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Chapter 297
Chapter 297 Tiangong 1 Rocket Launch
When Wang Bin and the others came to the South China Sea Launch Center, Qin and others were already waiting for Wang Bin’s arrival. Seeing Wang Bin’s arrival, Qin immediately stepped forward and said to Wang Bin: “Mr. Wang, you are finally here. Now the rocket is starting the final test. If everything goes well, the rocket will be launched on time at 8:10.”
In fact, for this rocket launch, not only the R&D and design personnel of scientific and technological rockets, but also the official inspection team are also very hard. Only a few days left for the launch.
So when the rocket arrived and was erected, the rocket R&D team of Tiangong Technology and the staff on the official launch pad immediately started testing the rocket, and in the past few days, they have basically had no rest. Past, even at night.
Therefore, we can complete all the inspections before launching today.
Then Wang Bin chatted with Mr. Qin for a few words, then entered the rocket launch site and found Jia Jie and others who were conducting the final inspection of the rocket, and asked Jia Jie: “Jia Jie, how is the situation? Is the rocket normal and can it be launched on time?”
“Mr. Wang! So far, we have not found any major problems in the rocket inspection, but some details have been detected. However, these detailed problems have little impact on the rocket as a whole. And, we have also dealt with these details, so there is no problem with launching on time!” Jia Jie said.
“That’s good! But even in the details, you have to pay attention to it. After all, this is a rocket. If there is an accident during the launch, the loss will be terrible! Not to mention other things, just the manufacture of this rocket, The price is as high as hundreds of millions of yuan, and if the official deep-space communications satellite is added, the price will at least double several times.
So when checking, you must pay more attention to those details. After all, details determine success or failure.
In the international arena, how many rocket launch accidents are due to engine details. “Wang Bin nodded and said.
“Good Mr. Wang! In terms of details, we will definitely pay more attention in the future, and strive to ensure that every rocket is designed and manufactured without any problems!” Jia Jie said.
After listening, Wang Bin nodded and did not speak, because he knew very well that it is impossible to make a rocket to be 100% perfect. After all, a rocket is composed of so many parts and components. It’s impossible for all of the parts to be perfect.
Of course, because Wang Bin and his team’s Tiangong Technology’s rocket is only a hydrogen-oxygen rocket, it is much simpler in terms of technical difficulty and complexity, and the probability of natural failure is much lower.
If it is a multi-stage bundled rocket, the technical difficulty is high.
Multi-stage rockets are composed of several stages, and each stage rocket has its own independent engine and fuel. The purpose of this is naturally to improve the rocket’s carrying capacity and the rocket’s flight speed and flight ability. .
During the flight of a multi-stage rocket, the engine at the end is naturally the first to start. Therefore, under normal circumstances, the engine at the end has the greatest thrust, and in many cases, there is more than one engine at the end. , But there are multiple rocket engines working at the same time.
When the fuel of the last first-level rocket is exhausted, it will be separated by the separator and the first-level rocket will start to work at the same time. In this way, not only can the flight performance of the rocket be improved, but also the overall weight of the rocket can be reduced.
And when the first-level rocket fuel is exhausted again, the rocket will automatically abandon the first-level, so that after the first-level first-level is thrown away, the transported spacecraft is finally put into orbit.
The bundled rocket actually works in the same way as a multi-stage rocket. When the outermost rocket fuel is exhausted, it will be thrown away until it reaches the core stage, and finally the spacecraft is put into orbit. The upper bound rocket is actually a kind of multi-stage rocket, or it is more appropriate to call it a parallel rocket.
Of course, modern medium-sized rockets are designed in a multi-stage and bundled manner for the carrying capacity and flight performance of the Ascension rocket. After all, this way, the carrying capacity of the Ascension rocket can be very effective.
Therefore, Wang Bin and their Tiangong Technology, although they are only developing a single-stage rocket this time, they have already begun research and development work on multi-stage rockets at the aerospace laboratory of Tiangong Technology. At the same time, Wang Bin hopes to complete the research and development of the multi-stage rocket within this year.
However, in fact, the aerospace laboratory of Tiangong Technology still encounters a lot of difficulties in the development of multi-stage rockets. It does not know the design of the rocket’s separator, after the rocket is graded, the engine starts, the attitude control of the rocket during separation, the rocket is in During the separation, how can the separation section not collide with the core-level rocket, causing the rocket to lose control, etc. These series of problems need to be solved by the Aerospace Laboratory.
