The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

mid-December.

Wenchang Space Launch Center in Qiong Province, where countless people from all over China are focusing their attention, and even many people around the world are focusing their attention.

CCTV is broadcasting live.

The probe to be launched this time is the Tianwen-1 Mars rover, which is a Mars rover independently developed by China and is specifically used to explore Mars.

"Tianwen-1" will complete the three major goals of "orbiting, landing, and patrolling" at one time.

If the mission is successful, China will become the first country in the world to explore Mars and complete a soft landing.

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second smallest planet in the solar system after Mercury. It is one of the four terrestrial planets in the solar system. The radius of Mars is 3396 kilometers, and the average distance from the Earth is 2.25 million kilometers. Mars has two satellites, Phobos and Deimos.

For a long time, humans on Earth have always believed that there is a high possibility of life on Mars!

However, as more and more data show, it is almost impossible for life to exist on Mars, Martians only exist in human imagination.

But China still launched the Mars exploration project!

The Mars Exploration Project is China's first project in the exploration of planets in the solar system.

For China, the information released by Americans or Soviets may not be reliable.

Based on past experience, the information released by Americans or Soviets is often half true and half false, or seven percent true and three percent false. If you believe everything they say, you will definitely suffer a great loss.

Besides, only by walking there and exploring Mars yourself can you get first-hand information.

To be honest, whether there is life on Mars is very important, but it is also not important.

What is really important is to complete the verification and accumulation of aerospace technology in the process of launching the probe.

Aerospace technology, space technology, life technology, etc. have always been the world's top technologies. This is not just talk, but the fact.

Up to now, many people have begun to question the Soviet Union, believing that the Soviet Union was not good in this or that aspect.

They don’t even think about the fact that the Soviet Union’s 81st military exercise that made Europe and the United States tremble in fear could be faked?
Can the Soviet Union’s achievements in aerospace and space technology be faked?

The Long March 5 Yao-4 carrier rocket was used to launch the Tianwen-1 satellite. This is the first application launch of the Long March 5 series of carrier rockets and the first time that a Chinese carrier rocket has carried out an Earth-Mars transfer orbit launch mission.

The Long March 5 series of launch vehicles, also known as the "big rocket" and "Pang Wu", is a disposable large-scale cryogenic liquid-loaded launch vehicle. It is also China's new generation of launch vehicles with a core stage diameter of meters.

该运载火箭地球同步转移轨道和近地轨道运载能力分别达到了14吨级、25吨级，是目前华夏运载火箭中运力最大的。而其起飞质量达到了859~879吨，起飞推力达到10524千牛。

The total mass of the Tianwen-5 probe is tons, and it is equipped with China's first Mars rover. The launch of the Tianwen- probe attracted many space enthusiasts and tourists to Qiongdao Island to watch.

At 12:41, the entire Wenchang land trembled as the Long March Yao- rocket lifted up the Chinese people's deep space dream, sending the "Tianwen-" probe into space and heading for the distant Mars.

At 13:22, the probe and the rocket separated, and the launch process was a complete success.

The Tianwen-7 probe will arrive near Mars after flying in the Earth-Mars transfer orbit for about months, complete Mars capture by "braking", enter the Martian orbit, and carry out landing, patrol and other missions when the opportunity arises to conduct scientific exploration of Mars.

The exploration and questioning of the universe for thousands of years has been the Chinese nation's unswerving dream of space exploration. From the "Heavenly Questions" posed by the ancient poet Qu Yuan to the current China's first Mars exploration mission named "Tianwen-1", there is no end to space exploration and the great dream will not stop.

The engineering goal of this Mars exploration mission is to achieve Mars orbit exploration and patrol exploration, obtain Mars exploration scientific data, achieve China's technological leap in the field of deep space exploration, and at the same time establish an independent deep space exploration engineering system to promote the sustainable development of China's deep space exploration activities.

Liu Tao also watched the launch of the Tianwen-1 probe throughout the entire process. After entering the millennium, China's aerospace field will enter a fast lane of development.

In Earth orbit, as the service life of the first generation of meteorological satellites, the first generation of Beidou navigation satellites, the first generation of communication satellites, the first generation of Internet satellites, the first generation of resource remote sensing satellites, and the first generation of reconnaissance satellites expire, improved second generation satellites will be launched next to gradually replace the second generation satellites. In addition, new space-based laser weapons will also be launched into space in the name of satellites.

In terms of lunar exploration, a series of explorations and lunar landings will be launched. The lunar exploration project is named "Chang'e Project", and the manned lunar landing project is expected to be carried out in 2025.

The rest, named after planets, include the Mars Exploration Project, the Mercury Exploration Project, the Venus Exploration Project, the Jupiter Exploration Project, the Saturn Exploration Project, the Uranus Exploration Project, the Neptune Exploration Project, and the Solar Exploration Project.

These all belong to deep space exploration, all within the solar system!

By 2025, China will launch an outer solar system exploration project and send a probe outside the solar system.
We will continue to explore the universe. After all, compared with the entire universe, the earth is too small.

Is there any life in the universe besides Earth?
do not know!
But there is a high probability that there is!

The universe is so vast that we don't know how many galaxies like the Milky Way there are. The Milky Way has 1000 to 4000 billion stars and a large number of star clusters, nebulae, and various types of interstellar gas and interstellar dust. That is to say, the entire Milky Way has at least 1000 to 4000 billion star systems like the solar system, and there may be 4000 to 16000 trillion terrestrial planets.

How dare humans arrogantly believe that there is no life in the universe other than the Earth?

Perhaps there are countless planets with life in the entire Milky Way!

Liu Tao firmly believes that there are other planets with life in the universe, and even in the Milky Way there are many planets with life.

And all of these must rely on deep space exploration.

Deep space exploration is extremely difficult, but it is precisely by constantly solving problems that China can continue to make progress instead of standing still!
Liu Tao believed that as long as the Chinese nation did not stand still, no nation on the entire planet would be able to compete with it.

Liu Tao racked his brains and thought, if there is any goal that can keep the Chinese nation moving forward, there is only one answer - the stars and the sea!
The journey of the Chinese nation is to the sea of ​​stars!
In the exploration of the sea of ​​stars, the Chinese nation will overcome one difficulty after another, continue to make progress, and have the courage to pursue and challenge! (End of this chapter)