Two Realms: Don’t call me evil!

In the Chiyang rocket launch site, Ma Lin, a CBS reporter from the United States, is broadcasting live to the audience.

Although she is a reporter from the United States, she is not European or American, but immigrated from China to the United States and has lived and settled in the United States for many years.

"Please look, audience, behind me is the Kunpeng rocket manufactured by the Jieke Group. According to the data released by the Jieke Group, the Kunpeng rocket is 185 meters long and 15 meters in diameter. It is equipped with 44 Kongpeng engines. The rocket takes off with a mass of 11,380 tons and has a near-Earth orbit payload of 850 tons, which is four times larger than the Saturn V, the largest rocket in human history."

Facing the camera, Ma Lin had a charming smile on his face. After talking about the data, the camera was aimed at the Kunpeng rocket that was already erected next to the launch pad and ready to go.

"But that's what the JECO Group said. Whether this rocket can succeed or not is still a question mark.

Let's interview the tourists on site and see what they think.

Hello, sir. I'm a reporter from CBS. Do you think this Kunpeng rocket can be launched successfully?"

Holding the microphone, Ma Lin approached the tourists and asked them one by one.

"If the JECO Group can build mechas, I think it's OK, but for rockets, I'm sorry to say, they don't have the talent."

"It's very difficult. I feel the rocket will disintegrate in the air."

"I'm here to watch the fun. Come on, JECO Group. Whether it explodes or succeeds, I can feast my eyes."

After interviewing several tourists in a row, they were basically not optimistic about the launch of the Kunpeng rocket.

"It seems that everyone doesn't believe in the Kunpeng rocket. The new player JECO Group wants to join the space party. I think they still have a long way to go."

Ma Lin's beautiful eyes flickered, with a charming smile on the corner of her mouth, facing the camera lens, broadcasting the live broadcast of the scene back to the United States in real time.

There are hundreds of reporters and media like Ma Lin in the specially set up media area.

Under the gimmick of the strongest rocket in human history, the audience who watched the live broadcast of the rocket's first flight through TV stations and social platforms such as the Internet is conservatively estimated to be more than 300 million people.

In the rocket command center, Su Jie brought Liu Yingying here again.

"Mr. Su, you press the launch button."

Pang Liangzhi stood in front of Su Jie, his face visibly nervous.

Su Jie patted Pang Liangzhi on the shoulder and smiled: "There is no need for such a ceremony. You are the chief designer of this rocket, so you should press it yourself."

Pang Liangzhi took a deep breath and walked to the rocket launch button with excitement and trepidation.

The staff on the side stared at the time indication of the electronic clock and kept reporting: "Five minutes to prepare, three minutes to prepare, one minute to prepare"

With the arrival of the last minute, various tracking and measuring equipment on the field were turned on, and recording equipment such as high-speed cameras and tape recorders were also started.

"Ten-second countdown to launch, 10, 9"

The whole audience held their breath, and the engineers clenched their fists and stared at the screen without blinking.

"3, 2, 1, ignition."

When the countdown reached zero, the button was pressed by Pang Liangzhi.

The rocket launch site immediately heard a continuous and huge roar, like a landslide, like a tsunami, shaking the earth.

On the rocket launch base, huge flames and thick smoke gushed out, deafening noise and exciting shock waves, and the tourists and media watching from the outside world could even feel the ground shaking.

Amid the screams of tens of thousands of tourists at the scene, the high-pressure gas ejected by the Kunpeng rocket under the powerful thrust of the fuel formed a reaction force, and the Kunpeng rocket rose from the ground and soared straight up.

In just a dozen seconds, the rocket accelerated to the speed of sound, with dazzling flames at the tail, and the exhaust gas condensed into smoke in the air, like a white silk extending in the sky, forming a cloud disk-shaped gorgeous cloud.

"It's flying."

"Fuck, so cool, awesome!"

"Shit, this rocket is really flying, I thought it would explode on the spot."

The audience opened their mouths wide, the huge size and weight of the Kunpeng rocket was like a 10,000-ton destroyer taking off in front of everyone.

The beautiful and shocking picture made every audience who witnessed it tremble with their hearts and livers, and they could truly experience and feel the charm of technology created by humans.

I don't know who started it, but at first there were sparse applause, and then the applause became continuous and thunderous.

"Explode! Explode! Explode!!!"

