Chapter 221 There Will Be some Problems

"Mr. Lin, sit here."

"Um, thank you."

In the launch center, Lin Ju sat in the VIP viewing seats as a spectator for the first time.

Before in Qiongzhou, Xinyuan had been sending all kinds of rockets up the road one after another, while he was in front of the console, but now it was finally the other way around.

It is now 6.30 in the morning, and the Long March 10 rocket has been brought to the launch station by the movable launch pad, preparing to launch at 9 o'clock that day.

As the core of the Dawn Plan, Long March 10 received the largest publicity resources for its launch. Four CCTV stations began live broadcasting the entire event from 6 o'clock, and the online channels of major official media also opened live broadcasts.

By 7 a.m., the cumulative number of viewers on various platforms had exceeded 130 million, accounting for about 10% of the country's population.

Globally, it is estimated that at least 300 million people watch it through online platforms.

If it were an SLS rocket launch, there might not be that many people watching it, but the space agency comes with some kind of mental BUFF bonus. After all, in people’s minds, the distance between CASA and NACA is quite huge.

As a result, CASA’s moon landing rocket flew first? Eh, that doesn't seem right.

China Aerospace is actually ahead of Aramco!

Will the Long March 10 suddenly explode in just 10 months from project establishment to first flight?

With all kinds of questions and expectations, the number of people watching the first flight of Long March 10 broke the record, even surpassing the live broadcast of the Apollo moon landing. Of course, the current communication media cannot be generalized to that of decades ago.

Of course, in addition to online, the number of foreigners coming to the event in person has also increased dramatically.

Mike Griffin stood with Aldrin on the beach again.

The last time Xinyuan No. 2A made its maiden flight, Buzz Aldrin came to China and did not leave. He continued to wait for the first flight of Xinyuan No. 3.

Griffin had nothing to do anyway, so he ate and drank with the old man on the mainland. He was planning to go back at the end of July, and heard that the Long March 10th was about to fly.

This was something we couldn’t miss, so the two of them stayed for a while, until today.

Looking at the crowds on the beach that were even larger than the previous two times, Aldrin stood on the balcony of the small loft they rented in advance and said with emotion:

"In May, June, and August, the Chinese will launch three consecutive rockets capable of performing moon landing missions this year. This is more powerful than Aramco during the Apollo program."

Griffin: "Now they are the world's largest industrial country, with industrial output accounting for one-third of the world's. This is unprecedented."

Griffin has been shocked to the point of numbness by the three giant rocket launches from Qiongzhou, but this time he is the most worried, because the Long March 10 is the main force in the competition. If the Long March 10 succeeds in its first flight this time, it means that NACA's Facts lag behind.

His time in office was at the turn of the century. Although NACA's funding had been severely cut by that time, NACA's power was still there and he proposed the continuation of the "Constellation" plan.

The decline of NACA is obvious to all, but what does a Chinese proverb say? A skinny elephant is bigger than a horse. NACA should not be left behind like this.

"Su Qing is fine, Su Qing is fine"

"Universe Bureau Ten Thousand Years Old!"

"Long March No. 10 No. 1 Ichiban"

"アジア人のlunar landingです"

Griffin and his thoughts were interrupted by a suddenly louder shout, and then he looked down in disgust.

I don't know when a large number of islanders gathered here. They held banners and blessed the Long March on the 10th. They mixed in a few Chinese sentences from time to time, and the noise made people feel irritated.

But Aldrin didn't have any worries. For a man in his 80s, his not very sensitive ears can filter out most of the noise.

He just slowly lowered his body, approached the rented telescope, and pointed it at the rocket on the launch station.

"Yuanwang 3 has arrived at the designated location, communication is normal, please give instructions!"

"Continue to monitor and maintain status!"

"yes!"

Yun Hongjun put on his headphones and put his hands on the console. As the deputy commander-in-chief of this launch mission, he constantly checked the status of the rocket and telemetry system, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

There was still more than an hour before the launch, and Yun Hongjun, who had only slept for more than two hours, had red eyes, but he still carried out various procedures in an orderly manner.

On the huge screen in front of him, the Long March 10 has been filled with more than 3,000 tons of fuel. The fuel tank storing liquid oxygen is decompressed through a small opening. The vaporized liquid oxygen freezes the water vapor in the air. It looks like There are several more holes in the rocket body, and white gas is constantly sprayed out.

The boss and Lin Ju stood not far away and clearly saw Yun Hongjun's condition, but did not step forward.

The former sighed:

"The mission of Long March 10 is too tight. Seriously speaking, the proportion of new technologies is as high as more than 75%. In theory, it should not be done... He was also ordered to build the rocket in times of crisis. It is already amazing that he was able to build the rocket.

If I were to evaluate this rocket before, it would be considered a success if it did not explode on the launch pad. "

Lin Ju: "But Long March 10 has to succeed."

"Yeah, it can't fail."

The boss clasped his hands tightly and could already feel his palms filled with sweat.

With half an hour left before the launch, Lin Ju and the overly young Serev walked out of the range of the live camera and quietly discussed the launch of Long March 10.

Lin Ju: "How high do you think the success rate of Long March 10's first launch is?"

Shelyov: "If it was my time, I would definitely not be optimistic. The time is too short, only 10 months. This is a rocket with a takeoff thrust of 5,100 tons. If I was forced to design and manufacture a rocket of this size within a year, I would rather be demoted to teach."

Lin Ju: "By the way, what did you think of N1 back then?"

As the rocket that carried the dream of the Union to land on the moon, the catastrophic accident of four consecutive explosions completely shattered its dream of landing on the moon. Many people said that it might be different if Korolev was still alive, but now we can ask the real person on the spot.

Shelyov also knew about the development of the Union aerospace after his death. Even if some places were vague, he could know what happened. When talking about N1, he just shook his head:

"I don't like highly polluting propellants, so I designed N1, but when I died, N1 was just a draft, far from being officially implemented. Now it seems that with the technology at that time, N1 is indeed unlikely to succeed.

But now I think that my thinking was too limited at that time. It was incorrect to design a single-rocket rocket based on Saturn V. It was right to stick to our bundled tradition.

N Although K15 has only 150 tons of thrust, it is not necessary to arrange so many on the same rocket body. If each booster is equipped with four NK15s, and then six are bundled, plus four core stages, although 28 engines are still a lot, the vibration is far less intense.

This way, the near-Earth orbit capacity is about 100 tons, which is enough for us to land on the moon. "

Lin Ju nodded. It is true that the rocket ideas of the Alliance and China and Amei are quite different. The former two like to bundle large-thrust liquid boosters, while the latter either have a single core stage with large thrust or bundle large-thrust solid thrust.

If N1 also bundles multiple boosters, at least the situation is not so bad.

"As for the Long March 10, it should be fine if I evaluate it with the manufacturing capabilities of our base, but from the perspective of traditional aerospace development, even if they have enough safety redundancy, I still think there will be some problems. "