I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

"This No-Detection 20...if the project is really approved, the price of the TP-25 will have to be brought down."

Dou Ping said to himself that at this time, the ground crew on the runway had removed the power supply truck and heating and de-icing equipment. Wujian 20 must take off quickly, otherwise the surface of the aircraft will freeze.

The TP-25 engine is still very expensive. If it is just the ramjet-turbofan part, the maximum 11-ton engine generally costs only 10 million and sells for more than 20 million; while the 25-ton thrust methane gas tip engine is cheaper. One or two million can do it.

But combining these two parts, the price list obtained by the military is that the price of a TP25 is 130 million yuan per unit.

The pure selling price of TP-25 is not high. Xinyuan’s internal statistics believe that the cost of each unit after mass production will be about 25 million, and the normal quotation is 50 million.

But don’t forget that the military and the space agency have invested 4 billion yuan in research and development funds for TP25. Initially, they planned to produce four Tengyuns and placed an order for the first batch of 50 engines, so this 4 billion yuan must be added to this.

Wujian 20 can accept an engine worth 50 million, but it really can’t afford one worth 130 million, so we have to find a way to expand the application scenarios and production of TP25.

Especially for the four Tengyuns in the early stage, the cost of ten engines for each aircraft was 1.3 billion yuan, which was a bit too much beyond the military budget.

Fortunately, the engine of this Wujian 20 was sent by Xinyuan for testing without any charge, otherwise Dou Ping would also have a headache.

Androv reminded:

"The payload that the Wujian 20 can be used for detection equipment is very small. It can only carry a maximum of 350 kilograms. It also needs to open a reconnaissance window. I don't know much about your technology, but this is not easy.

The fuel temperature of the Wujian 20 is too low. It either uses ultra-high-speed flight to heat up and de-ice, or it stays in orbit. Its application range is also relatively limited. The detection function must be very powerful before the military will pay for it. "

Dou Ping: "Actually, I think the payload quality can be increased, maybe one ton, without taking off from the ground."

Not taking off from the ground?

Androv understood instantly: "You mean to use a carrier aircraft to release it at high altitude? Then let me think about it, there are not many aircraft that can carry 18 tons, and it must be a jet that can fly high and far. If the H-6 cannot, then Only the Y-20, IL-76 or Y-35 can be placed on the back of the aircraft without any problem.”

Dou Ping: "Yes, the importance of the Wuzhen 20 warrants the preparation of a special carrier aircraft for it. The fuel saved and the initial speed obtained by this method can definitely increase the payload mass to 1 ton."

Androv: "In other words, if we maintain the original indicators, we can continue to reduce the size. A 12-ton body should be enough, and it will be much cheaper."

Dou Ping: "But Chief An, I want a cheaper and more convenient platform that can just support the Wujian 20 to fly to 15,000 meters and release it at subsonic speed."

Androv: "UAV? The take-off mass is about 50 tons. I know what you asked me to stay here for."

Dou Ping let out a somewhat embarrassed laugh.

"But your efficiency at Xinyuan is well known. The speed from design, development to production is almost three times that of other institutes. The military would rather spend more money with you."

…

"Unidentified high-speed aircraft? It must be the hypersonic aircraft of the Fengtian Aircraft Research Institute, right? I really envy them."

At the Tanegashima Space Center, Shinichiro Sakai saw the news about UFOs appearing in the sky in China again. Although he had never been exposed to hypersonic weapons, as an aerospace expert, he could still tell what it was at a glance.

It is nothing more than a test of a cone-shaped warhead that can fly to dozens of Mach, but this has nothing to do with the island country, and it is unable to resist anyway.

Of course, he didn't know that it was the huge movement of Wujian 20 when it returned to the atmosphere. The high-speed frictional fire illuminated half of the sky, demonstrating the hidden but shocking power of the Eastern Continent.

For Shinichiro Sakai, the Asia Star Project has already overwhelmed the scientific research capabilities of the entire island country.

According to the division of labor planned by Lucia experts, the island country is responsible for the development of the H-X rocket core first stage and the spacecraft service module. Both projects have been formally established and project teams have begun to advance.

The service module is the part that provides electricity, communications, and power for the entire spacecraft. It is very important. What Lucia experts value is that the island country has developed the "Stork" cargo spacecraft, which has a more solid foundation than India.

Power and communications are okay, but the propulsion part is more difficult for JAXA, especially the precision orbit control rendezvous and docking technology. JAXA has no technical reserves at all.

Every time the "Stork" spacecraft delivers supplies to the international space, it flies to a stop 10 meters away from the docking port, and is then grabbed by the space station's robotic arm for docking.

The advantage of this is that it saves technical difficulty and the quality and cost of automatic rendezvous and docking. However, the Asia Star project requires the spacecraft and lander to rendezvous and dock in lunar orbit, which is not easy.

Just after Aramco advanced the payment for the nine astronauts on the Soyuz spacecraft to launch the Dream Chaser B1, and then asked the island country's "Stork" spacecraft to carry out a supply mission in advance, Shinichiro Sakai took the initiative to add a preliminary precise attitude to the "Stork". Control the system and try to simulate automatic docking.

Note that this is a simulated docking. This system is only developed and designed and cannot be used for real docking, so the development is relatively simple and hasty, just to accumulate a little experience.

The rocket performing this supply mission is H-2B. The H3 rocket has been shelved to make way for H-X. Anyway, there is no commendable technological progress between H-2 and H-3.

And the H-2B rocket is still reliable. It has never failed since the first launch of the Stork spacecraft to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. Look at that... Huh?

Shinichiro Sakai blinked, why didn't it look like the flames of a solid booster?

He saw billowing smoke coming from behind the launch pad. At first he thought it was the solid rocket motor working, but it seemed that the place was wrong, and there was an open flame?

? ? !

He immediately turned on the intercom, and a lot of messy sounds and fire alarms came from it. Apparently something was abnormal there.

The launch procedure of the H-2B rocket was naturally terminated immediately, but the fire was still getting bigger and bigger, and the billowing smoke clouds had enveloped the entire launch pad.

Shinichiro Sakai's eyes were splitting. Although he didn't know where the fire started, once it affected the rocket, there would be hundreds of tons of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen plus violent solid propeller fuel. If the shell was burned through and leaked, enough Turn the area around the launch site into ashes!

There is also the "Stork" cargo spacecraft, which is carrying supplies worth more than one billion!

He subconsciously wanted to rush over, but the people around him held him tightly, and also stopped other people who were about to go over. No one except the firefighters was allowed to go.

What a joke, if there is an explosion, these remaining aerospace elites will turn into ashes. Without them, Mitsubishi's aerospace career will be over.

But the firefighters were unable to deal with such a violent fire. They initially speculated that there might be a problem with the place where the rocket fuel was stored. They were not capable of solving such a flame. They could only stay where they were and wait quietly. As for the H-2B rocket Whether it will be affected or not depends entirely on God's will.

The busy time has passed...