[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil":3,"chapter-you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-396":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","You were told to build a tractor, but you're building a rocket?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1305949,1735,"Chapter 396 - 387 Fall_1","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-396",396,"\u003Cp>\"The Courage AI model? That’s a good one, that’s great.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s a classified military cooperation project!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boss, I know there must be a civilian castrated version available, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Jun adopted a stance indicating he wouldn’t leave unless he got it, and Lin Ju had no choice but to reluctantly agree to provide a part of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why did Xin’an come begging for robot technology? It must be because of the Tesla robot. Ma had come to Modu City briefly in mid-month and finally concluded the deal for the Tesla Super Factory, while also announcing the \"Tesla Bot\" smart robot plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Jun, who had long coveted the base’s robot project, finally found an excuse to extend his hand and got his wish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ju suddenly thought that the No. 1 and No. 2 robot project teams would have to split off eventually; the base couldn’t cram in another robot factory, and he felt that there would only be more and more beggars in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Florida.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Starship Town\" is a name given by the American Internet to the Starship manufacturing\u002Flaunch base. SpaceX built an immense Starship Factory here from scratch, constantly producing \"explosive tin cans.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The site did not bar visitors, and often attracted space enthusiasts to come and check in, but today there were exceptionally many people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because today, the Super Heavy Booster B6 and Starship SN12 were scheduled to launch. This was currently the world’s second-biggest rocket, a super rocket with the potential to send 250 tons of payload into space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The familiar stainless steel combination was now hoisted atop a concrete base, and its height of over 120 meters looked incredibly impressive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elon Musk sat calmly in the control room’s chair, his excitement no less than when he took the Dragon Spaceship into space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how much doubt there was from outside, the status of the Starship itself was undeniable. It was an inexpensive, fully reusable two-stage rocket, with clean and cheap fuel. In his view, it was the most advanced rocket in the world—except for the Storm, which was powered by nuclear, cheating!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When asked by a journalist, \"Elon, do you think this launch will be successful?\" He responded with a smile:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"SpaceX advances through explosions, each test providing us with the best data.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While he appeared nonchalant, he was indeed eager for a success, at least for the first stage to succeed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>NACA had a nearly pathological need for super rockets since Storm’s flight to the Moon, and their support for the Starship had reached unprecedented levels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They did not demand that Starship truly achieve as many capabilities as shown in their PowerPoint presentations; they only wanted the thirty-three engines of the first stage to work properly—even if they were not recovered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the Super Heavy Booster were stable, then it could be used to stack various upper stages and derive a series of rockets from it. Even without reuse, it wouldn’t matter, because SpaceX’s Starship Town could produce a first-stage booster every two months with a price tag of just over one hundred million US dollars. It was completely affordable even for single-use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Musk’s anxious mood, there were only 15 minutes left until the estimated launch time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The control room performed a final self-check on the engines. The inner ring of thirteen swiveling Raptor V1 engines turned clockwise like sunflowers, forming a pleasing sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The N1 rocket of the last century mainly relied on adjusting the flow of the engines on either side for thrust vectoring, a method not flexible enough and thus abandoned by Starship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nearly 4000 tons of liquid oxygen and methane pumped into the upper and lower stages of the rocket frosted the surface of the Starship, turning it from stainless steel color to white, and it continuously emitted white smoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the final self-check was approved, the control room, with a glance at Musk’s determined eyes, entered the launch procedure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"ten, nine, eight...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Musk counted down silently with the screen, and when it reached six, his heart skipped a beat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Logically speaking, by now the 13 engines at the center should have started to ignite one after another, yet nothing happened in the real-time video.