The aircraft carrier has been launched into the water, and you still call it a toy?

Chapter 101 Unlucky spx
The arrow is on the string, and it has to be sent!
After getting the order, Mark didn't care too much, and immediately started preparing for the launch.

This time, spx is also broadcasting live to all Blue Stars.

It is different from Daxia.

spx has a large number of fans all over the world!
When Mark announced the imminent launch of a manned lunar starship.

Netizens from many countries and regions on the entire blue star began to pour into the spx live broadcast room one after another!

And the number is so huge that it has exceeded the number of people in the Daxia Aerospace live broadcast room by several times!
The degree of popularity is almost unprecedented!

Actually think about it and understand it.

After all, Daxia is the only country in the Daxia language family.

But there are dozens of countries with the language family!
In terms of population, it is much larger than Daxia.

It is normal to have so many netizens.

In particular, there are also netizens from places like Xiaoxiba and Xiaobaga, as well as Daiyin, Tuji, and Nanhou.

It was also seriously affected, and I also liked to run in the live broadcast room of spx.

As a result, more than 2 million netizens have gathered in the spx live broadcast room!

Thanks to the fact that a big company like spx is operating the live broadcast room, otherwise the amount of traffic would be too much for ordinary platforms to handle.

In addition, the reason why it is so hot.

It has a lot to do with the topic of going to the moon.

The news of Daxia's manned landing on the moon has spread widely, and almost the entire western world has been shaken!
Envious, jealous, sour, all kinds of things.

In their view, this is almost impossible!

After all, America has been dominating Blue Star for nearly a century.

People are almost used to America as the world leader in technology.

But now, Daxia is challenging America's position in this regard.

The most outrageous thing is that it will be successful soon! !
If it is this time, Daxia will come to the moon faster than America and establish a permanent base on the moon.

Then America's status might plummet on Blue Star!

So when America also launched the moon landing program and was ready to start launching!
The whole western world is boiling!

This is their carnival!
After all, no matter how great Daxia's achievements are, they don't have a sense of identity and belonging.

And spx is different.

Anyway, they are all countries of the same language family, and they are more or less related to each other.

There are very few foreigners with a great spirit.

"Come on spx!! Defeat Daxia and become number one!!"

"Long live Mark! You are a role model for the entire human race!!"

"I love spx! The starship will definitely reach the moon successfully!!"

"Get rid of Daxia!! We are the strongest!!!"

"I hope our moon base will be built first! So as not to let Daxia preemptively occupy more sites!!"

"It is recommended that the astronauts of SPX bring more weapons up, so as not to lose the upper hand in the conflict with Daxia!"

"The ignorant and backward Daxia people are not worthy of sharing a moon with us!!"

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All kinds of anti-intellectual remarks were swiping the screen wantonly in the live broadcast room of spx.

However, no one in spx cares about these.

Instead, he allowed such remarks to appear in the live broadcast room wantonly.

Such a situation naturally caused dissatisfaction among many students and others studying abroad.

But they tried all kinds of methods, only to find that no one answered them at all.

Even many people's complaint emails were sent to Mark's mailbox.

However, they all disappeared like a stone sinking into the sea.

Mark at this time.

There really isn't time for these things.

The huge starship is standing on the launch pad.

Before Daxia's moon-by-month series of launch vehicles appeared.

The starship is the most powerful rocket and spacecraft on Blue Star!
When the starship argument first came out.

A starship that can send 100 people into low-Earth orbit shocked the whole world!

However, with the emergence of Daxia's monthly series of launch vehicles, more than a hundred astronauts were successfully sent into low-Earth orbit, and after multiple launches.

The starship can only be ranked second.

now.

The ground control center has started the countdown before launch!
After all self-inspections are completed.

The countdown has come to the last few seconds!

"5..."

"4..."

"3..."

"2..."

"1..."

"emission!"

