My Age of Investment - Chapter 1539 Soar

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   Chapter 1539 Soaring into the sky

   Three days later.

   Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

  The observation site three kilometers away from the launch site was full of guests and reporters who came to watch the ceremony.

The guests included Jack Ma, Zhou Hongyi, Huang Xin and other entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs. They were all invited by Xia Jingxing to watch the new poses. If the rocket accidentally hit them, China's Internet might collapse half of the sky. So Xia Jingxing specially arranged for them to stand farther away, and they couldn't afford to be hit by the rocket.

  Reporters are mainly from some large traditional media, three major portals, and even reporters from Penguin.com are also invited.

   A dozen or so blond and blue-eyed foreigners were standing among the black-haired and dark-eyed Chinese reporters. They were reporters from the United States and Europe.

   Xia Jingxing did not invite this group of people, I don’t know where they heard the wind and came to the door.

   After consulting the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Xia Jingxing agreed to the request of the group of foreign journalists to watch the ceremony.

   However, these people are foreign guests after all, so Jiuquan Base specially arranged a team of security personnel without uniforms to protect their safety.

  It is not the first time that foreign journalists have entered the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The base was limited to foreign media many years ago. The purpose is naturally to increase international popularity and facilitate international business.

   At this time, the foreign reporters' attention was obviously not on the team of aggressive security guards beside them. After they arrived at the observation point, they immediately set up long guns and short cannons and aimed at the big guy three kilometers away.

Looking along the line of sight of this group of people, on the boundless wasteland, a launcher as tall as a dozens-story building stood quietly. In its "arm", it was a huge white. Rocket.

This rocket is very different from the Long March series launched in the past. Although the fairing, that is, the arrow on the top of the rocket, is also printed with a bright red flag, but the middle and lower parts of the rocket are printed with Fuxing Aerospace respectively. Logo and the English code of Wanhu No. 1 - WH-1.

   At the same time, the "stout" body of Wanhu No. 1 is also very different from the Long March series of rockets, which have always been known for being slender and slender. They look a bit silly and rough.

   This difference also aroused heated discussions among foreign journalists present.

   "Guys, don't you think it looks a bit like a barbell with two thick ends and a thin middle? And there is no bundled booster, which is very different from the Long March family series."

   "Maybe we all guessed wrong, Fuxing Aerospace did not receive official technical support from China Aerospace during the rocket development process."

   "I heard that Daeron poached thousands of technical experts from Russia and Ukraine, maybe it's their own rockets."

   "The rocket was designed and assembled by themselves, but the engine must be from Russia. I got the exact news that Fuxing Aerospace purchased three RD-120 rocket engines."

  …

The rocket is still doing the final preparations before the launch. A group of foreign reporters took this opportunity to discuss. Inside and outside, they all doubted the technical strength of Fuxing Aerospace, not because of the help of the official Chinese aerospace force. Just take the purchase of Russian engines and the introduction of foreign technical experts.

   Jack Ma's listening and English are very good. After hearing the discussion of the group of foreign reporters, he pouted and said, "These foreigners are typically looking at people through the cracks in the door.

   The development path of China's private aerospace enterprises is not easy. It is normal to introduce foreign advanced technology research, and then introduce the old and bring forth the new, and walk out of its own characteristic development path.

   The history of our country's spaceflight development has roughly gone through such a process, and now we're all spacewalking, but who would have thought that fifty years ago we were still living by tightening our belts. "

As someone who has studied abroad, Huang Xin's English is not bad. He also felt a little uncomfortable when he heard the "impoliteness" of these foreigners just now. At this time, after hearing Jack Ma complaining, he immediately stood up and echoed: " President Ma is right, aerospace is an industry that brings together top human technologies, and there is no complete innovation.

   There is an opportunity to use Russian and Ukrainian technology and scientific researchers, why not? It might save a few years of development time.

   If the rocket launch is successful this time, President Xia can slap Musk in the face.

