I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

"Anthony, give up."

Aggie Marshall passed by Anthony's office and found that the latter was opening the images of the reconnaissance satellite, and was speechless.

Using optical reconnaissance satellites to find an unknown spacecraft in space is not as reliable as finding a needle in a haystack.

This paranoid newcomer will not stop until the free window of the satellite is filled every day. He also always wears a headset to monitor, and will alert if a satellite finds a similar communication band.

As usual, the possessed Anthony paid no attention to the words of outsiders.

But just as he turned around and took a few steps, a voice sounded in the office:

"Aggie, look at this!"

Marshall was stunned, and then walked in. Only then did he realize that the satellite image Anthony was looking at was a ground image, and it had been enlarged to a very high magnification.

Obviously, Anthony is not looking for NX-17.

In fact, he himself was about to give up. There were less than two days left to call the satellite. He could only hope to find NX-17 again by relying on bad luck and waiting for it to come to his door.

Anthony, who had stared at the radio map to the point of numbness, saw that the "Keyhole" had just completed an image stitching as it passed through the Pacific Ocean. He habitually glanced at the Xinyuan Company's base, and then moved to the Jingu Rocket Manufacturing Base in China. .

Both of these places may be related to NX-17, and there may be subsequent satellites of the same type, so he occasionally took a look, but also gained nothing.

When he zoomed in on the Jingu rocket base just now, he discovered several long white objects. If he looked carefully, two of them were still hanging on the trailer. They should be loading and unloading goods. This is very normal for an aerospace manufacturing center.

Five identical long containers, two shorter containers, seven containers, why do they look familiar? I seem to have seen it somewhere... Wait!

He quickly called Marshall, who worked at the Public Intelligence Collection Center and was well-informed and should be able to draw a firm conclusion.

Marshall first judged from the number of trailer heads that it was most likely to be shipped out. Seven containers were sent out at one time. What has seven components?

Oh, I saw it once at the beginning of this year. It was a video publicly reported by the space agency, and it was also a convoy of vehicles pulling long cargo boxes.

This terrible guess made Marshall break into a cold sweat instantly. He hurriedly returned to his computer and started to check the movements of the "Yuanwang 22" rocket transport ship. This is something that can be publicly queried on the maritime website. It shows that it has been 6 days. Arriving at Jingu Port before.

Look at the time, today is June 15th, June 16th Beijing time.

The third Long March 10 rocket has completed its manufacturing and testing work, and is packed into separate boxes and ready to be shipped to Qiongzhou by sea!

Satellite images and Yuanwang-22 confirm each other, there is absolutely no possibility of error!

Realizing the seriousness of the problem, the two immediately called their respective superiors, who then informed NACA.

…

SpecaX, Starship Town.

The SN15 starship spacecraft took off from the square concrete recycling area and continued its 12,000-meter altitude flight-return test that had not yet been successful.

Before SN12 carried B6 for its first flight, SN13 and 14 both lost control of their attitude and exploded and were destroyed when returning. SN12 is currently the only starship spacecraft that has exceeded an altitude of 10,000 meters.

The launch of the SN12-B6 combination last month can be described as "a disaster", and the Starship team is working to improve the problem overnight.

The first is the minimum diversion trough. The impact of the tail flames of the 33 engines is far beyond imagination. In the launch pad repair plan, it was decided to cover the main impact part of the surface with steel plates after rebuilding the main structure, and to lay the diversion trough with steel plates at the bottom of the tower. .

After investigation, the failure of two engines in the lower stage was directly caused by debris from the launch pad that was destroyed by the wake. This problem is very serious, but it is best to solve it, and it can be modified in ten days.

The big problem is the entire first-stage engine control system. In the development of the SpecaX Falcon 9 rocket and other aircraft, Musk abandoned expensive and low-volume spaceborne computer chips in order to reduce costs and switched to higher-end Computing power is replaced by consumer-grade chips.

Generally speaking, the overall performance of aerospace chips is much worse than that of civilian chips, but they are mainly high-speed processing chips (DSP) rather than general-purpose central processing units (CPU). The latter can replace the former in terms of performance and has more functions. More perfect, but with little resistance to radiation and strong earthquakes.

Musk’s plan is to use three consumer-grade chips instead of one dedicated DSP, which is still cheaper than buying the latter. This approach has been successful on Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft.

But the starship is different. When the first level is started, almost all the control systems are down. Half a minute later, the redundancy is started one after another. However, the engine continues to ignite in an unreasonable state, and the computer that reacts can only Try your best to save yourself and find a way to implement the order to self-destruct at an altitude of more than 10 kilometers.

Subsequently, a lot of minor problems occurred, such as the failure of the engine control system and abnormal fuel storage pressure. Later, the ground plan for secondary separation failed. At that time, the computer seemed to have failed again.

The starship assembly that completely fell into the water exploded at the moment of contact, leaving debris everywhere. Environmental groups are blocking the door of SpecaX to protest every day.

Other aerospace companies have been digging into N1's old accounts to belittle SpecaX. At the same time, Lockheed has also disclosed the reusable giant rocket it will develop in the future, trying to replace the starship to gain support.

Fortunately, Director Claire has always given firm support to the "Starship". The only requirement is that John's "artificial moon" must be successfully launched before 2019.

The latter is vigorously promoting this impulsive project everywhere, and is actually working hard to push it through Congress.

Musk, who was feeling a little irritable, stared at the horizon. SN15 had begun to slow down at an altitude of 100 meters. It looked good, but the descent speed was still a bit high.

Tens of seconds later, the rocket body was knocked out of a huge dent. SN15 stubbornly persisted in standing for a few seconds, and then exploded due to the sudden change in fuel pressure caused by tipping.

"Buzz...buzz..."

"This is Elon." Musk answered the phone without even looking.

"Musk! Where is the Falcon Heavy?!"

Musk immediately became serious when he heard Claire's voice, thought for a while and replied:

"B1033 has been assembled and sent to the launch pad, but B1034 is still in the factory. What happened? Isn't the fuel tank of Blue Moon still a week away from launch?"

“It’s too late, we have to launch the fuel capsule within 48 hours, then launch the lander within a week, and then launch Artemis 2 immediately!

Assemble B1034 immediately! "

Musk: "There's nothing wrong with the rocket, but what happened?"

"Long March 10Y3!, it got ready! (Long March 10 Yaosan, ready!)"

I have pain in my lower back and went to see a Chinese medicine doctor who said my pulse was weak...

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