Of course, there are also unhappy people now. Ma Lin, a CBS reporter, stared at the Kunpeng rocket taking off, muttering in her mouth, wishing she could slap the Kunpeng rocket down with a slap.

In Ma Lin's view, the United States is the strongest country in the world, and its scientific and technological strength is also the strongest.

It is difficult for her to accept that a force like the Jeko Group wants to surpass the United States in the field of space. She is full of patriotism for the United States, even more than many American people.

But no matter how she muttered, the Kunpeng rocket flew higher and higher, more and more steadily, straight into the sky, gradually turned into a small bright spot, and finally disappeared completely from sight.

The explosion and mid-air disintegration that Ma Lin had been thinking about did not appear on the Kunpeng rocket, which made Ma Lin very disappointed.

Helpless Ma Lin could only suppress his inner reluctance, walked to the camera, and showed a stiff smile: "We have seen that the Kunpeng rocket has successfully taken off and completed the take-off phase, but it is still unknown whether it can fly into space and complete the satellite deployment. Only when the satellite can really start to operate, the Kunpeng rocket can be called a success."

In the words, Ma Lin's voice was sour.

The current situation is not what she wanted to see. She originally planned to laugh at the joke of the Jieke Group, but now she suddenly found that the Kunpeng rocket of the Jieke Group seemed to be really likely to succeed in its first flight.

At the same time, in the rocket command center, there was also a cheer, and the engineers hugged each other excitedly, and their joy was beyond words.

"Be quiet, be quiet, we haven't succeeded yet."

Pang Liangzhi said, and his palms were actually shaking slightly, showing that he was not calm in his heart, but the Kunpeng rocket had not been completely successful, and he was restraining his inner emotions.

"With a good start, success is not far away. When it succeeds, I will give everyone red envelopes."

Su Jie's words immediately made the atmosphere more lively, but everyone did not forget their duties. They quickly returned to their seats and began to monitor the situation of the rocket.

On the land in various parts of the Indochina Peninsula, radars at monitoring stations are capturing the flight trajectory of the Kunpeng rocket.

On the sea, there are also ocean-going survey ships that accurately measure, record and report the rocket's flight speed, altitude and attitude at every moment. A large amount of measurement data is collected from all directions to the rocket command center, and good news continues to come.

"Good tracking!"

"The engine is working normally!"

"The flight attitude is normal!"

On rows of screens, colorful digital numbers are frequently exchanged, and the automatic recorder gently traces the curve of the rocket's flight trajectory on the display board.

And these pictures will also be broadcast to major media around the world and enter the audience's field of vision.

"So beautiful! This is our own rocket!"

Liu Yingying on the side stared at the pictures on the big screen, which were taken by multiple cameras installed on the Kunpeng rocket.

Through the camera, the Kunpeng rocket has left the atmosphere at this time. Looking down, you can see the blue arc of the blue star, the white clouds like a gauze dress, the distinct coastline, the brown and yellow mountains, the continuous rivers, and the vast expanse, like a silent painting, showing the depth and tranquility of space.

"The first stage ignites and separates."

In space, the first stage of the rocket begins to separate, which is the bottom section of the rocket. In turn, the second stage and the fairing of the rocket are upward.

Today's rockets all use a multi-stage structure, because the maximum speed of most single-stage rockets cannot reach 7.9 kilometers per second. If the rocket cannot reach this speed, it cannot fly away from the blue planet.

So only multi-stage rockets can be used, and the structure of multi-stage rockets is like a relay race, accelerating step by step, and then the speed exceeds the first cosmic speed to send the spacecraft into the orbit of the blue planet.

The Kunpeng rocket is also a multi-stage structure with two stages. At this time, the first stage rocket is thrown away and abandoned, and the second stage rocket continues to ignite, and the flight speed is further increased, flying towards the predetermined orbit.

The first-stage rocket lost its kinetic energy, just like it had used up all its strength to throw its child away, and then began to fall back into the arms of Mother Earth.

This is also the routine operation of rocket launches, and the first-stage rockets are basically disposable.

But all the viewers who were watching the Kunpeng rocket suddenly found that something was wrong with this first-stage rocket.

During the falling and rolling process of the first-stage rocket, the engine at the tail of the rocket body kept emitting flames, and the rocket body was constantly adjusting, gradually changing to a straight-down flight posture, and then re-entering the atmosphere.

"This is... rocket recovery."

All the viewers who were watching the live broadcast were shocked.

Nowadays, there is only one aerospace company in the world that can recover rockets, and this company is the famous Space Exploration Technologies Corporation.

