The eastern part of the Hijara Desert, Arab Space Company.

In the flat desert, modern buildings have already risen from the ground, and an open-air launch pad is the most eye-catching, this is the expedition to the sky.

The launch tower is more than 40 meters high. Although this size is not very large, it can meet the current use of Iraq.

The launch vehicle developed from Dongfeng-3 is only more than 20 meters in height. Even if the second stage and fairing are added to it, the height is only more than 30 meters. Iraq needs to develop many times before it can have a new launch vehicle. At that time, a new launch vehicle will be built.

The launch towers now have many experimental properties. Although they have learned a lot of technology from the Eastern Powers, the Eastern Powers are unwilling to be teachers in these aspects, and many of them require their own design and practice.

There are various workbenches on the launch tower, including liquid, water, electricity, fuel injection and other projects, which are also carried out on this.

Below the launch pad is a large pool structure, used to overcome the reaction force during takeoff and reduce the influence of heat flow.

There are two ways to launch a launch vehicle. Soviet rockets were assembled on a lie. After assembly, they were transported to the launch pad, and then lifted up to conduct various tests to complete the preparations before launch.

Other aerospace powers are all in the assembly process, which is vertical assembly. They complete various test work in the assembly workshop and transport it vertically to the launch pad, so that they can be launched, which can avoid re-measurement caused by changes in state. However, if you do so, the factory building of the assembly workshop must be very high. For example, when the United States launched the Saturn Five rocket, it built a super assembly building with a net height of 136 meters to meet all the harsh external environment.

Risks, such as hurricanes, and internal assembly requirements, such as cleanliness, constant temperature and humidity, can only be assembled such a large rocket 110 meters high. After assembly, transferring this big guy vertical group to the launch pad is also a very challenging task, because during vertical transportation, it is also necessary to ensure that it cannot shake. For this reason, the United States has specially designed a unique Crawler transport vehicle to carefully transport the assembled behemoth to the launch pad.

Since Iraq is not able to develop such a big guy for the time being, the Iraqi assembly factory is only more than 50 meters high, and a railway is laid between the assembly factory and the launch pad to carry out transportation work.

Compared with the launch towers that are more than 40 meters high, the launch vehicle that is only more than 20 meters high is still relatively short.

In fact, it is more appropriate to put it. This is a sounding rocket from Arab Space Company. Since it only has one stage, it cannot reach the first cosmic speed at all, and launches the payload into an artificial Earth satellite.

However, Arab Space Company did not announce this to the outside world.

Their Space One launch vehicle is a secondary rocket that can send a payload of 300 kilograms to orbit 400 kilometers.

No one will take apart their rocket and take a look. Although there will be many equipment that will track their launch process. However, on the radar screen, it is just a spot of light and there is no special thing at all. Only when the second-stage rocket needs to work will they find that the Arab Space Company has failed to launch this time because the second-stage rocket did not ignite and did not send the payload into the predetermined orbit. However, in fact, this launch has been completely successful, and the load in the fairing on the head of the rocket will also fall in the Tal Desert area in eastern Pakistan.

Since the earth turns from west to east, all satellites are launched eastward.

Now, on the launch frame, the first launch vehicle of the Arab Space Company has been quietly staying there, and all the technicians are working nervously in the launch hall.

The launch window has arrived for more than half an hour. The Space 1 launch vehicle has been filled with fuel on the launch frame, and the launch has entered an irreversible process.

Since the Middle East is already rainy and the climate is dry, it is very unfavorable for agriculture, but it is a very good opportunity for launching satellites. The launch window can appear in more than 300 days in a year.

Journalists from all countries were waiting outside the launch base. Although Iraq has put martial law around the launch site to prevent damage from unknown elements, air defense missiles have been deployed around the launch site. Since launch vehicle technology and ballistic missile technology have many similarities, it may be hostile to certain forces.

However, this place is all desert areas, which does not affect the journalists' visit to the launch process outside the martial law area. With the help of high-power telescopes, they can clearly see the rocket standing on the launch pad.

From top to bottom, they are all of the same diameter, some of which are like telephone poles, standing quietly.

There are many rumors outside the world about this kind of launch vehicle, but most of it are the same version. This is a launch vehicle developed by Iraq from the Scud missile.

