Chapter 474 Earth Alliance Action
Li Qingye is busy with experiments.
The other side.
After several months of wrangling and adjustments, the Local Association finally managed to come up with some cooperation projects.
The three largest projects include using SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket to rapidly build an Earth-Moon Gateway space station and to establish a permanent base on the lunar surface.
There is also a newly reorganized International Space Station (also called the Earth-connected Space Station).
According to the assignment of tasks, the Earth-Moon Gateway Space Station will be mainly composed of the Free Federation, and the other three forces will provide some assistance and cabins, or scientific research equipment.
The South Pole base on the moon is mainly composed of the Europa Consortium, assisted by three other forces.
The Earth-Union Space Station is dominated by the fourth force, with the Free Federation, Europa Federation and Lucia as auxiliary forces.
In addition, in terms of launch vehicle technology, all parties also agreed to share some technology to reduce the consumption of internal resources.
In fact, the four major players in the Earth Union Association are very clear that if they continue to fight on their own, outer space will say goodbye to them in the future.
Over the past three months.
The various aerospace subsidiaries of Sapiens Corporation are frantically launching various spacecraft.
Among them, the Dandelion Group launched a total of 517,827 tons of payload into outer space.
Medan Space launched 8,523 tons.
The airship group separated from the Dandelion Group launched 135,800 tons.
Aoba Aviation launched 5,344 tons.
Ceylon Space launched 3,720 tons.
In addition to the Khalij Aerospace Group, which is still developing a super space shuttle, other subsidiaries have launched a total of about 670,000 tons of payload into outer space in the past three months.
The scale is simply terrifying.
The total payload launched into outer space by humans in the previous 70 years is less than a fraction of this.
Faced with the rapid advancement of the Homo Sapiens Company, other human forces felt tremendous pressure.
After all, according to the current pace of the Sapiens Company, it is estimated that within a few years, planets such as the moon and Mars will definitely be occupied by the other party.
All of a sudden, Kong De, the president of the Earth Federation Association, hurriedly lobbied the big bosses from all sides, asking them to transfer the money quickly, otherwise they would really have to play in the mud on Earth in the future.
In addition, the aerospace systems of various forces also hope to obtain strong support and are cooperating with Conde's lobbying.
After some trouble, the space agencies of major forces finally obtained a sum of funds, the total amount of which is approximately equivalent to 247 billion US dollars.
The inflatable space tower project that we had decided to invest in earlier was finally settled in South Korea after some bargaining.
Of course, this space tower is merely an experimental test project and not the current mainstay of aerospace.
Even if it succeeds, the four major forces will obtain all the technology and build their own space towers in their own core areas.
Therefore, South Korea only took advantage of a small loophole, which was also the result of the tug of war among all parties.
The internal wrangling of the Local Association was over and it was already the end of September.
SpaceX, which has received about $30 billion in exclusive funding, has three Falcon Heavy rockets ready to go.
At the spaceport in Florida.
Musk was also crazy enough to quickly assemble three heavy Falcon launch vehicles and three Dragon spacecraft within two months.
Under the special environmental pressure of Sapiens, NASA and the City on the Hill Board behind it have put aside their internal conflicts and asked Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Electric, Blue Origin and other companies to put aside the idea of holding each other back and fully cooperate with SpaceX.
The engineers and technicians of these companies had to work 10 to 12 hours a day for more than two months to build three Falcon Heavy launch vehicles and three Dragon spacecraft.
Of course, this is also due to the fact that America relaxed some of its previous special procurement restrictions and quickly purchased a large number of high-quality and low-cost parts from across the Pacific Ocean.
As long as the parts are not produced by Sapiens, it doesn’t matter if they are from somewhere else.
Continuing to impose various restrictions now will only lead to internal friction among the major forces, and the Hilltop City Council will understand who their deadly enemy is.
They could join forces 84 years ago, and they can do so now. What's more, the cooperative organization left over from that time is still running. They just need to readjust it and then they can reactivate it.
The pressure from the Sapiens company is indeed forcing these old forces to make a choice.
The Local Association is just a preliminary exploration.
The Falcon Heavy launch vehicle, produced quickly through collaboration, is now standing on the launch pad.
Although Musk looked confident when facing the camera, his palms had already started sweating.
Not only Musk was nervous, NASA Administrator Bill was also extremely nervous.
Bill prayed secretly: "God! Bless America and your loyal voters! You must succeed!"
This launch is very important because it is the first time that the major forces have put aside their conflicts and cooperated after the Homo sapiens crisis.
If the first launch goes wrong, it will be a huge blow to the morale of all major forces.
Musk quickly asked the engineers to do a final routine check, even if it was just a last-minute effort, just as a psychological comfort.
More than an hour later, the final routine check was completed.
Musk took a deep breath and said, "Hoohoo... Launch! We will succeed."
Inside the control room of the launch site.
When Musk's launch command was received, everyone held their breath as the launch button was pressed.
The countdown begins.
10……
5……
1……
Boom! 27 Merlin engines ignited at the same time.
The 1,527-ton improved Falcon Heavy launch vehicle soared into the sky.
Suddenly, engine No. 7 malfunctioned. The control system quickly adjusted and shut down engine No. 7. At the same time, it adjusted the nozzles of other engines so that their power could achieve a dynamic balance.
Musk, whose heart was beating fast, was frightened and broke into a cold sweat when he saw this scene. Then he laughed dryly and said, "Huhu... It seems that God is still on our side."
Bill gave a stiff smile: "God bless!"
The following atmospheric stage was finally uneventful, until the two boosters were pushed down and the recovery procedure was initiated, and then the smile on Musk's face brightened.
As the core module for building the Earth-Moon Gateway space station, the Dragon spacecraft launched this time has a total weight of 19.7 tons.
When the carrier rocket successfully broke through the Karman line and entered low-Earth orbit, the scene suddenly cheered.
A series of failures in recent years has caused a rapid spread of a sense of failure within America, and many locals are gradually losing confidence in America.
This successful launch slightly alleviated the depressed atmosphere within America.
The various forces in other regions also breathed a sigh of relief.
Now they don’t want to see America fall. If America falls, the other old forces on the earth will probably be completely finished.
This is the reality. The moment before, I wished America would explode on the spot, but now I am praying that America can survive.
There are no eternal friends.
There are no eternal enemies either.
Only eternal interests.
The successful launch from the Florida launch site naturally could not escape the satellite monitoring of Sapiens.
Although Sapiens' death ray satellite could blow up the Falcon Heavy rocket, the head of Sapiens' aerospace division did not do so because there was no need.
Next, Sapiens will make a big move in outer space.
