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

Throughout the crazy space shuttle launches in the first half of the year, Advance's completion level improved rapidly.

Since the Long March 10 rocket has completed the important mission of landing on the moon first, the production capacity of the Jingu base finally no longer needs to be concentrated on the rocket. The remaining four service modules have also started construction at the same time and are expected to be delivered from October to November.

This also means that the Qianjin space station will be completely completed this year, becoming the largest and most powerful single space station in mankind with a mass of more than 1,500 tons, establishing a crushing advantage.

It can be used as a space station and spacecraft, and can also be used as a starting point for more projects in the future. For example, when building a space power station or other large facilities, it plays a role similar to a floating dock on the earth and is a very important support point.

Especially if it can be used predictably for navigation within the solar system, as long as you bring enough supplies, it will be a perfect spaceship, and 0.3G gravity is completely sufficient.

It is the aerospace product that truly has a breakthrough milestone in the new century. The significance of the moon landing cannot help but be dimmed in front of it.

The H2s at Xinyuan have been resting for more than a month and are about to start working again.

In the mind of Academician She, the significance of Qianjin is greater than lunar mining, so he continues to involve the space agency in its construction.

After chatting about the Forward for a while, Lin Ju suddenly changed the topic to the Great Wall No. 1. The latter had been undergoing transformation in Fengtian for two months. It had always been mysterious and was still an empty shell.

"Great Wall No. 1, this is quite telling. The military plans to change the payload.

They gave up their original plan to carry giant lasers, and instead decided to install more flexible small lasers to specifically target satellites and carry out anti-satellite missions. "

"Anti-satellite, what about the anti-missile part?"

"Well..." Academician She was a little embarrassed, but seemed to have thought of something and said:

"This is something that couldn't be said originally, but it doesn't matter if I tell you now. You know about the Aurora Project, right?"

Of course Lin Ju knew, he was very familiar with this thing now.

"The Alliance's laser anti-missile system? Are you planning to resurrect it?"

Academician She nodded: “After our research and judgment, although this system needs to operate in low-Earth orbit, the space shuttle is not stable enough as a carrier, so it is more suitable to make it a separate satellite.

It is expected to achieve a sustainable output of 5 megawatts, an instantaneous peak power of 30 megawatts, and a mass of about 40 tons. It needs a nuclear power reactor that can continuously provide power. The current plan is to find them. "

It seems that China has also recognized the feasibility of laser anti-missile, but unexpectedly Xinyuan was still involved.

The base itself also changed its previous plan after absorbing the technology of smelting satellites. Qianjun Bang No. 2 was abandoned and replaced by the more powerful Qianjun Bang No. 3. The light source is still 20MW, but the effect is increased by 15 times. It only needs The warhead can be destroyed by irradiation in less than 1 second, and the total weight is only 130 tons, which has not increased much.

The paper on plasma specular reflection technology has also been published in the internal reference. Maybe the domestic scientific research community thinks it is unreliable and does not intend to use it.

Lin Ju: "40 tons. If you remove other parts, there won't be much mass left for the power generation pile."

Academician She: “It’s not necessary now, it will take at least two or three years to complete, and it’s just a rough idea at the moment.

In fact, the military also has an idea to use the Qianjin to modify a 100MW super laser. The size and power can be easily solved. However, there are huge objections and I don't agree with it. "

Lin Ju: "Then why not connect it to a space power station, which can provide 170MW of power?"

"You reminded me, I'll mention it when I go back."

"..."

"Okay, just kidding. How can such a thing be so obvious? In fact, this is all long-term reserve research, and it is not for war at any time. Even if it is actually built, it will be used as a technical reserve and a small amount of deterrence. "

Lin Ju: "It would be true if it were on earth."

Academician She: "Is it possible that there are still aliens? With our current technology, we can't hope for it in 100 years!"

…

"Jeff Bezos, now I am accused of illegally reducing quality inspection procedures, forging certificates of conformity, and other suspicions that have caused astronauts to be in danger. I require you to respond to the above questions."

Jeff Bezos felt a little uncomfortable looking at the congressmen surrounding him alone.

He had been worried ever since it was confirmed that something happened to "Blue Moon", but he didn't expect that this moment would come.

Congress has been strongly demanding the dismissal of Claire and punishment of relevant personnel in recent days. The former has to be busy cleaning up the mess and let it go for the time being, but the same is not true for Blue Origin, the direct contractor of "Blue Moon".

Unlike Musk, Bezos had already relied on Amazon to become the richest man when he founded Blue Origin. The support provided by NACA was as much as that of SpecaX. However, Blue Origin’s biggest achievement in the past few years was the “New Xie” The "Pard" suborbital rocket cannot go into space and is not very reliable.

The BE4 engine test was also completed after NACA increased technical support, and the research process of "Blue Moon" received US$3 billion in financial support.

What's the result? What's the result?

Wang Zha’s Blue Origin at the beginning was completely inferior to SpecaX. This time, two astronauts almost lost their lives. People were denouncing the “hateful bald” Bezos. Musk also made remarks saying that Bezos was “ Half-assed".

The country was in desperate need of an outlet, so Bezos was pulled over for a hearing, and lawmakers threatened him with jail time.

Bezos is actually not afraid of hearings. There have been many business hearings such as antitrust. But this time is obviously different. People on the Internet are criticizing Bezos for asking Blue Origin to slack off and embezzle funds. It's possible to name yourself a criminal no matter how hard you try.

"Mr. Congressman, I must clarify the causes and consequences of 'Blue Moon'. When we took over HLS, 'Blue Moon' was just an immature idea, and it was only finally finalized after half a year of discussions. The comprehensive time given to Blue Origin was only Less than 15 months.

It took 15 months to develop the world's most advanced lander from scratch, and it was finally delivered five months ahead of schedule, which is less than a year.

If NACA hadn't been desperately trying to compete with Dawn-3, we wouldn't have had such a tragedy. "

Senator A: "But we have seen that the quality inspection report is qualified, but the reality is obviously not. Why did the SLS rocket and the Orion spacecraft have no malfunctions? Why did the Chinese lander developed at the same time as you not malfunction?

They were completely successful in their unmanned experiments earlier this year, much earlier than Blue Moon, and that's no excuse, and we gave it three billion, three billion dollars! "

Senator B: “If Blue Origin cannot give a reasonable explanation, we will consider withdrawing the commercial space license.”

Bezos: "At least we need to know the cause of the accident first. This requires investigation before we can draw a conclusion. Could it be a non-human factor?"

Senator A: "How long will the investigation take?"

Bezos: “Because communications are completely interrupted, we need to find the black box on the lander, which stores all the data.

However, it is more troublesome to get it off, which will require the next lunar mission to retrieve it. "

Senator A: "You mean we have to wait more than a year? That's impossible, that's ridiculous. Can you imagine us preparing for the next moon landing just to find out the cause of the last accident? And you mean we Do you need to use 'Blue Moon' to climb again?

Then I suggest that the richest man can spend money to buy a Chinese spaceship, at least he will not ruin two more human elites. "

This sarcasm made Bezos very uncomfortable. When he was about to defend himself, he was interrupted by another senator:

"It seems that the Chinese will land on the moon again next month. Why not let them help us retrieve the black box?"

This sentence directly aroused the emotions of many members. Some thought it was a good idea, while others thought it was too embarrassing and rebuked angrily. The Senate itself soon became a noisy mess, allowing Bezos to breathe.