Although there are many difficulties, Wang Bin is also very confident that these problems can be solved. Of course, if you only rely on the Rocket R&D laboratory itself, you want to solve all these problems in a short time. , It is still very difficult, at least it is impossible to solve them all within the year.
But fortunately, Wang Bin has a science and technology mall. He is going to the science and technology mall to buy some rocket technology, especially heavy and super heavy rocket technology.
Therefore, Wang Bin is fully confident that Tiangong Technology will be able to produce multi-stage rockets within this year.
At the same time, in Wang Bin’s expectation, the carrying capacity of the second rocket of Tiangong Technology should be at least one level of Ascension compared to the carrying capacity of the first rocket. That is to say, the carrying capacity of the next rocket The capacity must be at least five tons, and it must also have a certain medium orbit carrying capacity.
Of course, for Wang Bin’s ambitious plan, as the R&D laboratory of Tiangong Technology’s rocket, it is naturally very opposed. In their opinion, Wang Bin’s request is really too big. Suddenly the carrying capacity was increased from 0.5 tons to five tons, which is easy to pull the eggs.
They believe that launch vehicles should be developed step by step. Now that they have successfully developed a launch vehicle with a carrying capacity of 0.5 tons, then they can develop a launch vehicle of about one ton or 1.5 tons, and then develop three to five more. Ton-class rockets, and then slowly Ascension carrying capacity.
However, in Wang Bin’s opinion, the speed of research and development is too slow. Wang Bin can’t wait. He is eager that Tiangong Technology can produce rockets with a carrying capacity of hundreds of tons at once. In this case, Tiangong Technology will immediately You can start to build space stations and space exploration projects. In this way, you can catch up with those foreign private space companies.Of course, in Wang Bin’s original plan, he also wanted to develop a larger rocket at once, such as a rocket with a carrying capacity of more than ten to twenty tons. He planned that this proposal directly drew strong opposition from the research and development personnel, and finally Cai changed into A rocket with a carrying capacity of about five tons.
As time went on, when Wang Bin returned to the rocket launch control room again, it was less than ten minutes before the first launch of the rocket of Tiangong Technology. At the same time, as time slowly approached, Wang Bin and Tian The faces of the rocket design and development personnel of Tungong Technology were obviously relieved of a trace of nervousness. Despite the comfort of the official rocket launchers, they were still nervous. After all, this was the first launch of their Tiangong Technology’s first rocket.
On the contrary, the official launchers, because they have a lot of rocket launch experience, and even experienced many rocket launch failures, so at this time, there is no trace of nervousness on their faces, but all are serious operations. The equipment and check the monitoring data.
Finally, when the time reached eight ten ten, after the countdown to the rocket launch was read, the various instruments on the rocket and the hydrogen-oxygen fuel supply pipeline began to fall off, and the rocket began to ignite.
As the bottom of the rocket emits a huge fire, the cooling devices on the rocket launch pad all start to work, and the rocket begins to slowly and steadily ascending, and the speed also increases with the height of Ascension and Ascension.
At the same time, people who came to watch the rocket launch on the shore not far from the launch pad at this time also took out their own mobile phones or professional cameras and began to record this moment. Among these people, there is no lack of skin color. Foreigners who are different from China.
And unlike the people on China, some of these people obviously have a trace of worry on their faces. In the hearts of many of them, the mood at this time is actually very contradictory. If you look at it, these people also very much hope that this rocket launch can be successful, but if they look at their national interests, they absolutely don’t want this launch to be successful.
After all, once this launch is successful, it means that a private aerospace company with strong technology capabilities has emerged in China for a long time, and this company will compete with their country’s x-space company in aerospace business. Most importantly, They still have no good way to take this private contract company from China!
Although the hearts of these people are very complicated, the rocket launch will not be stopped because of their thoughts. The rocket is still continuing to rise, and the speed is still Ascension. Soon the rocket is ascending several kilometers, and at this time On the ground, you can only see the fire from the tail of the rocket when it is flying.
Of course, although the rocket has been ascending to an altitude of thousands of meters at this time, whether it is Wang Bin, Tiangong’s rocket design and development personnel, and the official launcher, their faces are not relaxed at this time, after all. When the rocket only took off successfully, they all knew that only when the rocket completely put the spacecraft into the predetermined orbit would it be considered a complete success.