The start of science and technology
Chapter 43
"Yes, the news just now, they are broadcasting live on TV." the subordinate replied.
"There was no news before. At this time... They did it on purpose!" Anderson thought and knew that Huaxia space agency had deliberately selected the day of the world aerospace Congress to launch the space station.
This is a terrible time. As we all know, the International Space Station led by the United States will be retired in three years! At that time, if countries wanted to enter space for scientific research, they had to think of new ways.
They wanted to discuss this matter at the world Astronautical Congress. NASA plans to take the lead and let all national astronautics pay together to build a more advanced space station.
Who knows, Huaxia space agency launched their space station at this time! If they succeed, the development trend of this matter will not be controlled by NASA!
"Open it and have a look!" Anderson wanted to know how far Huaxia space agency has achieved and what their space station is like?
The subordinate turns on the smart TV screen. In the picture, there is the Huaxia Changhai satellite launch center. The life space module of Tiangong space station weighing more than 100 tons is installed on the xingkong-2 nuclear powered rocket.
"That''s their space station module?" Anderson''s blue pupils widened sharply. He has worked for NASA for more than ten years and is also one of the participants in the international space station program. He is really familiar with the space station!
He has seen the international space station many times before last day. The module of the International Space Station seems to be much smaller than this!
"How can it be so big? Can they send it up?" Anderson asked in surprise, but his subordinates couldn''t answer him because he didn''t know.
Not only Anderson, but also the aerospace representatives of other countries soon learned the news.
When it was time to discuss space issues, National Space representatives were absent-minded and had been secretly paying attention to the launch of the Huaxia space station.
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Lu Jiajia, a reporter from Huaxia, Changhai satellite launch center and national science and technology channel TV station, is broadcasting the scene in real time.
"You should see that on the launch pad, the life space module in our Tiangong space station has been installed on the XingKong II nuclear thermal rocket, and the power space module has been installed on the aerospace aircraft Xingzhou."
"In one minute, the rocket and space plane will take off and put the ''Tiangong'' space station independently developed and manufactured by China into low earth orbit! After the docking of the two modules, Xingzhou will immediately return to the ground and send the workspace module into space for docking..."
Many viewers are watching this program before TV.
"The child, his father, come quickly and launch the space station!" Du Xingyu''s mother, Li Rong, sat in front of the TV and said hello.
"Come, come!" Du Zekang hurried to the TV with a cup of tea.
After Du Xingyu became a senior rocket engineer of the space agency, the two changed their houses and lived in an advanced community with tight security and spacious rooms.
Du Zekang bought a super large screen Internet TV in order to see it clearly when the spacecraft was launched.
"I want to inform you quickly!" Li Rong quickly sent a message in the group chat of "loving one family" for everyone to watch.
Du Xingyu was not idle at this time. As usual, he started the live broadcast.
In less than ten minutes, the heat in the live broadcasting room exceeded three million and is still rising.
"I knew it must be the space station, otherwise the previous anchor would not send that video!" Wei Xuan, a student of the air force University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, excitedly sent a barrage.
"I want to see the launch!"
"What does the space station look like? I went to the bathroom just now!"
"Heavenly palace, heavenly palace, heavenly palace!"
Du Xingyu pointed the lens at the distant launcher and adjusted the focal length so that the audience can clearly see the space station module on the launcher.
From the appearance, the space station module is a large closed white metal jar, which is not famous.
"We''d better go to the command center, where we can connect astronauts with video to see the situation inside," Du Xingyu said
The space station is also a spacecraft, so astronauts are also arranged in it. This time, four astronauts, two men and two women, will go to heaven, responsible for docking and entry missions. They will stay in space for half a year until the next shift.
In the command center, the four astronauts are ready to stay in the life space module and the power space module respectively.
In addition, there are Tian Qing and Wu Pingfan, two aerospace aircraft pilots responsible for driving the Xingzhou.
"Astronaut Zeng Qi, astronaut Hong Wei, astronaut Wang Tong and astronaut Zhu Nan are ready, please instruct!" in the split screen, four astronauts entering the space station reported.
"Count down 30 seconds, stabilize the spacecraft and get ready to take off!" the commander shouted.
"Copy that!"
"It''s about to take off!" Du Xingyu reminded the audience, "ten, nine, eight... Three, two, one, start!"
The Star II nuclear thermal rocket started one step faster. It spewed out a strong heat wave and rushed into space!
Xingzhou then took off. Its speed in the atmosphere was slower than that of the rocket, but it soon broke through the clouds and accelerated to more than six times the speed of sound!
"Take off!"
"Huacheng No. 3 high school sent a congratulatory message!"
"The heavenly palace is flying!!!"
"Wuhu, take off!"
The audience in the live studio congratulated, but the most surprised was not them, but the aerospace representatives of various countries who were secretly following at the Washington Convention Center.
"China''s Tiangong space station has taken off!"
"China will also have its own space station!"
"That''s amazing! I didn''t think they were doing this project!"
"It''s too early for them to be happy!" Anderson looked at the screen coldly. "The space station has to dock in space and fly stably!"
This process will take several hours.
Anderson returned to the meeting. He was acutely aware that all the discussions had become meaningless nonsense.
The aerospace representatives of these countries have thought that if the heavenly palace is successfully docked, the situation in the aerospace industry will change.
At this juncture, some people are no longer united with NASA!
"That''s all for the discussion in the morning. You can go to dinner and we''ll continue in the afternoon!" Anderson announced that the opening ceremony in the morning was over and the people gathered again in the afternoon.
By the time they had lunch, both xingkong-2 and Xingzhou had flown out of the atmosphere and sent the two modules of the Tiangong space station to the established low earth orbit.
In Huaxia Changhai command center, an electronic prompt sound came.
"The main arrow of XingKong 2 has been separated from the Tiangong life space module, and the ground is ready to recover. The module continues to fly and is expected to reach the target coordinates in two hours."
"Xingzhou is in normal condition. It is expected to reach the target coordinates in 1 hour and 31 minutes."
After entering space, the transportation of Xingzhou is more convenient than XingKong II. After all, the space plane still needs to be in space to give full play to its convenience!