Even the official aerospace departments of other countries cannot recover rockets, so you can imagine the difficulty here.

In the shocked eyes of everyone, when the rocket was still 10,000 meters away from the ground, all the remaining engines of the rocket started up, using thrust to continuously reduce the landing speed and prepare for landing.

At the Chiyang rocket launch site, because the Kunpeng rocket had disappeared from view, the tourists and media here were gradually dispersing.

But soon, a sharp-eyed tourist saw a flash of fire in the sky like a meteor.

With the exclamation, more and more tourists looked up.

But they saw a nearly 100-meter rocket core stage falling, and the flames gushing from its tail and the powerful reaction thrust were slowing down the rocket again and again.

"The rocket is back."

"Oh my god, the Jeko Group actually has rocket recovery technology."

"What a joke, can such a heavy rocket be recovered?"

In the shocked eyes of all the tourists, when the first-stage rocket was still five kilometers above the ground, four brackets were stretched out under the rocket.

In the end, the entire first-stage rocket was very stable, with almost no deviation, and landed on the rocket launch site.

The bracket landed smoothly without tipping over. As the rocket engine was completely shut down, the first-stage rocket with a pitch-black surface landed steadily and was successfully recovered.

At this time, the audience who were slow to realize the situation began to scream in surprise. Ma Lin's chest heaved up and down. He was stunned by the technical strength displayed by the JECCO Group.

Beautiful country, NASA.

Hundreds of NASA employees are gathering together to watch the live broadcast of the first flight of the Kunpeng rocket. Everyone is mainly watching the Jieke Group's jokes.

As a result, Jieke Group's Kunpeng rocket flew smoothly, and even the rocket was recovered.

The originally noisy scene suddenly became quiet.

At the back of the team, there were two men drinking coffee.

One person is NASA Administrator Burton, and the other person is wearing casual clothes. He is Muska, who was invited by NASA Administrator Burton. He is the founder and chairman of Space Exploration Technology Company.

"Wardfa, how is it possible!"

Muska, who was drinking coffee and watching the live broadcast of the Kunpeng rocket's first flight, spat out a sip of coffee.

Looking at the first-stage rocket recovered by Jieco Group, the expression on his face froze.

It was a surprise to him that the Jieco Group could successfully launch the Kunpeng rocket. Now it could even do things like rocket recovery. Maska could hardly believe his eyes.

You know, when he founded the Space Exploration Technology Company, he experienced many failures for six years before finally launching the first non-governmental rocket into space.

Not to mention rocket recovery technology, which experienced countless failures during that period. It was the accumulation of data from each failure that led to the current mature rocket recovery technology.

As a result, Jieco Company launched its rocket for the first time. Not only did it succeed in its first flight, it also had rocket recovery technology.

And its technological content and level are much stronger than those of his Space Exploration Technology Company.

After all, the Kunpeng rocket is 185 meters long, 15 meters in diameter, and weighs tens of thousands of tons. It is the most powerful rocket in human history.

The most mature rocket model of Space Exploration Technology Company, Falcon 9, is 70 meters in height, 3.7 meters in diameter, and weighs 549 tons.

Comparing the two, it is definitely more difficult to recover the Kunpeng rocket. After all, such a large weight is there, and the technical difficulty required is higher.

This also means that Jieke Group has surpassed Space Exploration Technology Company, the world's most powerful private aerospace technology company, in the field of rockets.

"Jeco Group actually has a big trick like rocket recovery. Maska, have any engineers in your company resigned recently?"

NASA Director Burton's hand trembled, a lot of coffee spilled, and his brows furrowed into a frown.

Maska came back to his senses and knew what Burton meant. He thought it was the leakage of his company's technology. He shook his head and said: "No, we can't release talents who master the core rocket recovery technology, and this involves materials, software and flight." Coordinated control of computers, controllers, precision guidance systems, etc. cannot be achieved by poaching one or two people, so the rocket recovery technology of Jieke Group must have been developed by itself. "

"Damn it, where did this Jieke Group come up with so many advanced technologies?"

Burton's expression was very ugly. He originally called everyone to watch the joke of the Jieke Group, but now he felt like he had become a joke.

"This is really confusing. The speed of technological breakthroughs is too fast. It will be difficult for our rocket business to continue in the future."

Maska lamented that he who originally dominated the rocket recycling track now had an opponent like the Jieco Group, which immediately made him feel great pressure.