Admiral of Hogwarts

The new rocket launch site is more than 300 nautical miles away from the west coast of Mexico. It is composed of two parts. One is a fixed base located in a trench thousands of meters underwater, and the other is an attached movable launch platform.

As we all know, due to the existence of water pressure, it is best not to exceed 30m when launching this type of rocket underwater, otherwise it will not be launched smoothly at all.

That's why the ship girls designed a movable launch platform attached to the underwater base. Normally, this platform will be docked near the base for supply activities. When it is necessary to launch, this platform will float to about 30m below the water for launch. .

"Are you sure this thing is really just a movable launch platform?" After jumping to this underwater base through the sub-dimensional, Hugo was shocked when he saw the so-called launch platform through the observation window.

Because the launch platform is nearly 140 meters long and 14 meters wide. Although the shape looks very graceful and streamlined, Hugo can tell that this thing looks exactly like a submarine.

"This is actually our test product. The official name should be called the underwater high-speed movable launch platform. In addition to facilitating stealth launches, the most important thing is to test a series of subsystems." Shengsheng smiled.

"For example, room-temperature superconducting magnetic fluid propulsion technology, controllable nuclear fusion technology, resource circulation life support system in space, and a complete set of magic camouflage systems."

"Then you built the most advanced ballistic missile nuclear submarine on earth?" Looking at the 24 launch vehicle launch ports on this platform, Hugo felt like there was a lump in his throat and he didn't know how to vomit.

"No, my dear Admiral. Unlike those weapons, this is indeed a peaceful delivery vehicle." A sly smile appeared on Reputation's face.

"For the sake of safety, cost-effectiveness and concealment, we now really need multiple stealth launch vehicles to launch launch vehicles into space from multiple points in order to complete the construction as quickly as possible."

"Well, this is indeed peaceful." Hugo said with a slight twitch of the corners of his mouth and a shrug. "This thing can roughly carry how many items into orbit at one time."

"Due to the use of the space expansion spell, each rocket can probably carry no more than 10 m3 and no more than 10 tons of items." Reputation replied.

"And one of our launch platforms can launch 24 rockets at a time. At the same time, we now have six launch platforms located in various oceans around the world."

"10 tons at a time!" Hugo was so surprised that he was speechless this time, because the most powerful rocket in human history, the Saturn V, could only launch a payload of 130 tons at a time.

"Yes, this is the charm of the combination of magic and technology." Shengsheng said while looking at the launch platform loading rockets outside the porthole. "But magic also has some inherent flaws."

"For example, this kind of space spell can only last for three days, so it requires constant maintenance before it can be used normally. Another example is due to cost issues, even if someone keeps maintaining it, it will not last more than a month. "

"The only good thing is that with the help of the computers carried by Ulsan and Missouri, we designed a magic computer that can perform large-scale data calculations."

"And with the help of those computers, we can now extend the space transmission that was originally limited to static to static to static to dynamic, and even expand to dynamic to dynamic in the future."

"However, with our current technology, this type of space transmission network will be limited to the transmission of people and small items for a long time, so most items still need to be transported by rockets through various platforms."

"This is already very good." Hugo, who was checking the construction plan on the Admiral Network, said with a wave of his hand. "At least after the first batch of personnel is launched, they only need to build a teleportation magic circle, and then the personnel can be rotated."

"And as a ship girl, everyone can carry various supplies in the ship's installation space, which is more than enough for early construction."

Just when Hugo looked at the information, there were many improvement plans for launch platforms and launch vehicles. After all, this kind of work cannot be done by ship girls forever in the future, so a lot of improvements are related to ordinary people's operations. .

The largest plan among them is related to the Mars base. In addition to the space dock in the synchronous orbit of Mars, there are also mining farms in the asteroid belt. The main target groups are these current human followers.

While Hugo was checking those documents, the final loading and maintenance work had also been completed, and the Lafite sisters, as the first batch of astronauts, also successfully arrived at their scheduled location.

After making preparations, the mobile platform left the deep-sea base. Three hours later, the mobile launch platform carrying the rocket arrived at the launch location and floated to the designated launch depth.

After everything was ready, Hugo and the others were led by Reputation to the control center, preparing to visit the first rocket launch belonging to the ship girls.

Several people came to the guest seats quietly, without disturbing anyone. At this time, the launch control hall was filled with sounds, and the staff were in the midst of nervous arrangements.

The visitor seats specially separated by glass around the hall were also crowded with people. Almost everyone who had no work to complete at the moment stood here, looking at everything in the hall with eager eyes.

"10, 9, 8, 7..."

As the sound of the countdown began to echo in the surveillance hall, almost everyone was lifted up in their hearts. The reason why everyone here is attracted is because of the idea of ​​expanding the universe.

This launch is the most critical step in putting the whole idea into practice. Although everyone has a chance to try again if it fails, as this is the first launch, everyone hopes to get off to a good start.

"...2, 1, light the fire!"

As the order was issued, the Soviet Union and St. George, who were the commanders of the launch, simultaneously turned a key on the console in front of each other.

Just as they turned the key into place, there was a loud noise from the launch platform more than a hundred nautical miles away, and then a huge rocket quickly rose to the sea surface wrapped in a large number of water bubbles.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the rocket successfully reached the sea surface, and then a large number of bright flames emerged from the tail of the rocket. Then it pierces the sky.

At the same time, several magic runes on the rocket shell were quickly activated, and as a water wave-like energy spread around, the entire rocket was completely hidden by magic.

At this time, neither wizards nor ordinary people could detect the rocket's liftoff with the help of various tools. Only Hugo and his control center could see this spectacular scene.

"Monitoring at the Gulf of Mexico monitoring station is normal——"

"Atlantic Monitoring Station monitoring is normal——"

As the rocket flies, one signal after another is transmitted from the mobile launch platforms in other sea areas that have been arranged in advance. As seen in the previous information, these mobile launch platforms are not only launch platforms, but also monitoring stations.

Of course, these mobile marine monitoring stations will only be the beginning of the construction of a monitoring network. In the future, the ship girls will also launch artificial communication satellites around the earth to complete this network.