Chapter 656: Chapter 298: Satellite Launch
Sieg and Boketu exchanged glances, indeed the strong never complain about their circumstances.
Another half hour passed, and Blitz drove to the parking lot of the luxury villa and sent a message. Only then did the General Sect Leader come downstairs, with Shadi also having changed into a new piece of clothing, continuously complaining about how brutal and violent his actions were, while the General Sect Leader indicated that he had already been very restrained.
“Let’s go, don’t let the people at the laboratory wait too long.” Allen Zhang led several people out the door, while Shadi, feeling unwell, could not endure a long journey and had to choose to rest at home.
After greeting Blitz, they switched to a Bentley car from Shadi’s house, with Sieg driving the vehicle and the four of them heading to the suburban rocket laboratory.
During the drive, Blitz also expressed his confusion, “Why did you ask me to arrive an hour late before? Were you busy with something? Why are we departing on time now?”
The General Sect Leader coughed lightly, “It’s nothing serious, just that I haven’t seen a friend for a while, and we had a few words to catch up.”
Sieg and Boketu gave each other a look with an odd expression, was that just catching up a few words? You were almost munching on tender baby bok choy right in front of someone else’s old man.
If it weren’t for a close relationship with one another, and considering the considerable family assets of the General Sect Leader, what father would be willing to watch his little bok choy being nibbled on? And even proactively found an excuse to give up the venue.
What an excellent father.
They should immediately take him as their godfather.
Allen Zhang changed the subject and inquired Blitz, “Did you prepare everything?”
“Of course, I can’t claim to understand all things about networking technology, but I’m pretty close to it, and setting up the programming for satellite interfacing is definitely not a problem.” Blitz took out his computer, having already written some programs.
The micro-satellite’s own black box had pre-written basic program backups, so it was easy for him to interface and gain control. If he found anything unsatisfactory or needed changing, he just needed to update the software program.
Allen Zhang nodded, seeing that Blitz was fully prepared, he asked no further.
After all, the General Sect Leader didn’t know much about professional knowledge; a half-full bottle makes more noise when shaken, so professional matters should be left to professionals.
It took just over twenty minutes to reach their destination.
Upon arriving, they found an empty field the size of a soccer field with several single-story buildings, high-voltage wire fences erected around, warning signs hanging, and a helipad structure on site, as well as launch platforms that included a pile of waste and iron shells, seemingly failed rockets that were recovered.
Allen Zhang looked at this unremarkable laboratory and felt it was slightly different from what he had imagined, perhaps a bit too simple.
The rocket laboratory seemed to do experiments frequently, and to avoid disturbing the surrounding residents with the noise, they had chosen such a remote place.
Speaking of rocket launchers, the General Sect Leader was not unused to such things. Although the thrusters sold to them by a retired old man from NASA were a bit too mini and ludicrous, with a thrust similar to a windproof lighter, the technology was still there, and rounding up, the functionality and principles were almost the same.
Having Sieg park the car on the roadside of a deserted path, Allen Zhang got out of the car and made a phone call to the other party, informing them of his arrival once they answered.
Actually, there was no need to notify the other party, because as soon as they parked the car on the side of the road, the electronic eyes and sky cameras installed around the laboratory had already monitored them. The General Sect Leader didn’t intend to hide anything and didn’t bother with them at all.
After chatting with them for a few words and hanging up the phone, within a minute, several researchers wearing white lab coats and glasses, who looked very professional, came out from the single-story building and greeted them warmly.
The middle-aged man leading them unlocked the security door from inside and stepped out to welcome their arrival, introducing himself, “Hello, I am Martin, the head of GBT Company’s T2 Rocket Research Institute. Are you Mr. Jin who made an advance reservation for the rocket service? Our headquarters has already informed me of the situation, we will definitely complete the task and get your satellite into space using our equipment!”
“Hello, Martin.” Allen Zhang also smiled and nodded in response, introducing Sieg and the others by his side, and took the private satellite down from the car.
The other party then invited them into the laboratory to observe, and Allen Zhang naturally didn’t refuse, readily accepting and jokingly said, “Aren’t you afraid we will steal your experimental data?”
“What experimental data? It’s all theoretical knowledge not worth much, and there are plenty of internet-famous science popularizers online. As long as there is financial investment and a few professionals join in to help, anyone can send rockets and satellites into space.” Martin humbly explained, “If we really didn’t run out of funds to develop new rocket programs, GBT Company wouldn’t have acquired us.”
1+1=2. You’ve already learned that.
Now try to calculate the mass of black holes and the orbital motion data of celestial bodies.
“Is that so?” Allen Zhang was also somewhat astonished, having reason to suspect he was showing off.
But he didn’t say much and followed them into the laboratory.
Glancing around, he discovered a hidden world, though the rooms didn’t seem large from the outside, they were connected to a medium-sized research institute underground.