   Yesterday, I went over the wall to look at Twitter, and Musk was talking nonsense there, saying that Fuxing Space could not be successfully launched in one go. "

  Jackma felt very strange after listening to it, and immediately asked: "Is it the Musk of SpaceX?"

   "Yes, that's him. His Nikola car can't sell Mr. Xia's Tesla, so let's take aerospace as an example."

  Jack Ma shook his head again and again, looking down on Musk, and said: "I heard that SpaceX has hired a lot of technical experts from NASA, and has also received a lot of hidden support from NASA.

   Even so, SpaceX’s fourth rocket launch was a success. "

   Zhou Hongyi and Jake Ma have never dealt with each other. Seeing Jake Ma's disgusting way of pointing out the country, he immediately jumped out and demolished the stage. He said mockingly, "Somehow they have succeeded now. Is it your turn to give a layman's comment?"

Jack Ma and Huang Xin chatted more and more speculatively. He felt that this young man looked quite pleasing to the eye, and he had already made up his mind to find an opportunity to invest in Meituan later. At this time, he suddenly heard Zhou Hongyi's words, and immediately accepted it. With a smile on his face, he replied coldly: "I'm talking about Musk and President Xia, why are you here to join in the fun?

   Musk cursed Mr. Xia for the failure of the launch, can I still support Mr. Xia?

   Yidan means, Xia is better than Musk, will the launch fail? "

Zhou Hongyi secretly scolded Jack Ma for being insidious and vicious. In just a few words, he pushed him to the opposite of President Xia. He just couldn't stand Jack Ma's pretentiousness. Where is Musk's loyalty? Fans, is he a disciple of the Xia clan?

As a minority shareholder of Fuxing Industrial Group, Chen Hong is also considered to be half the host. Seeing that the two were pinching, he hurriedly stood up and said, "Okay, okay, two less words, so many reporters are here, don't Show them the joke.

  SpaceX entered the game a few years earlier than Fuxing Space, and it is an indisputable fact that the technology is ahead of us.

   But now that Fuxing Aerospace has chosen to join this space race, it will not let SpaceX specialize in the former.

   The days ahead are still long, so let’s just look down slowly. "

Chen Hong's identity has changed from what it used to be. As a shareholder of Domestic Holdings, Fuxing Industry, and Envision Financial Holdings, he is also a good friend of Xia Jingxing, so Jack Ma and Zhou Hongyi both gave him face, and after glaring at each other. , they all kept their mouths shut and stopped arguing.

   Then, Chen Hong asked the assistant beside him to hand over a toy box, and then he unpacked it in front of everyone, took out the model rocket parts in it, and began to assemble it on site.

  First-stage rocket, second-stage rocket, third-stage rocket... Through the hands of Chen Hong, a rocket model about half a meter long was quickly assembled.

His hand immediately attracted the attention of the people present. Even Jack Ma and Zhou Hongyi couldn't help but craned their necks to look at this beautifully crafted model, wondering if they could get the same model from somewhere and take it home. Go play with the kids.

Noticing the expressions and movements of the people around him, Chen Hongchao smiled at them, "This is a demo product, and the employees of Fuxing Aerospace will give everyone the same souvenir later to play in the office or take it home for the children to play with, It's up to everyone, in short, we won't let everyone go home empty-handed."

   After finishing speaking, Chen Hong pointed to the rocket in his hand and began to introduce various performance parameters of Wanhu No. 1 to everyone.

   "Wanhu-1 is a small liquid-fueled launch vehicle. The design plan was completed independently by Fuxing Aerospace, and the final assembly was completed by the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center...

  The rocket has a total length of 26.77 meters and consists of three sub-stages.

   The first stage, which is the bottom stage of the rocket, has a diameter of 3.35 meters and a thrust of 84.7 tons. It is equipped with an RD-120 liquid oxygen kerosene engine;

The diameter of the second stage is 2.25 meters and the thrust is 18.37 tons;

The    three sub-stages have a diameter of 2.25 meters and a thrust of 0.68 tons.

