again in the morning, and carefully irradiated it with infrared thermal imaging equipment to confirm that there were no people or large animals staying at the landing site.
We have set up patrols around the entire test site to ensure that no one enters by mistake, and our drones will also conduct patrols and inspections at all times. Once a situation is discovered, it will be synchronized immediately and handled in a timely manner.
If it is too late to deal with it, we will stop the experiment in time."
"That's good." Wu Hao smiled with satisfaction after hearing this.
"001, this is Phoenix. Our aircraft has entered the sky above the experimental landing site. Please give instructions."
At this time, a radio call from the crew came from the speaker.
Zhou Xiangming looked at Wu Hao when he heard the words. Wu Hao smiled and waved his hands and said: "Whatever should be done, just do it. We are mainly wearing glasses to see today. We will not interfere with the entire experimental process and ignore us."
"Yes!" Zhou Xiangming smiled and immediately walked towards Guo Yulong who was busy over there.
Wu Hao, on the other hand, greeted Director Tian and Yang Fan who were on the side: "Come on, let's sit down and chat."
"Okay." After everyone heard his greeting, they nodded with smiles and sat down.
"Mr. Wu, we are all very curious. In the future, will we ordinary people really be able to take a space trip as you said?" Director Tian asked with a smile at Wu Hao.
After Wu Hao heard this question, he smiled and then replied: "This is for sure, and I am firm about it.
However, it is difficult to say how long it will take to achieve this.
Maybe it will be soon, just like our commercial civil aviation, which has developed so rapidly in less than a hundred years and has become the main means of transportation in our human society.
Let each of us be able to afford air tickets, fly, and, as you said, take a trip as soon as you want.
Maybe, this process will take a long time. After all, the difficulty of aerospace technology is here, and the cost is also here. If there is no better aerospace technology, it may be difficult to realize this ideal.
In our foreseeable future, that is, in the next few decades, I believe that more and more commercial space travel will be open to the public, and the cost of round-trip tickets will gradually decrease.
And I think it will gradually be reduced to a level that a considerable number of us can afford. Instead of like now, space travel is only a luxury that the rich can enjoy."
Having said this, Wu Hao smiled at Director Tian and said: "In fact, we have been working hard towards this goal, and we plan to reduce the price of space travel tickets to about one million.
In other words, as long as you spend about one million, you can take a wonderful space trip."
Director Tian looked at Wu Hao and nodded: "The price of one million is indeed not expensive, but for many people, I am afraid it is still unaffordable."
After hearing what Director Tian said, Wu Hao shrugged his shoulders and showed a helpless look: "Sorry, with our current abilities, what we can do is only to this extent.
There is no way, the cost of entering space in this current way is too high."
Regarding Wu Hao's words, Director Tian nodded and said: "Yes, it is too high. In this way, this million is indeed very cheap, and it is something that everyone can have such an opportunity to try once.
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While they were chatting, a lot of sounds came from the radio. As for Wu Hao and the others, they were chatting and waiting for the airdrop experiment to start.
"001, Phoenix report, our aircraft is about to fly over the landing field, altitude 5000, requesting release."
"Phoenix, this is 001, the landing site is in good condition and can be launched!"
"Phoenix has received it and is ready to release it!"
"The hatch is open!"
"Arrive at the predetermined area and release the goods!"
"The goods left the warehouse safely and the delivery was completed."
"Report, the return module has left the warehouse safely and the guide parachute has been thrown out."
Bang bang bang bang...
Everyone present heard this and applauded.
Wu Hao and the others immediately picked up the telescope and looked at the sky. However, because the distance was too far, the telescope image was very shaken, making it difficult to see clearly.
Therefore, they put down the telescope and looked directly at the big screen. At this moment, the picture on the big screen had been changed to the picture of the ground observation equipment.
In the picture, the return capsule is rapidly descending in the air, with a relatively small white guide parachute hanging on the top of the return capsule.
"The main parachute was thrown out and began to deploy, and it deployed normally!"
Following the report, everyone saw on the big screen that on the top of the return capsule, three main parachutes were suddenly thrown out, and then quickly unfolded, forming three huge mushrooms in the air.
At the same time, under the action of these three main parachutes, the descent speed of the return capsule also slowed down significantly. The entire return capsule began to fall toward the landing site.
Although it is said to be falling, in fact the entire falling speed is relatively fast, but it is controlled within an acceptable allowable speed.
As the three main parachutes opened, everyone now breathed a sigh of relief. Because as long as the main parachutes opened, it meant that the entire throwing experiment was half successful.
Next, what everyone is waiting for is the performance of the return capsule in the final landing stage. Because this stage is also the most dangerous stage, and if you are not careful, it will lead to serious consequences.
First, the return capsule must be at a certain distance from the ground. The eight recoil engines distributed inside the four-sided package of the return capsule will ignite immediately. The return capsule will be quickly decelerated so that it can reach a permissible speed for safe landing.
This is not the end yet, because when the return capsule is about to land, several airbags will quickly inflate at the bottom of the return capsule to act as a buffer for the return capsule to land, thereby providing a buffer for the return capsule and the astronauts inside the return capsule.
Buffer protection, making it subject to smaller impacts.