Military industrial hegemony

Chapter 1353 Refueling, Dangerous Situation

After meeting with everyone, these experts and staff will continue to go back to work intensively.The purpose of Jiang Chen's visit this time is only to observe as representatives, so there is nothing to do.Next, they were arranged to have lunch in the staff canteen of the launch plant.I don't know if it's because today is a special food subsidy for the launch day, or a special arrangement for Jiang Chen and the others, but the food is good anyway.

After lunch, Jiang Chen and the others were arranged to enter the guest house to rest.However, Jiang Chen and the others didn't feel sleepy. Instead, they came to the command center to observe the entire launch process.

At about twelve o'clock, the revolving platform of the launch tower began to slowly open. It was the first time for Jiang Chen to see the real launch vehicle at such a close distance.I was really shocked by this big guy.Next, the clearing of the field will begin, other idlers will withdraw outside the safe zone, and the rocket will begin to refuel.During this period, our launch vehicles were mainly fueled with toxic chemical propellants, so operators needed to equip heavy anti-virus equipment.And these other irrelevant people are naturally pushed to the upper hand outside the safe distance.

Rocket refueling is a very slow process. As time goes by, a lot of yellow and white smoke comes out of the rocket body.The staff may have seen the doubts on Jiang Chen's face, so they took the initiative to introduce to Jiang Chen and them that this is a normal phenomenon that occurs when the rocket is refueling.Those yellow smoke is the seepage of rocket propellant from the filling connection port, which is a normal phenomenon during filling.And those white gases are the vaporization and volatilization of water vapor produced by the difference in temperature and pressure between the inside and outside of the rocket.

Although the entire filling process is very slow, the staff is still highly concentrated, always paying attention to the changes in the rocket's various data.Seeing the highly concentrated appearance of the staff and the long time of the entire filling process.So Jiang Chen and the others bid farewell to them and wanted to go back to the guest house of the launch plant for a short rest.After all, I had been running around all day yesterday, and I went to sleep in that poor guest house at night, so I didn't get a good rest.So I am still quite tired, and I want to use this period of time to go back and rest for a while, who knows how long it will be at night.

But just as Jiang Chen and the others were about to leave, they heard sirens starting to sound from the command hall.

Immediately afterwards, the broadcast came: "Report to the commander, there is a danger of fuel leakage from the rocket body."

"Immediately activate the second-level emergency plan." Huang Lao immediately ordered.

Seeing this, Jiang Chen and the others stopped one by one, and then returned to the command hall.It was found that the atmosphere in the hall began to become tense, all the staff began to go all out, and all parts were also fully operational.

Watching Jiang Chen and the others come back.As the person in charge of the satellite department, Meng Lao and the others were a little nervous, but they were still relatively free.After all, this is a problem with the Rockets. It has nothing to do with Mr. Meng and the others, and they can't help.Seeing the nervousness on Jiang Chen's face, Mr. Meng said with a smile: "It's okay, don't worry, this is a common problem, basically every time you launch, you will encounter it. As long as the fault is eliminated, it won't take long. of."

"Common problems, why not solve them completely?" Jiang Chen wondered.

"Hehe, we also think about your question. But the rocket is not comparable to other things, and it cannot be tested repeatedly. This kind of refueling can only be carried out at the last moment. Because the fuel It is highly corrosive and toxic, so the rocket must be launched as soon as possible after filling. If it cannot be launched as soon as possible, then the fuel is likely to corrode the parts in the rocket, which will damage the rocket and cause The rocket launch failed. So we usually add these fuels at the last moment, and it is for this reason that these problems are discovered at the last moment. But don’t worry, Lao Huang and the others have decades of rocket launches I have experience, and I am very experienced in dealing with this kind of failure." Meng Lao explained to Jiang Chen with a smile.

Oh, Jiang Chen and the others nodded.Jiang Chen looked at the rocket in the distance, then at the busy figures in the command hall, and then asked Meng Lao, "Meng Lao, you are never nervous."

"Hehe, how could there be no one in my line of work." Meng Lao said with a smile: "It was during a previous important launch mission that the rocket malfunctioned during launch. We were very anxious at that time, because the rocket The satellite on board is a new type of satellite that we have successfully developed after years of research. Some of its performance is ahead of similar satellites in the world, and it also fills our gap in this type of satellite. But even so, we do not have any The solution, because we are not engaged in rocketry after all. So we can only choose to trust Lao Huang and the others, which means that life and death are in their hands.

However, Lao Huang and the others did not disappoint us. In just a few tens of seconds, they found the fault and successfully eliminated it.This also allowed the rocket to work normally, and within a few minutes successfully sent the satellite into its intended orbit.Afterwards, I was thinking, if the satellite was not successfully launched, I probably jumped off the cliff outside the base.Why, afraid of going back and being ashamed. "

"Hehe, such an interesting thing happened to you." Jiang Chen and the others laughed.

And Mr. Meng shook his head and said: "People of your generation can't understand the sense of honor we had at that time. And in the environment at that time, it was really not easy to get a satellite. We sent it to When it was launched, it was like sending a child to Beijing for an exam. But we didn’t send the child to Beijing. That kind of feeling is really desperate. Of course, compared with us, the risk is greater It’s Lao Huang and the others, every time it’s really like going through a life-and-death test. It’s okay to succeed, everyone will breathe a sigh of relief, but in case something happens, Lao Huang and the others may not be able to get out for several months. So, He should be the one with the most pressure right now."

Jiang Chen and the others looked at Mr. Huang, who was sitting on a chair looking at various statistics and listening to reports, while smoking a cigarette.Although he looked very calm, one could imagine how much pressure Huang Lao was under at this moment.

"Troubleshooting the leakage of the rocket projectile body, all the data of the projectile body inspection are normal!" A report from the front-line launch tower came on the radio.

"Yeah!" Everyone cheered, and Huang Lao heaved a sigh of relief, and then replied: "Continue to refuel, and the time schedule remains the same."

"understand!"

After giving the order, Mr. Huang looked at the happy staff and said, "Continue to work, our battle is not over yet."

"Yes!" The staff responded one after another, and then continued to get busy.

(End of this chapter)