Chapter 697 (1/2)

On the lawn.

Several foreign friends in plain clothes, blonde and blue eyed, with binoculars around their necks, were whispering something.

“…… A very good rocket, West, ”

Bob sighed softly, and his face was worried:” they are chasing too fast. With this handy vehicle, those deadly things, they will be launched into the sky one by one. ”

A strong enough launch vehicle is an important cornerstone of the modern space industry. It can be said that it is directly related to the strength of a country's space science and technology strength.

Another tall, thin, mean gray haired man said scornfully, ”so what? We had rockets of this level since the 1960s, and they only have them now. There's nothing to boast about. ”

The eyes of several companions looking at him are somewhat complicated. Of course, the US Saturn 5 rocket is well known, but It was a work at the height of the cold war, regardless of cost. The value of a rocket is equivalent to that of an aircraft carrier, so it is impossible to use it as a conventional carrier.

However, the cost of the Long March 9 rocket is much more reasonable because of the large number of new materials and technologies, and the reliability is higher, the payload is larger, and some of the rocket bodies can be recycled and reused. Large scale production and launch will further reduce the cost, so the two are not the same thing at all.

”Maybe we should consider a bigger and more advanced rocket program when we go back home. This field has always been a strong point of the United States in the past decades. Can we lose to the damned Chinese people like this?” he mused

Bob raised his eyebrows slightly: ”you mean the big guy like” sea dragon ”? Is it just that the stingy Lords on Capitol Hill are willing to fund this project? ”

Compared with Saturn V, which is no stranger to the world, the Hailong rocket is much larger. In the Cold War era of the last century, the United States had many magnificent projects on paper. Hailong super rocket is one of them. It was put forward in 1963 with a total mass of 18000 tons, equivalent to a heavy cruiser.

With a height of 150 meters, this unprecedented giant rocket can send a 450 ton payload into low earth orbit, or 165 tons into lunar orbit. Its carrying capacity is nearly four times that of Saturn v. Because of its huge size, the launch pad on land can not carry it at all, so it needs to be towed to the sea for launch.

In other words, this rocket can put the entire alpha international space station into orbit in one launch, because the total mass of the latter is more than 400 tons.

At that time, even though the scheme was too expensive to be implemented by the high-level government, it was difficult to implement it because of the lack of funds and funds.

”The space of the 21st century should belong to us.”

the gray haired man said haughtily: ”even if it is difficult, someone has to do it. After we go back, we can write a report. As we are, we still have some influence.”