Although it is called Arab Space Company, it is obviously dominated by Iraq. Using the name of launching launch vehicles, it is studied ballistic missiles. Especially under the current international situation, Iraq has chosen this opportunity to launch so hard, and the United States is very much looking forward to the reaction. However, even the United States cannot prevent a country from developing its own aerospace industry. This is a country's own choice. Just like Iraq's nuclear power plants, Americans have no right to interfere in the stable power generation.

Moreover, this is an Arab Space Company, a project jointly carried out by Arab countries, and the United States cannot oppose it.

Even the defeated countries in World War II, Japan, were conducting research on launch vehicles. The United States did not have enough reason to oppose the Arab countries' desire to use space peacefully.

However, they are not optimistic about this launch. After all, it is one thing for Iraq to have Scud missiles, and another for launch vehicles. Scud missiles are just a short-range missile with a range of less than 500 kilometers. What a launch vehicle needs at least long-range missiles or even intercontinental missiles. There are many technologies to overcome here.

From the perspective of height, the Scud missile is eleven meters long, which is more than 20 meters long, and is a secondary missile. There are even third-rate tabloids who commented that this launch vehicle was made by Iraq welding two Scud missiles together. Moreover, this comment won the approval of many people. It seems that they don’t know at all that a Scud missile, with another Scud missile, cannot fly at all.

Time passed by minute by minute, and finally, in the launch hall, a severe voice was counting down, ten, nine...two, one, ignite, launch!

With this sound, the person in charge of ignition pressed his hand on the ignition button.

The camera was displayed on the big screen. At the bottom of the rocket, a thick smoke came out. Then, a firelight appeared. After a second, they felt a slight vibration from the ground and the rocket had begun to rise!

The launch was a complete success!

Suddenly, the entire launch hall was filled with joy.

Although the Dongfeng-3 missile has been equipped with the No. 3 unit and Iraq has not conducted a test launch, it has been tested in major Eastern powers many times, fully confirming its effect. So, what is the performance of this missile made by Iraq itself? No one knows that this experiment also verifies the performance of the Dongfeng-3.

The successful launch proves that Iraq has taken another solid step in the field of space technology.

In the desert, two American men looked disappointed. They were experts from NAS. Through long-distance observation, they felt that this launch vehicle had nothing to do with the Scud missile, especially from the wake during ignition, the bottom was equipped with at least three engines in parallel. On the one hand, this shows that Iraq has not successfully developed a rocket engine with high thrust, which is impossible to think about. Iraq's technological progress cannot be so fast. On the other hand, it shows that Iraq has mastered the difficulty of parallel engine technology, which is a necessary condition for developing launch vehicle technology.

I originally thought that the Arab Space Company, which had no technical reserves, would fail this launch. It would be best if the rocket exploded on the launch pad, so that the arrogant Arabs knew that space technology was not something that could be played casually. But now it seems that this rocket was successfully launched.

Reconnaissance satellites in space began to track this target in Iraq.

Although many Star Wars' huge projects have been delayed indefinitely, after all, some scientific research results have come out, and some sub-projects are progressing very quickly. For example, the discovery of missiles in the boost stage is a key research object.

In the main stage of missile promotion, destroying a missile is the best anti-missile method. On the one hand, when the missile returns to the atmosphere, several warheads or fake targets will be divided, increasing the difficulty of interception. On the other hand, after entering the atmosphere again, the speed will become larger and larger.

A more favorable result of destroying the other party during the boosting stage is that the destroyed missile will fall into the other party's territory, and the radiation caused will also affect the other party's ecological environment.

Although weapons arranged in space that can destroy opponent's missiles have not been realized, early discoveries have become more mature.

At the same time, the US Navy on the Arabian Sea also began to observe the launch of this missile, especially the radar of the Aegis system, which can detect such targets.

The launch vehicle is flying normally. According to the rules, after the first-stage rocket engine is burned for 200 to 400 seconds, the fuel will be exhausted. At this time, the second-stage rocket should ignite and throw away the first stage at the same time. This is a necessary condition for accelerating to the first cosmic speed.

However, they observed that the launch vehicle seemed to have malfunctioned now.
Chapter completed!