This star is going to the moon

Chapter 400: The space programs of various countries around the world are once again gearing up for action.

The space community became lively after countries and space companies around the world released their space plans for the year at the beginning of the year.

Ordinary people may not understand, but space enthusiasts are already excited.

Some busybodies have even declared that "this year is definitely a big year for space exploration!"
[Fantastic! This year's space programs from various countries and companies are truly amazing!]

[Indeed amazing! This year alone, three probes have been sent to Mars, not to mention that our country is going to complete the "orbiting, landing, and roving" missions all at once!]

Yes, aside from the UAE's relatively conventional Mars orbiter, the US Mars probe has also made breakthroughs. I really want to see what it's like to fly with rotors inside the Martian atmosphere!

[It seems there are over a dozen new rockets scheduled for their maiden flights this year, with 80% being reusable and 60% drawing inspiration from Lu Shen's large-scale technology integration theory and Wan Hu's open-source rocket technology. Is this true?]

[The impact of the Lu Shen rocket on reusable rockets following the Wan Hu rocket was indeed significant, but I doubt the dozens of new reusable rockets scheduled for their maiden flights this year.]

[What's the big deal? It's impossible for all of them to have their maiden flights; delays are the norm in the space industry.]

Indeed, the aerospace field has a much higher probability of producing "procrastinators" than other fields.

Speaking of "procrastinators," I'm reminded of the ambitious James Webb Space Telescope. Originally scheduled for launch in 2007, fourteen years ago, it's already severely over budget and time-consuming, costing $10 billion. Will it really launch this year?

That's really hard to say.

[Damn, forget about that "King of Procrastinators," it would be pretty good if five out of these dozen or so new rockets could make their maiden flight this year, including the Long March 10, which is confirmed to have its maiden flight next month.]

[From what you've said, it seems like this year it's a case of "countries around the world gearing up for a space mission, but only we manage to launch on schedule"?]

[Yes, does this still qualify as a "big year for space exploration"?]

[Yes, of course it counts. The projects Lu Yun is involved in will definitely launch on time, and the space missions he's been involved in this year alone are enough to earn the title of "a banner year for space exploration"...]

When someone mentioned this, the others did the math and it seemed to be true.

This year's aerospace "opening success" was achieved by Blue Star Aerospace, a subsidiary of Lu Yun, which launched a Wanhu rocket on January 1st, carrying 30 "Star Dou" Generation I sub-satellites.

According to the plan released by Bluestar Aerospace at the end of last year, due to the increased mass production capacity of satellites, the company plans to launch "Xingdou" satellites at least three times a month in 3.

That means a minimum of 36 launches per year, sending 1080 "Xingdou" satellites into space.

This is just the minimum. If circumstances allow, Bluestar Aerospace will try to launch the "Star Dou" satellite four times a month, which would increase the number of launches and the total number of satellites launched!

This is an unprecedented feat in the history of spaceflight!

In addition, this year has also seen a surge in commercial space tourism flights using space shuttles, with a conservative estimate of 30 flights and 180 people entering space!

If we add the non-flight missions of the "Wooden Kite," there are at least 200 people on board.

How many people go into space each year, excluding those who travel to Earth?
A dozen or twenty people.

The number of people going into space this year has increased tenfold!
This is something we definitely have to do; we haven't even considered the uncertainties yet.

For example, the maiden flight of the Long March 10 rocket.

Although the maiden flight is likely to be successful, no one can guarantee anything until it is officially confirmed as successful.

Then there's the Lunar Navigation and Resource Exploration Program, a new lunar exploration program outside of the Chang'e lunar exploration program. It's said that it will launch twice this year, sending four lunar rovers to the lunar south pole!

Lu Yun is not only working on lunar rovers, but also on Mars rovers.

The Tianwen-1 Mars probe also carried two rovers; the smaller one was developed by Lu Yun's team.

If the Tianwen-1 mission is successful, then the Chinese general will have two Mars rovers operating on Mars at the same time.

This is also an unprecedented space record!
There are so many space programs related to Lu Yun, including Earth, the Moon, and Mars. They were really shocked when they calculated it.

It's as if one person could handle all the aerospace engineering projects.

Fortunately not.

All aerospace engineering is still too complex. Not to mention the countless subcategories, Lu Yun did not participate in major categories such as solar and asteroid exploration.

However, this is not Lu Yun's own problem. After all, let alone individuals, even some countries cannot do all these major categories.

The only country that can rival the Chinese in this regard is the United States.

The US has many space programs planned for this year, but most are uncertain, such as the maiden flight of a new type of rocket.

What is relatively certain is Elon Musk's Starlink launch mission.

Elon Musk plans to launch 20 times this year, with 60 Starlink satellites launched each time, for a total of 1200 satellites.

This is basically equivalent to Wanhu launching the rocket 40 times. If Wanhu only guarantees a minimum of 36 launches, then it will lose.

But space enthusiasts all know that the minimum guarantee will be exceeded; the only question is how many times.

This means that the previous showdown between Lu Yun and Ma Yilong will be even more exciting to watch.

Of course, this only applies to the launch of space-based internet satellites.

Regarding the new rocket, the Long March 10 is scheduled to make its maiden flight in February.

If Elon Musk can indeed make the maiden flight of the 9-meter diameter "Super Falcon" rocket this year, that would be a kind of showdown.

After all, the Long March 10 is smaller than the Super Falcon, so even if the Super Falcon has a later maiden flight this year, it's still a win.

But aside from these two aspects, Lu Yun is still the most impressive.

Because the second fully commercial space tourism flight will be held immediately after January 10th.

Lu Yun will not be attending the ceremony in person this time, but the other participants are still paying close attention.

This group of passengers also allowed BlueStar Aerospace to broadcast the entire event live.

Or rather, they couldn't wait to livestream it.

They spent 1000 million, and it was all for space.

If this isn't publicized to the world, at least 1000 million out of 800 million will have been wasted!

For some reason, that old American guy's smile is so irritating!

Indeed, while going to space is certainly something to be excited about, his smile always felt like that of a crooked dragon king.

[Oh, has the video of the Crooked-Mouthed Dragon King already reached the Americans?]

I don't know. I only know that the old man is a Hollywood film mogul from the US, and he definitely has a lot to do with movies and videos.

[A film mogul, huh? He seems inferior to Lu Shen.]

Indeed, they're both in the film and television industry, but for him to go to space, he'd have to ride the space shuttle from Luyun Company...

However, if we're talking about who Lu Yun's biggest rival in terms of online popularity, it would definitely be "world-class internet celebrity" Lao Chuan.

Although he will not be the next president of the United States, he will remain in office until the 20th of this month.

Even so, on January 13th, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach him, making him the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice.

The last time was in 2019.

Trump was naturally not satisfied and immediately launched a tirade on Twitter.

To be fair, in terms of popularity and online traffic, Lu Yun is definitely not as popular as Lao Chuan.

After all, Trump is the president of the world's most powerful country, the "light bulb of the world's beacon," too dazzling.

Moreover, Lu Yun knew that this was nothing compared to what would happen when Trump came to power again.

How to describe it...

"Fixed a serious bug where the sun was not visible in the west!"

However, netizens' attention quickly returned to the Chinese community, because another big star had been exposed.

This time, it's Shuangzi's duality as "Little Hundred Flowers" and "Crazy Critic".

Daily salary of 208 million!
(End of this chapter)