Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 60: No Failure
For such a massive rocket, a small amount of fuel leakage before launch is acceptable, harmless, and difficult to avoid.

For this reason, fuel loading is always carried out on the eve of launch.

The extremely cold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, once leaked out, instantly lowered the surrounding temperature to extremely low levels, causing the moisture in the air to condense rapidly and form this fog.

The fueling process will be completed within half an hour, at which point more than 80% of the internal volume of this massive rocket will be occupied by fuel.

Indeed, although this rocket is enormous, with a total mass of over 1000 tons, 80% of it is fuel, and the remaining 10% is rocket equipment. Less than 3% of its mass and space can be allocated to the payload, namely the lunar probe satellite.

This may seem inefficient, but it represents the limit of what human technology can achieve today.

Fueling is complete. Several kilometers away, the second and third rockets are also ready and in the queue.

Several kilometers away in another direction, in a building, military representatives such as Gu Changshan, leading figures in the aerospace industry such as Chen Yusheng, representatives from the scientific community such as Lu Zhaoming, as well as Jiang Yang and Zhou Yu were all present.

Gazing at the massive launch pad in the distance, and seeing the numerous rockets that had also been erected in other directions, pointing straight to the sky like javelins, Jiang Yang felt a deep sense of awe.

In less than five days, the production and transportation of so many rockets were completed from scratch. Before this, no one would have thought it was a fantasy.

But now, we've done it, we really have.

"Preparations complete, launch is now permitted."

Under everyone's watchful eyes, Chen Yusheng, the leading figure in the aerospace sector, nodded and said in a deep voice, "Launch."

"Yes."

This order was quickly transmitted to the command room downstairs.

Hundreds of staff members stared intently at the screens, monitoring the rocket's status. At the control panel, the on-site commander had already begun the countdown.

"3, 2, 1, 0... Ignition!"

Intense flames erupted from the rocket's tail. The next moment, thousands of tons of water in the reservoir were instantly scalded to boiling point, rapidly evaporating and forming a large cloud of white mist, which also carried away the heat to prevent damage to the launch pad facilities.

Gazing at the massive rocket and its blazing heat, Jiang Yang murmured to himself, "Let's take our hope of uncovering the truth behind the apocalypse to the moon..."

He knew that the next moment this huge rocket would break free from the launch pad and soar into the sky, where birds could fly freely and fish could leap freely.

But... after a delay of several seconds, the flames at the tail of the rocket slowly weakened and eventually disappeared.

The enormous rocket remained motionless in place.

"The launch of the No. 1 rocket failed, and we have immediately cut off the fuel supply."

A shadow crossed Jiang Yang's mind.

The on-site commander's voice continued: "Immediately proceed according to the contingency plan, recover the liquid hydrogen and kerosene, and release liquid oxygen on-site."

"Yes."

"Rocket No. 2, prepare."

"Yes."

Liquid oxygen at extremely low temperatures, with a total mass of several hundred tons, gushed out from the outlet and was released directly into the atmosphere.

Countless water vapors condensed instantly, forming a "fog" out of thin air at the launch site, which then slowly spread under the influence of a gentle breeze.

At that moment, the temperature in the surrounding area of ​​several hundred meters dropped by more than ten degrees Celsius.

Highly hazardous kerosene and liquid hydrogen were quickly recovered into fuel depots via pipelines.

The rocket's mass decreased rapidly, dropping from a peak of over 1000 tons to just over 200 tons in just ten minutes.

The massive launch pad began to move along the railway tracks, eventually arriving at a point several hundred meters away.

Several giant cranes worked together to lift the rocket off the launch pad and place it directly on the ground covered with weeds and gravel, just like dumping garbage.

One moment it was the center of attention, the next it is a piece of waste that no one cares about. It cost at least tens of billions of dollars and embodied the hard work of countless outstanding workers and engineers.

There was no interest in even investigating the cause of the malfunction and then fixing it. The mobile launch pad carrying the second rocket had been moved to the launch pad.

The pool, which had been partially evaporated by the rocket's exhaust plume, was refilled, and the payload placement and refueling process resumed.

"As long as there is no explosion on the launch pad that damages the launch site, it is not considered a failure."

Chen Yusheng, the person in charge of the lunar exploration program, murmured to himself, as if trying to comfort himself, or perhaps explaining to the others.

……

On the other side of the world, in an international online conference room.

"it is good!"

"Hahahaha!"

The participants from various countries, who had looked somber at the last meeting, were now in high spirits.

Although the purpose of their industrial mobilization is still unclear, it is only vaguely known that it may be related to rockets. That is why this meeting broadcasted the rocket launch of that country live. Although this matter does not seem to have much to do with us and does not pose any threat to us, it is still a pleasant thing to see those damn yellow-skinned monkeys fail.

"Damn it, when we questioned and pressured them before, that country just dismissed us with the words 'normal industrial task'."

The launch failed now, didn't it? Serves you right!

Intelligence chief Daniel stormed into the conference room, his face ashen.

"This is the second image of the site taken by satellite."

Vice Speaker Locke glanced at it, his expression suddenly changing as if he had seen a ghost.

His body even began to tremble slightly uncontrollably.

He saw that, just half an hour later, more than a dozen huge rockets of the same specifications and model suddenly rose up at the launch site.

"Ten... a dozen rockets?"

"Yes, Mr. Locke."

Daniel's voice was hoarse: "They're not going to do one rocket launch, but at least a dozen."

Moreover, there are not one, but five similar launch sites.

Each of the five launch sites has more than a dozen rockets standing tall.

Meanwhile, the satellite also captured images of a large number of large trucks heading to different launch sites, and the cargo they were transporting was also highly suspected to be that of the same type of rocket.

The total number of rockets counted so far has reached 180, and it is still rising rapidly.

Furthermore, according to the intelligence we have just received, we have ample reason to believe that these at least 180 giant rockets were all produced during the previous five days of industrial mobilization…”

Locke's breathing became rapid, and his voice was strained: "You mean, in five days, at least 180 giant rockets were produced?"

"Yes, sir."

"The previous launch failure was only for the first rocket; there are 179 more to come?"

"There are at least 179."

Locke seemed to have all his strength drained away in an instant, and he leaned back weakly in his chair.

He seemed to see a giant, a giant with unparalleled strength.

He and the nation he was so proud of were like ants before this giant.
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