This star is going to the moon

Chapter 45: The Luck of a Certain Aerospace Company Was Taken Away

Compared with official space agencies in various countries that like to use "letters + numbers" to indicate rocket engine models, the rocket engines of commercial space companies are real names.

For example, the Merlin engine of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket across the ocean and the Raptor engine under development.

There are also domestically approved rocket engines such as "Tianque", "Longyun", "Fengming" and "Canglong".

Well, it has a lot of classical mythology in it.

Relatively speaking, the name Lu Yun gave to the 70-ton liquid oxygen-kerosene engine used in the Wanhu rocket, which sounds like "fangfei", is more modern and also has a certain connection with aerospace.

What's more, the big boss named the company's product after the second boss's name, and it's not the kind of "unnatural" name. What's wrong with that?
Anyway, no one at Blue Star Aerospace Company had any objection, and General Manager Yu Xingchen was the first to applaud and agree!
In short, with the power of An Fangfei's wish and the support of Lu Yun's absolute technology, the first test run and 70-second hot test of the gas generator of the "Fangfei-1000" liquid oxygen-kerosene engine were a complete success!

This time the test bench was a simple temporary test bench, and the fuel was brought in by tanker trucks.

After all, it is just the ignition of the gas generator, not the ignition of the real 70-ton thrust engine, so there is no need for a particularly formal test bench, and there is no need to worry about the test bench flying away.

Therefore, this temporary test bench is not far from the company, and it is located in an abandoned mine.

After returning to the company, everyone started a meeting to discuss the troubles that arose after the successful 1000-second test run of the gas generator.

It is indeed a troublesome matter, because the success was too quick, and the company has to consider building a formal manufacturing base and hot test center.

"Who would have thought that rapid and successful R&D progress would be a bad thing? Haha!"

"It's not too fast. In fact, we are basically following Mr. Lu's R&D outline. It's just that we are a little slow in thinking."

"Yes, it's because our thinking hasn't kept up, and there are also many national aerospace system thinking. The development of commercial aerospace is really fast!"

"It's not that commercial spaceflight is fast. Look at Deep Blue Arrow. It was founded earlier than us, but its development was much slower. Even SpaceX took years to develop its first rocket engine."

"That's because Mr. Lu's technology is really good. His paper on the rapid development of reusable rockets based on domestic aerospace technology is really well written. It's really refreshing to read it again and again..."

Since An Fangfei was already there, she was not in a hurry to leave. After watching the test drive, she also participated in the meeting. After all, she was the second boss.

Although she didn't quite understand what the technicians were saying, she could still hear what Kua Luyun was saying, so she listened very happily.

Seeing that she was willing to listen, Lu Yun would whisper a few explanations to her from time to time. After all, she was going to go to space and become a "real fairy" in the future, so she had to know some aerospace knowledge.

Lu Yun spent a lot of time writing his first paper. He was not just performing when he was looking up information in the variety show "Longing". He really looked up a lot of information, and then he came up with the theory of quickly developing reusable rockets based on the existing domestic aerospace technology.

The existing "Long March" series of rockets in China, whether it is the Long March 3.35, Long March , Long March , Long March , Long March and Long March , as well as their various modifications, all have a rocket body with a diameter of meters.

Except for the Long March 5 rocket, whose core stage rocket is 3.35 meters in diameter and the strapped booster is 3.35 meters, the other models all have a core stage rocket body of meters.

It can be said that the domestic 3.35-meter rocket body technology is extremely mature!
In fact, this is mainly due to the limitation of railway transportation. The previous domestic space launch sites were all inland and required train transportation, so the rocket body was limited to 3.35 meters. Only after the Qiongzhou Binhai Launch Site, which can be transported by sea, was the Long March 5 rocket with a -meter core stage available.

Therefore, the 3.35-meter body of the Wanhu rocket was developed on this basis, and the current research and development progress is also very fast.

Moreover, the diameter of the rocket body is 3.35 meters, which is not small. The diameter of the Falcon 3.7 rocket body is only about meters.

