Homo sapiens

Ape-eating Eagle 1 separated from the booster and core first stage near the Karman line, 100 kilometers above the ground.

Seeing the tracking signal and flying out of the atmosphere steadily, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief.

The most dangerous stage has passed, and the safety of the next voyage is relatively high.

However, Jose, Antonio and others did not take it lightly. The danger of the atmosphere comes from the natural environment of the earth, but in low-Earth orbit, there is another thing that threatens spacecraft-space junk.

For example, the large number of communication satellites launched by the Space Exploration Company not only occupy a large amount of orbital resources in low-Earth orbit, but also form a large amount of space junk.

When Antonio designed the Ape-eating Eagle-class launch vehicle, he made a special design for the core second stage (spacecraft), using high-strength composite materials to create a shell with extremely high defensive performance.

This special shell can resist the impact of space debris.

At the same time, the hull layout of the spacecraft has also been specially designed. Detectors, communication signal receivers, etc. that need to be exposed are placed in the area behind the spacecraft. The front of the spacecraft is covered with hard armor.

For solar panels that are most likely to be hit by space debris, in addition to surface coating to increase strength, a micro-modular design is also carried out. A solar panel is composed of hundreds of micro photovoltaic modules, and each micro photovoltaic module is Can generate electricity independently.

Another is the deployment of a space debris monitoring system. The Ministry of Space has deployed 16 specialized monitoring satellites in low-Earth orbit to monitor artificial satellites, spacecrafts, space stations, space debris, and natural stars in low-Earth orbit.

In addition, the Ape-eating Eagle 1 spacecraft is also equipped with various monitoring equipment, which is more than enough to avoid some obvious space junk.

The automatic navigation system operates the spacecraft and flies towards the synchronous orbit.

The Ape-eating Eagle 1 was actually used for testing, but the previous test did not reach the synchronous orbit and the moon. Therefore, the core mission of this launch is to collect flight data to the synchronous orbit and the moon.

In this regard, the Homo sapiens company is indeed very wealthy. It will use the launch vehicle costing more than 6 million gold yuan for testing without any concern.

The aerospace departments of other forces plan every launch mission carefully.

Even NASA's investment in spacecraft is actually very low. They have invested a lot of money in many big projects, but only a small amount of the money is actually used in spacecraft and technology research and development. Less part.

After all, contractors and management also want to make money.

Inside the ground command center.

Antonio looked at the computer data, turned to Jose and said, "Next, just arrange for a team to keep an eye on it. Let's go report the situation first!"

"Can."

The two came to the VIP room.

Sanchi Badalayar poured tea for the two of them.

Jose, who had just sat down, immediately reported: "Mr. Chairman, the Ape-eating Eagle 1 has entered low-Earth orbit and is currently orbiting. The next step is to go to geosynchronous orbit and then to the moon."

Antonio added: "This kind of testing is still necessary, after all, the company has accumulated too little data in the aerospace field."

In response, Li Qingye waved his hand: "It doesn't matter, it's just a launch vehicle. By the way, what is the manufacturing speed of launch vehicles now?"

"It depends on the needs. If the supporting factories operate at full capacity, they can produce 40 Ape-eating Eagle-class launch vehicles per month. Currently, the number is about 2 to 4 per month." Jose immediately gave the answer.

Li Qingye thought for a while and then ordered: "Jose, I discussed with Dr. Antonio this morning that a space station will be built in low-Earth orbit in the near future to test the operation of various biotechnologies in microgravity."

Jose nodded: "I heard what the doctor said."

"There are currently five launch sites in Port Ramon Space City. You must arrange the progress of each mission to avoid affecting the advancement of the Guigong plan."

"I will definitely make arrangements."

As for why the space city of Hongsawady Branch or Ceylon Branch is not used, the reason is that the positioning is different.

The Port Ramon Space City in Medan mainly takes the launch vehicle route.

The Hugang Space City of the Hongsawady Branch mainly focuses on small and medium-sized solid rockets, which are more inclined to military, emergency, and concealment directions. It also manages the Longerang Cannon Project in the southern part of Hongsawady.

The Ceylon Branch's Space City focuses on launch vehicles based on metallic hydrogen fuel. Currently, there has been no breakthrough in metallic hydrogen passivation technology. Therefore, although several launch vehicle designs have been proposed, they have not been officially put into operation.

The Suez Branch's Harij Space City and the Motor Island Branch's Northern Space City have not yet been completed, and the technical routes of these two space cities are also different from other space cities.

Among them, Motor Island Space City is working on a mass projector. It plans to build a 300-kilometer-long annular sub-vacuum pipeline, plus a 500-meter-high launch building, to use electromagnetic acceleration to project spacecraft into outer space.

At the Harij Space City of the Suez branch, the space shuttle route is being developed. At present, the supporting facilities have not been completed, and the space shuttle is also being designed.

The five aerospace cities each engage in five technical routes.

It includes six technologies: giant gun launch, liquid launch vehicle, solid launch vehicle, metal hydrogen launch vehicle, space shuttle, and mass projection.

Even America wouldn't dare to play like this.

After all, the space shuttle project caused America to complain endlessly.

But Homo Sapien Company doesn't care. For the company, even if such a large project fails, it will not shake the foundation of the company.

Since the foundation of the company will not be shaken, in order not to click on the wrong technology tree, we will make large-scale investments in all possible technical directions.

By then, even if several of the projects fail, as long as one succeeds, it will be equivalent to the success of Homo sapiens company's aerospace strategy.

Although the cost of this kind of trial and error is very huge, Homo sapiens has this strength to support it.

When Li Qingye originally approved these projects, he had already seen various professional evaluations, including the previously criticized space shuttle project.

After all, America has already paved the way for latecomers on the space shuttle road.

But Li Qingye still approved the space shuttle project.

Because this time and that time.

America's failure in the space shuttle project was actually due to material problems. During the process of repeated use of the space shuttle, components deteriorated, causing the failure rate to continue to rise and maintenance costs to rise.

But the material problem is not a problem for the Homo sapiens company at this stage.

Even if Homo sapiens Company reproduces America's space shuttle according to the script, as long as the company's unique materials are used, especially biomaterials that can self-repair, the failure rate and maintenance cost of the space shuttle will be reduced by an order of magnitude.

What's more, the Homo sapiens company will conduct a comprehensive upgrade of the space shuttle.

As a result, the space shuttle route has a second spring.

Even Li Qingye is not sure about the future aerospace development route.

Other forces are limited by economy and resources and can only choose one, but Homo sapiens company said: I want them all.

Li Qingye talked with Antonio, Jose and others for more than an hour, and after assigning some tasks, he secretly took the subway back to his temporary residence.

He has been studying a very critical topic recently.

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