Under dozens of Raptor engines, orange-red flames spewed out instantly!
The huge rocket is carrying a starship spaceship with 35 people, and it is flying towards the sky!

The reason why it carried 35 people, not more people.

Mark felt a little helpless in his heart.

Now we can gather 35 people, which is already considered very good!
Even among them are not only the astronauts of America, but also several astronauts from other countries, and some of them are even retired.

It's just a piece of cake.

After all, it is impossible for them to transfer back the astronauts who are currently performing missions on the International Space Station!

Except for those astronauts in the space station.

There are not many remaining active astronauts, plus backup astronauts.

It's like twenty or so.

There is no way, let's continue to make up!

The total energy is much less than that of Daxia, and the face is not good-looking!
In the end, I had to borrow a few more astronauts from the European Space Agency, and contacted some retired ones.

Only then did 35 people come together.

It is impossible to exceed the number of Daxia!
It's not just about whether the astronauts have undergone professional training.

There is also the issue of loading.

Starship does have the ability to send a payload of 100 people to low Earth orbit at a time.

But what is the concept of going to the moon! ?

How can the distance of 38 kilometers be compared with that of low-earth orbit! ?

According to the budget of spx engineers, sending more than 30 astronauts to the lunar orbit is already the limit of the starship!
without regard to recycling.

A complete starship can send about 100 tons of materials or personnel to lunar orbit.

But at this time the starship is not perfect.

The carrying capacity is at most only about 70% of the full body!

That is, without considering recycling.

This starship can send about 70 tons of materials or personnel to the moon.

But there are 35 astronauts on board, so how can we not consider recycling! ?
under these circumstances.

The starship can only carry more fuel with the payload to ensure that the starship can return to Blue Star after completing the mission.

That would further compress the usable space of the starship.

According to the calculations of engineers, they can only send about 35 tons of payload to the moon for this manned moon landing.

In addition to carrying people and materials here.

You also have to carry a lot of equipment up there.

After all, their plan this time is to return to the moon. They can't follow the same way as in the last century. After going up, just check in and come back!
Then you have to do something real!

It is a bit difficult for them to build such a complex and huge system engineering on the moon.

At most, it is to build a temporary camp, and then dig some mines to go back.

They plan to spend a week or so on the moon.

It is estimated that about 5 tons of minerals will be collected and returned to Blue Star.

In terms of current human technology, this plan is almost the limit of what human beings can do!
Because with the current technology of human beings, it is still impossible to stay on the moon for a long time.

Mark estimated that Da Xia had a similar idea.

Although Daxia has been emphasizing in the live broadcast that a base should be established on the moon.

However, according to the calculations and speculations of a large number of spx engineers, the base established by Daxia should also exist similar to a temporary camp.

The space moon who landed on the moon can stay in this temporary camp for a short period of time.

If it is said that the base established by Daxia is a permanent base that can stay for a long time, then they will never believe it!
Because that would be almost a disaster for logistics!
If you want to live on the moon, all the logistics materials are basically sent by rockets on the blue star!

Even if Daxia reaches the limit, it is just a water circulation system to save some water resources.

For example, the food eaten by astronauts is not so easy to solve.

If the number of people is small, enough food can be carried directly, but with so many people landing on the moon in Daxia, the daily consumption is considerable.

And there is one more important point.

If the manned landing on the moon is only satisfied with going up and taking a walk around to check in, it is basically meaningless.

Because of the same thing, America has already done it in the last century.

Therefore, the minimum appeal of the moon landing plan is generally to dig some "souvenirs" of the moon to go back.

It is convenient for the research and analysis of minerals on the moon and prepares for the future development of lunar resources.

Mark's team has carefully studied and analyzed that with the current human technology, it is impossible to exploit lunar resources on a large scale!

That requires the establishment of an extremely complete small-scale industrial system on the moon, and a huge logistics support system!

Take mining, for example.

Large-scale mining machinery and equipment cannot be sent to the moon with the current rocket carrying capacity and the size of the spacecraft.

