This star is going to the moon

Chapter 484 Lunar Spaceship Escape Tower Zero-Altitude Escape Experiment, Dreamlike!

The entertainment industry has always been a place where everyone is chasing each other, and my popularity can surpass yours.

Big S just got divorced, and a few days later Wang Yuelun and Li Xiang announced that they had divorced back in July of this year.

As for why it's being announced now... well, netizens have figured out the deeper meaning.

[Little sister, the traffic from divorce trending topics is too huge, you can't handle it, let me handle it.]

[Haha, netizens are really talented! Li Xiang and Big S are indeed the same age, but Li Xiang is a few months older, so she really is the older sister.]

[It's so lively, really lively!]

After reading so much news about the space race, I really thought we were about to enter the space age. But now, seeing this kind of utterly ridiculous garbage news... well, we're still stuck in the human world!

Wow, buddy, you have quite the refined taste! You even find inspiration in this junk. I'm impressed!

I love both aerospace and gossip; I'm willing to go to any lengths, even turning the vulgar into the elegant. I'll enjoy coffee with garlic—that's the taste!

To be honest, I don't care about this mess at all, so why is it still trending on my feed? I'm a genuine space enthusiast, why is this being pushed to me?

[Haha, that's because Lu Yun, the current "aerospace trendsetter," is also a celebrity in the entertainment industry. Many popular celebrities are getting confused and promoting themselves haphazardly.]

They're both celebrities, so why is there such a huge difference?

[That's because other celebrities are too useless; they can only gain fame and traffic through these kinds of things, unlike Lu Yun, who directly participated in the country's super lunar landing project.]

[What's Lu Yun up to these days? Why is he nowhere to be seen again?]

[Lu Yun is considered a frequent face in the aerospace field. Many aerospace experts don't show their faces for years, only appearing at dawn when they achieve results, and then plunging back into their missions.]

They're probably working on a lunar rocket. Wasn't the launch scheduled for next summer? The year is almost over, time is tight.

[I'm so excited! I was incredibly thrilled with the Chang'e 5 unmanned lunar sample return mission, and I even went to the landing site to see the Chang'e 5 return capsule. I never imagined that we'd be going to have a manned lunar mission soon!]

[It turned out to be a big shot at the scene...]

Lu Yun was indeed busy, but not with the Long March 10 lunar rocket; he was busy with a lunar spacecraft that was related to both rockets and lunar landing.

During the International Astronautical Congress, the space agency launched a global naming campaign for the "Manned Lunar Landing Family Package," and the name will be finalized by next year's Space Day.

Lu Yun knew that the previous name of the lunar spaceship was "Mengzhou," which meant it belonged to the same "zhou" generation as "Shenzhou" and "Tianzhou."

It conforms to the etiquette of "boat".

The Dream Ship, a magical vessel designed to realize the millennia-old dream of manned lunar landing!

Of course, we don't know what his name will be in this life, since Lu Yun changed the timeline, and the Mars rover has been changed from "Zhu Rong" in the previous life to "Nezha" and "Wind and Fire Wheels" in this life.

So it's really hard to say what the lunar spacecraft should be called.

Looking at the lunar spaceship, now equipped with an escape tower and standing on a temporary support, Lu Yun felt a sense of emotion.

(Photo of the Dream Boat escape tower zero-height escape experiment)

In his previous life, Lu Yun only watched news and videos online, since he wasn't qualified to participate in such a massive national project back then. But in this life, he was actually on-site, and a key figure in the entire manned lunar landing project.

Just as Lu Yun was feeling sentimental, the chief designer of the lunar spacecraft came over after reviewing the inspection data and said, "Little Lu, you're the one who builds rockets, how come you seem to be more sentimental than I am, the chief designer of the spacecraft?"

"You know, today is my big test."

Upon hearing this, Lu Yun composed himself and said, "There's nothing I can do. Manned lunar landing is still too much of a dream. I'm afraid your spaceship will be too slow to catch up and delay my rocket launch."

"Hey, you kid..."

Today, from the successful ignition of the escape engine to the safe landing of the return capsule, the lunar spacecraft's escape system and related systems are about to undergo their first comprehensive "test".

When a rocket experiences a sudden malfunction or other emergency on the launch pad or during flight, the escape system must be activated quickly to remove the astronaut-carrying return capsule from the danger zone in a very short time and ensure the astronauts' safe return to Earth.

To verify the feasibility of the overall escape system design and whether the various performance indicators meet the requirements, it is often necessary to conduct separate flight tests on the escape system.

The zero-altitude escape flight test simulates an extreme scenario where a rocket encounters a sudden situation while still on the launch pad before takeoff.

Compared to other stages of escape, zero-altitude escape involves an initial velocity of zero and an extremely low altitude, with a tight flight sequence, leaving more time for the escape system to react and execute.

From the issuance of the escape command to the ignition of the escape tower, and then to the separation of the return capsule from the malfunctioning rocket and its safe landing, every step must be flawless.

The last time Laos and China conducted a zero-altitude escape flight test was in 1998, with the Shenzhou manned spacecraft.

More than twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Today, as an extremely important manned lunar mission for China and Laos, the escape system of the lunar spacecraft is facing higher requirements and new challenges.

After all, the lunar spacecraft is much larger than the Shenzhou spacecraft!
To ensure the safety of the astronauts, the escape system of the lunar spacecraft has undergone a comprehensive optimization design.

The lunar spacecraft's escape system is designed to "ensure safe escape throughout the entire launch process," employing a "spacecraft escape from the atmosphere via an escape tower + escape from the atmosphere" scheme.

The escape tower is responsible for the escape between the pre-launch phase and the ascent tower. After the tower is thrown, the escape between the spacecraft and the rocket near the ground and the orbital separation is achieved using the service module's power. The escape and subsequent rescue are all controlled by the return capsule.

Initially, the lunar spacecraft was tasked with the dual missions of manned lunar exploration and near-Earth space station operation. These two types of missions differed significantly in terms of launch process and operational sequence, posing new challenges to the compatibility of the escape system.

In addition, the lunar spacecraft will be launched from the littoral ocean, where the surrounding weather conditions are complex and there are many facilities near the launch site. This requires the spacecraft to have stronger escape acceleration capabilities, adaptability, and active control capabilities for landing.

However, no one expected that Lu Yun's Kite-class space shuttle would replace the near-Earth orbit manned mission, so the lunar spacecraft only needed to meet the requirements of manned lunar exploration, and the difficulty in all aspects was suddenly reduced.

The research team originally estimated that the experiment would not be able to be carried out until 2025, but it was able to be carried out at the end of 2021!

Incredibly fast!
A manned lunar landing is indeed a dream mission, but they also feel a sense of dreaminess looking at the lunar spacecraft standing on the temporary support today.

"ignition!"

"boom--"

The scene of testing rockets in the Gobi Desert was very impressive. The escape tower of the lunar spacecraft spewed out four tongues of fire, kicking up a lot of dust. The spacecraft, carrying this dust, soared into the sky, like an earthen dragon ascending to heaven!
(Photo of the Dream Boat escape tower zero-height escape experiment)

"Haha, it's flying!"

(End of this chapter)