Chapter 803 Doubt life

That day, thick smoke billowed across the land of the United States, and columns of smoke shot straight into the sky. People were shouting, running, and crying.

Especially some old people who had experienced that incident decades ago, they all shed tears silently. After all, they lived in that era and the memory of that incident was extremely profound.

Although the new generation of young people have not experienced those things and do not know what the situation was like back then, they also know something about it through some videos, texts, and pictures.

So although young people don't feel as deeply as the old people, they feel quite uncomfortable when they see such a situation now.

I am excited, but also regretful, and the rest is a deep sigh.

Yes, I am quite excited, because this scene is not the United States being bombed by others, and of course, it is not done by the Arc Light Group.

The plume of smoke soaring into the sky is just the flight trace of the launch vehicle, not the explosion of a missile, nor is it a world nuclear peace, nor is it the flight trace of an intercontinental ballistic missile carrying a nuclear warhead.

The reason why the reaction of the American people was so great, and some even cried, well, cried with excitement, is because it has been a long time since the United States had such a spectacular and intuitive scene to promote its strength.

Since there will be a lot of thrusters used this time, their size is very small for the nearly five-kilometer "Tutatis" asteroid, but it still puts a lot of pressure on the carrying capacity of the US launch vehicle.

Although their launch vehicle technology has been upgraded due to alien technology, each rocket of different models can only carry two to three "Hercules" thrusters at most, so a large number of launch vehicles are needed. .

And due to the special nature of the mission, they need these thrusters to reach the predetermined area at the same time. Even if they cannot arrive at the same time, the interval cannot be too long. Therefore, the United States has used all rocket launch sites this time, and even used them continuously. The private rocket launch site just built by the former Musk Aerospace Company has been used.

In order to facilitate the implementation of follow-up plans and later company development, Musk Aerospace previously proposed the construction of a private rocket launch site. As a result, Musk Aerospace was acquired as soon as it was built and had not been used once or twice.

It happened that the United States would not let the Arc Light Group take it away, and the Arc Light Group did not want it, so in the end the United States spent some money to buy it again.

With the addition of the initial island's alien technology, the United States has started a plan for a large aerospace plane. They also need such an aircraft, but the launch vehicle is of great use and cannot be left behind.

In the foreseeable near future, from a cost perspective, simple and crude recyclable launch vehicles will still be of great use, and due to the addition of new plans, its performance is also constantly improving.

Space activities will increase dramatically in the future, and launch vehicles are absolutely indispensable. However, this requires more rocket launch sites, so the United States directly bought the private rocket launch site built by Musk Aerospace.

This led to the spectacular sight of more than a dozen rockets taking off together today.

It also made many older Americans seem to have seen the scene when the United States landed on the moon. It was so spectacular and exciting, and they could truly feel the power of the United States.

However, some people lamented that this scene looked so spectacular, it felt like a general in his twilight years.

He looks quite strong, and he looks mighty when wearing armor. He can also perform a set of sword skills to kill enemies with a sword, but only he can know whether he can kill enemies on the battlefield.

At this time, the US Space Command Center was also highly nervous, and several control rooms were busy non-stop.

It was also the first time that they launched more than a dozen rockets at the same time, because there were so many projects to monitor and command that one command room was simply too busy, and several command rooms had to be used.

Moreover, these several command rooms must cooperate with each other, and their respective data must be closely interconnected, and there must be no mistakes at all, otherwise a chain reaction may occur.

"... Rockets No. 3, 4, and 7 track normally, have normal attitude, and have normal fuel consumption..."

"... Rockets No. 5, 9, and 11 track normally, have normal attitude, and have normal fuel consumption..."

"...reaching the predetermined height, the auxiliary thruster and the first-stage thruster are detached from normal, and the landing procedure of the auxiliary thruster and the first-stage thruster is started..."

"...the fairing is detached from normal, the rocket flight attitude is normal, and the fairing landing procedure begins..."

Listening to the reports in the command center, they were all normal, until the rocket entered space, and then those third-stage rockets carried all the "Hercules" intelligent thrusters and flew towards the "Tutatis" asteroid After passing by, Victor finally felt relieved and clapped along with the applause of the staff in the command center.

Next to Victor is his acquaintance, Deputy Director Buleta of the Tactical Technology Division of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. This project also involves the participation of their Advanced Projects Agency, because a lot of technologies have to be aggregated to them. , so this plan also received their strong support.

Bretta stretched out her hand to shake Victor's hand and smiled, "Congratulations, Victor, the pressure on your space agency should be much less this time. You have finally made such a big achievement under the pressure of Arc Light Aerospace." One incident brought the world's attention to the United States again."

"It's true that the world's attention has been refocused, but the pressure has been reduced," Victor shook his head thoughtfully, "I don't feel like it."

"How to say?"

When things progress to a certain stage, officials like them no longer need to keep an eye on them. At this time, the thrusters are rushing towards the "Tutatis" asteroid in space. There are not many things going on, and it is not easy to go wrong. , so the two came to drink coffee.

Victor took a sip of coffee before answering Brighta's question, "As you know, our mission this time is actually about picking up bargains. The Arclight Group did not think of or plan to mine asteroids, so we came up with our plan. .”

"With the scientific and technological strength of the Arc Light Group, if they want to mine small stars, it will definitely be much easier than us. How can this power gap reduce the pressure?"

"That's true," Bulita also realized this problem, frowned and took a sip of coffee and said, "Judging from the technology we have come into contact with, take the aerospace aircraft project that is about to succeed, although we have borrowed a lot of alien technology, but the final results may not be as good as Arclight Aerospace’s first-generation aerospace plane.”

"What's more, Arclight Aerospace's aerospace planes have been improved many times, and even the third-generation aerospace planes we now classify for them can already take off and land vertically."

"This type of aerospace plane is already the prototype of a small spacecraft. The only difference from the small spaceships in science fiction movies is that it cannot yet carry out deep space voyages."

"Yes, this is the difference between the two," Victor said sadly.

"Arclight Aerospace has nothing there, but it has the same technological level as in science fiction movies. But here we have obviously got the alien technology in science fiction movies, but it looks like real life."