Tang Chao wanted to build a space launch center on Sweets Island a long time ago, but at the beginning, he focused on practicality and built the company's site first. After the company's factory was built, construction of the space launch center on Sweets Island began.

In the blink of an eye, it was almost the third year of the establishment of the Navigator.

The Sweet Potato Island Launch Center would not have been built so quickly, and at least it would have to wait a few more months. But now everything is accelerated, so this construction site naturally has to accelerate.

Moreover, it doesn’t need to be 100% built. First, the infrastructure needed is completed and it’s enough to be used.

Other "fancy" things can be made slowly in the future.

The predecessor of Sweet Potato Island was Sweet Potato Reef, which was oblong, like a sweet potato floating on the sea, so this name was given.

But this sweet potato is quite large, with a total size of 120 square kilometers.

Its long axis is 26 kilometers long and about 8 kilometers wide. Its southwest end, the central and northeast ends are solid land filled with large reefs, and the central and southern ends are a large lagoon.

This large lagoon is 55 square kilometers, which basically accounts for half of the island.

As a lake or a lake in the sea, its depth ranges from 14 meters to 40 meters, resulting in a different color of the lake water.

Because this lake is too large, the island is basically divided into two halves, which is one or two kilometers wide in the central and northern parts of the island, and only a few dozen meters wide in the central and southern parts of the island. Moreover, the large lagoon cannot be encircled, so many ship entrances and exits are needed.

Among them, the southwest end of the island was first made of. A complete large-scale infrastructure has been built on it, with a large-scale survival community, residential areas, vegetable gardens, supermarkets, hospitals, schools, airports, ports, etc.

The most important thing is that this sea island has fresh water resources, which is very important for an island.

Because of fresh water, it means that this island is a "living island" where animals and plants can survive here. This is why it has the value of development, has a bright future purpose, and has everything that is present.

The space launch center of Pilot Company is located at the northeast end of the island and belongs to the second phase of the project.

The Sweet Soup Island Space Launch Center is 10 degrees lower than the latitude of the coastal launch site, which was originally the southmost coastal launch site in Tianxia, ​​and is within 10 degrees north latitude, very close to the equator.

Not only can these 10 degrees save a lot of fuel, but the rocket will fly directly southeast after taking off, cross the Sulu Sea and Sulawesi Sea, then enter the vast Pacific Ocean and go east along the equator.

The Navigator's space launch center is originally located at the northeast end, and it passes through the sea, so there is no need to worry about the landing of rocket wreckage.

Perfect.

Although the "Voyage" rocket does not need to consider the wreckage area, it is reusable, but the large oceans in the east are very important for its optimal area and can also save a lot of fuel.

Moreover, Pilot also has the "Quanhang" rocket, but it does not have the ability to reuse it.

However, this kind of "little rocket" with a load of more than ten tons cannot be recycled, and its position in Pilot Company is a bit embarrassing.

Don't look at it only two years ago.

In the past two years, the Navigator Company has developed too fast. Such a guy who can be used as a main rocket in other companies or countries can really not keep up with the Navigator Company's development speed and mission positioning.

From the beginning, the "Zhuhang" rocket was an emergency product, which was only used by the Navigator Company to open up the situation and enter the Aerospace Club, so it did not consider much follow-up matters.

Because of this, the pilot did not do tiny payload launch tasks at the beginning, and did not even do other companies, specializing in national orders and their own business.

However, there is no small payload for this national-level order, and the navigator's own payload is getting heavier and heavier. Only one "Mars probe" is 30 tons higher, so this "small payload" rocket is gradually useless.

Now its technology has been sealed or licensed to other aerospace companies.

However, the seaside advantage of the Sweet Soup Island Space Launch Center has not disappeared because it is a commercial launch center for the whole world.

Very close to the equator, the limit on falling rocket wrecks is extremely small, which is very attractive to other commercial rocket launchers.

Moreover, it is still on the busy main international shipping route, with many ships coming and going, which also means that transportation is very convenient for special large components such as rockets and aerospace equipment.

Naturally, Tianxia’s positioning it is an international material distribution center. After all, it is located at the junction of two oceans and two continents, and can provide services such as ship docking, cargo transfer, material replenishment and maritime rescue.

This convenient transportation is too important for commercial space launches, or very important for any industry.

When Tang Chao got off the plane, he was the first time he stood on this island.

The first impression is that this space launch center is big!

huge!

It is not that the super heavy vertical assembly building of the Binhai Launch Center is not big enough, and because other buildings are smaller, they are more significant and huge. However, the huge size of the Sweet Safari Island Space Center is different. It is that all buildings are on the same level as the super heavy vertical assembly building.

Even the same super heavy vertical assembly building, the building here has two more assembly workshops than the building of the Marine Launch Center, which obviously has more assembly tasks.

This was discovered when the plane was still in the sky.

In addition to this, there are huge orbital shuttle hangars, huge waiting halls, huge airplane runways, huge command towers, etc.

When looking at the renderings, it was a feeling. I really stood in front of these huge buildings. It was wrong. I couldn’t say it in front of me. It should be said that it was a completely different feeling under my feet.

If ordinary people see it, they will definitely sigh that this space launch center is too huge, but if professionals look at it, they will definitely see some signs.

Judging from the current plans and vehicle scale announced by the Navigator, such a large-scale space launch center will definitely not be used, unless the Navigator has a larger space construction plan, larger space delivery equipment, and greater ambitions!

And Tang Chao said, of course there is, this is wherever he goes.

Not to mention the others, the huge runway is not just for ordinary passenger planes and orbital shuttles. After all, even if the orbital shuttle with a larger takeoff movement is only 20 meters, it is just a little guy, so the huge runway can only be for the guy with stronger force.

"It's almost done, so there's no need to borrow the site of the Marine Launch Center."

Tang Chao took a scooter to turn the forwarding center, then took a few people to the roof of the assembly building, overlooking the entire Sweet Potato Island.

He looked at the ships of all sizes and large and small moored at the ports, and the ships waiting to dock outside, and was very convinced that he had chosen the right place to be the space launch center of Pilot Company.

Because he not only wants to build this place into a single space launch center, it will eventually become an international space port.

Connect the earth and space, connect the prosperous human world and the vast universe.

It will become the first ground port for humans to move towards the starry sky. It will become the most famous space transfer station in human history together with the planned space port in the earth's orbit.
Chapter completed!