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Chapter 1103 Failure

At 7:10, the broadcast announced the second comprehensive inspection.

At 7:45, the third comprehensive inspection began, and the rocket's escape tower slowly opened.

A while later, a one-minute announcement came over the loudspeaker.

At this moment, Li Mo'er was very excited, finally able to witness the rocket launch with her own eyes.

At that moment, the final countdown came over the loudspeaker: "Ten, nine, eight... three, two, one, launch!"

Then Li Mo'er saw thick white smoke rising from beneath the rocket, which was dozens of meters high, mixed with some black smoke.

Looking at the plume of black smoke, Li Mo'er felt a bad feeling well up inside her.

Then, the broadcast announced again: "Taiyuan optical tracking is normal, radar tracking is normal. Wenchang optical tracking is normal, radar tracking is normal."

The rocket, trailing a long plume of flame, soared straight into the sky.

Every now and then, the broadcast would send reports from various monitoring points: "Xichang optical tracking is normal, radar tracking is normal."

Jiuquan then issued a detection signal: "Jiuquan optical tracking is normal, radar tracking is normal, telemetry is normal, booster separation."

At this moment, Li Mo'er's bad feeling grew stronger and stronger.

Then the announcement came over the loudspeaker: "Booster separation failed. All parties, please report on the tracking status."

As is well known, the separation process during rocket launch mainly includes escape tower separation, booster separation, interstage separation, fairing separation, and rocket-vehicle separation.

The rocket failed to launch the satellite into the atmosphere before the boosters separated, leaving the rocket without thrust. As a result, the satellite fell freely to the ground.

Booster separation is used to enable the rocket to quickly fly away from the launcher and accelerate to a predetermined speed.

For example, the Long March 4F carrier rocket has four boosters. When it receives the separation command, the separation rockets on the boosters ignite first, followed by the detonation of the explosive bolts and propellant rings, causing the connection points to break. The boosters then separate from the rocket using the thrust. This usually happens about 150 seconds into the rocket's flight.

At that moment, a voice came over the loudspeaker: "Taiyuan optical tracking anomaly, radar shows the rocket is in a slow ascent."

"Nanchang optical tracking anomaly; radar indicates the rocket is in a slow ascent!"

"Jiuquan optical tracking anomaly; radar indicates the rocket is in a vertical descent. Ground personnel, immediately take shelter in air-raid shelters. Repeat...!"

Old Wei clenched his right fist and slammed it into his left palm, saying, "Damn it, the launch failed. Let's get out of here, or we'll be blown up."

The sense of danger in Li Mo'er's heart grew stronger. She said, "I can't just watch it fall. I'll go and put it into my spatial storage!"

Old Man Wei advised, "It's too dangerous. If it explodes, you'll be killed."

Li Mo'er said, "Let's give it a shot." Then she flashed into the space and reappeared in the fighter jet. The fighter jet accelerated and took off into the sky, chasing after the direction of the rocket launch.

Old Man Wei sighed and said, "Girl, please don't get hurt. I hope you can come back safe and sound."

Then he darted towards the rocket control center.

Li Mo'er controlled the fighter jet to fly at an 80-degree angle at high speed. Due to the excessive speed, Mach rings appeared at the tail of the fighter jet.

Li Mo'er muttered to herself, "At such a high speed, won't the plane break apart?"

At this moment, the rocket had begun to fall rapidly, and Li Mo'er was getting closer and closer to it: 10,000 meters, 8,000 meters, 3,000 meters, 2,000 meters, 1,000 meters. Finally, in Li Mo'er's mind, the rocket appeared, spinning as it fell downwards.

Meanwhile, on the radar screen at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, a fighter jet took off and flew straight towards the rocket. An urgent announcement came over the loudspeaker: "Jiuquan report: An aircraft is flying head-on towards the rocket at supersonic speed."

A rocket appeared in her mind, and she breathed a sigh of relief. With a thought, the rocket, which had already shut down, appeared in the space above that barren mountain.

Li Mo'er was also afraid that if the rocket exploded, it would destroy her villa, cruise ship, and those antique paintings and calligraphy.

An explosion on a barren mountain would at most destroy some medicinal herbs.

She controlled the rocket with her mind, letting it float in the air, waiting to see if it would explode.