Black tech predators

Chapter 276 [Heaven Blade Can]

The next day, under the emergency operation of the Wujiao Building, a large number of low-orbit satellites were temporarily launched by military rockets, allowing the satellite network in North America to quickly recover and cover the signal interruption area, reducing economic losses as much as possible.

At 15:22 pm EST that day, SpaceX's flight control center.

The Falcon rocket that has urgently entered the launch procedure has been sent to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, and the countdown to the launch time has entered 10 minutes.

Elon Musk came to the company ahead of schedule, but he was not the rocket launch commander. When he came to the flight control center, the company's technicians were working intensively.

For Musk, today is a very critical event, and it is the same for SpaceX. If it succeeds, it will become a hero in the world. If it fails, the company's reputation will suffer a lot of negative impact.

The launch mission this time is the same as usual, and SpaceX's launch mission is still broadcast live to the outside world.

However, for such a hasty emergency launch mission, Elon Musk was extremely worried, but he had to launch it, and he could only pray that there would be no accidents.

Elon Musk, wearing a gray and white suit, stood with his hips on one side of the flight control center, and the time passed by, and the hall was filled with broadcasting sounds.

"Launch status check complete."

"I'm the flight commander, ready to launch."

"Start the countdown, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four (main engine start), three, two (ignition), one (liftoff)."

At the same time, at the launch site of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, the heavy-duty Falcon rocket carrying the "Dragon" spacecraft slowly lifted off, carrying the hope of rescuing the six astronauts and flying into space.

The Falcon Heavy rocket is not the most powerful rocket in human history, but it is the heaviest rocket that can be used in the world so far. In other words, only SpaceX is capable of this space rescue.

The whole world pins its hopes on SpaceX. You must know that only two of the astronauts above are Americans, and the others are from other countries. It can be said that the company and even Elon Musk are under great pressure. SpaceX If it goes wrong, the six astronauts who are flying away from the earth at high speed will not be saved.

The Falcon rocket lifted off steadily, and the reports from the flight control center did not stop.

"Good thrust."

"All performance indicators are normal."

"Data is normal."

"Rocket performance is stable!"

The entire flight control center immediately ushered in enthusiastic cheers. Hearing this picture as usual, Musk was secretly relieved.

As soon as he was relieved, something bad happened. A data monitoring staff member of the flight control center saw the information on the panel, and suddenly his face changed slightly.

"Commander, the rocket has experienced abnormal oscillation."

"What?"

At this moment, the flight control center was still overwhelmed by the sound of celebration, the person in charge ran over immediately, and the people beside him seemed to have noticed something unusual, and they were at a loss.

"Significant deviations in data detected."

"Already close to the red line, the extension axis has rotated, and the deviation has reached 17.2 degrees."

"The overload of the Falcon rocket has reached 9.2g, and the rocket parameters have been lost. Commander..."

The big screen in the flight control center really captured the picture of the rocket taking off. At this moment, the rocket in the picture suddenly exploded in the air.

"OMG!!"

"NO~~"

The sound of celebration stopped abruptly at the moment when the picture suddenly changed, and was replaced by bursts of subconscious exclamations, and then there was a dead silence in the audience, and many people just stayed where they were at a loss...

What a disastrous moment.

Elon Musk, who looked up at the big screen, stared for two seconds, only two seconds, then retracted his gaze, turned and left the control center silently.

This is a global live broadcast, and the popularity undoubtedly exceeds any event at the current time node. The picture of the rocket blasting off and exploding has also spread to all parts of the world.

All of a sudden, the world was in an uproar, news reports were overwhelming, and the world's mainstream media immediately pushed the news that the Falcon rocket rescue plan was declared bankrupt.

The NASA space agency building was directly besieged by groups of media reporters, including SpaceX. Fortunately, Elon Musk left early, otherwise he would definitely be surrounded by the media.

Compared with NASA and SpaceX, it is not necessary to be blamed, but the pressure on Wujiao Building, especially the space-based weapons project, is overwhelming. It is impossible to get rid of this blame, which has already been criticized. Now that the rescue plan has gone bankrupt, the six astronauts can only wait to die in space. All public opinion is directed at the Tianji weapon project, and they are sprayed to pieces.

Affected by this, the market value of United Technologies Corporation plummeted again that day.

……

Shangdu, Tianqing Industrial Zone, Tianren Project R&D Center.

It is late at night, and Professor Xu and other scientists are also paying attention to this space rescue. What is being played on the screen is a press conference held by a NASA spokesperson, explaining some problems of the launch failure.

Spokesperson: "...the thrust of the launch, coupled with the simultaneous lateral vibration, caused the load to become unbalanced."

Reporter: "Why didn't you find this problem and troubleshoot it during the inspection phase?"

Spokesman: "Because of the launch window, there is a problem of relative speed and distance between the Falcon rocket and the ISS space station. The ISS space station is currently flying away from the earth at a speed of 28409.08 miles per hour. We have to speed up the launch procedure, otherwise We can’t catch up, the time is too long and the distance is longer, and we will still face rescue failure, which is a 100% accurate settlement result.”

Professor Xu turned off the screen, and after a while, another old academician who participated in the Sky Blade project sighed: "It failed..."

"The golden period of the launch window has been missed. Even if there is a second intact rocket, the time is too late."

Professor Xu said: "There are still some. Our Tianren fighter can do it. The data of the Tianren No. [-] fighter has been checked, and everything is normal. Although the Tianren is small, it has monster-level thrust and can completely support the space station. back into Earth orbit."

According to the established plan, the Tianren fighter will conduct its first test flight in a week.

Another professor said: "How is it possible? Skyblade's flight speed is Mach 37, which is 12.5911 km/s, and the current relative speed of the ISS space station is 12.7 km/s. Skyblade will never be able to catch up." , will only get further and further away.”

Professor Xu: "Mach 37 is just the speed under the maximum thrust, but under the afterburner thrust, it can reach the speed of Mach 45. Using the gravitational slingshot effect of the earth, the final speed can reach 15.9941 kilometers per second, catching up with the ISS space station. There's more than enough rubbing."

Another scholar present said with a wry smile: "But the problem is that the 'Heaven Blade Project' is a top-secret plan."

"That is to say, we are the only ones who can rescue the pilots on the ISS space station, and once the rescue starts, the 'Skyblade Project' will be exposed... But I think we should jointly petition to the superiors to intervene in this rescue. Apart from other things, Liu Wei on the space station is an astronaut of our country. There is no way to do nothing, but we have a feasible way now, I don’t understand politics, I am a scientist, I only know that I can’t be indifferent if I have the ability.”

Professor Xu was silent for a moment, looked at the crowd, and said, "Then simply express your opinion, and those who agree to the petition to intervene raise their hands... Unanimously approved, well, then draft an urgent petition as soon as possible, and sign it."

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(End of this chapter)