The take-off mass of the    rocket is 62 tons, the take-off thrust-to-weight ratio is 1.37, the carrying capacity of the low-Earth orbit is 1 ton, and the maximum carrying capacity of the 700-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit can reach 0.75 tons. "

   After the introduction, Chen Hong found that the faces of the people around him were dazed, and he didn't seem to understand?

   He couldn't help showing a smile at the corner of his mouth. When he arrived at Jiuquan two days ago, his reaction when he heard Xia Jingxing reporting these parameters was no better than this group of people.

   But that didn't stop him from acting like he was in front of this group of aerospace laymen like him.

  Chen Hong cleared his throat and said, "These technical parameters are confusing to hear, and I don't know what kind of concept they are. Well, let me give two more examples, and everyone will have a reference after listening to them.

  The Falcon 1 rocket launched by Musk, everyone should have heard of it? It's the rocket that failed three times in a row.

   Its arrow body is 1.7 meters in diameter, 21.3 meters in height, 38.55 tons in take-off mass, 0.67 tons in low-Earth orbit, and 0.43 tons in sun-synchronous orbit.

The performance indicators of the Wanhu-1 launch vehicle must exceed those of the Falcon 1 by 30% to 40%.

  The SpaceX team of 500 people took six years to finally succeed in the fourth launch in September 2008, sending a 165-kilogram virtual payload into low-Earth orbit.

   Last July, Falcon 1 carried out its fifth and final launch, as well as its first real commercial launch, successfully placing a Malaysian satellite into low-Earth orbit.

   In June and December this year, the Falcon 9 rocket carried out two low-Earth orbit launches, both of which were successful.

   Falcon 9 is a big guy, temporarily ahead of Wanhu 1. "

  …

   When Chen Hong was doing rocket science for many invited guests, Xia Jingxing also introduced products to his grandfather and grandma at another observation point.

   "Dongfanghong-1 was sent to the sky by the Long March-1 carrier rocket 40 years ago. The weight of this satellite is only 356 kilograms, and our Wanhu-1 can send a full 2,000 kilograms of satellites to the sky."

  Xia Jingxing said and made gestures, and finally let the two old people understand the "advanced" of Wanhu No. 1.

   Looking at the tall rocket standing a few kilometers away, Xia Shihe nodded and finally showed a satisfied smile. Sun Tzu didn't read this book in vain. Although the neutron bomb was not built, it was a rocket that big.

   "Can this rocket of yours send astronauts to the sky?"

The old man's words stopped Xia Jingxing, and after a while he shook his head, "In a few years, in a few years, medium and large launch vehicles with heights of 40 to 50 meters, 70 to 80 meters, or even hundreds of meters will be built. , this is just a small rocket, specially used to run "short-distance transportation".

   And the rocket launched this time is just an experimental product for technical verification. "

   "Then your rocket isn't that powerful. It's just the level of technology in the 1970s and 1980s! I'm afraid the gap is even bigger than that of the Yankees."

  The old man deliberately made a look of disgust, making Xia Yuan and Zhang Yuqiong beside him laugh, and the uncle's family also laughed.

   "What are you laughing at? Did I say it wrong? The country was able to send astronauts to the sky seven years ago. You can't do this, it must be backward in technology.

   Americans would have landed on the moon decades ago. "

  Xia Yuan said with a smile: "Dad, everything has to be done step by step, and rocket research and development is a rigorous job, so you can't be in a hurry."

   "I just encouraged him."

   After saying that, the old man patted Xia Jingxing on the shoulder and solemnly warned: "You did a good job! But we have to make persistent efforts to make more contributions to the country, and at the same time surpass the Yankees!"

"Old man, you don't understand anything, so don't talk too much here." Grandma Xia Jingxing was very protective of her grandson. At this time, she was looking at her husband with a displeased expression. If you talk more, your ears will be twisted off. stance.

