The launch plan was unaltered!
The Moon Palace would enter the lunar orbit at the end of the month!
After the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation sent out the Weibo post, intense discussion swept across the internet.
The Moon Palace is fine!
The design flaws are all rumors!
People who previously ridiculed on Twitter that China was overly ambitious didn’t have anything to say now.
It turned out that the whole thing was just a rumor.
There was no problem with the core module at all, and there was no change to the launch plan.
There were also people that ridiculed the Moon Palace cooling system on various talk shows, and they were now in an awkward spot.
Those talk show hosts had plans to continue talking about this story, but now it seed like they had to change their script.
The New York Tis was probably in the most awkward spot.
Even though there was little ethics in the dia world, this incident still did considerable amounts of damage to the integrity of The New York Tis.
After all, they were the first to release the story.
They even put this fake story on headlines.
The New York Tis building.
Duke was just ridiculed by his boss. He walked back to his office, shattered.
Camille was sitting restlessly on the sofa as she looked around anxiously.
After so silence, Camille looked at Duke and spoke cautiously.
“We shouldn’t be so pessimistic… This slls a bit fishy, maybe they are just bluffing.”
The Weibo post from the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation wasn’t necessarily true. It might have been the Chinese authorities behind the scene, trying to alter the public opinion. They might have instructed various research institutes to issue the sa statent.
After all, similar things had happened before.
Camille had been a foreign reporter for more than a year, and she was well aware of China’s tactics…
Duke looked at Camille and spoke impatiently.
“It’s near the end of the month, what’s the point of bluffing?”
Camille didn’t know what to say.
He’s right, it’s nearly the end of the month.
Even if they are bluffing, there isn’t enough ti for them to fix the problem.
Seeing how Camille didn’t have anything to say, Duke looked outside his window.
“… All we can do now is hope for the BFR rocket to successfully land the life support system. This will divert people’s attention and make them forget about this matter.”
Camille asked tentatively, “I think the story on the Moon Palace can be improved, what if—”
Before Camille could finish, Duke waved his hand and interrupted her.
“Forget about any new stories… We should focus on Arica for now.”
Camille gulped and nodded nervously.
“Okay.”
She didn’t dare to ntion her new office or her assistant…
Seeing how distraught Duke was, she wisely chose to keep quiet.
She silently prayed in her heart.
God, please tell the Chinese are bluffing…
If the Moon Palace launched successfully, it would be a disaster for The New York Tis.
Not only would the readers be dissatisfied, but they would beco a laughing stock in the dia industry.
After all, they were the ones that placed a fake rumor as their headlines…
She took out her phone and checked her email.
She had been waiting for her informant from China to reply, but no emails were received.
It seed like her informant was in trouble.
She felt like sothing bad was going to happen…
…
The intense public discussion didn’t stop imdiately. But as the incident was denied by various departnts, the topic was no longer trending.
Ti quickly passed by, and it was soon the end of the month.
Both Star Sky Technology and China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation didn’t break their promises.
Major dia outlets such as Everyone Daily published photos of the Moon Palace being loaded into the aircraft.
After the photos were released, excited netizens swept the comnts section.
[Jesus, who said that the Moon Palace isn’t going to fly?]
[dia outlets have no integrity, these keyboard warriors made think the moon space station is a bust.]
[Professor Lu is nutty!]
[I bet soone in the future will say that even though the Moon Palace is in space, it’s still not an accomplishnt.]
[Our journey is the sea of stars!]
[…]
The entire country was looking forward to this launch.
It was finally launch day.
Several dia broadcast trucks drove to the launch site.
Those that didn’t obtain a dia authorization drove to the outskirts of Jin Ling City, outside the security checkpoints. They planned on watching from a distance by using special pieces of cara equipnt.
Just like this, with everyone watching, Skyglow spacecraft slowly departed from the runway, flying toward the blue sky, disappearing from people’s eyes.
Lu Zhou was standing in the command tower as he looked at Skyglow disappear from his view. He turned to Hou Guang and asked, “How long until the Earth-Moon transfer orbit system is online?”
Hou Guang paused for a second and spoke seriously.
“The technology is feasible… But even if we use a similar propulsion system as Skyglow, we would have to wait until next year.”
“Next year…” Lu Zhou looked at the busy ground crew on the runway and asked, “What about Starlight?”
Hou Guang: “We were going to test it at the end of the month, but because of the Moon Palace launch plan, it was postponed by a week.”
Lu Zhou: “So the next test flight is in a week?”
Hou Guang nodded and said, “Correct.”
Lu Zhou nodded and smirked.
If the Starlight test was successful, then the ion thruster propulsion system would rise to a whole new level.
Lu Zhou was relieved to see his own technology co to life.
His efforts were proven to be worthwhile.
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