"Today's show ends here. I'm Gaoyuan, see you next time."

As usual, Gao Yuan finished his unchanging conclusion, and left the camera and stepped down to find Cao Feiyu and Chu Luoluo.

Cao Feiyu shook his head slightly and said, "The number of people has dropped so quickly. It seems that the audience is not interested in staying in the live broadcast room and using barrage to discuss the issue of the Blue Sea City. Everyone wants to watch the live launch in North America."

Plateau said without comment: "Stop talking about the audience, I want to know whether such a giant can successfully take off. If North America succeeds this time, not to mention developing the moon, developing Mars is just around the corner."

"After all, that's the ability to send 1,000 tons in low-Earth orbit, and the 400 tons of moon delivery. Based on the lunar base's own weight of 5,000 tons, it only takes 12.5 launches to get the base from above, and then transport supplies once a quarter, which is enough to maintain the long-term operation of the space station."

Cao Feiyu frowned, "The powerful space drop capability is the basic technology for developing planets. I just don't know if the first stage of this super rocket can be recycled like a Falcon to reduce the launch cost?"

Chu Luoluo said: "It should be a recyclable design, right? Musk's company became famous because of the first-stage recycling technology of the Rockets."

"By the way, boss, I suddenly thought of a question. If North America uses this big guy to launch communication satellites, wouldn't the density and efficiency of the Starlink network be crazy? Then Starlink will reduce prices again, which may really threaten the existing ground Internet network."

Gao Yuan scratched his head, "It's indeed an important issue. Han Chang talked to me two days ago, saying that the military was very worried that North America would throw heavy space-based weapons onto orbits, and wanted to know if Kunlun Zenith was absolutely sure to fight attacks from space."

"Is there such a thing? Then how did you answer, boss?" Chu Luoluo stuck out her tongue. As expected, she was still too simple. Compared with the space-based weapon, Starlink is not a threat at all.

Gao Yuan said: "I asked Han Chang to tell all the big guys that there are only thousands of days to be thieves in this world, and there is no reason to defend against thieves for thousands of days. Passive defense is not advisable. When that day comes, our only choice is to throw Kunlun zenith and attack them."

...

Cape Canaveral, North America, Florida.

Musk looked nervous and looked at the huge screen in the launch center, counting down the second countdown was taking place on the screen.

Nineteen eighty seven, four three two one!

Boom~

Fierce fireworks gushed out from the tail of the rocket, as if the entire earth was burning. Even if standing on a hill dozens of kilometers away from the launch site, you could still feel the earth trembling slightly.

After all, it was a 13,500-ton behemoth that was sent to space, and its weight was more than three times heavier than the heaviest Saturn V rocket in human history.

Gradually, the super rocket left the launch frame and flew into unmanned space faster and faster.

Millions of residents living on the west coast of Florida can clearly see the dazzling fire and hear the sensational roar.

"All data are normal, start the first-stage separation of the Rockets immediately!"

“Successfully separated!”

"The second-stage rocket ignited successfully!"

"The first-stage rocket is falling back and is adjusting posture!"

"3,500 meters from the ground! The slowdown engine is ignited successfully!"

"The landing speed continues to decline, and the posture remains stable!"

In the Cape Canaveral command center, the movements and progress of the Super Rockets after they were launched are constantly played.

The recyclable first-stage rocket is separated at ninety kilometers from the ground, and then the second-stage rocket is activated. It will be responsible for crossing the thermal layer and dispersing layer until it is 1,200 kilometers from the ground. After it truly enters space, the second-stage rocket and the third-stage rocket will conduct a second separation operation.

In the live broadcast screen, the huge first-stage rocket finally released all reaction forces when it was less than one thousand meters away from the ground, reducing the rocket's speed to a safe landing range. At the same time, using a small vector nozzle to adjust the rocket's posture and angle.

Finally, with a huge vibration coming, the rocket landed steadily on the ground in a coquettish posture.

Success!

The news spread all over the world in an instant, all the cars driving on the road sounded the horn, and the people in the launch center were hugging and cheering.

...

Western China, the city of the sky.

"They actually succeeded."

Gao Yuan muttered that he silently put down the briefing sent by Liang Shaojie and fell into deep thought.

It is impossible for the civilians to have all the detailed data of the North American super rockets, but the military used various means to monitor the entire launch, record all the data that can be recorded, and then hand it over to professionals for analysis.

Judging from the analysis results, this super rocket code-named Poseidon has achieved unprecedented success and will undoubtedly leave a strong mark in the history of human aerospace. Its historical significance is beyond the Apollo 11 moon landing, at least on the same level.

As expected before, the Poseidon super rocket has a thousand-ton Earth orbital capacity.

Now, the third stage of the Rocket has been in Earth orbit for more than 24 hours, and North America has officially announced that it will use the third stage of the Poseidon as the main body of the future Western space station to build the first super-large permanent space station in human history, the Celtic.

The plateau looked at high-definition photos taken by military satellites in space. The huge cylindrical flying objects faced the distant sunlight, and the light was covered with the gray-white alloy shell, which was slightly dazzling.

"The whole world is crazy about this shocking news." Liang Shaojie leaned back to the back of the sofa and said, "Especially Western media and netizens, who were suppressed by us in succession, have finally gained a huge advantage in space technology, so they are very happy."

"Starlink Project, Celtics, Andes, I have to say that they have done a good job recently. Musk is indeed a smart person. He did not fight in the field we are good at, but went to space to open up the second arena."

Gao Yuan frowned and asked, "What is the Andes?"

Liang Shaojie said: "Oh, it's their lunar base. According to the information we have, Musk is preparing to establish a permanent base on the moon. The name of this base is the Andes."

"At present, the Poseidon Rockets are only launching for the first time. They are still improving the rocket's design. It will be not long before the Poseidon Super Rockets can frequently perform missions, making large-scale delivery to Earth orbit, to the moon, and even to Mars and Europa."

"The specific launch frequency depends on how many Poseidon Rockets first stages are planned to be made in North America. According to our estimates, the cost of the Poseidon Rockets first stage will not be less than $3 billion, but since the rocket can be recycled and can be reused after a little repair, the final average cost per launch should be around $600 million."
Chapter completed!