The current operating status of the rocket is always displayed on the screen in the control center.
Everyone is in a very nervous mood now, as the rocket launch has reached the final stage.
No one wants to fail at a time like this.
Zhang Xingyang stood up nervously, half-tilting his body and staring closely at the screen with various data constantly changing.
"Three-stage rocket ignition..."
The young man responsible for reporting the rocket's operating status was obviously a little frightened by the current state of the rocket.
After a few seconds, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said:
"fail!"
Zhang Xingyang felt as if his body was drained of strength at this moment, and he was about to fall towards the console in front of him.
Fortunately, Geng Bo, who was at the side, had quick eyes and quick hands and helped him up.
"Try a second ignition!"
Although Zhang Xingyang did not personally issue the order, everyone still acted according to the emergency plan prepared not long ago.
Want to control the three-stage rocket engine for secondary ignition.
The three-stage rocket engine of the Chang-3 rocket uses a hydrogen-oxygen machine with a not very large thrust.
Using liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as the energy source of the engine, the working time is not very long, so the working requirements for the engine are not particularly stringent.
It is precisely because of this.
The time to rescue the three-stage rocket engine is actually very short.
If it cannot be done within this short period of time, the rocket engine can be re-ignited.
Then the third-stage rocket will be accompanied by the fairing containing the satellite, which will fall to the earth under the gravity of the planet.
Even if the fairing is thrown out in advance, find a way to rely on the satellite's own power to move.
But by doing so, the satellite cannot reach the orbital altitude it was originally supposed to reach.
Even if it barely reaches the orbital altitude where it can work, its service life will still be greatly shortened due to excessive fuel consumption of the satellite itself.
It was originally designed to theoretically be able to be used for fifteen years, but after such operation, the service life may not be even fifteen months.
Moreover, the satellite's scope of action will also be greatly reduced compared to the original design scope.
The electrical signal for the secondary ignition of the rocket engine reaches the ignition device within one thousandth of a second.
People in the control center were nervously waiting for the results of the second ignition.
If the ignition fails again this time, then the three-stage rocket can basically give up treatment and be sentenced to death.
No one knows the current status of the third pole of the Chang-3 rocket, which is far away in the ionosphere of the upper atmosphere.
Most of the people in the center prayed silently in their hearts. Although the scientific research staff present were basically atheists, everyone still expected a miracle to happen at this time.
Time passed by second by second.
Although only ten seconds have passed from the radar monitoring to the failure of the three-stage rocket engine ignition.
But many people still think that this short period of ten seconds was longer than the past many hours.
Zhang Xingyang's forehead was covered with layers of sweat.
Zhang Xingyang has never been so nervous since he came to this era.
In his mind, he kept simulating the state of the rocket engine.
Although in the process of several rapid simulations, the result of successful secondary ignition can be obtained.
But after all, there is no need to talk about logic in the real world, and various emergencies are possible.
Therefore, it cannot eliminate the tension in Zhang Xingyang's heart.
"Three-stage rocket engine, second ignition successful!"
The young man responsible for reporting the rocket's operating status shouted excitedly.
Zhang Xingyang's originally lowered head was immediately staring at the big screen in front of him.
It shows that the three-stage rocket engine has successfully ignited for the second time and has begun to move towards the predetermined orbit.
Success!
Zhang Xingyang couldn't help shouting in his heart.
No one knows the importance of this better than him.
If this fails, the reputation of Longguo's space launch will be ruined internationally, and no overseas company will be willing to hand over commercial launch missions to Longguo.
Fortunately, the third-stage rocket ignited successfully for the second time, and there were basically no failures later.
Even if the satellite's solar panels fail to deploy, it has nothing to do with the rocket.
When I came to this era, I finally did something that truly changed history.
"Xingyang, we succeeded."
Geng Bo said excitedly from the side.
Zhang Xingyang also breathed a sigh of relief and said happily:
"Yes, the three-stage rocket engine ignited successfully, and everything from now on is basically smooth sailing!"
In fact, this is also true. After the three-stage rocket engine starts working, it can quickly send the satellite to the orbit it should go to.
The big screen showed a three-stage rocket with a fairing, getting higher and higher.
Of course, at this time, the third-stage rocket is getting further and further away from the launch base. At this time, only ocean-going monitoring ships above the ocean can continuously track the rocket's position.
This is also because the Dragon Kingdom at this time has not deployed too many monitoring satellites in space.
Otherwise, only a few satellites are needed to continuously monitor the rocket's flight trajectory.
The signal from the ocean-going monitoring ship is continuously transmitted to the rocket launch base through reflection from the atmospheric ionosphere.
"The third-stage rocket breaks away!"
The three-stage rocket and the satellite have reached the predetermined orbital altitude, in the Blue Star geostationary orbit.
The geostationary orbit is also the orbit in which many communication satellites are located. The position of the satellite here remains unchanged no matter what time when viewed from the surface of the planet, so it is called a geostationary orbit.
Of course, this orbit is located above the equator.
"The satellite was successfully put into orbit!"
Accompanied by a shout from the announcer.
The entire control center was buzzing with people.
Everyone cheered for the success of this moment, regardless of men, women, old or young, regardless of their original job functions.
They all hugged the people around them tightly.
chanting:
"We made it!"
Zhang Xingyang hugged Su Xiao tightly beside him and kept shouting:
"Success!"
"We succeeded!"
Although Su Xiao seemed a little shy, Zhang Xingyang obviously didn't think too much.
He turned his head, picked up Geng Bo next to him, patted his back hard, and kept repeating his words.
At this time, even the reporters who were not aerospace workers were infected by this excitement.
He kept hugging and cheering with the people around him.
The astronauts present were not shy about sharing their happiness with others.
As for the guy carrying the camera, he kept recording the lively scenes in the control center.
Years later, this video record will be recorded in many documentaries and become a testament to this country's aerospace industry.
