kvmb Chapter 173: Oil City, Yuntian-1 Carrier Rocket Test Launch
Chapter 173: Oil City, Yuntian-1 Carrier Rocket Test Launch
Heilongjiang Province, Anda County!
Anda County is located more than 130 kilometers west of Bingcheng and is also one of the transit points of the Middle East Railway.
Because of the railway passing through it, the economic development of this city is still very good compared with other counties in other regions.
With the upgrade of the base, the development of this city has also undergone earth-shaking changes.
A large amount of construction equipment entered the city, along with more than 20,000 workers.
However, in less than half a month, a large number of factories and high-rise buildings were built on the plain about 20 kilometers north of Anda County, as if a new city was to be established in this area.
And this is just the beginning.
According to a document released by the General Office of the Executive Yuan, a new city will indeed be built here.
This city is an oil city built around the entire industrial chain including oil extraction, refining, and chemical industry.
Earlier, after taking over Heilongjiang Province, the oil exploration team began to enter Heilongjiang Province and conducted a carpet search across the province for areas where there might be oil fields.
The base had not been upgraded at that time, and such oil field exploration teams appeared in every place conquered by the Renaissance Army.
The purpose is to find traces of oil fields and solve the situation of heavy dependence on bases for fuel.
The oil exploration team of Heilongjiang Province actually discovered traces of an oil field in Heilongjiang Province, right in Anda County.
After a series of technical surveys, the oil exploration team finally determined that there was a large oil field with reserves of hundreds of millions of tons underground within hundreds of kilometers of Anda County and surrounding areas.
This news is also very exciting.
The discovery of the Anda oil field not only removed the label of an oil-poor country from the ancient country, but also caused a small sensation internationally.
A lot of international capital even came in just because of the scent.
Especially the energy giants from the United States.
The first thing they talked about was cooperation, such as exploration rights.
However, the Executive Yuan directly rejected their cooperation.
These giants’ representatives were furious and threatened that the ancient country would not be able to purchase any oil extraction equipment on the international market, not even a single screw.
The matter just ended like that.
After the base was upgraded, an oil base was awarded, with an annual output of over one billion tons, and the oil is of high quality.
So Jiang Hua simply placed this oil base underground in Anda County in the form of an oil field.
At the same time, the area where the oil is extracted is located on the territory of the United States.
Are you going to threaten me? I'll drain all the oil from your territory first.
However, the United States is indeed blessed with a geographical location and resources, with oil reserves exceeding 10 billion tons.
At the rate at which oil bases are being extracted, it would probably take more than ten to twenty years to drain all their oil.
But Jiang Hua can definitely wait this long.
In the future, he will also set up branch bases on the territory of the United States to exploit their resources.
Because of this oil city, Anda County has a very bright future and is about to usher in a golden decade of prosperity and development.
Because of this, Anda County obtained the qualification to abolish the county and establish a city, and was upgraded to Anda City.
Due to the existence of the oil base, the oil production here is still very fast.
Once a series of equipment including distillation towers, cracking, hydrogenation, catalysis, and processing are installed, Anda Oilfield will be able to start producing various oils and by-products.
And as the scale grows, more and more workers will gather here, and it will be easy for more than 100,000 oil workers.
Together with the families of more than 100,000 workers, a city centered around the oil industry is about to be built on this plain.
The ancient country's oil industry will also rise from the ground up on the basis of the Anda oil field.
In a year or two, there will be no need to exchange even a drop of oil from the base.
It can not only supply the needs of the navy, army and air force, but also meet the needs of the civilian population.
This is also of great significance to the ancient country.
After inspecting Chishan City, Jiang Hua also came to Anda City and took a look around. Since there was construction everywhere, he couldn't see anything.
After staying for a day, he continued westward and arrived at Hecheng.
Just a few dozen kilometers west of Hecheng is the majestic Daxingling Mountains.
Deep in the Daxingling Mountains on the Hecheng side, a large base has already taken shape.
This is Jiang Hua’s final destination.
This large base is also of great significance to the ancient country.
Because this is a large rocket test base, it not only has plans for a four-lane highway connection, but also a wide-gauge railway branch line.
It is expected that the entire road will be open to traffic before the end of the year, and the construction party will still be the Da Sui Infrastructure Group.
The infrastructure group formed by the engineering corps of the Fuxing Army is flourishing in the ancient country, and there are construction sites everywhere that are under the responsibility of the Great Sui Infrastructure Group.
Their presence can be seen on railways, roads, airports, dams, military bases, etc.
It has become a giant in the infrastructure field.
The project funds received from the government this year amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars.
When the vehicle drove out of the mountain road covered with primitive jungle, the view suddenly became clear, as if a new world had emerged after a dark period.
A basin nestled between towering mountains comes into view.
The basin runs from north to south, is about 20 kilometers long and more than 10 kilometers wide.
