Novel Bin
Chapter 1416
Chapter 1416: Chapter 1272: You Call This Thing an Engine?
Hardcore Proposal!
Chapter 1416: Chapter 1272: You Call This Thing an Engine?
Hardcore Proposal!
Above Tongchuan, thirty-six thousand kilometers up.
The Amerika Aerospace Agency’s KH-11 spy satellite, all optical and electronic remote sensing equipment suffered instantaneous paralysis!
At the ground command center, the main operator shouted in disbelief, “We’ve lost contact with the KH-11 geostationary satellite!”
“KH-8 and KH-9 signals are experiencing severe interference, and the attitude control system has failed!”
The director abruptly turned his head and looked at the huge screen in the command room once more.
On the screen, that beam of blue light was dazzling!
“Are there any other satellites we can maneuver?” The director’s voice no longer sounded stable.
“Korona will pass the corresponding orbit in five minutes.”
“Adjust its orbit!
Keep a safe distance!
And, fix the malfunctions of KH-8 and KH-9 as soon as possible!”
“Yes!”
The dialogue between the director and the main operator awakened the engineers who had been staring dumbfounded at the screen, and the command room became lively once again.
At the same time, above the airship.
The players were still a hundred meters away from the beam of light, yet they could feel the surrounding temperature rising.
At the edge of the deck, everyone subconsciously raised their arms, sensing this unexpected change in temperature.
The blue light column appeared no thicker than a person, but its scattering was minimal, and the density was surprisingly high—seen from afar, it was almost like a solid crystal made entirely of energy!
This blue crystalline pillar rose from the ground, piercing through the cloud layer in an instant, splitting the sky, and extending as far as the eye could see.
But this narrow beam of light almost instantly boiled the surrounding air, and if it weren’t for the low thermal conductivity of air, the temperature change on the airship would have been much more significant!
By now, almost everyone was craning their necks, looking up at the very top of the sky, guessing the ultimate distance of that blue light.
At the same moment, in reality, all the residents of Tongchuan city who were outdoors lifted their heads in astonishment, looking at the vertical beam of light that split the sky in two.
Whenever the Tongchuan rocket engine testing platform conducted a test, it would produce a massive roaring sound, and due to noise concerns, it was actually built outside the city limits, nestled against the mountains.
Yet, even from this distance, the blue light column was still distinctly visible to everyone.
Both netizens who were informed and citizens who were clueless about what was happening were shocked and entranced by the light, numbly lifting their mobile phones to capture the moment.
But they were just watching for excitement; the academic community was dumbfounded!
Especially the engineers in the aerospace field, who were so shocked they were nearly incoherent:
“A rocket engine test…
shouldn’t the tail flame be horizontal?
Why is this one shooting straight up?”
“Is this really an engine and not some kind of high-energy laser weapon?”
“Almost no energy is visible dispersing at all!
It is just as wide in the sky as it is on the ground!
How…
how is this possible?!!”
“How much fuel and how high a combustion efficiency is needed to create such an intense burst of energy?”
“Fuel?
Combustion?
You’re still thinking about chemical rockets?
If this thing is still burning fuel, I’ll eat it on the spot!”
…
The more someone was involved in scientific research, the more they were shaken and horrified by the blue light piercing the sky.
And this was before they knew more about the situation.
—Those who knew more information were shaking.
Like the director of the Amerika Aerospace Agency, and the director of the European Union Aviation Administration!
Right now, he was hopping mad!
They had listened to advice and made an immediate decision to change orbits.
But their spy satellites were still affected by the intense electromagnetic interference, and now had gone blind!
The only advantage they had over the Amerika Aerospace Agency was a clearer understanding of the extent of the electromagnetic interference:
The blue light column, although highly concentrated, looked like a slender cylinder, but the invisible electromagnetic interference was different—it formed a sharp cone shape, with possibly just a point on the ground and a very narrow spread, but at the geostationary orbit of thirty-six thousand kilometers, it would cover an enormous space!
The three minutes Lincoln gave for orbital adjustment weren’t enough to move out of the interfered region!
“This is not kindness, this is just toying with us!” the director gritted his teeth in anger.
Everyone who witnessed this scene was bewildered.
—Even the Daxia scientific researchers involved in the development of this device and the staff who conducted the “deceptive” engine test yesterday were stunned by the display.
Only Lincoln remained as composed as ever.
The blue light column lasted for fifteen seconds.
After it extinguished, without giving everyone time to react, Lincoln immediately said,
“As everyone has seen, the adjustment we made to the test platform is this: open the roof, and direct the engine’s nozzle towards the sky.”
“We’ll give more explanations later, but for now—”
“Output efficiency at 10%, prepare for ignition!”
His words once again left the professionals utterly shocked:
Between two ignitions, there’s no need for cooling, inspection, or refueling?
You just sent a tail flame nearly into space!
Is it really possible to seamlessly ignite for a second time??
Has the test platform not melted on the spot?
Has the engine not blasted through the earth’s crust?
Does physics still exist??
But their confusion and disbelief could not affect the ongoing test.
Immediately following Lincoln’s command, a second blazing beam of blue light burst forth from the test platform, shooting straight into the clouds!
“NO!!!”
In the command centers of both the Amerika Aerospace Agency and the European Union Aviation Administration, cries of panic sounded simultaneously.
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