I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

October 5th is the National Day holiday week, which is the peak period for travel.

This year's Golden Week has two traditional programs: the military parade and tourist arrivals reaching new highs, and a new program: at 14:00 on October 5, Xinyuan-1B made its first flight and carried out the first core-level recovery.

At 11 o'clock at noon, more than 700 people had gathered outside the launch site in Xinyuan Town, more than 100 of whom were melon eaters from other places.

Employees of Xinyuan Aerospace, acquaintances from Nanjing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and several people from the Sixth Institute all came to the launch site to observe the launch of Xinyuan No. 1B.

Because it is a two-stage rocket, Xinyuan-1B looks shorter and fatter than Xianyuan-1, and the four retracted support legs make it look more rugged.

This time, the launch control room and observation field were moved, a full 3 kilometers away from the rocket launch site. Only a small white object could be seen clearly through the terrain.

There is no way, after all, this is also a landing site. If the rocket misses and explodes in the crowd, it will be a replica of the Nedelin disaster (Note: An illegal missile launch in the former Soviet Union resulted in the death of most of the personnel of a rocket design bureau. The person responsible Marshal Nedelin was vaporized along with more than 160 designers).

There was also a big boss present this time: Tang Weitian. This old guy heard that there were reusable rockets and came over to watch the joke.

"Lin Ju, regardless of whether your technology is feasible or not, first of all, this process is wrong.

Xinyuan-1B itself uses too many new technologies, from the engine to the rocket body, which is completely new and does not meet the safety standards of the spacecraft. The proportion of new technologies definitely exceeds 70%.

In addition, there is no pre-research on rocket recovery, and it is impossible to do it directly in one step. Moreover, this route is fundamentally unfeasible. The future should belong to aerospace aircraft rather than reusable rockets. "

Tang Weitian poured cold water on him unceremoniously, and Lin Ju was not very surprised, because at this time, he did not believe that the success of rocket recovery was the industry consensus.

A big boss at the space agency has publicly expressed his opinion that vertical recovery technology is a completely unrealistic delusion and is not feasible. It is normal for others to have the same opinion.

To be honest, this rocket recovery experiment made little splash in the aerospace industry. Everyone was waiting to see the joke. Except for Lin Ju himself and the system engineers, onlookers were generally not optimistic.

During the discussion, everyone looked at the Rockets and shook their heads, muttering words such as "too radical" and "wrong technical direction", full of distrust.

In order to prevent the control room from being affected, Lin Ju directly prohibited the entry and exit of personnel in the control room. The system engineers inside would only keep cheering.

Of course, there are still some who are not confident, such as Ai Yuanwei, who was recruited from the Sixth Academy and is monitoring the status of the engine in the launch control room.

I have to admit that although he has only been here for a month, he has quickly understood most of K120's technologies, and he is also very aware of the high reliability of K120V.

But the vertical recovery of rockets was too mysterious, and he had no confidence at all.

Ai Yuanwei, who was extremely bored, walked to the live broadcast booth and wanted to see the situation.

There are many live broadcast platforms for rocket launches, but they are mainly concentrated on blogs and official websites, of which blogs are the most popular.

The number of people on these two platforms alone exceeds 50,000, and it is estimated that the other 100,000 people combined may be watching, which makes Ai Yuanwei sweat.

Barrages floated across the screen from time to time, most of which were asking about the launch time. Ai Yuanwei felt that they might not be able to see the countdown in the lower right corner of the screen.

A small number of them discussed whether the recovery was successful as he expected. Netizens had no doubts about whether the launch would fail, and they mainly focused on recovery.

Some people even started betting on the stage at which the rocket would explode during recovery, whether it would be in the air or on land, and whether it would land at the landing point as planned.

The Publicity Department selected a girl with a sweet voice to be the host. From time to time, she asked the system engineer who was a technical guest some mentally retarded questions (at least that's what he thought), and occasionally made some small jokes to liven up the atmosphere.

The screen switches between the launch site, the live chat room, and the control center.

When switching to the beautiful host, there was a series of compliments on the host's beauty. When I switched to the control room, I saw a row of small screens and large screens on the wall, a row of serious staff wearing headphones, and... lie down Lin Ju was sitting on the single sofa facing the image of the launch site on the big screen.

At this time, Lin Ju was like an anchor, using his mobile phone to scroll through the barrage and comments, and opened a live broadcast room to interact with netizens.

"Why not call it Tractor Factory? Netizen, you can come to our company and take a look. I still have the Tractor Factory sign hanging up. You are welcome to visit if you have time."

"Xinyuan is copying an old horse? Of course... No, how can aerospace be called plagiarism? This is called convergent evolution of technology."

"Lao Ma has already exploded ten bombs. How many are Boss Lin going to explode? This netizen, I now feel that I will succeed. If not... I will live broadcast to wash my hair while standing on my head!"

Lin Ju remembered a joke from later generations, which immediately aroused enthusiastic responses. The number of comments suddenly increased, and they all expressed that they had witnessed what he said and would not regret it.

Fortunately, short videos had not yet become popular at this time. Otherwise, if he posted a video, it would have received 100,000 likes every minute, and he would have been banned for several years.

Of course, if Lin Ju really failed, he wouldn't be able to wash his hair while standing upside down.

However, this immediately enlivened the atmosphere, and the comments began to gradually become distorted.

"President Lin has established a written document and is not allowed to go back on it!"

"Mr. Lin, NB, you are too young and energetic."

"Is the anchor married?"

"..."

Before the launch, the atmosphere at the scene was still passable, but if it failed, the reputation would definitely reverse in an instant.

Countless tabloids and the newly emerging self-media are already writing articles, and most of them are based on the failure of recycling, and they are just waiting to start competing after launch.

Many big shots in the space agency also noticed it, but they were all shaking their heads and indifferent to it.

Of course, there are still some people who are watching Lin Ju's live broadcast with excitement.

They are also private players who intend to enter the aerospace industry. According to history, they will start their own private aerospace companies in a few years, but now they have received early encouragement.

Originally, they were all afraid and worried that the difficulty would be too high, but now that there are pioneers ahead, their thoughts are all agitated.

Why can't I?

There is also a live broadcast on external networks, but there will be some delays, and not many foreign netizens will watch.

Old horse... He had been studying how to hang a ladder for a long time, and now he was watching Lin Ju casually chatting with netizens, and couldn't help but said to his assistant:

"This Chinese Lin is very similar to me. We are the same kind of people, but I don't know what will happen if he encounters failure. X1B's technology is also very risky in my opinion, and Xinyuan's technical strength is far inferior to ours."

Lin Ju is not very concerned about the reaction of all parties. He is in a good mood now, because his influence has increased by one level compared to before, and the settlement gain will definitely be higher.