This star is going to the moon

Chapter 539 Ma Yilong: Lu Yunxing, I can do it too! I also want to make the maiden flight of the giant rocket a success!
After experiencing setbacks in the first half of the year, Ma Yilong felt that his luck would improve in the second half.

Originally, because the Donald Party had set him up for "having children," he was about to contact the Elephant Party and jump over there, but while he was still in contact with them, Trump was targeted and severely persecuted.

He was glad he hadn't jumped ship immediately.

While he was observing, he was not idle. He was not only rapidly advancing his "Super Falcon" rocket, but also trying to expand his influence channels.

So he set his sights on Twitter.

After lengthy negotiations, he sold off a portion of his stock, ultimately completing the acquisition of Twitter for $440 billion.

After becoming the owner of Twitter, Elon Musk immediately renamed it, taking the "fork" from "Space Fork" as the new name for Twitter.

Now, Elon Musk is promoting the maiden flight of his 9-meter diameter "Super Falcon" rocket on his own platform.

He wanted the whole world to know that if Lu Yun could successfully launch new spacecraft on their maiden flights several times, he could do the same!
Yes, Elon Musk feels that his "Super Falcon" rocket can successfully complete its maiden flight!

As a well-known internet "troll," Ma Yilong spends a lot of time surfing the internet, so he knows about the internet meme "Old China Bank, I can do it too," and he also knows that it is actually mocking those countries that overestimate their abilities.

But Ma Yilong felt he could really do it.

After all, before Lu Yun took off, Ma Yilong was the "light of spaceflight" in the human world.

If others can't do it, there's no reason why I can't!

Lu Yun's initial "Wan Hu" reusable rocket was actually a copy of his "Falcon 9" reusable rocket!
Of course, the reason he was so confident was not only because he was confident himself, but also because his engineers believed that the Super Falcon rocket had at least a 95% success rate for its maiden flight.

For Ma Yilong, who enjoys adventure, what's the difference between a 95% success rate and 100%?
After all, when everyone else was pessimistic about reusable rockets, he was the only one who bet on them.

When Tesla was unable to expand its market due to insufficient production, it went directly to China to build a Gigafactory.

Now that international aerospace technology is developing faster and faster, and Lu Yun's spacecraft maiden flights are always successful, he believes he has no problem.

So, thanks to the promotion of the platform, the whole world knows that Elon Musk is going to make the maiden flight of his 9-meter diameter rocket "Super Falcon", and he even made a bold statement that the maiden flight will be a success!
This piqued everyone's interest.

It's not that we don't trust you, it's just that everyone wants to broaden their horizons!

Lu Yun was already curious about Ma Yilong's super rocket's maiden flight, which was six months ahead of schedule in this life, and now he was even more interested.

So on the day of the Super Falcon's maiden flight, the rocket launched at noon, which was midnight for the Chinese.

It just so happened that Lu Yun and his team were filming a night scene that day, and after filming, everyone gathered together to watch the live stream.

Although Ma Yilong's constant announcements have piqued the curiosity of many, not everyone will stay up late to watch his live stream.

But in the crew of "Go to the Windy Place," not to mention the crew members, the supporting actors who acted alongside Lu Yun specifically learned about aerospace knowledge after they found out they had been selected.

After all, the main actors in this TV series are Lu Yun and An Fangfei.

In particular, Lu Yun not only owns a super-giant aerospace technology company that is comparable to the entertainment industry, but is also a mainstay of the national strategic aerospace project.

These factors have given him immense influence in the entertainment industry, and his acting skills and vision have earned him the trust of many people in the industry. Maintaining a good relationship with him is definitely beneficial for future development.

Not to mention that with his support, An Fangfei has become a well-known investor in the film and television industry, which is directly related to their future development.

So when they found out that Lu Yun was going to stay up all night to watch the live stream, they happily stayed to watch with him and even ordered some late-night snacks.

Everyone ate and watched.

Of course, the main reason is that everyone has worked with Lu Yun and An Fangfei for more than a month, so they've become friends, which is why they're all gathered together laughing and joking to watch the live stream.

"Brother Yun, do you think Ma Yilong can succeed on the first try?" "Yeah, Lu Shen, I watched the Super Falcon test before, it exploded several times."

"Ma Yilong has put a lot of effort into promoting this, so he should be confident, right?"

Having confidence has no necessary connection with success or failure.

"Indeed, Americans are quite confident in everything they do, but whether they succeed or not is another matter."

"The most confident one is still Third Brother. He's the real winner. He wins at everything he does, even when he loses."

"Brother Yun, before the rocket launches, why don't you tell us about it?"

"Haha, just talking isn't very interesting. Let's make a bet and see if Ma Yilong can succeed..."

Hearing his friends' teasing, Lu Yun looked around and said, "Then let's talk about it?"

Everyone: "Tell us, tell us!"

"Okay, then tell me about it."

Lu Yun said with a smile, "I think the chances of Elon Musk's Super Falcon rocket successfully completing its maiden flight are slim, or perhaps it was destined to be so from the beginning."

"This is mainly because Elon Musk initially set the goal too high, and then, after realizing that the technology couldn't meet it, he repeatedly made changes, which ultimately made the Super Falcon's technology roadmap very messy."

"The current Super Falcon rocket is 9 meters in diameter, but it wasn't always like that. Elon Musk initially set a diameter of 12 meters, saying he wanted to build an unprecedented super rocket..."

Everyone: "Wow~"

After learning that they would be playing supporting roles to Lu Yun and An Fangfei in their new drama, they crammed on some aerospace knowledge and learned what a 12-meter diameter super rocket represents.

After all, the first and second stages of the Saturn V rocket, which supported the first manned lunar landing decades ago, were only 10.1 meters in diameter.

Of course, its third-stage rocket was quickly reduced to a diameter of 6.6 meters.

If we're talking about exaggerated rocket diameters, the first one to mention is the N-1 rocket that Old Bear failed to launch, which had a base diameter of a staggering 17 meters!
However, it's only this big at the bottom because it doesn't have a straight cylindrical body; the whole arrow is just a rather tall "pointed cone."

Aside from the retired and unsuccessful ones, the SLS rocket, which barely made its maiden flight, has the largest diameter. Excluding the two solid rocket boosters, the diameter of the first stage of the SLS rocket is 8.4 meters.

The current "Super Falcon" is a straight arrow with a diameter of 9 meters and a height of about 120 meters. The arrow body is mainly made of stainless steel.

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There are no longer any super rockets with a diameter exceeding 10 meters.

Everyone knows this.

However, looking at Lu Yun speaking so eloquently, everyone knew that this record was going to be broken by him.

Not to mention the small diameter of the SLS rocket, Elon Musk's "Super Falcon" is not only larger in diameter, but it is also a new type of rocket that is basically fully recoverable, which is incomparable to the old configuration of the SLS rocket.

To break Ma Yilong's new record, one must look to the 10.6-meter diameter "Starship" rocket that Lu Yun has already begun developing.

They didn't know that Lu Yun's "Starship" was the name that Ma Yilong wanted to use in advance, forcing Ma Yilong to use "Super Falcon".

All they knew was that the name Lu Yun was perfect.

After all, if Elon Musk's 9-meter diameter rocket is called "Starship", then what should we call Lu Yun's 10.6-meter diameter super rocket?
Now is the perfect time, as Elon Musk's Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Super Falcon are all part of the same lineage.

Now it all depends on whether Elon Musk can make his maiden flight a success.
(End of this chapter)