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

Compared with land launch sites, mobile launch platforms at sea make others feel a little awkward.

On the contrary, they have no objection to building more offshore recovery platforms. The investment is not large and the cycle is relatively short.

In fact, Serev himself did not have much confidence in this project. The main reason was that the typhoons No. 1 to 22 provided by the meteorological department to the Aviation Development Committee were really worrying, so he had to come up with a solution that was not a solution.

The original idea of ​​borrowing the Mukala launch site was actually not very mature. Although it was indeed feasible, there was only one launch station, so the conditions were really limited and it was of little significance.

However, problems affecting the launch had to be faced. Seven or eight people discussed it, and finally Ke Yun proposed a unique solution.

"This year we are mainly launching No. 3 rockets and No. 2A CBC rockets. The problem is that they can only be launched from the large launch site in Qiongzhou, right?"

The others nodded subconsciously.

"But everyone, why do we launch in low-dimensional fields?"

"Of course it's to increase the rocket's capacity."

Ke Yun: "However, the maximum take-off weight of H2M and H2 is 135 tons, and the maximum carrying capacity of Xinyuan-2A is also 135 tons, but what is their launch weight for our main launch mission this year?"

Serev was stunned for a moment and then came to his senses.

"100 tons, no more than 110 tons."

Ke Yun nodded: "What about Rocket No. 3? Its low-Earth orbit carrying capacity is 270 tons. It only weighs just over 100 tons when launching three spoke cabins and brackets. I remember that we reduced the fuel refueling for the last launch. .

So we can definitely expand the inland launch site, which is at least much cheaper than sea and overseas launch sites. "

Ye Changsi: "The inland launch site...Seichang, no, Jiuquan, it is very wide, and the capacity loss is about 3% to 5%, which we can accept, and there is an airport there. I was...definitely able to take off and land An 1250."

Well, let me go and inspect it and see what it has developed into now. I am quite familiar with it. "

Serev also had to nod. His inertia of thinking and the Alliance's innate desire for low latitudes made him make empirical mistakes. After all, Baikonur's 46-degree "low latitude" really left a deep shadow on the Alliance's aerospace industry. .

Lin Ju participated in the whole process from a spectator's perspective, and finally asked:

"Then we mainly need funds. Technical licensing is of no use to us. How much money is appropriate?"

Guo Shen thought for a while and gave a number: "Such an important technology is of immeasurable value. It brings bargaining power and isolation confidence to the country. I think we should be given at least 10 billion yuan in compensation."

Ye Changsi: "Ten billion?!"

Guo Shen: "What we are given is RMB, which can be printed at any time. This is just cash flow. I think we also need funds for nearby infrastructure. The total amount can be 20 billion."

Lin Ju, who had already seen the world and chatted with high-level officials, was not too surprised by this number at this time, and nodded casually:

"With this money given to us to develop aerospace technology, we can directly provide orders to ten high-tech companies, and there is no need to pay it all at once. It can be given in the form of policy support over several years."

Ye Changsi:......

He knows that although Xinyuan is one of the top super companies in the country, it still enjoys various local preferential policies every year.

Lin Ju: "One more thing, everyone, if we have more funds, can we try to develop a supersonic business jet? The impact of always flying trainer aircraft on military routes is not good."

Serev: "I'm afraid Androv has more say in this matter."

Androv: "How many times the speed of sound? Ten times? Do you want us to directly modify it with the body of the Snow Falcon? It only takes 15 minutes to fly to the capital from here."

"..."

Serev: "If you can convince the Civil Aviation Administration of China to issue an airworthiness certificate, then I think we should have no objection. Besides, I would rather fly on a rocket than this."

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"Isis-1 is NACA's first nuclear-powered lunar rover to land on the moon. It is also the single largest, heaviest and most capable lunar rover on the moon. It will provide more perspectives for human resources exploration on the moon.

Jim Free, the head of the ISIS project, said: This is the most powerful rover we have ever built, and it is also a lunar rover that embodies hope. It carried 3 grams of lunar soil brought back by the Apollo project. Now we will bring it to the lunar rover. They are sent back to the moon. "

Isis 1 moved in a hurry and did not have time to collect 100,000 names from all over the world to bring with them. Instead, it dug out three grams of lunar soil from the Lunar Landing Museum, which means returning to the moon.

On March 5, Isis 1 became the second Aramco spacecraft to reach lunar orbit four months later.

At this time it is gradually lowering its orbit, preparing to land in the Aitken Basin in Antarctica and around the Koom impact crater.

The landing process is still broadcast live around the world, but people's interest is not very high.

Now, more eyes are looking at the moon on Shuguang-2.

Since entering the lunar orbit on February 14, the world has been waiting for the "full moon" to carry out an unmanned landing mission. However, Dawn 2 seems to be in no rush to land and has been circling the lunar orbit.

The original plan of Shuguang-2 was to conduct an unmanned landing mission on February 20, and then load the lunar soil ascent and docking spacecraft on February 24 to transfer the samples and fly back to Earth.

However, something unexpected happened the day before the landing. Eight Explorer II robots, including Yutu 3, checked the expected landing site in advance, and finally found something wrong.

There are ice layers very shallow underground in the Qom impact crater, which results in a lot of lunar soil covering their surfaces but very loose. The "Full Moon" 8-ton thrust reverse thrust engine will blow out a A large hole will most likely cause the landing leg support to become unbalanced and skewed.

The Yutu-3 lander suffered similar losses before, but its engine thrust was very small and its mass was light. "Full Moon" is a big guy.

The Aerospace Development Commission continued to search for a suitable landing site for half a month, and finally settled on an open space outside the edge of the impact crater. The gap between the inside and outside is not large and the lunar soil is very solid. The landing legs will sink in about 5 to 10cm and will be very stable. .

Fortunately, the unmanned landing test was done in advance, otherwise it would be really troublesome to encounter this trouble during the official moon landing.

The landing time was also chosen by chance, there was only 10 hours difference from Isis 1...

It goes without saying which one is more interesting, the 1-ton lunar rover or the 23-ton lander, so NACA was severely robbed of a wave of traffic.

Especially since both landers are preparing to land near the Qom impact crater. If the time hadn't been staggered, wouldn't there be a risk of a mid-air collision?

At 18:00 pm on March 7, Beijing time, near the landing site of Qom Crater 1, the two Yutu 3s and the lander that landed with them jointly sent out radio signals to provide precise positioning and navigation services for the "Full Moon". "Disconnected from the command module of the Shuguang-2 spacecraft and began to slowly descend in altitude.

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