Chapter 297 Tiangong 1 rocket launch
When Wang Bin and his friends came to the South China Sea launch center, Mr. Qin and others were already waiting for Wang Bin's arrival. Seeing Wang Bin's arrival, Mr. Qin immediately walked up and said to Wang Bin: "Mr. Wang, you are finally here. Now the rocket is starting the final detection. If everything goes well, the rocket will be launched on time at 8:00."
In fact, for this rocket launch, it is not only very hard to use the research and development and design personnel of the technology rocket, but also the official inspection team. After all, after the rocket is manufactured and arrived at the launch pad, there are only a few days left before the rocket launch.
So when the rocket arrived and was erected, Tiangong Technology's rocket R&D team and staff on the official launch pad immediately launched the inspection of the rocket. In the past few days, they have basically not had much rest, even at night.
That is why all inspections can be completed before launching today.
After talking to Mr. Qin for a few words, Wang Bin entered the rocket launch site and found Jia Jie and others who were conducting the final test of the rocket. He asked Jia Jie: "Jia Jie, what's the situation? Is the rocket normal? Can I launch it on time?"
"Mr. Wang! So far, we have not found any major problems in the Rockets' detection, but some problems in details have been detected. However, these problems in details have not had a big impact on the Rockets as a whole. We have also dealt with these problems in details, so there is no problem in launching on time!" Jia Jie said.
"That's good! But even in terms of details, you should pay attention to it. After all, this is a rocket. If an accident occurs during launch, the loss will be immense! Not to mention other things, the price of this rocket alone is as high as hundreds of millions of yuan. If the official deep space communication satellite is added, the price will at least double.
So when checking, you must pay more attention to the details, after all, details determine success or failure.
Internationally, many rocket launch accidents are due to details problems with the engine." Wang Bin nodded and said.
"Okay Mr. Wang! We will pay more attention to details in the future, and strive to ensure that every rocket will not have any problems after it is designed and manufactured!" Jia Jie said.
After hearing this, Wang Bin nodded without saying a word, because he knew very well that it was impossible for rockets to be 100% perfect. After all, a rocket is composed of many parts, and so many parts cannot be 100% perfect.
Of course, since Wang Bin and the Tiangong Technology rocket are just hydrogen and oxygen rockets, the technical difficulty and complexity are much simpler, and the chance of failure is naturally much lower.
If it is a multi-stage bundled rocket, the technical difficulty is high.
Multi-stage rockets are composed of several stages, and each stage has its own independent engine and fuel. The purpose of this is naturally to improve the rocket's carrying capacity, the rocket's flight speed and flight capabilities.
During the flight of a multi-stage rocket, the first one to start is naturally the tail-end engine, so generally, the tail-end engine has the greatest thrust. In many cases, the tail-end engine is not only one engine, but has multiple rocket engines working at the same time.
When the fuel of the first-stage rocket at the tail end is exhausted, it will be separated by a separator, and the previous-stage rocket begins to work. In this way, it can not only improve the rocket's flight performance, but also reduce the overall weight of the rocket.
When the fuel of the previous stage of the rocket is exhausted again, the rocket will automatically abandon this stage. After being disbanded one by one, it will eventually send the spacecraft to orbit.
The principle of the bundled rocket actually works is similar to that of a multi-stage rocket. When the fuel on the outermost rocket is exhausted, it will be thrown away until the core stage, and the spacecraft will eventually be sent into orbit. Therefore, the bundled rocket is actually a type of multi-stage rocket, or a parallel rocket, which is more appropriate.
Of course, in order to improve the rocket's carrying capacity and flight performance, modern medium-sized rockets will adopt multi-stage and bundled designs. After all, this can effectively improve the rocket's carrying capacity.
Therefore, although Wang Bin and his Tiangong Technology developed only a single-stage rocket this time, their Tiangong Technology's aerospace laboratory has already started research and development work in multi-stage rockets. At the same time, Wang Bin hopes to complete the research and development of multi-stage rockets within the year.