   "Why don't I understand? When the Dongfanghong No. 1 went to the sky, the radio in the village announced countless times, and I still remember the scene of countless people cheering in the fields.

   In the blink of an eye, forty years have passed, and the country is now developing better and better. "

   After sighing, the old man pointed his finger at the rocket in the distance and asked, "How long has it been on fire? My feet are numb."

  Xia Jingxing looked down at his watch and said, "Come on, the fuel will be filled soon."

   "Why didn't you refuel earlier? It means that your preparations are still not in place, and there is room for improvement."

Xia Jingxing was a bit dumbfounded, so he had to patiently explain to the old man that adding low-temperature fuel too early would damage the instruments in the rocket, and a small omission would cause the rocket to fail. Neither early nor too late.

This rocket launch was escorted by experienced experts from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. If Fuxing Aerospace wants to build its own rocket launch base in the future, it must form a relevant ground supporting team and accumulate launch experience from scratch. , This experience is not easy to accumulate, and the cost is very high.

   After a while, Xia Jingxing received a notification that the rocket had entered the final countdown for takeoff.

   Hearing that the rocket will be officially ignited in five minutes, Xia Jingxing, who was originally calm, also became nervous.

   Can it be successful in one go?

   To be honest, he didn't have much confidence in his heart, but he still pretended to be calm.

   He suddenly regretted inviting so many relatives and friends to watch the ceremony, in case he failed...

   As soon as this thought came into his mind, Xia Jingxing quickly snuffed it out, he couldn’t go and curse himself, he had to think about it!

He stared at the rocket a few kilometers away, thinking to himself, he must fight, the old boy Musk is waiting to see the joke of Fuxing Aerospace, maybe even the Twitter content has been edited .

   Seeing his son's nervousness, Xia Yuan came over and said, "Remember, this launch is just the beginning. No matter what the result is, Fuxing Aerospace will continue to move forward."

  Xia Jingxing understood his father's subtext, this was to make himself think about it, not to take this launch result too seriously.

  Even if the rocket launch fails, it doesn't matter, Fuxing Aerospace will not give up its progress because of a small failure, and there are still a lot of opportunities in the future.

If this launch is successful, it doesn't mean much, because it only represents the beginning, and there are more difficult difficulties such as one arrow with multiple stars, manned spaceflight, and medium and large rockets that need to be overcome one by one, and they are also faced with the same challenges. possibility of failure.

   Aerospace is such a never-ending industry, there is no peak, only a mountain is higher than a mountain.

   Being enlightened by his father like this, Xia Jingxing's mind instantly relaxed a lot, and responded with a smile, "Yes, you must have a big heart to play this."

   "You have to have great perseverance!"

   Just as Xia Shihe is proud and proud of his grandson, Xia Yuan is also very pleased with his son's achievements.

   Regardless of whether this rocket launch is successful or not, it is already quite remarkable to be the first to transport a private rocket into the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

   In the command and control hall a few kilometers away, a group of base staff wearing white lab coats and anti-static uniforms who look like doctors are sitting at their workstations with serious expressions, waiting for Commander Zero's instructions.

   "10, 9, 8...3, 2, 1, fire!"

   After receiving the instruction, the rocket controllers in the room immediately pressed the ignition button.

   At the outdoor launch site, with a loud roar, thick smoke instantly rose around the launch pad, and the Wanhu-1 carrier rocket began to lift off the ground with a hot and dazzling tail flame...

  Everyone stared at the giant arrow that shot straight into the sky and flew higher and higher.

   This is the first private rocket launched by China, representing that China's commercial aerospace is entering a new era.

   Can this little rocket, which carries the hopes of countless people, really soar into the sky?

   The rocket is a bit complicated. I have been checking materials and studying for the past two days, so I have delayed the update. I am sorry for the book friends.

  

  

   (end of this chapter)

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