Chapter Twelve - Rocket Testing

It's been a week since Luke the Gerbils and Sach tested the rockets in space, but we have lost contact from the very early stage of their flights with Sach. On the radar, all seems to go to plan. At the height of 500 km above the crust, which is 100km more than the international space station, our rockets were rotating around the Earth in 120 minutes - meaning that they did 82 rotations of the Earth, minus the orbit setting and the landing preparation. Diamond Dee, Sach's rocket, seems to have started its landing de-escalation to Heathrow. Sach has reached 3000 m altitude and is going into solar orbit. Still, no communication is possible. Snail was shouting into the microphone. But nothing ...View all