The Admiral of Hogwarts

The new rocket launch site is more than three hundred nautical miles from the west coast of Mexico and consists of two parts: a fixed base located in a trench thousands of meters underwater, and an attached mobile launch platform.

As everyone knows, due to the presence of water pressure, the depth of underwater rocket launches should preferably not exceed 30 meters, otherwise, a successful launch is impossible.

That's why the ship girls designed a mobile launch platform attached to the underwater base. Normally, this platform docks near the base for resupply activities, and when a launch is required, the platform floats to about 30 meters below the surface for launch.

"Are you sure this thing is really just a mobile launch platform?" After teleporting to this underwater base, Hugo was shocked by what he saw through the observation window.

Because that launch platform is nearly 140 meters long and 14 meters wide. Although its appearance is very streamlined, Hugo can tell that it looks exactly like a submarine.

"This is actually our experimental product. Its official name should be 'Underwater High-Speed Mobile Launch Platform.' Besides facilitating covert launches, the most important thing is to test a series of subsystems," Akagi said with a smile.

"Such as room-temperature superconducting magnetohydrodynamic propulsion technology, controlled nuclear fusion technology, in-space resource recycling life support systems, and a complete magic camouflage system."

"And then you created this, the most advanced ballistic missile nuclear submarine on Earth?" Looking at the 24 carrier rocket launch ports on this platform, Hugo felt like he had a mouthful of吐槽stuck in his throat, unsure how to spit it out.

"No, my dear admiral. Unlike those weapons, this is indeed a peaceful means of transportation," Akagi said with a sly smile on her face.

"For safety, cost-effectiveness, and stealth, we do need multiple covert carriers to launch rockets into the sky from multiple points, in order to complete construction as quickly as possible."

"Okay, that's definitely peaceful," Hugo said, twitching the corners of his mouth and shrugging his shoulders. "About how much material can this thing carry into orbit at once?"

"Due to the use of space expansion spells, each rocket can carry approximately no more than 100,000 cubic meters and no more than 100,000 tons of goods," Akagi replied.

"And one launch platform can launch 24 rockets at a time. We now have six launch platforms located in various oceans around the world."

"100,000 tons at a time!" Hugo was so astonished that he couldn't speak, because the most powerful rocket in human history, the Saturn V, could only launch 130 tons of payload at a time.

"Yes, this is the charm of combining magic and technology," Akagi said, looking at the launch platform outside the porthole that was loading rockets. "It's just that magic also has some inherent flaws."

"For example, this space spell can only last for three days, so it needs to be constantly maintained to be used normally. Also, due to cost issues, even with constant maintenance, the continuous maintenance time will not exceed one month."

"The only fortunate thing is that, with the help of the computers carried by Ulsan and Missouri, we have designed magical computers that can perform large-scale data calculations."

"And with the help of those computers, we can now expand the original static-to-static space teleportation to static-to-dynamic, and even dynamic-to-dynamic in the future."

"However, with everyone's current technology, this type of space transmission network will be limited to the transmission of personnel and small items for a long time, so most of the items still need to be transported by rockets from various platforms."

"This is already very good," Hugo said, waving his hand while checking the construction plan in the admiral network. "At least after the first batch of personnel is launched, they only need to build a teleportation magic circle to rotate personnel."

"Moreover, as ship girls, everyone's ship equipment space can more or less carry various materials, which is more than enough for early construction."

While Hugo was checking those materials, there were also many improvement plans related to the launch platform and launch vehicle. After all, it is impossible for ship girls to do this kind of work forever in the future, so a lot of improvements are related to ordinary people's operation.

The biggest plan is related to the Mars base, in addition to the space dock located in Mars synchronous orbit, there are also mines located in the asteroid belt, and these are mainly aimed at the followers who are now human beings.

Just as Hugo was checking those documents, the final loading and overhaul work had also ended, and the Laffey sisters, as the first astronauts, had also successfully arrived at the predetermined location.

After preparing, the mobile platform left the deep-sea base. Three hours later, the mobile launch platform carrying the rocket reached the launch position and floated to the specified launch depth.

With everything ready, Hugo and the others came to the control center under Akagi's leadership, ready to watch the ship girls' first rocket launch.

Several people quietly came to the guest seats without disturbing anyone. At this time, the sound in the launch control hall was constant, and the staff was nervously scheduling.

And the viewing seats specially separated by glass around the hall were also crowded with people. Almost everyone who didn't have work to do at hand stood here, looking at everything in this hall with eager eyes.

"10, 9, 8, 7…"

As the sound of the countdown began to echo in the monitoring hall, almost everyone's heart was raised. The reason why everyone here was attracted was because of the idea of exploring the universe.

This launch is the most critical step in putting the whole idea into practice. Although everyone has a chance to start over if it fails, as the first launch, everyone hopes to have a good start.

"…2, 1, ignite!"

As the order was issued, the two people in charge of this launch, Soviet Union and Saint George, simultaneously turned a key on their respective control panels.

Just as they turned the key into place, a loud noise came from the launch platform more than a hundred nautical miles away, and then a huge rocket quickly rose to the surface of the sea wrapped in a large number of bubbles.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the rocket successfully reached the surface of the sea, and then a large amount of bright flame emerged from the tail of the rocket. Then it pierced the sky.

At the same time, several magic runes on the rocket's outer shell were quickly activated, and as an energy like a ripple of water spread around, the entire rocket was completely hidden by magic.

At this time, neither wizards nor ordinary people could detect the launch of the rocket with various tools, only Hugo and their control center could see this spectacular scene.

"Gulf of Mexico monitoring station monitoring normal—"

"Atlantic monitoring station monitoring normal—"

As the rocket flew, one signal after another came from those mobile launch platforms in other sea areas that had been arranged in advance. Just like what was seen in the previous data, these mobile launch platforms are not only launch platforms, but also monitoring stations.

Of course, these ocean mobile monitoring stations will only be the beginning of the monitoring network construction. In the future, ship girls will also launch artificial communication satellites around the earth to complete this network.