This star is going to the moon

Chapter 491: All Yutu-2 found on the far side of the moon was a rock. Let's just forget about it... Who would believe that!
Lu Yun was filled with emotion as he looked at this year's aerospace data.

In his previous life, when he died in 1926, the Chinese only had about 100 space launches a year, while the Americans, thanks to the Starlink missions, were going up to 200 a year.

Laos and China also have satellite internet missions to launch, but because the development of reusable rockets is too slow, the number of launches has remained low.

But that's already quite good, a solid second place in the world.

After all, in 2017, China only had 18 rocket launches into orbit in a single year, just ranking third in the world.

By 2018, they had broken through to 39 times, directly jumping to first place in the world.

They were still in first place in 2019.

In 2020, the number of Starlink missions launched by the United States began to increase, thus surpassing that of China.

In 2001, China made a breakthrough and overtook the United States again.

However, in 2022, the US's Starlink mission exploded, with Falcon 9 rockets launching continuously, which directly widened the gap between the US, which was in first place, and China, which was in second place.

In the past two or three years, the United States launched more than 110 missions, of which the SpaceX itself accounted for more than 90.

Back then, the number of Chinese and old people was less than 70, and the gap has only widened since then.

In this life, with the blessing of Lu Yun's rebirth, Lao Zhong maintained his primary advantage.

Furthermore, because the Chinese possess superior industrial manufacturing capabilities, their rocket and satellite production capacity is even more exaggerated than that of the Americans in the previous era.

In 2021 alone, the number of rocket launches exceeded 100!

Americans, however, only get around 50.

At the same time, the Chinese also possess a spacecraft that neither the Americans of the previous life nor the present life have—the space shuttle!

The space shuttle space tourism flights, which officially began commercial operation this year, have also seen a surge, flying once a month in the first six months and once a week in the second six months.

In addition, the "Wooden Kite" would fly occasionally.

The "Xiancha" spacecraft, which was delivered to the space agency in November, also flew three times before the end of the year.

Therefore, the three space shuttles have made more than 50 orbital flights this year!
It's basically on par with the number of times American rockets have launched into orbit.

If we're comparing the number of manned missions into orbit, then there's no comparison at all.

Excluding the space shuttle, there are dozens of them.

If you include the space shuttle, there are several hundred!
This year marks another year in which the number of China's "StarDou" space internet satellites surpasses the number of the US's "Starlink" satellites.

And they were leading by a large margin.

This year, the US has more than 1800 Starlink satellites in orbit, while China's StarDou satellites have exceeded 2600.

After all, China and Laos have added a Long March 10 rocket that can carry 80 "stars" at a time.

After the Starlink upgrade, the Falcon 9 rocket's payload capacity was reduced from 60 to about 50.

Oh, and the moon.

Although both China and the United States are eager to launch manned lunar missions, it's not the right time yet. However, China has already sent several unmanned lunar rovers to the moon.

Furthermore, all the currently operational lunar rovers on the moon are Chinese.

Even though it's lunar rovers running on the moon, Americans think those rovers are crawling on it like insects.

It's so anxious that it gets stressed every day.

And all of this is related to Lu Yun. In his previous life, many people said that SpaceX's aerospace capabilities were more impressive than those of an entire country.

Therefore, Elon Musk, who possesses the Space Fork, is the light of human spaceflight.

In this life, the title fell to Blue Star Aerospace, and Lu Yun became the light of human spaceflight.

In Lu Yun's view, these people praised him even more enthusiastically in this life than they praised Ma Yilong in the previous life.

After all, he has caused far more major space events in this life than Elon Musk did in his previous life.

In his previous life, Elon Musk only developed reusable rockets and space-based internet satellites.

In this life, Lu Yun not only possesses reusable rockets and space internet satellites, but also space shuttles, lunar exploration, and more.

Although Elon Musk's dream of colonizing Mars is well-known, he has not yet launched anything to Mars.

The Falcon Heavy originally launched a Tesla electric car toward Mars orbit during its maiden flight, but it veered off course and headed toward an asteroid.

Lu Yun actually built a small Mars rover, which carried Tianwen-1 and landed on Mars.

With Blue Star Aerospace now truly having "more space launches than an entire country," and even surpassing the world's leading superpower, the United States, some people are starting to call Lu Yun the "King of Space."

I think the title "King of Spaceflight" is perfect for Lu Yun. He will definitely lead the way into the stars in the future. His great achievements in expanding territory would have earned him a kingship in ancient times.

[Haha, if you're going to put it that way, it's about cosmic expansion. I remember many science fiction novels from the "Golden Age" liked to portray cosmic governments as empires, and Lu Yun would be at least a king in those stories!]

[That Lu Yun, this interstellar king, must be incredibly skilled; his ability to mass-produce troops and build interstellar warships is undoubtedly top-tier.]

[I hadn't paid much attention to it before, but after seeing the year-end review, I was really shocked. Lu Yun's Blue Star Space Company has become so big!]

Currently, there are only five lunar rovers operating on the moon, all of which are from China. Four of them are located at the lunar south pole and are related to Blue Star Aerospace, while Elon Musk is still blowing up the prototype rocket of his "Lunar Eagle" lunar landing rocket.

[Sigh, speaking of the moon, it's been two months already, and we still haven't gotten high-resolution photos of the mysterious cube on the far side of the moon taken by Yutu-2?]

"Damn, I'd almost forgotten. But I don't think there's anything going on. Aliens and all that are just nonsense."

[Haha, bro, while you think that way, those foreign space enthusiasts, alien enthusiasts, and unsolved mystery lovers don't think so at all. They're incredibly anxious!]

[That's right, that's right. Especially after this year's space program review, they found that we are so different from previous years that they even suspect we have obtained extraterrestrial technology, which is why we have such a huge breakthrough.]

[Yes, based on the information I've seen online, that's the situation. This year-end space review has had a particularly big impact on them. Although our number of space launches surpassed the US to become number one for the past two years, the gap wasn't large then, and the US seemed poised to reclaim the top spot at any moment. But this year, they've taken a commanding lead, and it's highly unlikely they'll ever catch up again.]

[But that mysterious cube couldn't possibly be an alien artifact, could it? Why would someone willingly release a photo and admit it? They'd definitely keep something this valuable hidden.]

[Anyway, many American enthusiasts can't stand this. They'll definitely find an excuse to explain the abnormal strength of the Chinese men—it's not natural training, they must be using performance-enhancing drugs or something.]

[Haha, let's see when the space agency announces it, probably after the New Year?]

Hey, it's not after the New Year, it's today! The space agency released the photos!

(picture)
[Haha, what did I tell you? It's just a rock, not some alien relic.]

[The Yutu-2 rover only found a rock on the far side of the moon, let's just forget about it~]

You know what, you really do know, Yutu-2 really knows how to find rocks. This rock, if you look closely, really does resemble a little rabbit.

Just wait, internet enthusiasts definitely won't believe this; they'll probably start coming up with new conspiracy theories...

[American netizens: I really don't believe it!]

(End of this chapter)