Its beauty lies in the shock of its super carrying capacity indicators of 200 tons+ in low-Earth orbit (LEO) and 70 tons+ in geostationary orbit (GTO); (Although This super rocket named Zhu Rongxing, which is the final version of the Energy series, did not usher in its own birthday and glory with the fall of the Soviet Union);

Its beauty lies in its The main rocket body, which was already large enough, still had seven or eight Zenith booster rockets equipped with the RD-170, one of the most powerful liquid oxygen and kerosene engines in the world, bundled around it to form a combination. The majestic, rough and powerful aesthetic design of industrial violence;

Its beauty lies in its reflection of the red empire of the past, in the field of aerospace technology and in the competition with its archrival the United States. Even after experiencing such a tragic failure, whether it was out of unwillingness to admit defeat or out of pursuit and love for the universe and the sea of ??stars, he was still indomitable, climbed back up from where he fell, regained his strength and continued. The spirit of successfully writing your own legend and glory.

"Love is like holding a torch against the wind, it is fierce and mournful, and all kinds of tastes are in it." ——Yin Lin's "The Dream of Agelessness"

For a long time, it has been popular in many countries around the world. In the development of the aerospace field, there are always two ideas and plans for the development of high-thrust (carrying capacity) rockets:

① From a few high-thrust liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen/ The liquid oxygen kerosene engine is composed of a liquid oxygen kerosene engine and gives the arrow body enough thrust.

② A large number of small thrust engines "force" the thrust to "stack" it, and use this to form and give the arrow body enough thrust. enough thrust.

The representative of plan 1 is the American Saturn V launch vehicle

The representative of plan 2 is that the Soviets used it in the early moon landing race with the United States, and it was also the first time that the Soviets An attempt to develop a high-thrust (high-carrying-capacity) rocket is also the famous N1 rocket.

It's just that this so-called "famous name" is almost entirely made up of desolation and bleakness, and it has the ending of disappearing in the long history.

The tragic ending of four shots and four defeats completely declared the failure of the N1 rocket project and the United States’ complete defeat in the moon landing race. At the same time, it also gave the plan ②————by the Soviets The design idea conceived (fantasy) in the early days of using a large number of small thrust engines to forcibly "stack" the total thrust (carrying capacity) of the rocket was completely sentenced to death.

Is it painful? Of course it’s painful; is it a big blow? Of course it's big. However, as one of the only two superpowers in the world and in human history, the Soviet Union is the only one that can compete with the United States in various fields of military industry, science and technology, and can achieve evenly distributed results with its own merits. , how could he be depressed because of this, how could he give up on continuing to compete with his opponents, how could he give up on his yearning and pursuit of the vast universe and sea of ??stars?

The solution of "stacking rocket thrust through a large number of small thrust engines" is not feasible, right? Okay, I will develop a high-thrust liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen engine RD-0120 with a vacuum thrust of 1961.6kN and a vacuum specific impulse of 455 seconds, which is almost as good as your rotten capitalist Yankee SSME:

The F1 liquid oxygen kerosene engine in the upper core of the Saturn V rocket that beat me to pieces in the manned moon landing race is very powerful, right? Let’s take a look at the one I developed with so much painstaking efforts (a self-proclaimed aerospace power in East Asia in the South still hasn’t scratched the surface of it even today, forty or fifty years later), with a vacuum thrust of 8062kN. How about comparing it to the RD-170, a high-thrust liquid oxygen kerosene engine with a specific impulse of 337.2 seconds (3315 N·s/kg) in vacuum?

So, after the "complete annihilation" of the former N1 rocket project, the indomitable Soviets learned from the pain and regained their strength and adopted the "liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen rocket with a small number of high thrusts" "The rocket body is composed of a liquid oxygen and kerosene engine and gives the rocket body enough thrust." After successfully selecting the above two corresponding "technology trees" in actual operations, the first generation is comparable to the most powerful Americans. The "Energy" launch vehicle of the Saturn V launch vehicle was born.

And do you think this is the end? Based on this, the Soviet ambitions (imagination) even extended to gradually developing and approaching the chemical rocket by bundling 4 to 8 Zenith booster rockets around the main body of the Energia rocket. The scale of the powered launch vehicle and the limit of its carrying capacity——Vulkan-Hercules launch vehicle:

The final version of the bundled eight Zenit rocket boosters-1+8 cores The LEO of the "Ultimate Zhurongxing" rocket is said to be more than 200 tons.

What is the concept? This is an ordinary subway train running in an ordinary city in my country, with a total weight of about 150 tons to 200 tons:

Then a complete Zhurongxing launch vehicle is used.

With one shot, the entire train can be launched and transported to the earth's low-Earth satellite orbit, along with thousands of passengers in the subway train, including you and me.