Hope in the Sky
Editor: Henyee Translations
"Five!
"Four!
"Three!
"Two!
"One!
"Zero!
"Ignite!"
A blue arc of light projected from the flared wings of the aerospaceplane.
Starlight was launched from the Jinling aerospace launch site, and with the ground command center watching, it disappeared into the clouds.
The launch plan went smoothly.
After leaving the troposphere, Starlight's pair of short ailerons slowly rotated, and this changed the angle of the flight.
The blue arc of light began to shine brighter and brighter, and Starlight worked against gravity and flew toward the boundless deep space on a path that was tangent to Earth.
Time slowly passed by…
After nearly an hour of flying, Starlight lived up to expectations and steadily broke through the edge of the atmosphere, reaching low-Earth orbit. This was the beginning of its 72-hour orbital flight.