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The countdown quickly reached zero, the mechanical arm connecting the electrical piping and fueling had already detached, but other than some wisps of white smoke coming out of the Starship’s rear, nothing happened. That should be the fuel released before the engine ignition, and yet there was still no ignition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The control room suddenly fell silent. They had considered every conceivable scenario, but they hadn’t anticipated none of the engines igniting after the launch command was issued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tom Mueller immediately commanded checks on all the signals from the Starship, but the results were astonishingly disappointing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We have lost control of all engines, and all signals are offline,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>these were the words Musk heard from his earpiece five seconds after the countdown had ended. At this point, he hadn’t reacted yet, or rather he didn’t know what reaction to make.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Losing control of a rocket was the worst-case scenario. By then, the Starship had already been loaded with thousands of tons of fuel. Who would dare to release the fuel after the ignition command had already been given?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing to do was wait for the fuel to evaporate naturally or to self-destruct. Either outcome would destroy a launch pad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The people in the control room were at a loss, as were the audience outside waiting for the launch, all plunged into confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thirty seconds after the countdown ended, Musk was about to take off his earpiece and tweet when suddenly he saw a burst of flames emerge from the tail of the Starship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One, a few, half a minute after the launch command was issued, 33 engines started to ignite one by one under the control of the Starship’s automatic computer. Although it seemed a bit off, they had at least ignited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The public waiting outside for the launch didn’t understand the situation but saw the Starship finally ignite and began to cheer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The launch pad for the Starship did not have a flame trench, but a gap a few meters high was left below the circular launch pad. Dozens of engines starting one after another, their exhaust flames merging and spewing out from the West, forming thick smoke that enveloped the entire rocket, obscuring the view below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the control room, after the rocket’s computer started the engines on its own, it finally regained the control signals for the engines, relaying back the operational status of all engines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Musk saw the 33 circles representing the 33 engines light up one by one, but a few circles flickered and then went back to a darkened state. Counting carefully, there were five such circles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five engines failed to ignite successfully, meaning the thrust was nearly reduced by a thousand tons. Fortunately, it was still enough to exceed its own weight, and the Starship, tilting, forced its way off the launch pad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why at an angle? Because two adjacent engines on the outermost side had both gone off, resulting in uneven thrust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The computer on the Starship apparently noticed this too and tried to correct the skewed force by adjusting the central engines, but the difference in thrust was too great, and it was beyond correction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The onlookers on the beach watched as the Starship took more than 10 seconds to emerge from the thick smoke—appearing from the right side, ascending at an angle as if it were sliding sideways.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was then that the ground-based tracking camera was finally able to see the workings of the engines at the tail: six engines had gone out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no doubt, another engine had failed during takeoff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Musk, looking at the now-clear smoke from the launch pad, seemed to have figured out the reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The simple concrete launch pad was now unrecognizable: almost all of the concrete blocks on the surface had been blasted away by the exhaust flame, revealing the steel reinforcement inside. Without a flame trench design, the ground had been blown into a big pit, with debris scattered everywhere, some from the launch pad, some from the engines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking up at the sky, the remaining 27 engines hadn’t failed yet, but at this point, the Starship’s trajectory was completely skewed and it wasn’t possible to reach orbit. Additionally, it seemed like more pieces were falling from the tail?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After flying for more than three minutes, fuel consumption sped up the Starship, and problems began to arise in the fuel supply of the first stage. The control room decided to separate the upper stage of the Starship spacecraft; although it couldn’t achieve orbit, at least it was worth a try.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The command was issued, the command was issued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Starship, now approaching 40 kilometers in altitude, had no response. Changes in the atmospheric conditions started disrupting the operating environment of the engines. The already somewhat obstructed fuel supply, coupled with the instability of the combustion chamber pressure, caused engine after engine to shut down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One minute later, the Starship, still weighing over 3,000 tons, had all its engines shut down, spiraling down into the sea off the coast of Florida.\u003C\u002Fp>",1540,"2026-06-05T18:20:54.445Z",1,"novelbin.me","7fbde7904cc119cc4da732d1b4b48762e56f7241047d0fc6116241bc22ba2df1","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-397","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-395",804,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyou-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-cover.jpg"]