However, in fact, Tiangong Technology's aerospace laboratory has encountered many difficulties in developing multi-stage rockets. It does not understand the rocket's separator design, the engine start after the rocket is classified, the attitude control of the rocket when the rocket is separated, how can the separation section be prevented from colliding with the core-class rocket, resulting in the rocket being out of control, etc., all of which need to be solved by the aerospace laboratory.
However, although there are many difficulties, Wang Bin is also very confident that these problems can be solved. Of course, it is still very difficult to solve all these problems in a short time if you rely solely on the Rocket R&D Laboratory itself. At least it is impossible to solve them all within the year.
But fortunately, Wang Bin has the existence of a technology mall, so he is planning to buy some rocket technologies at the technology mall, especially the technology of heavy and super heavy rockets.
So Wang Bin is completely confident that Tiangong Technology can create multi-stage rockets within the year.
At the same time, in Wang Bin's expectation, the carrying capacity of Tiangong Technology's second rocket must be at least one level compared to the carrying capacity of the first rocket. In other words, the carrying capacity of the next rocket must be at least five tons, and it must also have a certain medium-orbit carrying capacity.
Of course, as the R&D laboratory of Tiangong Technology Rockets, he naturally opposed Wang Bin's ambitious plan. In their opinion, Wang Bin's request was too big, and it suddenly increased from 0.5 tons to five tons, which was easy to make a fortune.
They believe that launch vehicles should be developed step by step. Since the launch vehicle has been successfully developed with a capacity of 0.5 tons, then the launch vehicle with a capacity of about one ton or 1.5 tons can be developed, and then the three to five tons of rockets can be developed, and then the carrying capacity will be gradually improved.
However, in Wang Bin's opinion, the R&D speed is too slow, and Wang Bin can't wait at all. He hopes that Tiangong Technology can produce rockets with hundreds of tons of capacity at once. In this way, Tiangong Technology can immediately start building space stations and space exploration projects. In this way, it can catch up with foreign private space companies.
Of course, Wang Bin's original plan also wanted to develop larger rockets at once, such as rockets with a carrying capacity of more than ten or twenty tons. This proposal directly attracted strong opposition from R&D personnel, and eventually Tsai changed it to a rocket with a carrying capacity of about five tons.
As time continued, when Wang Bin returned to the rocket launch control room again, it was less than ten minutes before the first launch of the rocket, Tiangong Technology, as time slowly approached, a trace of tension was obviously removed from the faces of these rocket design and development personnel of Wang Bin and Tiangong Technology. Although under the comfort of the official rocket launchers, they were still nervous. After all, this was the first launch of their Tiangong Technology's first rocket.
On the contrary, the official launchers, due to their numerous rocket launch experience and even experienced multiple rocket launch failures, did not show any tension on their faces at this time, but they all operated the equipment seriously and checked the monitoring data.
Finally, when the time reached 8:00, after reading the countdown for the rocket launch, various instruments on the rocket and hydrogen and oxygen fuel supply pipelines began to fall off, and the rocket also began to ignite.
As huge flames erupted from the bottom of the rocket, all the cooling devices on the rocket launch pad began to work, while the rocket began to rise slowly and steadily, and the speed also increased with the increase of height.
At the same time, people who came to watch the rocket launch at this time not far from the launch pad also took out their mobile phones or professional cameras and began to record this moment. Among these people, there were foreigners with different skin colors than those in China.
And unlike the people on China, some of these people have obvious concern on their faces. In the hearts of many of them, their moods are actually very contradictory. If we look at it from the perspective of all mankind, these people also hope that this rocket launch will be successful, but if we look at it from the perspective of their national interests, they will definitely not hope that this launch will be successful.
After all, once this launch is successful, so long means that a private aerospace company with strong technical capabilities will emerge in China, and this company will compete in aerospace with their country's x-space company. Most importantly, they still have no good solutions to this private contract company in China!
Although these people are very complicated in their hearts, the rocket launch will not stop because of their ideas. The rocket is still surging, and its speed is still increasing. Soon the rocket rose by thousands of meters. At this time, on the ground, you can only see the flames emitted from the tail when the rocket is flying.
Chapter completed!