The Red Alert Begins in the Wasteland

In the center of the northern desert of Iraq, in the middle of the endless Gobi Desert, a satellite launch center protected by a high wall.

Located in the core area of ​​the launch center, on the edge of a huge artificial lake, surrounded by large orbits vertically and horizontally connected to the launch platform in the middle.

In this place, no outsider has ever come in. Even for the current Future Media Company, the lens only focuses on the area where preparations are being made before launching. No other places have been filmed.

When Cai Ruichen accompanied Musk to the satellite launch center, after seeing the huge layout inside, he was definitely a well-informed technology madman, Musk, with an extremely shocked expression on his face.

The space exploration technology company also has its own launch site, but compared with the satellite launch center in front of us, it is simply the gap between the countryside and the city.

Because this launch center is really too big, its scale is no less than a small city.

Around the launch center, there are all high walls. According to his visual observation, these are tall defensive buildings like ancient city walls, at least 20 meters in length.

The twenty-meter-high fence can not only block any prying eyes from outside, it is also equipped with various defensive weapons. Obviously, you can also see various monitoring equipment installed on the fence, and there are also heavily armed soldiers patrolling.

Such tight protection is no less than any military base. This makes Musk feel for the first time that the biggest difference between the Future Technology Group and any company in the world is that people have their own army, which is still a legal army.

However, the place that really shocked the tech madmen was not the tall city walls around them, but the various layouts in the satellite launch center, which was simply perfect.

Behind the wall are tall factories with an area of ​​no less than 10,000 square meters. These factories are all closed, but the front and back sides are completely open doors.

The front and rear doors of each plant are connected to the factory by tall railroad tracks, and you can also see some of the carrier rocket railcars parked next to it.

This truck has different sizes, but there is one thing in common, that is, the vehicle used to launch the rocket.

At the first intersection of the railway connecting these factories are four larger-scale fully enclosed factories, both in length and height, Musk has seen for a long time.

And this way, Cai Ruichen also briefly introduced the situation here to Musk. Those smaller factories are used to produce the parts of the launch vehicle, and then these parts will be assembled into the rocket and then transported to the large factory. Perform the overall assembly.

Finally, the assembled complete carrier rocket is transported to the launch site through the rails, and it can be launched directly after inspection.

In fact, there is no need for Cai Ruichen to explain these things, Musk can also see what these factories do.

He has also seen many rocket production plants, but it is the first time he has seen such a large scale and such a huge factory.

Even those small factories are larger than the assembly workshops of many launch vehicles. With such a huge factory, launch vehicles can be built directly in them, and there is no need to transport them to special factories.

But Cai Ruichen did not explain why these factories are so huge in size, and Musk was not curious to ask. After all, this is someone’s turf. In terms of the core competitiveness of technology, it represents interests. In his opinion, even asking. Asked for nothing.

When he took the car to see the rocket launch center officially, his face was once again replaced by shock.

Musk felt once again that he hadn't seen what it meant to be big-handed. In front of the rocket launch center in front of him, his company's Dragon spacecraft launch center was almost like a house.

In this huge launch center, there are a total of eight satellite launch points, and all of them are built around the Gobi artificial lake in the middle, so that cold water can enter the base of the rocket launch platform nearby, cooling the launch vehicle during launch , The high temperature damage caused by the tail nozzle to the launch platform.

However, this is all secondary to Musk. The main thing is that the eight satellite launch platforms in front of him gave him a strong visual impact.

According to his guess, the launch center is almost 30 square kilometers in size, and almost every space here is used. It is completely a small city, as well as residential areas and supermarkets.

The launch center in front of us occupies at least one third of the land area at the center of the satellite launch base.

In the entire satellite launch base, various wide railroad tracks criss-cross, but without exception, they all converge on the eight launch vehicle launch platforms.

The launch platforms of these eight launch vehicles ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ are all much larger than any launch platform in the world.

Musk is 100% sure that this satellite launch center is definitely the world's best and largest launch center.

If there are enough launch vehicles and demand, the satellite launch center can definitely launch a large number of rockets continuously in one day, and only needs to use the eight launch platforms in an octagonal layout.

And I don't know what's going on. Looking at the eight launch platforms neatly divided evenly around the circular artificial lake, plus the size, it looks very uniform, giving him a very strange feeling.

That is, the eight launch platforms in front of you and the sparkling artificial lake in the middle, combined to form a launch platform.

It’s just that the platform is really too big. The circular artificial lake is about 100 meters in diameter. If there is a launch vehicle with the size of the artificial lake as the main body, then there are eight launch platforms around it, just usable. To install the booster for the rocket body.

But there is really such a big launch vehicle. No, should it be a space vehicle?

Musk, who thinks he has always been at the forefront of the world's scientific and technological trends, shook his head decisively. Unless it is powered by a high-power nuclear fusion reactor, it would be impossible to build such a large spacecraft, even if the aerodynamic layout is perfect. Such a big thrust-to-weight ratio allows this big guy to get rid of the gravity of the earth.

This idea just appeared. Musk glanced at Cai Ruichen, who was confident in his side, and thought of the technological miracles that this young man in his early twenties had already created. He couldn't help but ask himself again in his heart: Is it really impossible?