The Immortal Warrior: From Reverse Engineering to Forging Swords for the Country

After finishing his phone call with Chen Kainan, Zhang Zhipeng decided to write a Weibo post to respond to Nelson.

I have to respond. The other party is so arrogant, I must give him a blow.

Zhang Zhipeng thought about it for a moment and started writing his Weibo post.

The main content of his Weibo post is as follows:

"NASA President Nelson said they will test-launch the Starship Heavy on December 2002, 12."

"He looked confident and felt like he was doing it again."

"Many netizens sent me private messages asking me how I would respond to this matter."

"Of course I want to bless them."

"Here, I will also give my own prophecy."

"First of all, I think NASA has been pushed to the brink of a cliff with this launch."

“They’re eager to turn things around.”

"If they don't come up with a heavy-lift rocket, then all the grand plans Mr. Nelson described will be completely ruined."

"I predict that they will overcome all the difficulties and finally carry out the launch."

“Second, their rockets will be able to fly.”

"Their rocket will fly for a short while after it takes off. It may even reach near the planned orbit!"

"However, their launch vehicle will eventually disintegrate and explode in the air, and finally become a pile of space junk!"

"They could even bring down the half-built International Space Station and render it completely obsolete."

"Well! In the end, I hope NASA can finally slap me in the face with success."

"Don't let me predict the future."

"That would be embarrassing for me. I was just talking nonsense."

"Finally, I wish you good luck!"

"Well! Actually, you don't have to go through all that trouble to launch a heavy rocket. You can do this in a Hollywood movie."

"People all over the world are waiting to eat your melons! You must show some courage!"

After Zhang Zhipeng posted this Weibo, it naturally became a hot search on major Internet platforms around the world again.

This Weibo post then triggered an Internet carnival.

"Ha! Comrade Zhipeng is so powerful and domineering that he directly predicted the fate of the Starship Heavy Rocket."

"I'm a little curious, why didn't they explode at the beginning, but exploded when they were almost on the planned orbit?"

"The above is mainly because, although NASA is already too lame, they still have some strength. Their current problem is that their basic industry is not doing well, and under the control of capitalists, in order to save costs, they will have all kinds of minor problems. These minor problems may not be fatal at first, but they will become apparent after the rocket has been flying for a while."

"The explanation above is really brilliant. I think Zhang Zhipeng must have seen this clearly and made his own judgment."

"Haha! It seems that, apart from the eagle itself and its dog, no one has any hope for them anymore!"

"My biggest concern now is that NASA will eventually cancel the launch in order to hide its mistakes."

"Don't worry about that. I think NASA is really in a difficult situation this time, so it has to make up its mind."

"NASA now has no other options except talking big."

"I feel like they will probably lose all chances to talk big in the future. Because, if they have any dignity, they will be more low-key after losing again and again."

"The above person is assuming that NASA has dignity. But in this world, they never have dignity."

……

After Nelson posted his Weibo, he was actually very nervous.

He longed to regain some face.

Longing to have a large number of fans supporting me.

But Nelson didn't wait for a miracle.

After he sent out that tweet, he was still besieged and ridiculed.

After Nelson read a few of them, he couldn't stand it anymore.

Because he found that no one believed what he said.

Everyone thinks NASA is at its wit's end.

No one believed that the launch of the Starship heavy-lift rocket would be successful.

"Fuck!" Nelson cursed angrily and turned off his Twitter account.

There are actually not many days left until December 12rd.

These days, Nelson personally calls Boeing's Wolfe every day to urge him to do the job.

Wolfe is actually also preparing very seriously for the launch of the Starship rocket.

He naturally also knew that the successful launch of the Starship Heavy rocket could actually relieve some pressure on Boeing itself.

Boeing is not in a good situation right now.

It can even be said that their situation is a bit bad.

Boeing was once the world's most powerful manufacturer of civil airliners.

Of course, it is also a powerful arms dealer.

