Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Moscow.

Federal Security Agency.

A man in a grey leather jacket sat behind his desk and lit the table with a pen in his hand, looking at the report on the table.

At this point, a knock came from outside the office.

The man sitting behind the desk looked at the door after stopping the movement.

“Come in. ”

The door pushed open and a skinny man walked in.

“The latest report from the Foreign Intelligence Agency, as well as news from the Federal Space Agency,” put the information on the table and the skinny man continued, "looks like the Chinese did succeed. ”

The index finger gently tapped on the table, and the man sitting behind the desk picked up the file and turned it up one page at a time.

About five minutes have passed.

He dropped the information in his hand and looked at the agent standing at his desk.

“Is that all you got? ”

The agent nodded and continued.

“The local army patrols are too tight, and there are reconnaissance aircraft patrolling high altitude in the vicinity, too close to be violent. Lu, we can only observe far away. ”

The man in the grey leather jacket nodded and did not overwhelm his men.

After a moment of pause, he slowly stood up from his office chair and incorporated the information into his arms along with the previous report.

“I will update Mr. Vladimir on this information and keep the Foreign Intelligence Agency on board. Report back to me as soon as you find anything new. ”

“Especially the propulsion system they used…”

“I need to know what that is! ”

……

A bit of an ark isn't quite right.

While Ground Command did get confused for a while after he was found missing, those caught in a panic gradually calmed down when they learned from Nie Yun that the Ark was safely on the Xiang Rui.

After all, everyone is already in heaven, even if it's urgent, it doesn't matter.

There's no way we're gonna let half the shuttle come back around the corner, is there?

Consequently, after confirming the safety of the ark, Hou Guang quickly regained calm and assumed the task of commanding the ground.

Cruise time is 5 hours and 27 minutes.

While passing directly over China, the Xiangrui Sky Shuttle made contact with CTV through a ground command transfer, as originally planned, and sent a 25-second New Year's Day congratulatory video.

Originally, the video was planned to be taken by two astronauts, but now there are not just two people on the Cheung Rui. Nei Yun and Nei Hui are also ashamed to assume that the ark does not exist, and the ark naturally refuses such an interesting thing, so the video originally scheduled to be produced by two people was changed to a three-person frame.

Finally, the Ark, standing in position C, arched its hand at the camera, representing the astronauts, the ground command and all the others, congratulating the people of the country on New Year's Day and drawing an end to the entire video.

North America, 13 hours later than Beijing, finally reached the dawn of New Year's Day when the Ark laughed and returned the video to Ground Command.

Yet last night, it was unclear how many people were insomnialed by the news that was suddenly reported on Colombian television.

According to official Twitter statistics, the football game is entering its final stretch in the first half of December 31. tide, yet almost a third of North Americans are discussing the sky shuttle launched from across the globe.

This is extremely rare...

The pride of being a space power has always been written in the bones of Americans, and has even become a part of culture. Not only is Hollywood the only place to make real science fiction, but since the Cold War, no country has been able to surpass the United States in space.

The past is impossible and the future is impossible.

Today, however, the successful launch of the strangely named Sky Shuttle caused the pride to fall hard on the ground.

Especially when people hear that the legendary Xiangrui is actually powered by electric propulsion!

This shock and unbelievability from the bottom of my heart is even more difficult to express in words...

Especially space practitioners, especially engineers working for space giants such as Space-X and Blue Origin, can hardly believe their eyes after seeing the news on television.

NASA's state-of-the-art electric propulsion technology can't even throw an egg into the sky, and the star technology that does the "technical service” to lithium batteries is actually using electric propulsion technology???

Is there anything more sci-fi than that?

Instead of believing in that fact, they'd rather believe that it was a fool's day joke four months earlier...

In addition to engineers working at Space-X and Blue Origin, the headaches are probably those of NASA employees.

They were supposed to be comfortable at home on their annual holidays, taking their wives and children to Hawaii to enjoy the warm sun, yet at this moment they were all pulled out of the holidays because of that damn sky shuttle across the Pacific.

Even so, since last night, outside the NASA headquarters building, water that had been surrounded by major media carriers had not been leaked, until the next morning, so many people who came to work had been blocked in the door, so much effort had been put into meeting the reporter who had handed over the needle and squeezed into the building.

To dispense with these annoying journalists, NASA had to hold a press conference downstairs, invite all the journalists present to the reception hall in the building, and dump this daunting task on the interns who had just completed their induction training.

In an unprepared riot, press releases barely began.

Because there were so many journalists there, there was so much chaos in the scene.

There was no time left for the spokesperson to speak, and journalists in the reporting room hugged each other and handed out their pens and microphones like crazy.

“This is a journalist from Columbia Television, and I would like to ask you whether the news that the Xiangrui space shuttle launched by China is using the latest electric propulsion system is true. ”

“… does the successful launch of the Xiangrui mean that the Chinese nation has caught up with us in space? ”

“… I want to know where $40 billion is spent each year! ”

“We did receive a briefing on the launching of the new space shuttle by the Chinese side, but they did not specify in the briefing what launch technology they were using," NASA's press spokesperson said quickly as he turned the ball pen in his hand, "We are closely following the further progress of the matter and have nothing to say now. ”

“But what I want to say is that the success of a launch does not equate to a successful launch, from a spacecraft launch to an orbital operation to a final return to the atmosphere… only if this whole series of operations is completed can it be considered a successful manned space activity. ”

As soon as the sentence came out, it prompted a minor disturbance on the scene.

The New York Times reporter, keenly listening to the spokesperson, immediately handed out the microphone and asked bloody, "Are you saying that Xiangrui, using the latest electrical propulsion technology, may fail at the re-entry stage? Is this NASA's view? ”

“I did not say that,” the spokesperson opened his mouth, but did not say no, but rather died with a kind of... The view was expressed in an ambiguous manner, "Whether the Xiangrui used an electric propulsion power system has yet to be confirmed. Likewise, whether the Chinese launch can be called a successful launch depends on whether they can bring the astronauts back safely. ”

When he heard that, the New York Times reporter's eyes lit up.

Not just for the New York Times, but also for other media outlets.

A noisy noise spread from the scene and the atmosphere suddenly pushed high. Peak.

Big news!

NASA predicts that the design of the Xiangrui is defective or will crash into the atmosphere?!

Standing on the stage, the quiet spokesperson was sweating and starting to get a little overwhelmed.

Indeed, the intern is still too young.

Although the words had not been leaked, it had given journalists a chance to interpret them in other ways.

However, even if the press conference scene has become a mess, there is no room for NASA to worry about that side for now. They are obviously more concerned about what happened to Xiangrui in the sky than how the outside media interpreted the matter...