You were told to build a tractor, but you're building a rocket? Chapter 191 - 185 This is the Distortion of Human Nature1

"ridian Information Communication included in the entity sanctions list."

"Nurous products under ridian Information Communication accused of human rights violations."

"The International Telecommunication Union IEE denies a license to ridian Smart Satellite Network, hundreds of thousands of terminals may be operating illegally and could be forced to destruction."

"ridian Smart Network poses a serious threat to near-Earth orbiters; the International Space Station had planned two orbit changes to avoid collisions with its satellites."

"Forr IEE official warns all Arican Xin’an car owners: Your privacy is being stolen!"

"..."

By mid to late June, with a series of international conferences convening as per usual practice, Arica executed a set of sleek combinations, and Lin Ju finally felt what was familiar about Arica.

He didn’t care about international sanctions at all, there’s only one situation where international sanctions are effective: that’s when they can genuinely control.

Satellites operating in space, how do you control that? With what? You expect Arica AirForce to shoot them down with missiles? That might start a world war.

Ground receiving terminals can’t be controlled either unless you plan to collect and destroy these cars one by one, but private property is sacred and inviolable, and that’s not a joke.

Blocking signals isn’t feasible either; the comrcial communication frequencies are limited, block ridian Smart Network, and nothing else will work properly.

Component sanctions don’t work either, the critically important chips are produced by China!

Foundries like SinoCore International, Modu Huahong, and Unigroup Semiconductor can fully supply the chips needed by New Yuan, all part manufacturers can be found dostically.

Market sanctions are even more of a joke, owning the world’s largest consur market, Lin Ju never planned to expand overseas seriously, just a fraction of the dostic market is enough to thrive.

ridian Information Communication, in partnership with the Science and Technology Commission, has established a large database, which will be integrated into "Skynet". The Ministry of Public Security pays a hefty fee each year for this, and the use of the database is also chargeable for other applications.

Who cares about international standards when operating dostically? In China, it’s not New Yuan that changes its own standards, but the nation will introduce new standards for New Yuan~

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"Led by Rayana Al Karri, 6 astronauts from four countries successfully reached the Hila Space Station aboard the cca Spaceship"

"The world’s second-largest space station welcos its first crew visit, achieving a crewed visit of 6 people"

"Abe advances into the ranks of the world’s top aerospace powers, potentially surpassing the Island Country"

"Crown Prince Hamand responds to external doubts: Hila Space Station will be open to the whole world’s MSL, Abe will send an astronaut to space for every country that believes in the true God."

"This year’s Eid al-Adha is particularly significant for Abe"

On June 28, under the global spotlight, the Abermuscala Space Launch Site saw 6 astronauts from the four mber countries of the Hila Space Station launch into space.

The New Yuan-2 rocket used for this mission was, of course, not the one from the 26th; due to Abe’s demand to launch twice in three days, New Yuan had moved up a New Yuan-2 schedule by two months to carry out this launch mission.

At that ti, New Yuan had internally debated a plan, which considered using the An-1250 for return, though it was sowhat slow; for efficiency, they could allow New Yuan-2 to fly over by itself.

Let New Yuan-2 fly over by itself... Is that possible? It seems it really is.

The New Yuan-2’s first stage was fully fueled and launched from Qiongzhou, not following the normal orbital flight path but adjusting its attitude to fly over like an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Almost 6000 kiloters, a trivial distance for the unloaded New Yuan-2’s first stage, and then it would execute the recovery procedure at the Mukala Aerospace Launch Site.

The An-1250 needed to fly for almost 10 hours, whereas the ballistic flight of New Yuan-2 required less than 20 minutes.

And technically, it was highly feasible. Six thousand kiloters is a long distance on the ground, but in space over a hundred kiloters high, a slight deviation could take you there.

The reason this plan was scrapped firstly was that it appeared too risky to outsiders; after all, the trajectory of New Yuan-2 essentially matched that of a dium-range missile. An uncontrolled descent would be disastrous;

And it would fly over too many countries, which might not be too happy about such a massive rocket passing over their heads, even though their only option would be to protest.

Secondly, the second stage rocket still had to be transported by plane, and the overall strength and recovery sches for flying it over were not feasible. It was better to have An-1250 transport everything in one go.

Although this plan was eventually abandoned, Lin Ju’s interest was piqued; he suddenly thought of Ma’s Starship offering global travel within two hours.

In essence, it involved using rockets’ capabilities to reach anywhere in the world in two or even one hour. But on other countries’ radars, it didn’t look so good; it would appear as if ballistic missiles were flying around at any mont, and those would be particularly heavy and potentially devastating if they lost control.

However, if one were to consider only the efficacy, the lure of global travel in one hour was indeed very tempting. Lin Ju thought about the higher-ups not taking private jets but private rockets, landing at the venue... Forget it, he feared being targeted.

After all, the cca Spaceship, using this very New Yuan-2, had successfully completed its first manned flight and caught up with the space station less than two hours after launch to dock successfully.

Then... in the live broadcast, countless viewers saw six astronauts praying in space?

The central module "Hashim" of the H-shaped space station was decorated with many religious artifacts, and unavoidably mixed with a bounty of space equipnt. The extre combination of cutting-edge technology and religious belief imparted an unbelievable sense of absurdity.

Even the "Hashim" module had a small chapel specifically installed, with custom windows facing the starry sky; reciting the Koran and praying to God there?

"Bullshit!"

A silver-haired Twitter user articulated his thoughts crisply upon seeing the photos released by the Abermuscala Aerospace Company.

Sharing his sentint was Claire, the director of NACA.

They had strongly invited Abermuscala to collaborate with them on operating the Hila Space Station. Wouldn’t that be more interesting than playing alone?

Although they couldn’t dock with the new 2.5m square port due to its high technological difficulty, the 0.9m round port used for the space shuttles was clearly not a problem. Arianespace had already obtained the related technology when they created the docking interface for the Unity; it was a very ordinary universal round port, and they could easily manufacture the sa docking interface.

By launching two or three science modules, it would beco a substation of the ISS International Space Station. Wouldn’t it be nice to have 15 more astronauts stationed there?

But Abermuscala steadfastly refused, squandering such a huge module for prayer?

Claire logged onto Twitter and left a comnt under the post shared by the Abermuscala Aerospace Agency:

"To perform primitive worship rituals that date back thousands of years with the pinnacle of human technological advancents, is this a distortion of humanity or the degeneration of morality?

What sort of organization would condone such actions that insult the advancent of science in space?"

"So organizations have sold their souls of freedom for money, tarnishing science..."

Claire was preparing to post another tweet when she suddenly discovered that her previous comnt had disappeared. She realized instantly that it must have been Ivan Williams taking dirty money from Saudi Arabia, and angrily threw down her phone.