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"How's the test going?"
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At B-level Base, Xie Liaofu jumped down from the hatch of the Cloud Ascend Project No.1 Machine and inquired about the condition of the Qiongzhou sea-launched sounding rocket.
"Very good, just clean the engine pipelines with high-pressure steam, and there's no damage to the missile body at all. What we're checking now is whether any hidden problems were caused during the transport."
Minister Guo, however, requested to modify the interstage separator to leave more space."
Launching rockets from water is not uncommon after all, as submarine-launched missiles are just that.
Seawater's corrosion on engines and missile bodies is actually negligible. After all, the energy rocket that was crushed by snow at Baikonur hasn't rusted over the years; it only requires slight improvements in some minor areas.