In the picture, the staff of the command center are staring at the instruments nervously, waiting for the countdown to arrive.

Everyone was quiet, and Du Xingyu also remained silent.

With only ten seconds left, this time, He Jingcheng did not announce the countdown, but instead asked Du Xingyu, the chief designer of the Starry Sky 2 nuclear-powered rocket to announce it.

"Ten!" Du Xingyu was also a little nervous. He recited according to the clock, "Nine, Eight, Seven, Six..."

"Three, two, one! Start!" Du Xingyu was thinking about "starting", not ignition.

With the last countdown, the electronic instruments in the nuclear power propeller are started, slowly pulling out the isolation rod in the nuclear reactor, and the nuclear reaction begins to recover.

This time, there was no flame jet that the audience was familiar with. Unlike the previous chemical energy rockets and hydrogen and oxygen engines, this time the nuclear heat rocket thruster uses nuclear energy to heat gas and obtain a large amount of exhaust gas to obtain the kinetic energy of liftoff.

Everyone could only see that the white gas rushed out of the rocket like a long dragon, while the nuclear-powered rocket carried Chang'e-5 into the sky!

"It's taken off!"

“666666!”

"No explosion..."

"Is this a success?"

"Why doesn't it spit fire?" In Du Xingyu's live broadcast room, the audience sent dense barrage.

The staff of the command center did not relax and made steady progress. Only after the rocket was recovered could the mission be successfully completed! An accident occurred in any link, a serious accident of nuclear leakage could occur!

The nuclear-powered rocket has a much faster speed than the chemical-energy rocket. The audience did not wait long, and the rockets have begun to separate the first-stage arrow body.

"Reduce reaction efficiency, separate first-stage arrow bodies, and prepare for recycling."

“The orientation adjustment is completed!”

"The recycling platform is ready!"

The first-stage arrow body fell with a nuclear-powered rocket thruster, while the second-stage arrow body continued to send Chang'e-5 into the TLI (earth-lunar transfer orbit).

The team has already had experience in recycling the rockets, but this time, everyone's palms were full of sweat. Think about it, a small nuclear reactor fell from a height of dozens of kilometers, which felt like they were asking them to catch a nuclear bomb!

"The propeller starts again and starts to slow down!" The commander's voice was also a little nervous.

"The slowdown is completed and docking is being connected!"

On the surveillance screen, the first-stage arrow of Starry Sky 2 stood steadily in the air and began to fall towards the recycling platform.

In just one minute, it was like an hour. Sweat soaked He Jingcheng and others' clothes until the prompt sounded: "The first stage recycling was completed! The nuclear-powered rocket thruster is intact! The nuclear radiation shield is intact!"

"It's done!" He Jingcheng wiped his sweat. The recycling of first-level arrow bodies is the most important. At this point, it can be said that 70% of them have been successful!

"Good!" Cao Liang was also paying attention to the launch and recycling process. He finally breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.

"We will conduct a comprehensive test for the nuclear-powered rocket thruster later!" Tang Junwen said, this matter cannot be taken lightly.

"Starry Sky 2 has entered the TLI orbit and will be separated from Chang'e 5 soon."

"The Chang'e-5 wingspan is open and it is in steady flight along orbit."

In space, the 8.2-ton Chang'e-5 lunar probe bid farewell to Star II and headed to the moon. It will go to the moon to take samples and wait for the right time to return to Earth!

"Starry Sky 2 reduces the power of the thruster and is falling and ready to be recycled!"

"The second-level arrow body is recovered!"

In the command center, He Jingcheng shouted loudly at the microphone: "I announce that the Star II nuclear-powered rocket and the Chang'e-5 lunar probe will be successfully launched! Successfully recovered! This mission is completed!"

"Oh! That's great!" Everyone cheered together, smiling on everyone's face!

The TV station’s photographers turned the picture in time, allowing the audience to feel everyone’s joy at this moment, and they are creating history!

"Congratulations to our lunar exploration engineering team and our rocket R&D team. Their success also represents that my country's aerospace science will develop to a new level. We will arrange for reporters to interview the main person in charge of this mission later..." The host of the TV station congratulated.

In Du Xingyu's live broadcast room, it was no longer that there were too many barrages to see clearly, but that the gift special effects had blocked the entire live broadcast room.

System prompt: The flying fish sent out a rocket, come and watch it!

System prompt: Xiaoyuan QAQ has sent 999 flowers, wishing you wealth!

System prompt: Ten years later, ten space shuttles were sent out!

...

"Anchor Niu Bi!"

"Nuclear-powered rockets, now it's the best in the world!"

"When will I send someone to heaven?"

"You are the strongest anchor I've ever seen!"

Du Xingyu hurriedly thanked: "Thank you for your support. You have seen today that the nuclear-powered rocket was successfully launched, and its carrying capacity and service life are much stronger than that of the chemical-energy rocket. I can say that we have the ability to send manned spacecraft to space now!"

"What I said before in the video, it is definitely not a gimmick to be able to enter space within ten years!"

The audience was very excited and started talking.

Fang Jiayou was also excited to see it. He sent out a rocket and asked, "Anchor, when will we have spacecraft entering space?"

Du Xingyu saw this question and replied: "I think the research and development of rockets has become more mature, and the next focus of R&D should be spacecraft. Everyone is patient and I will do videos if there is news in the future."

“Looking forward!”

“+1!”

“+2!”

“+10086!”

Fang Jiayou joined the aerospace hobby group and he immediately spoke: "@BYT, have you seen it? The nuclear-powered rocket was launched successfully! And it will start developing spacecraft soon! This is the world's number one, what else do you have to say?"

Group member BYT was dissatisfied and said, "There are many people in the United States that are ahead of us!"

When Fang Jiayou saw his words, he knew that the opponent was not confident enough. He said proudly: "Look, we will be in full swing in the future!"

"I'm happy today, I'll send a red envelope!" He sent a big red envelope of 998 yuan in the group and wrote a red envelope password "Congratulations to Starry Sky 2 on its successful launch!"

For a moment, the group that usually had only a few people spoke immediately became active, and many IDs for diving for half a year popped up, and sent a crazy message, "Congratulations to the successful launch of Starry Sky 2!"

...

"Okay! That's great!" Beijing, Xingyao Space Technology Company, and Dong Jiangbo were also watching live TV. He also had some senior executives of the company.

When he heard the news of "successful launch", Dong Jiangbo and a group of senior executives stood up and applauded and celebrated.

"Starry Sky 2 has been launched successfully, our opportunity is here!" Dong Jiangbo laughed. He knew that the outside world's doubts about the prospects of space will be broken by the successful launch of this rocket!
Chapter completed!