I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

Deng Lei also felt like he was boiling, and his heart was racing upwards along with the liquid oxygen escaping from Xinyuan No. 2A.

Xinyuan's moon landing team is also being selected. Deng Lei is the only candidate for commander based on his seniority. Although he may not necessarily fly on Xinyuan No. 2A, the mission of Xinyuan No. 2A already represents Xinyuan's landing mission. The monthly plan was officially launched.

This unmanned test launch is a three-stage configuration. Next time, a 50-ton super-large lunar space station will be launched to the moon. It also has 5 node modules and can accommodate 7 astronauts for 30 days. question.

Next to him is Lucian Kononenko, commander of the Alliance TMA-17M mission.

After the TMA-17M spacecraft accident, Kononenko took up a position within the Lucia Space Agency and was responsible for some management work, but he was not isolated from space.

The joint lunar plan reached by Lucia, Italy, Russia and the space agency is to establish a scientific research camp among the three countries on the lunar surface, which can station more than 7 astronauts for a long time.

The space agency provided the rocket and the habitat module was jointly developed by the four countries. Lucia was mainly responsible for the nuclear technology part, while France and Italy provided both technology and money.

This mission is codenamed Chang'e 10 within the space agency and is expected to be completed around 2021.

Around 2020, the space agency will use the Long March 10 rocket to send four astronauts from four countries to the lunar surface to complete the initial manned cooperation.

Of course, it is unknown what price the three countries have paid for this, but the government will certainly not suffer.

Section Chief Oleg Kononen was very eye-catching, his eyes were like two olives squeezed into his face. At this time, he warmly put his arm around Deng Lei's shoulders:

"Deng, your Xinyuan Company's plan is to land on the moon in 2019, one year earlier than our four-nation cooperation. I hope I can see you at the lunar base when I go up."

Deng Lei: "Davarisi, if Lucia is willing to pay 10 billion US dollars, maybe we can land on the moon together."

"Hehehe..."

Just kidding, if Lucia had 10 billion US dollars, she would dare to launch a moon landing mission by herself, okay?

After laughing twice, Oleg said: "Deng, the rocket is about to be launched."

At the launch center, Guo Shen and Changwu Chief Engineer Li Xi were communicating about the design of Xinyuan No. 2A.

Li Xi: "Our new Long March 5 will be released soon. Like the Xinyuan 2A, the CBC configuration of the Long March 15 will look similar to the Xinyuan 2, except that the rocket body will be taller. "

Guo Shen: "It is indeed similar. Even the number of engines is 7, but the thrust of the YF135 is greater than that of the M220, 360 tons of thrust."

Li Xi: "To be precise, the thrust at sea level can reach 372 tons, and the nozzle diameter is only 1.8 meters, which is only slightly worse than your K380. The K380 can actually have a thrust of 400 tons, right?"

Guo Shen: "Yes. In fact, if the pressure of the K380 is increased and the nozzle is enlarged, the thrust of a single unit can be 500 tons, which can catch up with the YF130. But I am curious, how will the Long March 5 be recovered?"

Li Xi: "For the recovery of the grid rudder, the Eighth Institute will find a way to modify a Long March 6 to verify this method. However, now the space agency tends to use a rope net to capture the grid rudder, so that the fault tolerance rate is higher."

Guo Shen: "The performance of the soft materials available to you now is indeed very good. It is actually not much different from our steel bracket recycling, and may even be better."

Li Xi: "I suddenly thought of a scene. One day in the future, the Long March 15 and Xinyuan 2A will be erected together at two work stations. It seems that the Long March 15 will be taller, but the carrying capacity of the Long March 15 is 180 tons, which is much larger than yours. Unless it is the Long March 9, no rocket can surpass it."

Guo Shen was silent for a moment, and Li Xi reacted after more than ten seconds.

The Xinyuan-3 rocket plans to fly this year. It has a low-Earth orbit carrying capacity of 247 tons. Who dares to compete with it for first place?

While the two were talking, Xinyuan No. 2 A had entered the fifteen-minute countdown.

On the beach in the distance, more than 400,000 people looked at Xinyuan No. 2 A with a crooked neck in discomfort.

What is the most uncomfortable part of Xinyuan No. 2A? Although it is placed at an angle of 45 degrees, the painting is still painted in a pattern facing the launch tower, which looks very awkward.

But be awkward, it can't cover up the power of the world's number one rocket.

Griffin and Aldrin relied on their money to buy an open space, but they could still feel the terrifying heat generated by the crowds. The scattered fire brigade was using special nozzles to spray water mist above the crowd to prevent widespread heat stroke.

Griffin: "Buzz, the advancement of technology is sometimes very wonderful. The X2A is larger and heavier than the Saturn V, but I believe that if they were in the same era, the X2A would still be cheaper, even if it is not reused."

Aldrin: "I just know it's going to be great to sit on."

"Countdown, thirty seconds!"

The sound of the launch center came from the broadcast set up on the tourist beach, and the eyes of hundreds of thousands of people were focused on Xinyuan No. 2A.

At the VIP table, Yun Hongjun thought of the Long March 10 and replaced Xinyuan No. 2A with the appearance of the Long March 10 in his mind.

"Ten, nine, eight...three, two, one, light the fire."

In fact, the engine starts to ignite when it reaches 6, and the ignition of Xinyuan No. 2A is also in order.

The 21 engines of the core stage and the two boosters were ignited simultaneously and sequentially, but when the 18 engines were ignited, Xinyuan-2A had already begun to leave the launch pad.

21 engines is a lot, but not too much.

The current record holder for the rocket with the most engines in the world is still the former Alliance's N1 Fireworks, which tops the list with 30 NK-15 engines. The Falcon Heavy is not to be outdone with 27 engines. Compared with 21 engines, it is really Not much.

On the contrary, the space agency has always believed that if the number exceeds 10, it is not stable. Well, NACA thinks so too.

But no matter what they think, now, Xinyuan-2A, which has won the world's No. 1 rocket throne with 21 engines, has begun to rise amidst the collapse of the earth, and the sound of the rocket engine is deafening.

How to describe the movement generated by 4,700 tons of thrust? Just look at the silent crowd in the live news footage.

The microphone detected huge noise and turned down the volume. As a result, the reporter's voice could not be heard, leaving only the processed sound of continuous explosions.

The wakes of 21 liquid oxygen and methane engines mixed together and enveloped the entire launch tower. The strong airflow blew the surrounding trees to almost break, and the spectators on the beach saw ripples in the sea water.

Director Huang of the Launch Management Bureau only took one look at the size of the tail flame before calling the fire brigade. He had previously cut down a circle of surrounding trees to prevent the tail flame from igniting the woods, but he underestimated the result.

The firefighters stood ready and waited for the rocket to get higher before rushing over.

From their perspective, the 21 engine nozzles looked like a short strip of desk lamp rising in the sky, and the engine that spewed out white-blue tail flames was a huge lamp bead.

Xinyuan No. 2A is ascending at 7 times the speed of sound.