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"Is it today? The largest orbital shuttle in human history is about to launch! Just think about it and get excited!"

"Don't talk nonsense, Meriken defines this thing as an'aircraft'. They don't want to use the standard of an'orbital shuttle'."

"The scene is here, and the Adventure Star spacecraft is refueling."

"It feels that the maneuverability is not good. Why should it be fixed on the launch pad for launch? Can't it just taxi and take off from the runway like an orbital shuttle?"

"I said what we did when we built this strange launch pad. The sink is so big that it is still rectangular. Now it's finally matched."

"Tsk tsk, the load is more than 20 tons, it is a giant, what will some little guys with 2 tons load do?"

"Hurry up, didn't you say you want to launch? Hurry up, I like big ones!"

"It doesn't feel much different from a reusable launch vehicle? It even feels that the carrying capacity is not as good as that of a reusable launch vehicle, so does it make any sense?"

"Why is it meaningless? This is technological advancement. Only airplane-type aircraft can give people a sense of security, and chubby rockets are simply not good!"

"Why can't the rocket work? Before the space shuttle, didn't the astronauts enter the space on the rocket? The space shuttle can't do it! The space shuttle has to go into space by the rocket after retiring!"

With the appearance of Adventure Star, Meriken instantly returned to its propaganda mode two years ago. Text messages, materials, pictures, videos, interviews with manufacturing engineers, documentaries, etc., were sent out one by one.

In a few days, the space enthusiasts hadn't had enough carnivals, so they quickly moved on to the test flight.

It seems that Adventure Star has indeed given Merrican Space Agency a lot of confidence.

However, on the Internet, it is not only the laymen who watch the excitement, but also many experts. In their opinion, the positioning of the Adventure Star is really fascinating.

It's not that its technical level is not high, but that it seems to have made a 5-point device with 10-point technology.

Just like you have all kinds of advanced technologies, such as black-tech power, black-tech armor, black-tech weapons, etc., when there is no special battlefield requirement and the opponent does not restrict you from using any attack methods, you will not go. Build tanks, but ran to build large mechas.

That thing is useless except for its beauty.

Just like at the beginning of Adventure Star, because of the need to maintain a specific shape, various technologies failed to meet the requirements, and a lot of problems need to be solved.

Because the time is too short, many technologies cannot be broken through, but the crude and easy-to-use traditional rocket technology has made breakthroughs successively, making it less attractive. So after everyone’s "happy" spending more than one billion US dollars, they all feel that There was no future, so I gave up.

After sealing up various materials and experimental equipment, they defined it as a "trial and error" project.

After all, according to the most basic Tsiolkovsky formula, the ratio of the initial mass to the final mass of the carrier directly determines the capacity.

Under this principle, it is the most cost-effective to continuously throw away the burnt-out storage tank during the rocket launch process. In fact, the rocket should also be designed with multiple stages to facilitate the continuous throwing.

Even if the complexity is high, the danger becomes higher. Compared with the load weight, it is not important. Otherwise, every kilogram of the body structure that is brought up will take up a lot of payload space.

In fact, the same is true. After the recyclable rocket was released, people felt that the Adventure Star would not be resurrected. They did not expect that it was actually made by Meriken.

I don't know if it was stimulated by the pilot's orbital shuttle.

However, this single-stage orbiting aircraft is not useless. At least one advantage over recoverable rockets is that the take-off preparation time is short.

After all, even if the rocket has only two sections, it has a process of docking and installation, and be careful when transporting it, and paying more attention when fueling it.

The integral single-stage orbit vehicle does not need to pay attention to these.

So relatively speaking, the single-stage orbiting vehicle is more suitable for some "emergency" missions.

Of course, as to how urgent it can be, it depends on the technical level of the single-stage orbiting aircraft.

Like the Adventure Star compared to the dart-class orbital shuttle, although other aspects of the dart-class are suppressed, the ability to "prepare shorter and take off on the runway" can easily bring back a round.

To talk about a mission that requires emergency takeoff, it is probably a military mission.

For military missions, there is no need to consider large loads and foreign body loads. They are all well-shaped missiles and bombs. Small loads and dart-class orbital shuttles in small cargo warehouses can still be competent.

Big deal, take off ten planes at the same time.

Even if you take off ten at the same time, its preparation time is much shorter than that of Adventure Star, so Adventure Star has no chance of winning in this regard.

For these reasons, many people in the industry feel that the positioning of Adventure Star is a bit fascinating.

"Is it really for technology demonstration? Or is it stimulated by the navigator and entered a brainless competition mode: Not only can I, but I can build bigger ones?"

These things are still unknown. After all, the Adventure Star has not been launched on the launch pad, and whether it can enter space smoothly is a problem. Therefore, its follow-up positioning depends on what Meriken plans to do in the future.

As for those early plans, just take a look.

The previous plan is used for modification.

The subsequent test flight was very successful, and the adventure star entered the space smoothly. Meriken’s confidence in playing "blockbuster" is also superb technology.

However, in terms of publicity, Meriken is indeed better. After the successful entry into the track, the news spread all over the world instantly, and all kinds of "first" names and achievements were added, and it was a joy to play.

This is based on a very powerful cultural output platform that it has operated for decades, and this leader can't compare it.

At least it's incomparable now.

Knowing that the test flight of Adventure Star was successful, Tang Chao did not pay attention. After all, this thing would not affect him. He also said that the company does not need to care too much. As long as the company develops according to the previous plan, there is no problem in the company's development.

After all, Meriken was still not confident enough, because the Adventure Star test flight was only an empty-load test flight, without any equipment.

At the same time, when the outside world got news that the Adventure Star had successfully entered the scheduled orbit, while the outside world was cheering, the Meriken Space Command Center was busy doing a group.

There are no major problems with Adventure Star, but minor problems have never been broken.

"How about it, is the 28976 contactor still not responding?"

"Yes, it has been confirmed that it has not been reflected."

"Okay, then write it down."

"There are cracks in the NF92 solder joints. We can't trust the monitoring probe installed there to see very clearly. Through the appearance observation and infrasonic flaw detection, the problem is not big, and it should be safe to land."

"Route TA-1 was scrapped and displayed as 727. It should have been burnt due to overheating. The flight control computer has automatically switched the alternate route. The current situation is stable."

"There is a problem with the No. 8 reaction control system. The propulsion power is insufficient. If you want to maneuver, you must pay attention to its thrust..."

Bad news is constantly being collected, but fortunately, no major problems have occurred so far, so every time the minor problems are collected, the technicians will make a summary, and then record them to analyze the impact of these minor problems on subsequent actions .

If the impact is not significant, the task will continue, and it will be changed when repairing after returning.

This is a necessary step for a test machine, nothing.

If the impact is great, the task may be suspended, or even too severe, the test task may fail.

"Fortunately, these problems are within our expectations, and a lot of testing is omitted. The results are very good."

The people who made the decision of "deletion test, fast flight test" in the conference room are basically here. The order is their research and decision. Of course they are responsible. Knowing that the situation is OK, they are finally relieved.

"If this time is completely successful, then we will be able to regain the leading position, and you should be pleased as well."