Chapter 1047:

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For this launch mission, Zhao Zhongyao is certainly confident. But even if he is confident, he cannot guarantee 100% that the launch will be successful.
Political Commissar Li is also a little worried now. He looked at Zhao Zhongyao and asked, "Zhongyao, are you confident! Now, there are many national leaders at the launch site! There is nothing wrong with your rocket, right? "
"Don't worry! The rocket I developed must be no problem. This time, although it is only a launch experiment, it will definitely be successful."
Of course Zhao Zhongyao is confident. After all, the rocket he developed is the most advanced rocket in the world. It can be said that it is even more advanced than the rockets in the world before his death!
In the world before Zhao Zhongyao was alive, as long as it was a high-thrust rocket, it basically used liquid propellant. Why use liquid fuel. This is because liquid fuels can produce higher temperatures and at the same time can produce higher specific impulse.
To send a very heavy iron like a rocket into space, it is impossible to achieve without strong thrust. If you want to send this heavy rocket weighing hundreds of tons into space, the rocket engine must have at least a few hundred tons of thrust.
To generate thrust of hundreds of tons or more, liquid fuel must be used. Only with liquid fuel can it produce super high temperatures and can also produce huge thrust.
The usable liquid fuel has two disadvantages. One is that liquid fuel is consumed quickly. It's like sending a big guy like the space shuttle into space. The tonnage of the rocket will be two thousand tons. But almost one-third of the weight of these two thousand tons is the weight of fuel.
We have all seen the United States launching a space shuttle. A huge rocket has a huge auxiliary fuel tank on the outside. The entire rocket weighs more than two thousand tons. From the ignition of the rocket to the rocket soaring to an altitude of hundreds of kilometers. It only takes twenty minutes.
But in these twenty minutes, hundreds of tons of liquid fuel can be consumed. It can be said that this liquid rocket is made of fuel. The whole rocket is just a fuel tank ‘exploded’. Then flew into the sky.
This shortcoming of this liquid rocket makes people very helpless. But there is no solution.
Of course, apart from the huge shortcoming of this liquid rocket, there is another shortcoming, which is also terrible. In other words, the fuel used in this liquid rocket is a mixture of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.
This liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen are different from ordinary liquid water. After these two things are liquefied, they look like water. But their nature is completely different.
Everyone knows that the boiling point of water is one hundred degrees. The boiling point of liquid hydrogen is minus 255 degrees. The boiling point of liquid oxygen is also minus 195 degrees.
Therefore, these two fuels cannot be preserved in ordinary environments. And if you want to send the rocket to the sky, you must use this kind of fuel. In this case, very high requirements are placed on the development of the rocket itself.
Generally speaking, the fuel is injected into the fuel tank of the rocket only two hours before launch. This is to ensure that these liquid fuels will not vaporize.
Because liquid fuel is very unstable and not easy to store, this makes rockets and launches a very dangerous thing.
In this way, launching a rocket is very dangerous. The previous liquid fuel has two major shortcomings. Although there are these two major shortcomings, when humans do not find a better alternative fuel, they can only use this liquid fuel in distress.
But Zhao Zhongyao has solved this problem now. The new type of rocket he studied no longer uses this liquid fuel. He uses solid uranium rods as the reaction fuel for the micro-atomic reactor.
In this way, the weight of the rocket itself can be greatly reduced, and at the same time it can generate a lot of thrust.
For example, the 100-ton solid fuel rocket currently developed by Zhao Zhongyao can generate more than 1,000 tons of thrust when launched. In other words, this rocket with only one hundred tonnage can carry at least two hundred tons of cargo. This is unthinkable. Knowing that in traditional rockets, the weight of the cargo is much smaller than the weight of the rocket itself.
But the new rocket developed by Zhao Zhongyao is different. This solid fuel rocket can carry much heavier cargo than itself.
This time, the rocket launch was originally an experimental launch. Therefore, it does not need to carry too much cargo, but only a communications satellite weighing several hundred kilograms.
The rocket currently developed by Zhao Zhongyao overcomes the shortcomings of the advanced rockets in the world before his death. He used the atomic engine he had developed in this world. A nuclear energy rocket developed by using nuclear energy.
This nuclear-powered rocket is capable of generating greater thrust than ordinary rockets, and at the same time has a longer endurance.
The rocket is now placed on the launch tower. All the staff also returned to the command room.
For the staff of the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, the rockets they launched before were all traditional liquid rockets, and they had not launched solid rockets. Now I heard that a solid rocket is going to be launched, and I am very curious.
These staff members now surround Zhao Zhongyao in the middle, wanting to learn more about this. After all, the staff at this launch center are also scientific researchers. They heard that this time, they were going to launch a new type of nuclear rocket, and they were all very curious.
Now these staff are scrambling to raise a series of professional questions to Zhao Zhongyao.
Zhao Zhongyao patiently answered them one by one. After listening to Zhao Zhongyao's explanation, everyone gave Zhao Zhongyao a thumbs up. After all, they couldn't imagine that what they are going to launch now is the most advanced nuclear rocket in the world.
"Oh! Our manager Zhao is so amazing, he can develop a nuclear rocket."
"Yeah! We never thought about using nuclear energy to launch rockets."
