Chapter 198: Satellite launch

In the northern part of the Republic of Mali, near the equator, there is a military restricted zone of hundreds of square kilometers.
Five large military bases surround this restricted area. The outermost layer is a high-voltage electric wire fence, and the inner four-meter-high earth wall completely isolates this area from the outside world.
Standing on a mountain in the distance, through a telescope, you can see the five skyscrapers and a gray concrete tower in this military restricted zone.
All the buildings in this area are equipped with biological displays. When there are activities, there will be an oversized biological display to shield the entire camp, so that the outside world cannot discover what is going on in this area through satellites. .
On February 1, 2021, the weather was fine and cloudless.
A convoy of ten Athlon-class armored vehicles is slowly driving towards this military restricted area.
Several helicopter gunships flew over the convoy quickly, but these gunship helicopters stopped advancing when they were close to the military restricted area, but stayed outside an invisible cordon.
Within ten kilometers of this military restricted zone is a no-fly zone. Neither military or civilian aircraft can approach it. More than a dozen anti-aircraft guns and various types of air defense missiles in the base are constantly monitoring this airspace.
When the convoy came to a military base serving as an entrance, dozens of soldiers in strong colony armor walked out of the open gate carrying heavy machine guns and individual rockets, and came to the convoy on alert.
"Show your credentials!" A guard came to the front of the armored car and patted the body.
"It's me." The side armor of a black elongated armored car in the middle of the convoy slashed upwards, revealing a thick layer of bulletproof glass. Tang Shizhe sat inside and sent to a dead soldier standing above the gate. Spiritual information.
"It's the boss, open the door!" The dead man nodded and pressed several switches in front of him. At this time, the second gate began to be slashed to both sides, revealing a road leading into the base.
Tang Shizhe's body armor closed again, and the convoy accelerated into the base.
More than ten minutes later, Tang Shizhe came to the huge tower in the center of the entire military restricted zone.
Below this 150-meter-high concrete-cast tower is a huge pit with a depth of three kilometers. Standing on the top of the pit, you can see layers of flashing lights in the pit.
"How are your preparations?" Tang Shizhe and the others got on an elevator embedded inside the deep pit and began to descend towards the ground.
"The fuel has been filled, just waiting for your order." A researcher in charge of leading the way pushed his glasses nervously.
Since his company was acquired by the Titan Group, he has been arranged to this military base where birds do not shit, and in this year and a half he spent all his energy on the building under them!
Today is the date when the planned building will be put into use for the first time. His heart is very nervous, for fear of any mistakes.
Tang Shizhe watched the corridors and protective panels embedded in the pit wall outside the elevator with a surge of emotion. His dream for many years is finally about to come true, and the world will enter a new era after today.
A few minutes later, the high-speed elevator stopped at the bottom of the pit. At this time, a group of people saw the fifty-meter-high white rocket standing at the bottom of the pit.
Several robotic arms firmly fixed the rocket to the five elevators on the track around the tunnel.
Because the fuel has been filled, the rocket is now ready to launch, and all personnel around the rocket have been evacuated to a safe area.
Under the leadership of the researchers, Tang Shizhe came to a control room located on the inside of the wall above the rocket. A ten-meter-high tempered glass allowed the staff in the control room to clearly see all the conditions in the pit.
"The Titan 1 carrier rocket is ready to launch! All personnel are in place!" A staff member picked up the intercom and shouted after seeing Tang Shizhe sitting down.
All the staff immediately trot back to their posts, and the lights in the control room began to gradually dim.
"Prepare to execute the launch procedure, turn off the control room armor!" As the staff's voice fell, a layer of several meters thick alloy armor fell from above the control room glass, firmly covering the control room glass.
Then pictures of different sizes began to appear on the original glass. In addition to the monitoring in the pothole, the rocket's various readings appeared on the picture.
"The electromagnetic acceleration track begins to accumulate energy, and the energy supply blanket is stable! It is expected to be launched in ten seconds!"
"The air in the launch tunnel has been evacuated!"
"The rocket is ready to launch!"
"ten!"
"nine!"
"..."
"three!"
"two!"
"One!"
"The rocket is ignited! The stabilizer is ready to detach!" With a shout, a burst of yellow light began to spray from the rocket at the bottom of the pothole, and a lot of smoke began to fill the entire pothole~EbookFREE.me~ The elevator fixed on the track around the pothole began to drive the rocket slowly upward, and at the same time, the huge thrust generated by the thruster under the rocket made the rocket rise faster and faster.
After the rocket rose at a high speed for a distance of one kilometer, the mechanical arms fixed on the rocket suddenly all released, and the rocket began to rush upwards alone.
"Pay attention to the angle of the rocket, start to enter the electromagnetic acceleration phase!"
The remaining two kilometers in the tunnel are all electromagnetic orbits for electromagnetic acceleration.
When the rocket entered the electromagnetic acceleration phase, the speed immediately increased by one section, and it was still climbing.
At this time, in order to prevent the tail flame from damaging the electromagnetic acceleration trajectory, all the fuel thrusters on the rocket were shut down and only a few turbojet engines were used for assistance.
The huge amount of electricity stored by the energy supply blanket covering an area of ​​thousands of square kilometers is instantly consumed.
At this time, the rocket was also accelerated to five kilometers per second.
This speed is not enough to send the rocket into space, but the rocket itself still carries a propulsion device.
The electromagnetic acceleration device is just to save some rocket fuel consumption. When the rocket leaves the ground and rises into the air, all its thrusters are turned on again, pushing the rocket directly to the first cosmic speed.
Soon, the rocket had reached the position of the atmosphere, and the intense high temperature caused the heat insulation layer outside the rocket to emit a faint red light.
At this time, the rocket's tail thruster was thrown away, and the propulsion capsule, which took up more than half of the rocket's length, began to fall toward the ground.
This section of the propulsion module will finally open the parachute and buffer device before landing to ensure that it can be recycled and reused.
After dozens of minutes, the rocket reached its intended orbit, the fairing on its head opened like a petal, and a black satellite broke away from the rocket and entered into space.