Military Technology

On the big screen, three orange-painted helicopters were beginning to recover the two-flap fairings.

Through the images returned by the infrared night vision low-light lens of the high-altitude patrol drone, one can clearly see the two-flap fairing gliding under the red and white parafoils.

A helicopter began to fly around the perimeter. It was a command aircraft, a backup helicopter, and an emergency helicopter. It not only directs the aerial recovery and hoisting of the entire fairing, but also serves as a backup helicopter. When the other two helicopters fail to recover or encounter problems, this helicopter will be used as a replacement to complete the mission.

In addition to this, it also serves as an emergency helicopter. After all, this kind of aerial recovery and hoisting work is also a relatively dangerous job, so there must be such an emergency helicopter on standby to respond to various emergencies at any time.

I saw the first helicopter gradually stretching its height and starting to follow the fairing paraglider. Then it suddenly cut in from behind and controlled the helicopter to accurately hook the paraglider. You only get one chance, and if a mistake is made, the chances of allowing a second go will be very slim.

However, the pilots involved in this fairing recovery mission were all veteran pilots who had experienced more than a dozen missions and were very experienced in this. Although the fairing recovered this time is relatively large in size and weight, it is not a big problem for these pilots.

I saw two helicopters one after another very cleanly using the hook hanging below the helicopter to hook the fairing paraglider, and then hung it under the helicopter.

The two halves of the fairing were suspended under the helicopter, slowly shaking, and the two helicopters flew to land while suspended.

On the other side, on the large screen in the front row of the command hall, there is still the second-stage rocket pushing the lunar cargo transportation system to fly outside the atmosphere. Through the external camera of the lunar cargo system, you can clearly see the whole picture of the earth below. Although it is in the night hemisphere at this moment, the sunlight in the distance has already revealed its dazzling light.

The working time of the second-stage rocket is obviously much longer than that of the first-stage rocket, because the destination of the lunar cargo transportation system it recommends is the moon, which is 380,000 kilometers away from the earth, so the second-stage rocket needs to work for a long time. Try to transport the lunar cargo transportation system to a place high enough and far enough, and give it a high enough speed so that the orbital module of the lunar cargo transportation system can escape the gravity of the earth and go to the moon.

Of course, even if you reach the moon, you cannot escape the gravitational pull of the earth. In fact, the moon is firmly attracted by the gravitational pull of the entire earth.

It is precisely because of this that if you want to move away from the earth, you need a large enough thrust.

Now everyone is waiting for the arrival of the last exciting moment in the entire launch process, whether it is all the staff in the command and control hall, Wu Hao and others. Or are the tourists gathered outside the entire command and launch hall at this moment, or the tourists gathered around the Nanhai launch site, all holding mobile phones and other devices and staring at the screen, looking forward to the arrival of this moment. Not to mention the countless viewers and netizens who watched the live broadcast, who are also waiting for this moment to arrive.

Looking at the stopwatch above, everyone looked expectant and nervous. Even Wu Hao couldn't help but stare at the changing time numbers at this moment, looking forward to the arrival of this moment.

Suddenly, the nozzle of the second-stage rocket on the big screen began to stop ejecting material. Then, through the external camera of the lunar cargo transportation system, it could be seen very clearly that the second-stage rocket had separated and gradually moved away.

Similarly, the surveillance camera on the second-stage rocket also captured this scene. The entire lunar cargo transportation system appeared white under the sunlight, slowly moving away from the camera and flying into the dark deep space.

"The second stage rocket shuts down and the weapon and arrow separate!"

At the same time, a report came from the radio.

At this moment, the hall that had been suppressed for a long time was completely boiling, and almost everyone started to stand up and cheer and celebrate. Whether it was a launch system, a rocket system, or a payload system, some in the north breathed a long sigh of relief and then cheered and celebrated.

Of course, the funniest thing is the rocket system, because their mission was successfully completed. Whether it was the entire launch process, the rocket flight process, or the recovery of the core first-stage rocket, two boosters, and fairings, everything was very smooth and successfully completed.

The second most happy thing is of course the launch system. The entire launch and flight process of the rocket was very flawless, which also means that this mission has been a complete success. Although there is no final announcement yet, it is basically a certainty.

Finally, there is the payload system, which is the technical team of the lunar cargo transportation system. Although the mission of the lunar cargo transportation system has just begun, the initial and most dangerous stage has been passed.

Completing the rocket's journey to space should be said to be the most helpless and tense moment for the entire lunar cargo transportation system technical team. Because this is like handing over your destiny directly to others, and you have no control over it.

But now that the launch is finally successful, and now my destiny is back in my own hands, this feeling is even better. More reliable, the previous launch process was successfully completed, which gave them a good start and inspired them to continue working hard to ensure that this mission was completed perfectly.

Of course, after celebrating, everyone stared at the big screen again. Because there is one last step, which is also a very important step. It can be said that the success or failure of the entire mission will be measured.

On the big screen, you can see through the external camera of the lunar cargo transportation system that the two halves of the solar wing battery sails located on the entire orbital module are slowly unfolding. In an instant, the entire space command and control hall was filled with applause and cheers. This time, I was really happy, thinking that this meant that the launch mission was a complete success.

Now everyone can wait for the last moment to arrive, which is also the last step of this launch mission.

"Dear reporters, friends, and comrades, according to the remote sensing calculations of the Anxi Measurement and Control Center, and confirmed by the Beijing Space Center, the lunar cargo transportation system spacecraft launched this time has accurately entered the Earth-moon transfer orbit. I announce that the Jianmu-9 \u0026 The launch mission of the lunar cargo transport spacecraft was a complete success."

As Gao Jinguang finished announcing, a classic big red background picture appeared on the big screen. One side of the entire picture shows the breakthrough of the moon, the other side is a model picture of the flying lunar cargo system, and the side is the Jianmu-9 spacecraft this time.

In the middle of the entire screen, there is a line of large characters in cursive script that reads:

"Warm congratulations on the complete success of the Jianmu-9 \u0026 lunar cargo transport spacecraft launch mission!"