A large rocket test base covering several square kilometers is located in the middle of the basin.
The reason why the base was set up here is for the purpose of keeping it secret.
Moreover, it is very close to the railway line, and many large components can be transported in by rail or highway, so it has convenient transportation.
In addition, an airport will be built here, making transportation in and out more convenient.
After more than ten inspections, the vehicle Jiang Hua was riding in finally entered the Yuntian Rocket Test Base.
Major General Ji Rubo, director of the Yuntian Rocket Test Base, and a group of officers in army uniforms stood at the gate to welcome Jiang Hua's arrival.
When the vehicle stopped, Yan Shuangying and Eva got out one after another, and finally Jiang Hua got out.
Major General Ji Rubo also came forward with a group of people to greet them.
Ji Rubo was originally the deputy commander of the 2nd Motorized Infantry Division.
With the construction of Yuntian Base, he was chosen to be the person in charge of this base.
Because the moment he came out of the Red Alert base, he already had knowledge about rockets.
So don’t think that these Red Alert soldiers are just ordinary soldiers when they first appear, but you can never be sure that there will be extraordinary talents born among this group of Red Alert soldiers.
"Commander, our Yuntian-1 experimental rocket is now erected. We anticipate a short launch window around 10:27 tomorrow morning to send our first Explorer satellite into space."
Then, under the leadership of Ji Rubo, Jiang Hua came to the area where the transmission tower was located.
In fact, Jiang Hua could see the rocket standing on the launch tower from a distance.
This rocket also came from the Red Alert base.
This rocket is also a launch vehicle derived from the first generation V3 missile of the Red Alert exclusive unit.
The height alone is nearly 30 meters, almost the height of a ten-story building.
When you stand under it and look up, the visual impact is still very great.
At this time, some data about the carrier rocket named Yuntian-1 began to emerge in Jiang Hua's mind.
The Yuntian-280 carrier rocket is a first-stage rocket with four boosters added, and its takeoff weight reaches tons.
The engine of its first-stage rocket plus fuel weighs 100 tons, and can generate a thrust of 750 kilonewtons in the atmosphere and 1000 kilonewtons in a vacuum.
Converted, this 1000 kilonewton thrust is approximately equal to 100.2 tons.
In addition to the first-stage rocket engine, each booster is also equipped with a rocket engine. Each booster rocket engine has 4 main thrust chambers and 2 floating thrust chambers.
The thrust of a single missile at sea level is up to 90 tons and the working time is 120 seconds.
The thrust of these four boosters alone is as high as 360 tons.
Together with the first-stage rocket engine, the total thrust is more than 460 tons, and the low-Earth orbit carrying capacity is about 2 tons.
The first carrier rocket tested by the ancient country had a carrying capacity of 2 tons, which was like a flying brick with great force.
At this moment, inside the fairing of this rocket is the Explorer 1 satellite weighing nearly one ton.
This explorer satellite is actually equipped with radar transmitters, antennas, air pressure, temperature sensors and other electronic components.
Its main task is to help the Yuntian Base understand some basic conditions in space.
For example, a series of data such as changes in temperature and air pressure in space.
As they conduct experiments step by step and complete the collection of these basic data, they will be able to have a basic understanding of space.
If you want to launch various satellites in one go, all you will get is repeated failures.
So this is also the function of the experimental satellite, which is to explore the way, so it is also named Explorer 1. In the future, there will be Explorer 2 and Explorer 3 equipped with more sensors and equipment.
Jiang Hua is also looking forward to the launch of the Yuntian-1 carrier rocket.
Since many facilities have not been installed at the Yuntian Base, the living conditions here are not very good.
Even though the Yuntian base had prepared a room specifically for Jiang Hua, it was a bare house with only simple decoration.
This also shows the pragmatic style of the entire Yuntian base.
Jiang Hua was very satisfied with Ji Rubo, the person he had chosen.
It was not until after ten o'clock the next morning that Jiang Hua arrived at the Yuntian Base Launch Center.
The decoration here is obviously better than that of the dormitory building. The entire empty hall is filled with various monitors and electronic equipment for processing data.
In Jiang Hua's opinion, these devices are very old, but they are the most advanced equipment in this era.
A lot of thought went into installing these devices.
In particular, the TRADIC transistor computers are the brains of the data processing of the entire launch center, and each one can perform thousands of calculations per second.
Compared to the previous unreliable vacuum tube computers.
Although the computing power of these TRADIC transistor computers was not very high, their volume was only 0.085 cubic meters.
The 800 transistors inside it will not explode at any time like vacuum tubes, and its reliability is much higher.
At present, more than one hundred of these transistor computers have been produced and are used in intelligence departments, the military, research institutes and a few universities.
As time passed, the launch of the Yuntian-1 rocket entered the half-hour countdown.
At this moment, everyone's heart began to tighten involuntarily.