Boeing has also been performing poorly recently.

Its passenger aircraft are actually very old.

The passenger aircraft models it currently produces are actually from the 80s.

But it is already the 21st century!

The intelligent era is coming.

Even its passenger aircraft are now out of date.

It can only be patched up on the original old model aircraft.

Unfortunately, after Eagle embarked on the path of financialization, companies like Boeing, which were controlled by technical personnel, are now gradually controlled by Huaer Street.

Its president, Wolff, is not a technical person at all, but a financier.

Wolfe also doesn't care about Boeing's technological development at all.

What he cares more about now is actually Boeing's stock price.

In order to make the stock look better, he did a lot of weird things, such as cutting costs to seek profits!
There are also things like stock repurchases, large dividends, etc., which happen frequently.

These are all financial operations.

Wolfe thought that since it was a passenger plane, it didn't matter even if the technology was a little worse.

As long as there is no competitor in this world, Boeing will surely continue to sell well.

However, what Wolfe did not expect was that his wishful thinking was wrong.

Because of its technological stagnation, continuous simplification in order to reduce costs, and the recruitment of unqualified workers, the end result was that the quality of Boeing products declined rapidly.

The quality control of the products is even worse.

Under such circumstances, their planes frequently had accidents.

Almost every once in a while, a major accident occurs.

As a result, Boeing's reputation has declined significantly.

Coupled with competition from Airbus in Europe and large aircraft from China, their days are becoming increasingly difficult.

It turned out that Wolfe wanted to rely on hype to boost the stock price. He believed that as long as the stock price was high enough, it would be a victory for him as the president.

But now, not only have sales and reputation both suffered losses, but even the stock price has collapsed.

This was unacceptable to Wolfe.

Wolfe's position is not stable now.

Many shareholders believe that Wolff should be replaced.

In order to save himself, Wolfe now has to try to reverse the situation that is currently unfavorable to him.

If the Starship heavy-lift launch vehicle can be successful this time, then perhaps Boeing's previous decline can be completely reversed.

Wolf personally commanded the Starship rocket team to accelerate the improvement of the Starship rocket.

He ordered that at all costs, the problems that had been discovered with the Starship rocket must be improved and completely remedied.

These problems mainly include two points: engine hidden dangers and some parts are defective and made of poor materials. However, what makes Wolf feel helpless is that it is not so easy to solve this problem.

Because they have banned cooperation with Chinese-related companies in the past.

As for Eagle, it is unable to find the corresponding parts supplier in China.

Previously, they had hoped to import from India or Europe.

Later, in order to save costs, they chose San Ge's company to cooperate.

As a result, problems arose. The third brother had poor ability in manufacturing precision parts, and he was even more unscrupulous and crazy in counterfeiting.

This was the main reason why their rockets always had major problems before, so that they didn't dare to launch at all.

Wolfe was a little embarrassed.

He called a meeting and asked other senior executives if they had any solutions.

A technician told Wolfe: This problem is a systemic problem! It can be said that all the Starship rockets built before have serious problems!
To ensure that everything goes smoothly, all the previously manufactured rockets need to be abandoned and rebuilt according to the most stringent standards.

The advice given by the technicians is: start over!
If you really do that, it will be completely over!
Because, damn Nelson has already announced the date for the Starship launch!
The whole world is waiting for this launch from NASA.

If they have to start all over again, given Boeing's current poor performance, it will probably take another two to three years to see any results.

How could Wolfe wait that long?
So, Wolfe’s suggestion is: improve on the existing rocket!
If India’s spare parts are not good enough, then use those from Europe.

However, many of the parts used to launch rockets on the European continent are actually imported from China.

In other words, Europe is now completely dependent on China.

"Mr. Wolfe, the advice I want to give you now is that you should order some precision parts from China," said a technician.

Wolfe was furious when he heard this: "Fuck!"

“How can we possibly cooperate with them?”

