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Chapter 121 Developing aerospace aircraft

Time has only passed an hour.

This is also the hour when the Changliu probe officially landed on the lunar surface.

The outside world has already gone crazy.

The first ones to be surprised were domestic netizens.

Previously, when discussing on a certain forum, Mr. Chen from Xingyao Aerospace said that there was no new technology to come up with anymore, and he was slapped in the face.

"Brother, what do you think now of Xingyao Aerospace's Wenyue 2 that sent Changliu to the moon in just six hours?"

"Brother, are you still there? Please answer me quickly."

The man sitting in front of the computer felt a burning pain on his face.

As a person in the aerospace field, he pays more attention to Xingyao Aerospace.

Because he was dissatisfied that Chen Yuan spent half a year only broadcasting the launch of the detector, he posted an answer on Weibo to criticize him.

But now everything was beyond his expectation.

The man did not answer these comments, but decisively dragged the mouse to delete this highly praised question and answer.

The same thing he doesn't understand is the West.

Musk couldn't believe it. China actually sent the probe to the moon in just six hours.

This is just a detector!

"If it is a spacecraft, doesn't it mean that China will only need six hours to send astronauts to the moon?"

Even if Musk were to do it, it would have to go through processes such as earth-to-moon transfer and circum-moon docking.

And this fastest time also takes seven days.

In terms of the entire aerospace project, seven days is not a long time.

But there is no harm without comparison.

"Damn, damn it!"

For the first time, Musk felt the pressure was unprecedentedly strong.

The international media are rushing to report on China's unprecedented feat, and many countries have even privately expressed their intention to cooperate with China.

Hundreds of companies have sent commercial aerospace cooperation emails to Shining Star Aerospace.

After this battle, China Aerospace instantly became a popular international star.

Chen Yuan even received national awards.

However, after the award, Chen Yuan did not fall into gentleness, but made another amazing move.

"I want to complete the manned mission to the moon in one month."

In the back seat, Li Weimin, who was just about to return to Xingyao Aerospace with him, almost jumped up: "Xiao Chen, are you serious? Although we have the ability to complete the manned moon landing, is it too fast?"

However, the co-pilot Chen Yuan shook his head: "Not fast, not fast at all. After all, it will be a month later, and I simply can't afford to wait."

Chen Yuan still feels that one month is a bit long. After all, it took half a year to build the space engine this time.

And the key point is that Chen Yuan wants to send people up as soon as possible, and then make sure to take root on the moon.

Only when people go up there can their own factories be built.

With the land on the moon that has not yet been developed and occupied, you can build as big a factory as you want.

And when I imagine that Dafa Toy Factory can reach the moon, there are actually more problems to overcome in the middle.

So now it takes a month just to send people up, and Chen Yuan can't wait anymore. As for Chen Yuan's daring to think and do, the senior management is also very supportive, not only providing financial help, but also investing heavily in technical personnel.

Chen Yuan did not lack relevant technical personnel, but since the country gave it to him, he did not refuse.

So Chen Yuan, who led this new team, began to develop the spacecraft.

At the technical seminar held, Chen Yuan pointedly pointed out which direction of the spacecraft they needed to approach next.

"The current spacecraft can no longer meet our needs. Even the space shuttle can only fly in space, but cannot independently land and return."

"Then are we going to build a spacecraft that can return home autonomously?" an expert asked at this time.

Chen Yuan nodded and said: "Yes, we can land on the moon and return independently, and even enter space independently in the future."

What was placed in front of everyone was obviously a hard nut to crack. The expert frowned and said: "Then this may be a bit difficult. Very few spacecrafts can return independently without the help of rockets."

At this stage, it is relatively complicated for a manned lunar return capsule to return humans to Earth.

The most basic knowledge is that if an object wants to move in a circle around a planet, its speed must reach the first cosmic speed of the planet.

If you want to completely get rid of the planet's gravity, you need the second cosmic speed.

However, the moon's mass is only one-sixth that of the Earth, so its gravity is only one-sixth that of the Earth.

In other words, there is no need to reach a speed of 11.2 kilometers per second on the moon. As long as it reaches 2.4 kilometers per second, it can escape the moon's gravity.

It's just that the astronauts don't even have to reach the second cosmic speed on the way back, just the first cosmic speed of the orbit.

Since the lander that landed on the moon was only the lunar module separated from the command module, the lunar module was composed of two parts, one was the ascent stage and the other was the descent stage.

On the way back, the astronauts only need to squeeze into the small lunar module to upgrade, and then ignite the upgrading engine and separate the descending stage. The thrust of the upgrading can reach the first cosmic speed of the moon, which is 1.68 kilometers per second.

In this way, it can easily enter the lunar orbit and fly around.

The descent stage is equivalent to a launch pad, which will remain on the lunar surface after the launch.

Next, when the upgrade enters the lunar orbit, the astronauts will control the upgrade to dock with the command module that has been waiting for a long time to fly around the moon.

Then the astronauts gave up the upgrade and took the command module to ignite and push back to Earth.

This is currently the best solution for manned return, but this solution has not been implemented many times.

Only six times so far.

As a plan that will not be outdated in a few decades, Chen Yuan wants to completely change it. This does feel a bit like a pioneer of mankind.

However, people in the conference room saw the perseverance in Chen Yuan's eyes: "My idea is to build an aerospace aircraft."

The concept of aerospace aircraft was also quoted by Chen Yuan from the Nantianmen Project.

This is different from a conventional space shuttle.

After all, the space shuttle still needs the help of rockets to send it into space, but the aerospace plane can fly into space independently without rockets.

However, Chen Yuan showed that he only aimed at medium-sized rockets to send the aerospace plane out of the atmosphere, and then the aerospace plane would complete subsequent exploration and return operations.

Relatively speaking, this is very conservative on a technical level.

Everyone present was excited because Chen Yuan really dared to think.

They even feel that if this is successful, then human aerospace technology will really be a huge progress.

(End of this chapter)