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boom! Although they were about a kilometer apart, Wu Hao and the others could still hear the roar of the rocket after it ignited.

At the same time, through the big screen, everyone in the control center can very intuitively see bursts of flames and dust blown up from the bottom of the rocket. Under the spray of these orange-red flames, the rocket also slowly began to lift into the sky.

"The rocket ignited successfully, the engine was working normally, and all systems were operating normally."

"Enter program turn."

"Procedural turn completed!"

Clap, clap, clap... Everyone present burst into applause. Wu Hao also stepped forward to hold hands with Yu Chengwu, Zhou Xiangming and several other team members to congratulate them.

In the endless Gobi desert, a white rocket rose from the ground and shot directly into the deep blue sky.

This kind of scene also attracted the attention of the scene and even the passengers in the vehicles on the surrounding roads. Everyone took out their mobile phones to record this shocking moment.

In the control center, Wu Hao and the others are also closely watching the rocket's flight attitude through optical tracking equipment.

"Seconds, the first and second stages of the rocket separated, and the second stage ignited successfully!"

Clap, clap... After the announcer announced the good news, warm applause broke out again in the control center.

"Notify the recovery team on the ground, pay close attention to where the rocket wreckage fell, and pay attention to safety." Wu Hao smiled and couldn't help telling.

"Yes!" Yu Chengwu at the side also responded with excitement.

Zhang Jun licked his lips and asked him excitedly: "Did it succeed?"

"The separation of the first and second stages is more than half of the success. Now it depends on whether the final flight height of the rocket meets our expectations." Wu Hao replied with a smile.

"Hehe, theoretically speaking, the rocket experiment can only be declared a complete success after the entire recovery work is over. But as long as there are no major accidents in the next link, it is considered a success." Zhou Xiangming explained to Zhang Jun with a smile .

"That must be a success." Zhang Jun's face brightened with joy. What he saw was not only the successful launch of the rocket, but also a steady stream of orders and money in the future.

"The rocket's secondary fuel was exhausted, the engine stopped, and the altitude began to drop." A monitoring officer immediately shouted.

Yu Chengwu stared at the big screen and quickly asked, "What's the maximum height?"

"One hundred and thirty-eight point one kilometers, to meet the design expectations."

Clap, clap... There was another burst of applause at the scene.

"Okay, congratulations, this altitude has reached the adjacent space or the space-space transition zone. Even this experimental model can already be used for some suborbital commercial space launch missions." Wu Hao praised with a smile on his face.

He also didn't expect that this test launch would be off to a good start. The rocket completed the entire experimental task very well, and it can be said that there was no disturbance in the middle.

The near space or space-space transition zone he mentioned here is also sub-orbital, which generally refers to the airspace m above the ground. It is between the highest flying altitude of existing aircraft and the lowest orbital altitude of satellites, so it is also called near space or space transition zone.

It roughly includes the stratosphere region, middle atmosphere region and part of the ionosphere region. This area is neither aeronautical nor aerospace. For intelligence collection, reconnaissance and surveillance, communication support, and air-to-ground operations, etc.,

But it has great development prospects.

For some countries and companies, in fact, the returnable spacecraft developed by a few major aviation countries, such as space vehicles like x37b, their flight altitude is also at this orbital altitude.

With the emergence of this type of spacecraft, major aerospace powers and some aerospace giants are also stepping up research in this field, and this suborbital area, which was not paid much attention to before, has become hot again.

Hearing his words, Zhou Xiangming shook his head and said: "Not yet, this rocket is still only a test product, and it is far from being put into production launch. Moreover, this launch can only be said to be a fluke, we still have to retrieve the rocket wreckage for analysis, and summarize relevant information. experience continues to be tested.”

"Hehe, that's what I mean." Wu Hao said in embarrassment after being teased like this.

Seeing Wu Hao's embarrassing expression, Yu Chengwu hurriedly stepped forward and said, "It's not impossible, we can go to scientific research institutions to find some relevant sounding scientific research cooperation projects.

In this way, we can not only obtain some scientific research funding, but also accumulate experience in cooperation with these scientific research units.

And these scientific research units can also use less money to carry out some sounding scientific research projects, which is also a good thing for them.

This kind of cooperation can be said to kill two birds with one stone, mutual benefit and win-win. "

"But we can't guarantee that the next rocket will be launched successfully. What if it fails?" Zhou Xiangming questioned.

"Hey, rocket launches are not 100% successful, and there are risks. They all know this." Yu Chengwu retorted.

Seeing that the two were about to fight, Wu Hao hurriedly came forward to smooth things over and said: "Okay, okay, what you said is reasonable. But this problem is not impossible to solve, such as looking for an insurance company to insure, and now many commercial rocket launch projects They all do this. In this way, even if they fail, they will not lose much.

Besides, we are not lying to each other, and we will explain clearly to them the risks we should have. How can a normal sounding launch mission be cheap? They all know this in their hearts. "

"What Mr. Wu said is true." Yu Chengwu nodded in agreement.

Although Zhou Xiangming didn't nod his head when he saw this, he didn't refute again.

"The helicopter of the ground recovery team reported that the first-level wreckage of the rocket had been found. There were no casualties at the crash site, and no property damage on the ground. At present, the ground recovery team is already on the way to the crash site, and it is expected to complete the cleaning and recovery of this level of wreckage today. .”

Wu Hao nodded when he heard the words, and then asked, "What about the second-level part?"

"According to the design requirements and relevant standards, most of the secondary part of the rocket will burn out during the high-speed fall, and only a small part will fall to the ground. However, the high-altitude environment is complicated, and it is difficult to determine the landing point. Further search is required. According to the rocket flight trajectory According to calculations, the second-level part will basically fall into the desert here. This desert is sparsely populated, so there will be no accidents.

To be on the safe side, the ground recovery team can send a helicopter to search to make sure nothing goes wrong. " Yu Chengwu explained to him.

"It's fine."

Wu Hao breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at the excited crowd and raised his voice: "I know the rocket launch was successful, everyone is very excited at the moment, and so am I.

But I still ask everyone to endure this excitement first and calm down. Our work is not over yet, there is still a rocket waiting for us to launch.

Let us continue to work hard and strive for another complete success! "

"come on!"