Island country, Kagoshima Space Launch Center.
It is affiliated to the island country's Space Science Research Institute and is the launch site for the island country's deep space rockets. It has been used for decades and still carries out launch plans every year.
Edo Castle calmly looked at the launch tower of the Myu launch site with pride and ambition in his expression.
A small country has two space launch sites. From this small detail, it can be seen that their country's ambitions have never been small.
They are located in an island country where disasters occur frequently and resources are scarce. Disasters every year remind them to be aware of crisis, so they are always looking for new territories.
So they have ambitions that are completely inconsistent with their own strength.
For them, the arrival of a new era is another opportunity.
China has successfully landed on the moon, retrieved the moon rocks, and taken the lead in the upcoming changes.
They do not have a share of the oil resources on the earth, but it is different on the moon. As long as they have the technology to develop it, the helium-3 there is inexhaustible. It is endless wealth, and it is also the place where they can fulfill their imperial ambitions.
China has the Chang'e Project, the United States has the Hercules Project, Europe has the Dawn Project, Russia has the Yuri Project, and their island country also has the 'Tsukuyomi Project'.
The Age of Discovery allowed the British island nation to become an empire that ruled the world on which the sun never sets. If they succeed, even if the next empire on which the sun never sets does not belong to them, they will definitely become one of the world's great powers.
Over the years, they have suffered too much from the United States. Once change comes, it will mean chaos. It will also be their opportunity, an opportunity to be on an equal footing with the world's great powers.
"Director Edo, there is a call from the base saying that the manufacturing of the rocket is nearing completion and will be completed in about a month." A female assistant came over and interrupted Edo Castle's thoughts.
"Oh, I see."
After the female assistant left, Edo City continued to look at the transmission tower in a daze.
One month is neither long nor short.
No one can say for sure, perhaps, this is where their empire set sail.
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South America, North Atlantic coast, Guyana, home to the European Space Launch Center.
Ariane launch site 2 is busy at this time.
As the director of the European Space Agency, Jan Werner was also on site, following the progress of preparations for the site.
Soon after, the rocket will be shipped over for assembly. This time their goal is very clear, which is to start the long-awaited 'Dawn Project'.
Project Dawn is Europe's moon landing plan. It has many similarities with the United States' new space program 'Project Hercules'. The main contents of the plan include:
Conduct a series of unmanned lunar exploration, including lunar orbit exploration, lunar surface soft landing and lunar rover survey.
Achieve manned landing on the moon and establish a lunar base.
Use the lunar base as a springboard for manned Mars exploration.
The plan is to use lunar exploration as a technical exercise to establish a lunar base, and then use the moon as a springboard to implement manned landing on Mars based on the development of lunar resources.
The plan was proposed as early as 2004, but has been delayed and delayed with various excuses.
After their lunar satellite Wisdom 1 completed its mission, there has been no new lunar probe and no lunar lander has been launched.
During this period, China successfully surpassed them and successfully launched the Chang'e lander, becoming the third country to land on the moon.
In recent years, China's development has become even more terrifying.
First, there was the landing on the far side of the moon, and then recently, a group of army ants successfully entered space. The space craze has emerged, and countries around the world have to pay attention to this matter.
Countries in Europe that are still in dispute have to combine different opinions and unite at this moment. Their long-awaited Dawn Project finally made new progress.
Nothing is possible without progress. Now that China's nuclear fusion power station is about to be successfully put into operation, the resources on the moon are particularly important.
The past was the age of oil, and the future will be the new energy age of nuclear fusion. Helium-3 is the next 'petroleum', and no one wants to fall behind.
"How long will it take for the rocket to be built?" Werner asked.
"Claude just replied that it will take about ten days. It will take a total of half a month to send it here." The assistant next to him said.
"Half a month? Just right." Werner said.
As long as the probe successfully lands on the moon during this launch, it will be of great help to their future plans, and the participating countries will also give them more research and development expenses.
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Baikonur Space Center, this space launch site was built in 1955. It was a spacecraft launch site and missile experiment base of the former Soviet Union. It is located in a desert area of Kazakhstan.
This was once the largest space launch site in the Soviet Union and the place where the human space dream began.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russia and Kazakhstan signed a lease agreement in 1994 to reopen the space center. Decades later, it is still an important place for the world's aerospace industry.
Mendeleov looked up at the super-heavy rocket standing on the launch tower, pointing straight into the sky. His wrinkled face looked full of stories.
The rocket in front of me is Russia's latest super-heavy rocket - the Polar Bear series.
This rocket also has a story.
Its predecessor was the N-1 rocket that the former Soviet Union prepared to use for manned moon landings. After the N-1 rocket failed to launch four times in a row that year, the former Soviet Union had to suspend its manned moon landing plan.
Before the moon landing program could be launched again, the Soviet Union collapsed.
Russia inherited most of the legacy of the former Soviet Union, including rocket technical data and most of its scientists and technical teams.
Over the years, Russia has been secretly developing and improving the N-1 rocket. After decades of technological improvements, it finally succeeded. The hot spot of aerospace exploration is once again in the spotlight. The Polar Bear series of rockets will be the core of their new space journey, "Project Yuri".
Only they themselves know how much the Rockets team has suffered over the years for the Polar Bear series of rockets.
The designer of this rocket was his teacher. His teacher had devoted his whole life to rockets. After the teacher left, he took over the teacher's work and continued to improve the design of rockets.
After years of continuous improvement in design and testing, rocket technology has matured.
The last time Chen Mo went to space, after an order from the Kremlin, the space agency announced the launch of the "Yuri Project" to land on the moon again.
The Army Ant Group announced the news of retrieving the moon rock, and their team also heard about it.
China has mastered nuclear fusion technology, and now it has mastered moon landing technology. If they don't plan ahead, no matter how big their country is, they will not have a place in the future.
Their country relies on selling energy resources to maintain its economy. Once nuclear fusion technology appears, they are not far from collapse, so the higher-ups have to make up their minds and move closer to high technology.
Mastering lunar exploration technology will definitely help them, because with the advent of the era of nuclear fusion technology, the moon will become another 'oil field', an 'oil field' as big as a planet.
"Teacher, the assembly of the rocket is complete and can be refueled at any time."
A middle-aged man wearing a research robe came over and reported on the progress.
"Then it depends on God." Mendeleov sighed as he looked up at the Polar Bear rocket on the launch tower.
The story of the predecessor of the Polar Bear rocket is not pleasant. This was the last test launch. Once it failed, it meant that all their efforts over the years would be in vain. As long as the test launch is successful, it means that it can carry out the mission of manned moon landing.
The Marching Ant Group announced the news of its successful return from the moon rock, which affected the global lunar exploration program.
Not only the United States, Russia, and Europe, but also India, island countries, and Israel, all ambitious and capable countries are intensively preparing for the moon landing plan, and no one is left behind.
The construction of the two nuclear fusion power stations started by the Army Ant Group is nearing completion, and nuclear fusion technology is about to be put into practical use. This means that the era of nuclear fusion is about to open the door, and the resources on the moon have become the object of global competition.
It has been brewing for a long time, but now the butterfly wings are flapping.
(End of chapter)