"We have already blocked them!"

"We are in competition with them now!"

"This kind of cooperation is simply impossible!"

Someone else suggested: "Perhaps, we can do this through a white glove company in Europe."

"Mr. Wolfe, the situation is very urgent now. We must make a decision early."

Wolfe hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Perhaps we can still cooperate with Big Bear."

"They actually have very impressive aerospace technology."

Everyone at the meeting felt that this was a highly feasible solution.

So Wolfe personally contacted Big Bear’s aerospace department.

Big Bear was also in a good mood.

However, Daxiong directly offered a high price.

But at this point, Wolfe had nothing else to do.

I can only agree with a pinch of my nose.

The news that Boeing chose to cooperate with Daxiong and purchase some of their key components soon reached Zhang Zhipeng's ears.

Some people believe that after Boeing cooperates with Big Bear, the success rate of Boeing's rocket launch will be greatly improved.

However, Zhang Zhipeng just laughed it off.

There is no doubt that Big Bear’s aerospace technology is absolutely amazing.

But Boeing is just patching it now!

No matter how good the patch is, if the inside is a mess, it cannot save the opponent from failure.

However, NASA and Boeing apparently don't see it that way.

They are also desperately promoting their upcoming Starship heavy-lift launch mission.

Moreover, the exaggerations are getting more and more outrageous, and have even linked this launch to the fate and safety of mankind.

In this way, Boeing and NASA boasted about themselves while finally completing the repair of the Starship launch vehicle with the help of Big Bear's parts.

After the repair was completed, it was already December 2002, 12.

It was already a bit tight until their scheduled launch date.

The technicians requested to delay the launch for a few days.

But Wolfe thinks, damn, you have been building up momentum for so long, the whole world is waiting to see the results, and you suddenly postpone the launch?

This will definitely arouse more people's ridicule!

Therefore, the launch date must not be postponed!

NASA certainly doesn't want to postpone it.

why?
Because the pressure they are facing now is also quite enormous.

They don't just face competition from Longguo Aerospace.

They also face pressure from within.

Those eagle elites have also placed a heavy bet on NASA.

They are eager to repeat a miracle: winning the space competition and achieving final victory.

Boeing and NASA were forced to do the same thing.

The Starship Heavy rocket stages are transported to the Cape Canaveral launch site.

The experimental module of the International Space Station was also transported there.

Nelson came to the launch center in person.

Here he met Wolfe.

The two men stood together in the huge rocket assembly workshop.

The huge Starship launch vehicle has been assembled.

It is more than 60 meters high.

It uses liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen engines.

The rocket is said to have a lift of 2700 tons and can carry up to 25 tons near the Earth.

"Mr. Wolfe, are you sure there is no problem with the Starship rocket?" Nelson couldn't help but ask in the end.

Wolfe nodded confidently and said, "Absolutely foolproof!"

"You know, our technicians have conducted the most detailed inspections! Everything is perfect!"

Nelson was still a little worried.

After all, Wolfe was not a professional at all.

His major is finance and stock market operations.

If you ask him technical questions, wouldn't that be a waste of time?
In fact, Nelson himself is not a technical background. He was an astronaut in his early years.

Later, he attached himself to the powerful and eventually became the president of NASA.

Today's Eagles are basically laymen leading professionals.

They have basically been taken over by the financial tycoons.

All their actions are actually to satisfy the financial tycoons' greed for more wealth!

"God bless, I hope the launch can be completed smoothly."

"We can't afford to lose anymore."

Nelson said with a wry smile.

Wolfe smiled and said, "Mr. Nelson, I really can't understand why you look so sad."

"Don't tell me you don't trust our technology that much?"

“I just pray nothing happens,” Nelson said.

"Today's launch has attracted the attention of the whole world!"

“We even sold the global live broadcast rights to several TV stations.”

"If we fail this time, all our past glory will be completely lost!" (End of this chapter)