This star is going to the moon

Chapter 372 Damn it, what happened to the Americans?!
The Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, commonly known as "the First Academy," is the birthplace of China's space program.

It is the oldest and largest missile weapon and carrier rocket research, testing and production base in China.

Because of this, even though Lu Yun was the chief designer of the Long March 10 rocket, the main contribution came from the First Academy, not his Blue Star Aerospace Company.

Or, to put it another way, the entire nation's aerospace system is involved, along with other departments, universities, companies, and so on.

The main reason is that Bluestar Aerospace does not have equipment to test 5-meter diameter rockets, or it has the mature 3.35-meter diameter rocket testing equipment that was built earlier.

Either it has never existed before, or it is currently being built as a 10.6-meter diameter super rocket test facility through trial and error.

Comparatively speaking, the country has testing equipment for building rockets with a diameter of 5 meters, but it needs to be upgraded from being adapted to the Long March 5 rocket to being compatible with the Long March 10 rocket.

Therefore, the testing of all equipment on the Long March 10 rocket was carried out by the national aerospace system. The individual reports were submitted by the respective academies, but the final report was submitted by the First Academy, where Lu Yun was listening to the report.

(Net map)
"...This is footage of the sixth test run of our YF-100 modified 150-ton class pump-driven liquid oxygen-kerosene engine."

"To date, it has accumulated 3300 seconds of testing, which fully meets the design requirements and has also set a new record for single-engine testing of 100-ton class engines in my country."

"Next, we will conduct an ignition test of the three YF-100 modified engines on the first stage of the Long March 10 rocket in December."

"If all goes well, a full-system test of the seven engines that power the first stage of the Long March 10 rocket will be conducted in January next year..."

While listening to the experts from the Sixth Academy report on the engine's condition, Lu Yun scribbled and drew on the report.

Because of his memories of the Long March 10 rocket from his previous life, Lu Yun's leadership in the development of the Long March 10 rocket in this life did not encounter any major setbacks.

Because of the help of a cheat code in this life, it is easy to break through the high-precision technologies required for the Long March 10 rocket.

Thanks to the unified national coordination and the cooperation of various research institutes, organizations, universities and companies, the development of the Long March 10 rocket has progressed very smoothly.

The Long March 10 rocket is a sub-project of the entire manned lunar landing program, and it is connected to all other sub-projects within the program.

If the available resources for the entire manned lunar landing project are 100, the Long March 10 sub-project originally planned to require 50 resources to develop, now, due to Lu Yun's intervention, only 35 resources are needed to develop it. The 15 resources saved can then be allocated to other sub-projects, which will accelerate the development of those sub-projects.

If, after detailed calculations, other sub-projects only need an additional 10 resources to keep up with the progress of the Long March 10 sub-project, then the entire manned lunar landing project can save 5 resources.

Whether resources are conserved or not is actually a minor issue. When the budget was initially approved, the entire manned lunar landing project was planned to be allocated 150 to 200 billion resources, in order to realize China's millennia-old dream of manned lunar landing.

Now that only 100 resources are needed, it's already quite economical.

With Lu Yun's addition, the most direct manifestation of the entire manned lunar landing project is that it has made rapid progress!
In other words, in addition to the Long March 10 rocket, the lunar spacecraft system, the lunar lander system, and the lunar navigation and resource exploration system are all under rapid development.

Originally, we thought it would be good if we could achieve a manned lunar landing by 2030, but now, based on the progress of various projects, even 25 years is considered conservative. In reality, it should be achieved in about 24 years.

Two or four years!

The US's plan to return to the moon is set for two or four years.

But based on information gathered from various sources, the US plan to return to the moon in two or four years... seems unreliable!
Although the US passed legislation to sever space cooperation channels with China, many space scientists from both countries still maintain contact.

After all, some of them had early collaborations, and some were even classmates.

Therefore, when some aerospace scientists from both countries chat, they often discuss aerospace-related information that is not classified but is still considered inside information.

Sometimes he would complain about the obstacles in space development, and in doing so, he would inadvertently reveal some tidbits of information. Lu Yun's nominal teacher, Ye Jianfei, had studied in Switzerland in his early years, so he had information about the European Space Agency.

Meanwhile, they happened to be in charge of manufacturing the Orion service module for the US lunar spacecraft that would return the US to the moon, so they could learn a bit about the US's Artemis program for returning to the moon.

(Image of the Orion spacecraft)
Furthermore, because NASA is far from the US mainland and is merely a partner, its level of secrecy is lower, allowing Ye Jianfei to learn some less confidential inside information.

Hearing that China's manned lunar landing project was progressing smoothly, he thought of the "American joke" he had heard, so he whispered to Lu Yun sitting next to him, "Our progress is going so well, but things aren't looking good on the American side."

“I have two old classmates who are in charge of building the service module of the Orion spacecraft. Their work was quite urgent, after all, everyone knows that the work atmosphere there is relatively relaxed, especially since spaceflight is a slow process, so even if they rushed to finish, they felt that they couldn’t make it in time.”

"As a result, the US postponed the maiden flight of the SLS rocket to 2022, which also forced the Orion spacecraft to postpone its maiden flight around the moon. This actually freed up their tight schedule, giving them more time to do testing."

"But do you know what the most crucial thing is?"

Lu Yun asked curiously, "What is it?"

Old Ye smiled and said, "The reason why the spacecraft service module they are in charge of is slow is not only because they are rather lax in their work, but also because sometimes the spacecraft crew module and service module cannot be matched during testing!"

"Although Lockheed Martin has been accusing them of having problems with their work, they know that the problem definitely lies with Lockheed Martin. They even found an assembly engineer who was mentally unstable during a site visit to Lockheed Martin!"

"It's that kind of mental instability, you know?"

Understand.

This kind of thing was exposed too many times in the later years of my previous life; it was all about getting high before going to work.

Not only Lockheed Martin has it, Boeing does too.

And with these two companies, I imagine there are quite a few other American companies as well.

Seeing Lu Yun nod, Old Ye sighed, "These Americans are not the same as they were decades ago. They've fallen too far. They've completely lost the spirit and energy they had during the Apollo moon landing."

Old Ye's tone conveyed a sense of disappointment and frustration.

Lu Yun understood this feeling. Many people in the old society knelt down to praise the old China, while others stood up to praise it.

The former is surrendering, while the latter is "enjoying the fight"!
The latter desires to fight against true powerhouses!
When they saw their opponents, whom they had prepared to fight for decades, fall from grace, they were more heartbroken than those who knelt down.

Having mastered superb martial arts skills only to find them useless, it feels like "wearing fine clothes in the dark."

All my hard work training in the coldest and hottest months was for nothing?

"Damn it, what happened to the Americans?!"

The master and apprentice chatted about this in hushed tones. In the end, even Lu Yun, the reborn person who knew the truth, didn't need to say anything. Old Master Ye dared to assert: "The Americans' plan to return to the moon in 2024 is absolutely impossible to complete. This time, the manned lunar landing in the new information age depends on us!"

"Xiao Lu, you're a master at live streaming. You absolutely have to show the world the clearest live stream possible!"

"Don't worry, Teacher Ye!"

(End of this chapter)