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Early on, Tang Chao wanted to build a space launch center on Sweet Potato Island, but at the beginning, it focused on practicality and built the company site first. After the company's factory was completed, the construction of the space launch center on Sweet Potato Island began.

In the blink of an eye, it is almost entering the third year of the establishment of the leader.

The launch center of Sweet Potato Island would not have been built so quickly, and at least it would have to wait a few more months, but now everything is accelerated, and this construction site naturally has to accelerate.

And it doesn't have to be 100% completed. First, complete the necessary infrastructure construction and use it.

Other "bells and whistles" can be done slowly in the future.

The predecessor of Sweet Potato Island is Sweet Potato Reef, which is oblong in shape, like a sweet potato floating on the sea, so it has this name.

It's just that this sweet potato is quite big, a full 120 square kilometers.

Its long axis is in the northeast-southwest direction. It is 26 kilometers long and 8 kilometers wide. The southwest, north-central, and northeastern ends are solid land filled by large reefs, and the south-central is a large lagoon.

This large lagoon is 55 square kilometers, which basically occupies half of the island.

As a lake, it is still a lake in the sea. Its depth ranges from 14 meters to 40 meters, which causes the color of the lake to be different.

Because the lake is too large, the island is basically divided into two halves. The central and northern part of the island is connected by a land of one or two kilometers wide. The central and southern part of the island is only tens of meters wide, and the large lagoon cannot be enclosed. Many ship entrances and exits need to be set aside.

Among them, the southwestern end of the island was the first to be filled in. A complete and large-scale infrastructure has been built on it, with sufficient living communities, residential areas, vegetable gardens, supermarkets, hospitals, schools, airports, ports, etc.

The most important thing is that this offshore island has fresh water resources, which is very important for an island.

Because of fresh water, it means that this island is a "living island", where animals and plants can survive.This has the value of development, has a bright future use, and has everything now.

The space launch center of the leader company is located at the northeast end of the island and belongs to the second phase of the project.

The sweet potato island space launch center is 10 degrees lower than the latitude of the southernmost coastal launch site in Tianxia, ​​and is within 10 degrees of north latitude, very close to the equator.

This 10 degrees can not only save a lot of fuel, but after the rocket takes off, it flies directly to the southeast, passing the Sulu Sea and the Sulawesi Sea, and then into the vast Pacific Ocean, all the way east along the equator.

The Navigator’s space launch center was originally at the far northeast, passing by the sea, so there is no need to worry about the landing of the rocket wreckage.

perfect.

Although the "Yuanhang" rocket does not need to consider the wreckage landing area, it is reusable, but the large ocean to the east is very important for its optimal landing area and can also save a lot of fuel.

Moreover, Navigator also has the "Chuohang" rocket, which does not have the ability to reuse.

It's just that this kind of "small rocket" with a load of more than ten tons, and still cannot be recycled, is a bit embarrassing in the position of the leader company.

Don't look at it for the past two years.

In the past two years, Navigator has developed too fast. This kind of guy who can be the main rocket in other companies or countries can't keep up with the development speed and mission positioning of Navigator.

From the very beginning, the "Chuohang" rocket was an emergency product. It was only used by Navigator to open the situation and enter the aerospace club, so it did not consider much follow-up.

Because of this, the navigator did not do small payload launch missions at the beginning, or even did other companies, and specialized in national orders and its own business.

And this kind of national order does not have a small load. The Navigator’s own load is getting heavier and heavier. Only a "Mars rover" is 30 tons upwards, so this "small load" rocket gradually becomes useless. .

Now its technology is sealed or licensed to other aerospace companies.

However, the seaside advantage of the Hongshudao Space Launch Center has not disappeared, because it is a commercial launch center for the world.

It is very close to the equator, and there are very few restrictions on falling rocket debris, which is very attractive to other commercial rocket launch companies.

Moreover, it is still on the busy main international shipping route, with many ships coming and going. This also represents very convenient transportation for special large components such as rockets and space equipment.

Naturally, Tianxia has positioned it as an international material distribution center. After all, it is located at the junction of two oceans and two continents, and can provide services such as ship docking, cargo transshipment, material supply and maritime rescue.

This convenient transportation is too important for commercial space launches, or very important for any industry.

When Tang Chao got off the plane, he was standing on this island for the first time.

First impression, this space launch center is big!

huge!

It’s not that the super-heavy vertical assembly building of the Binhai Launch Center is not big enough, and because other buildings are relatively small, it is more massive, but the hugeness of the Sweet Potato Island Space Center is different. It is the same as the super-heavy vertical assembly building. The level is huge.

Even the same super-heavy vertical assembly building. The building here has two more assembly workshops than the building of the Binhai Launch Center, which obviously requires more assembly tasks.

He discovered this while the plane was still in the sky.

In addition to this, there are huge orbital shuttle hangars, huge waiting halls, huge airstrips, huge control towers and so on.

It was a feeling when I looked at the renderings. I really stood in front of these huge buildings. No, I can't say what I was in front of me. I should say I was under the feet. It was a completely different feeling.

If you let ordinary people see it, you will definitely only sigh that the space launch center is too huge, but if you look at it, professionals will definitely see some signs.

In terms of the plans and the scale of the vehicles currently announced by the Navigator, it is certain that such a large-scale space launch center will not be used, unless the Navigator has a larger space construction plan, larger space carrier equipment, and larger... ...Ambition!

And Tang Chao said, of course, there is no such thing.

Apart from other things, the huge runway is not just for general passenger planes and orbital shuttles. After all, even the larger orbital shuttle has a wingspan of only 20 meters. As far as the aircraft is concerned, it’s just a little guy, so it’s huge. The runway can only be for stronger guys.

"Finally, it's almost finished. There is no need to borrow the site of the Binhai Launch Center."

Tang Chao drove around the launch center in the scooter, and then took a few people to the roof of the assembly building, overlooking the entire sweet potato island.

He looked at the large and small ships anchored in the port, as well as the ships waiting outside, and was very sure that he had chosen the right place as the space launch center of the pilot company.

Because he not only wants to make this a single space launch center, it will eventually become an international space port.

Connecting the earth and space, connecting the prosperous human world and the vast universe.

It will become the first ground port for mankind to enter the starry sky. Together with the planned space port in the orbit of the earth, it will become the most famous space transfer station in human history.

"Well, let's set up the equipment, we will shoot from the top of the assembly building."