Parts can only be shipped to the moon in batches for final assembly.

This requires frequent launches of rockets to the moon, and the establishment of an assembly workshop for mechanical equipment on the moon.

And that's just mining machinery.

In addition, the astronauts' survival supplies and equipment are also needed. In addition to food and drink, there are also a large number of extravehicular spacesuits for backup.

Because spacesuits have a short lifespan and are extremely expensive.

I don't know how much it will cost for this alone!

The energy required for these large-scale mechanical equipment is even more of a problem.

The mechanical power of solar energy is definitely not enough.

What can be used now can only be chemical energy, which requires a gas station on the moon, as well as an oil depot with sufficient safety and sufficient reserves.

It can be said that every step on the moon requires a lot of consumption.

And these consumptions cannot be replenished on the moon.

It can only be supplied by launching rockets to the moon again and again.

Just to realize this set, I don't know how many trillions of investment are needed to do it!
Not to mention whether they have so much financial support.

Even if there is, it is estimated that Congress will not approve it!
Because the money burned is not proportional to what you get!
At present, the most precious and rare resource on the moon is helium 3!

But no country on Blue Star has the mature technology of controllable nuclear fusion!
There is no way to use helium 3 in a short time after mining it!
If it is stored and waited until the mature technology of controllable nuclear fusion is developed, we don't know the year of the monkey!
Therefore, both SPX and NAS believe that landing on the moon is at best mining a variety of minerals for research and use.

The real large-scale application is estimated to be many years later!

This is also the reason why they don't believe that Daxia can do better than them.

Under the tracking of the ground control center, aerospace survey ships, and observation stations all over Blue Star.

The flying picture of the starship was displayed in all directions in the live broadcast room of spx.

Netizens all over the world watched the live broadcast attentively, and every move of the starship touched the nerves of the netizens.

It wasn't until the starship successfully passed the Karman line that people gradually breathed a sigh of relief.

In the past, all kinds of rockets launched by spx basically exploded.

But this time is different. This time it is a manned landing on the moon. There are 35 astronauts from America and other countries on the starship!
And the significance of this moon landing is not ordinary!

Inside and out, there is a meaning of competing with Daxia!
In the past, they were symbols of civilization and technology!
And Daxia is a symbol of poverty and backwardness!
They don't want to lose this sense of superiority!

"Starship, go!! Hope our astronauts can have breakfast on the moon!!"

"Big Xia should be faster than the starship landing on the moon, after all, they were launched in outer space, and the distance to the moon is much closer than ours..."

"That's because they can't directly launch to the moon from the blue star, so they can only use this tricky method!"

"I think there will definitely be problems with Daxia's moon landing plan! After all, there has never been a successful test of launching a launch vehicle from space. This is a new technology that has not yet been proven, and there are huge reliability problems! "

"Agreed! Every new technology, which one is not perfected after trial and error! They can't succeed without trial!"

"Good news! The starship has flown through low-Earth orbit! It's heading towards deep space!!"

"Long live the starship!! Come on!!!"

At this moment, in the ground control center.

Mark looked at the starship sailing steadily into deep space on the big screen, and a big stone that was originally blocked in his heart finally fell to the ground.

It has now successfully flown through low-Earth orbit.

As long as you pass the previous hurdle, you will be able to fly to the lunar orbit safely in the future.

That hurdle is the high-energy particle radiation belt that wraps the blue star—the Van Allen radiation belt!
The starship continued to sail towards deep space in an orderly manner.

During this period, the ground control center has been in constant contact with the astronauts in the starship.

About an hour later.

When the starship came to the edge of the blue star's near space and the outer space.

The communication between the starship and the ground control center was suddenly interrupted for a moment!
Then I fell into the strong interference of sizzling!

The communication between the astronauts on the starship and the ground began to become intermittent!

What Mark was most worried about finally happened! !
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(End of this chapter)