"Even country M does not have such a technology! Their rockets are just ordinary liquid rockets, not solid rockets."
"It now appears that China's rocket technology has already surpassed that of country M. In the field of aerospace, we will certainly continue to lead the world."
These staff members were very surprised after hearing what Zhao Zhongyao said. After listening, they began to discuss each other.
There were also some leaders on the scene who were very curious. They came to Zhao Zhongyao and asked some professional questions.
Zhao Zhongyao gave everyone a detailed explanation, giving everyone a general understanding of this solid-state nuclear energy rocket.
In this way, after another two hours, the rocket launch officially began. Although the rocket launched this time is very different from the rocket launched before. But the launch process is still the same. The entire launch procedure is the same as the liquid rocket launched earlier.
This time, Zhao Zhongyao also personally participated in the rocket launch process. He personally pressed the rocket launch button.
"Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Ignite."
The entire rocket launch process is the same as before. When Zhao Zhongyao pressed the ignition button. The rocket burst into the sky with a roar of fire.
The entire launch process looks the same as an ordinary rocket launch. If you don't tell others. No one else will know that this is a nuclear rocket launched.
After the rocket was lifted off, there were staff in the rocket monitoring room, who had been tracking the launch process of the rocket. See if the rocket can reach the intended target orbit smoothly.
When everyone saw the rocket lifted off smoothly, the entire command room was also applauded. Everyone congratulates China on the successful launch of its first nuclear power rocket.
Of course, only the first step has been completed. The successful launch is only an important first step. The next step is to see if the rocket can successfully reach the predetermined orbit, and then put the communication satellite into the orbit.
After another half an hour of tracking. In the command room, there was another round of applause. Because that communication satellite has successfully reached the orbit and started to operate on its own.
Zhao Zhongyao was relieved now. Although he was very confident, he was somewhat worried when the launch was not successful.
Now that the launch was finally successful, and the satellite was safely and smoothly delivered to the predetermined orbit, Zhao Zhongyao could finally take a breath.
After the satellite was successfully launched, Political Commissar Li was in the command room and began to speak. After all, he is the highest leader on the scene, and he wants to speak a few words to everyone on behalf of the country's leaders.
"Well, now our'Feitian-1' high-thrust launch vehicle has successfully completed the mission of sending communication satellites into space.
The rocket launch this time is very different from the previous rocket launch. This high-thrust rocket is a new type of nuclear rocket developed by our Zhao experts. Now that we have successfully developed this nuclear power rocket, we can develop a manned spacecraft in the next step.
Our country now has a great dream, which is to send our country’s astronauts into space.
This sounds like a fantasy. But as long as we have such a large thrust rocket, everything is no longer just a dream.
Now, our opponent, that is, country M is also carrying out a manned spaceflight program, and they have to take the same path as ours. First of all, they have to study large-thrust launch vehicles. But their country does not have top military talents like Expert Zhao.
Therefore, although country M also wants to carry out this manned space program. But their progress is very slow. So far, they have not developed a high-thrust rocket. And our country has developed a large-thrust rocket, and it has been successfully launched.
The next step is to study manned spacecraft. As long as the manned spacecraft is also successfully studied, then we can consider conducting manned space launch experiments.
And to realize these dreams, it will of course require the efforts of Zhao experts. If there is no Zhao expert, then our dream will always be a dream. Here, on behalf of the leaders of our country, I also want to thank expert Zhao.
Okay, I won't say much about anything else. Now, let our expert Zhao also tell us a few words! I think he must have a lot of things now, and he wants to tell everyone! "
After Political Commissar Li finished speaking, he asked Zhao Zhongyao to speak.
Zhao Zhongyao also came to everyone. He looked at everyone and began to speak.
"Comrades, now, we have finally developed a nuclear rocket. The launch was successful just now. This is not only the credit of me alone, but also the common credit of all the scientific researchers of the Feitian Group. It is the joint efforts of everyone. the result of.
Of course, we just developed this rocket. And the staff of our Xichang Satellite Center sent this rocket to the sky. It was you who worked together to send our country's first large-thrust nuclear rocket to the sky.
Although this is just an ordinary rocket launch, he has some very unusual meanings. The launch of the rocket this time marks that my country is about to set out for a major space power.
In this world, no country can develop a launch vehicle with high thrust. Our country, China, is now at the forefront of the world.
It is not the purpose of our research to be able to develop a launch vehicle with high thrust. The purpose of our research is to send astronauts into space. Let our five-star red flag fly in the deep space.
Of course, just sending astronauts into space is not our ultimate dream. Our ultimate dream is to send astronauts to the moon and even farther Mars. China, from now on, will become the most developed country in the world. Our country’s aerospace technology must also become the most advanced aerospace technology in the world.
I don’t know if you have heard other leaders say these things. I think you must have never heard them. Maybe you just listened to the speech of Political Commissar Li just now. Know that our country wants to send astronauts into space.
But what political commissar Li said is only the first stage in the entire space program we are going to do. Our entire space program will be divided into three stages. The first stage is to send our astronauts into space. Complete the first step of the manned space program. In the second stage, we are going to send astronauts to the moon. Complete the second step of the manned space program. In the third stage, we are going to send astronauts to Mars, 45 million kilometers away from us.