The military-industrial scientific research system of the academic master.

Chapter 1298 Plasma appeared!

As China's aerospace industry has developed to this day, Rogge considers himself to be well-informed.

However, when he heard the number Sultan reported, his heart still skipped a beat.

Seeing that Rogge did not respond immediately, Sultan quickly gave a further explanation:

"100 billion US dollars, including 15 billion US dollars invested in the satellite positioning system and natural disaster warning satellite projects respectively, and 70 billion US dollars to be paid in batches according to the progress of the space station project. The latter project should include the training of at least two batches of four astronauts and all related expenses incurred by the first Saudi astronaut to enter orbit..."

"..."

Again, although the dog tycoon is rich, he is not stupid.

It can even be said that they know more about "how to spend money" than China.

100 billion is a considerable sum of money even for Saudi Arabia.

However, cooperation in the aerospace field is a long-term matter, so it is impossible to simply throw money over and be done with it.

Therefore, even though it was still far from the stage of forming a written agreement, Sultan quickly gave his terms.

Of course, in his opinion, this price can still be bargained for.

But for Rogge, this amount of money was something he had never dared to dream of before.

$ 70 billion.

Calculated based on the current exchange rate, it is 546 billion yuan.

This is approximately equivalent to 2007% of the 10 military budget.

It is enough to re-execute the manned space project and build the Wenchang Space Launch Center at the same time.

As for the additional $30 billion, it is definitely a sponsorship-level investment for the two projects that only require launching satellites.

"Then... Dr. Sultan, since you have shown such sincerity, we Chinese should also return the favor."

While saying these words, Rogge calmly took several deep breaths and finally calmed himself down:
"The second-generation Beidou satellite positioning system is currently under construction. It is expected to cover the entire China and surrounding sea areas by next year, and provide preliminary services at the 20-meter level for civil codes and the 5-meter level for military codes..."

"Considering your needs, we will cover the Persian Gulf and the surrounding areas of the North Indian Ocean as soon as possible, and send engineering units to build a ground master control station, four satellite signal monitoring stations and four uplink information injection stations within your territory. After all the construction is completed, within the coverage area of ​​the ground control segment, we will be able to provide high-precision services of 5 meters for civil codes and 1 meter for military codes..."

“Similarly, we will adjust the construction priority of natural disaster satellites and launch at least three of the latest natural series remote sensing satellites in the next two years, which can provide disaster monitoring tasks with an average monthly coverage rate of about one-third. However, it is necessary to remind you that natural disaster prediction is still a business that is highly dependent on luck and probability. No one can guarantee 100% accuracy…”

"..."

Seeing his decisive look, Sultan knew that his previous offer might be too high.

But for him, the core of everything is to achieve the goal, and how much money is spent is secondary.

So he didn't feel like he was being cheated. Instead, he quickly picked up a pen and paper and began to record the key points that Rogge said.

As head of the Saudi space program, much of his knowledge is purely theoretical.

In this situation, any information revealed by the Chinese side may be of help to him.

After a rather detailed explanation, Rogge looked at Sultan who was writing furiously and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After the latter stopped writing, Zhou Pingjian, the chief designer of the manned space program, who had been sitting next to him without saying anything, suddenly spoke up:

"There is one more thing I need to explain in advance."

Sultan, who was about to take off his glasses, suddenly stopped and motioned Zhou Pingjian to continue.

"Tiangong-1 and the future Tiangong space station belong to the same complete project, and China has always been quick in its actions. Therefore, although you need to wait until the multi-cabin combined space station stage to officially participate in the construction, in order to ensure smooth cooperation, you need to send technical personnel participating in the project and astronauts to be trained to us as soon as possible after the agreement is reached..."

This is quite a euphemism.

In other words,

Your Saudi Arabian foundation is really too poor, so you need to make up for it.

In fact, at the beginning, Zhou Pingjian was not willing to let these bearded men participate in the ground research and development and preparation process of the space station.

It's not for the sake of keeping it secret.

China has a strict set of confidentiality settings. Even if the other party sends people over, they will not be able to access the most core parts.

But I really don't want to teach poor students to do work.

It was so torturous.

However, there is actually a flexible evaluation standard for this kind of thing. For the sake of the $100 billion, Zhou Pingjian's attitude took a 180-degree turn at the speed of light.

No one knows more about manned space flight than Saudi Arabia!
It's done!

……

at the same time.

Shengjing.

After returning to his workplace from Beijing, Liu Yongquan immediately plunged into research and development work as quickly as possible.

Of course, as an aerospace engineer, even if he heard the plan from Chang Haonan, it was impossible for him to go all in with the entire Shengfa Group without any clues.

We must first conduct a round of low-cost, short-cycle technical verification.

Fortunately, the idea and principle of using high-energy jets combined with plasma tubes to release plasma is not complicated. If it is only verified on the ground, the entire transformation process will not take long at all.

Inside the test workshop of the Aviation Power Group's 410th Plant, a WS-10A engine that looks identical to the mass-produced model is undergoing a working test on a ground test bench.

The WS-10G is still in the development stage, so these verification work must be done using the old model.

Under the slightly gloomy sky in the northern winter, brilliant blue-purple flames burst out from the tail nozzle, lighting up the night sky hundreds of meters around.

Even the snow more than ten meters away on both sides of the flame-exhausting path began to melt slowly due to the high temperature.

"Boss Liu, can we really generate plasma directly by relying on the engine's own working conditions?"

The assistant Ma Xiaoyu next to him was wearing a full set of protective equipment, his eyes fixed on the infrared thermal image of the compound drug spray on the screen in front of him.

The chaotic flow field patterns in the figure at the beginning have now become stable, indicating that the engine's operating parameters are gradually stabilizing.

"That depends on the measurement results of the electrostatic probe..."

Liu Yongquan answered without looking away.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that the compressor speed and the temperature curve before the turbine on the computer screen next to him had entered a horizontal state, so he changed the subject:
"Start the differential amplifier circuit and prepare for measurement!"

In fact, after adding a plasma source into the combustion chamber, it is a foregone conclusion that the effective plasma density detected in the tail flame will increase.

There are two key issues.

One is whether the jet electron density can reach a usable level.

If the level is only a few thousand or tens of thousands of electrons per cubic centimeter, the stealth effect is basically just for fun.

At least it must be on the order of 10^7 to form a usable plasma sheath.

The second is the controllability of plasma.

If the plasma is simply ejected along with high-temperature and high-pressure combustion gases, it would be completely useless for radar.

Somehow, the backward-moving plasma needs to be changed in direction, at least to shield the core part of the tail.

Another engineer behind Ma Xiaoyu immediately responded:

"Start the differential amplifier circuit and prepare for measurement!"

At the same time, he continuously turned the six lever switches in front of him.

The three groups of indicator lights on the console gradually turned from yellow to red.

"The iridium needle enters the measurement area."

Ma Xiaoyu's voice came soon.

The readings are then displayed in the middle window on the left side of the computer screen.

The initial fluctuations were very violent.

But it soon stabilized.

Although the numbers in the front are still changing so fast that they are hard to see, the exponents in scientific notation at the back have basically remained unchanged.

Order of magnitude 10^9!

(End of this chapter)