Homo sapiens

Jeju Island.

Space Tower Experimental Project.

At this time, on the floating launch platform at an altitude of 10,000 meters, a 120-ton solid fuel launch vehicle has been pulled up using a cable from the launch base below.

As the president of the Earth Federation Association, Kong De, he also personally came to the Jeju Island Space Base at this time.

Jorge Moran, vice president and technical executive of the project's design company, Tote Corporation, was accompanying Conde and his party.

"President Moran, isn't the anti-wind interference system still working?"

Hearing Conde's question, Jorge Moran was somewhat embarrassed. After all, their company had vowed that there would be no problem, but now it has not completed the PPT idea.

Having long known the urinary nature of these guys, Comte did not show any expression of anger, but reminded him with a cold expression:

"President Moran, it's best to study more technology! You can't develop technology by speculating on stocks. After all, Dilian has a lot of suppliers and partners, and no one is indispensable."

"Uh..." Jorge Moran was somewhat at a loss. Of course he knew that the company was hyping up, causing the total value of the company's stock to soar from the previous 360 million to 5.7 billion in less than a year.

This increase has made a lot of money for shareholders.

The four major forces and the Earth Federation did not prohibit this kind of behavior, but the speed of Toth's technology research and development and engineering integration has been slow, which made the Earth Federation Association very dissatisfied.

After reacting, Jorge Moran quickly replied: "President, please rest assured that our company has almost completed the technology integration. This technology update can allow the space tower to withstand strong winds below level 10."

"Then I'll wait for the good news from your company. When will the launch start?" Kongde turned to ask Park Yuanguang, the manager of the base.

Park Yuanguang acted like a dog-legger and replied respectfully: "Chairman Kong Deok, the Sagittarius launch vehicle is ready. It's just time to go to the ground control center now."

"Then let's go!" Comte was very satisfied with the stick's respectful attitude.

After a while, the group arrived at the ground control center.

Hundreds of staff are busy in front of computers.

On the split screen of the large screen, you can see the three areas of the Sagittarius solid launch vehicle, as well as the countdown to launch. At this time, there are still about 12 minutes until launch.

Considering that the anti-wind interference system of the space tower was not very effective at this time, secondary adjustments were made on the launch platform.

It can be seen from the big screen that half of the Sagittarius launch vehicle's rocket body is submerged in the air bag of the launch platform, and the other half is exposed.

Doing this can reduce the impact of vibrations. After all, there are no precise rules in the stratospheric winds. If a sudden strong wind occurs during launch, it will easily cause violent vibrations on the launch platform.

If the launch vehicle is erected directly on the platform, it will easily tilt or collapse.

The use of semi-buried type can effectively avoid the above situation.

In fact, this is a missile launch system borrowed from warships and submarines.

Pu Yuanguang looked at the time and found that it was almost time, so he asked: "President, how about you announce the launch?"

Kong De was speechless in his heart, and waved his hands with a dry smile on his face: "I won't interfere, you just follow the procedures."

After all, this launch was a test launch. If it failed, it would be too embarrassing for him. Comte secretly despised this stick for having a hole in his head.

Park Yuanguang did not notice Kongde's displeasure. Instead, he thought Kongde was taking care of him, so he shouted even more enthusiastically:

"Under the wise leadership of President Conde, this launch will be a success. Everyone applauds."

Bang bang bang... all the staff clapped reluctantly.

hehe! I thank you! Conde's fist became hard.

Jorge Moran on the side also had a weird look on his face. He had not even launched yet, but he opened champagne to celebrate, and even grilled the president of the Federation of Prefectures. What was he doing? This is not how flattering is done!

However, Park Yuanguang clapped even harder when he saw Gong Deok's face flushed.

Jorge Moran, who couldn't stand it anymore, felt that the breath in Conde's nostrils was getting thicker. He quickly interrupted Park Yuanguang's self-movation: "Ahem, Mr. Park, the launch time has come."

Park Yuanguang turned his head and realized that there was indeed not much time left, so he bowed to Kongde: "President, I will arrange the launch immediately. This launch will surely become a milestone in human spaceflight."

Comte was so angry that he was almost fuming. He waved his hand as if to shoo away flies: "Go!"

Looking at Park Yuanguang's leaving figure, Jorge Moran whispered: "President, don't be angry, these sticks are like this."

Kongde didn't want to talk anymore and sat directly in the VIP room, looking at the broadcast screen of the launch platform.

Two minutes later.

An English countdown sounded inside the control center.

[10...9...0! emission! ]

On the launch platform at an altitude of 10,000 meters.

The Sagittarius launch vehicle ignited the solid fuel, and soon the flames pushed the 120-ton launch vehicle towards the Karman Line.

By avoiding the dense air of the troposphere, the launch distance is also reduced, making it easier for the launch vehicle to escape the atmosphere.

The technology of this small solid fuel launch vehicle is very mature from America and other forces. Under normal circumstances, the probability of launch failure is very small.

Conde finally showed a smile when he saw that the launch vehicle began to adjust its posture, accelerate into orbit with the help of the earth's angular velocity, and then break through the Kármán line.

The low-Earth orbit payload of this launch vehicle is about 27 tons, and it is equipped with 130 200-kg micro attitude control engines.

That's right, the payloads launched this time are all miniature attitude control engines.

When the launch vehicle successfully reached an altitude of 500 kilometers in low-Earth orbit, 130 attitude control engines were ejected one after another.

Then, under the control of the ground center, these engines quickly approach those scrapped satellites, especially those scrapped satellites with relatively complete bodies, which are the main targets.

Some of the relatively nearby abandoned satellites have been captured by the attitude control engine, and then the attitude engine quickly adjusts the flight trajectory, pulling the abandoned satellites to fall towards the spacecraft graveyard in the South Pacific.

Park Yuanguang ran over with an excited expression: "This launch was very successful, thanks to the wise guidance of President Kong Deok."

"Haha...Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Park." Kong De was a little ecstatic.

Jorge Moran also laughed dryly, but in his heart he secretly despised Conde for being a chameleon.

However, Ken Kongde still knew some sense of proportion and was not confused by Park Yuanguang's flattery. He ordered: "You must conduct a comprehensive test on the space tower project. We will build a larger space tower next. Your experience Very important."

"President, please rest assured that we will do our best for the sake of a free world." Park Yuanguang promised with his head held high.

Kongde and his party stayed here for several days, and after seeing hundreds of abandoned satellite debris being dragged down into the atmosphere and destroyed, he left Jeju Island with satisfaction.

The reason why the Earth Alliance attaches so much importance to this launch is, on the one hand, because the launch load ratio of the space tower platform is very high, and on the other hand, there is too much space junk in low-Earth orbit.

If these space junks are not cleaned up as soon as possible, they will be afraid of launching spacecraft in the future.

This can only be said to be self-inflicted.

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