Even the "first arrow" as a startup company exceeded the target.

SpaceX's Falcon 1.7 rocket was only meters in diameter.

Speaking of Falcon rockets, the Falcon-70 engine and the Merlin engine it uses are both liquid oxygen-kerosene engines.

The reason for not researching more recyclable liquid oxygen-methane engines is also because domestic liquid oxygen-kerosene engines are more mature. In fact, the most mature domestic technology is various "toxic" engines, which are still used as the core stage main engines of the Long March 2, 3, and 4 rockets. Later, more advanced "clean" liquid oxygen-kerosene engines were developed and installed on the Long March 5, 6, and 7 rockets.

As for liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen engines, although they are not very mature, at least there are finished engines already in use. Liquid oxygen and methane engines are simply technical experiments and have not really been developed.

With the support of Road Cloud's advanced technology and super integration capabilities, the core components of the "Fangfei-70" liquid oxygen-kerosene reusable engine were developed in just half a year.

At this rate, the entire machine will be ready for test runs in half a year.

Originally, many people had doubts about the timeline of the R&D outline formulated by Roadun, but just like the box office of "Wolf Warrior 2" exceeded 50 billion yuan, with the "Fangfei-70" gas generator successfully completing a 1000-second test run in just half a year, it is not a dream to develop a complete engine in another half a year.

After that, various tests will be carried out on the entire rocket, so the manufacturing base and hot test center must be planned and constructed immediately.

However, this faces two problems.

One is site selection.

This is easy, Lu Yun simply drew a circle on the map.

"Zhanggang City!"

Lu Yun distributed the prepared materials to the meeting attendees, then pointed at the projected map with a laser pointer and said, "Zhanggang City and its adjacent Gusu City boast a comprehensive range of industries and supporting facilities. 100% of component suppliers can be found within a 90-kilometer radius of this location, greatly facilitating rocket production and supply chain management."

"At the same time, this is consistent with my theory of rapidly developing reusable rockets based on existing domestic aerospace technology, including readily available commercial parts suppliers."

"And its geographical advantages are also obvious. Not to mention the railway transportation from Zhanggang City to the inland, it also has a good natural harbor, which provides convenient logistics support for the company's future sea transportation of larger rockets to the Qiongzhou Binhai Launch Center."

"Zhanggang City has also responded to the national call and provided strong support for the aerospace industry, including funding policies and the establishment of an aerospace industry innovation alliance, providing a good external environment for the company's development."

"Zhanggang City is particularly close to Shanghai, Jinling, and other areas with rich scientific research and educational resources, making it easier for the company to attract and utilize aerospace professionals from these areas."

"Mr. Yu and I both went to Jinling..."

If rocket development still required Lu Yun to painstakingly research information, then the location of the manufacturing base was completely "taken for granted," as this was originally the manufacturing base selected by a commercial aerospace company in the previous life.

However, whether in the previous life or this life, the company had not been established at this moment, so Lu Yun used it.

What's more, the world line in this life has changed so much that it is hard to say whether the aerospace company will be established.

By the way, the founder of that company also came from Deep Blue Arrow, just after the failure of Deep Blue Arrow’s first solid rocket launch.

As for whether they will also come to a world line conclusion, we will probably know next year.

The second problem that Blue Star Aerospace is facing now is insufficient funds.

The initial 20 million or so was enough to set up the core R&D team, but it was not enough to start building the base.

Need more money!
However, this is not a big problem. For the 70-second test run of the gas generator of the "Fangfei-1000", the entire Wanhu rocket will no longer need to be tested with PPT. Showing all kinds of data around should be able to attract a lot of investment.

Not to mention that there was a beautiful rich woman sitting there.

An Fangfei looked at Lu Yun, then raised her hand slightly and said, "I can invest another 5000 million. If someone takes the lead...it should be easier to find other investments, right?"

When everyone heard this, they looked at An Fangfei, who looked like a fairy, and then at Lu Yun, and suddenly they felt a little sad!
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(End of this chapter)