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

"Option 1 can produce the first rocket within three months, with almost no new technology. Option 2 uses the engine and rocket body together, and it will take at least two years to produce the first prototype rocket."

"Then this is only option one!"

Lin Ju complained that as soon as he was impressed by Plan 2, he was poured cold water on him.

Option 2 is great. It meets the three advantages of a large rocket with a diameter of 5 meters, reusability, and the potential of a super-heavy rocket in the CBC configuration. It can also develop a new high-thrust engine.

Of course, the reality is also cruel. It will take two years to upgrade the base and scientific research strength, which is definitely not enough time.

Moreover, the manufacturing of the H1 space shuttle also takes a lot of time. The second option is perfect, but it needs to wait.

Moreover, the rocket design is solved by the engineers themselves. There is no ultra-high reliability that comes with the system solution. Obviously option one is the safest.

Androv meant the same thing, but when he proposed Plan 2, he hoped to make it a long-term project.

Option 2 is the future.

Several new directories have been added to the system's research institute tasks:

[Mission: Xinyuan-2 rocket development...]

[Task: Preliminary research on Xinyuan-3 rocket...]

The bundled 3.5-meter diameter series is the Xinyuan No. 2 family, and the 5-meter diameter series is the Xinyuan No. 3 family.

The improved model of Xinyuan No. 1 was given three suffixes: A, B and C to distinguish them.

…

September is the freshman season at the university.

This year’s opening season of Southern Mechanical College is particularly lively.

Although the feat of launching the satellite was a little late in changing the enrollment this year, the freshmen who came to report were much more excited than before.

The unscrupulous school leaders specially ordered a model of Xinyuan No. 1 to be erected directly behind the school gate, making it particularly conspicuous.

Most of the contents of the welcome bulletin board are from the Xinnan-1 satellite. A small 400-kilogram satellite has derived two 100-meter-long promotional contents, which is also difficult for the Propaganda Department.

The School of Electronics, which is the mainstay of the satellite project, is the most popular. The head of the department smiles like a chrysanthemum as he looks at the freshmen who come to the door one after another.

There are many universities with satellites, but satellites that are so big (open arms) and so heavy are launched on self-developed (cooperated) rockets. Looking at the country, are there any?

Even if the scientific significance is limited, Nanjing Institute of Technology is considered to be registered in the province, and there will definitely be more resources to be tilted.

At the same time, they also strengthened their determination to pursue the new development path of aerospace, and invited Lin Ju over in the name of the rebirth ceremony.

Lin Ju, who had always been unknown in school, suddenly had to give a speech in front of thousands of people. He was still very excited and a little scared. This was not the dozens of workers in the factory. The audience was completely dark.

Fortunately, Lin Ju, who has joined the system, can be regarded as a person who has seen the world, and he didn't do any extra work. He just read it according to the manuscript provided by the school, and it was quite satisfactory.

This is just a small episode, the meaty drama will follow.

After attending the analysis meeting on satellite scientific research results of Nanjing Institute of Technology, Zhou Rui, Tong Peiqiang and others took him to have dinner together naturally, and then they got down to business.

"Lin Ju, you have really hurt us."

Tong Peiqiang sighed as soon as he sat down, and Lin Ju knew what he meant.

Lin Ju poached almost half of the elite workers from Nanjing University's factory in one go. This was indeed a bit unethical, and he knew he was in the wrong.

However, the school obviously didn't want to incite accusations, and he knew this very well, so he simply went on to say:

"Director Tong, these outstanding experts are effective wherever they are. Whatever you need in the future, Xinyuan will be able to help."

These words played into Tong Peiqiang's plan. He came to communicate on behalf of the school, and his purpose was of course to establish a good relationship with the company.

In fact, the domestic college education system is a bit abnormal, because companies and factories in society generally have their own systems, and often graduates are unable to work directly and have to start factory learning almost from scratch.

The school does not have the technology and funds of enterprises to ensure that it is always at the forefront of technology, so it is very keen on school-enterprise cooperation, or running its own factories.

The strength of the factories affiliated to some universities is indeed at the forefront of the industry. However, this is often due to the limited energy of the universities and their poor management. Therefore, the universities are actually more willing to cooperate with powerful companies to develop technology.

Now they are pursuing new ideas, especially aerospace, which are cutting-edge projects that cannot be questioned. Once they achieve success, they will be considered cutting-edge across the country.

The Nanjing Institute of Technology's idea was to invest in Xinyuan Aerospace and directly use it as part of its scientific research strength. This was of course rejected by Lin Ju.

But Lin Ju also coveted Nanjing University of Science and Technology. Although it was not a top university, having access to the academic circle would bring many unexpected benefits.

Finally, he made a suggestion to let the school's capable professors and experts work in the company's R\u0026D department, and at the same time accept a certain number of outstanding interns every year.

As for the joint research and development results, Nanjing Institute of Technology has the right to use them free of charge, and the specific situation will be determined based on actual conditions.

Nanjing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics accepted the agreement and became the first official partner of Xinyuan Aerospace.

After the agreement was reached, the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves. Lin Ju also relaxed and chatted with the experts and professors he had worked with very much, and talked about Xinyuan's future plans from time to time.

"Xinyuan-1C? It has a diameter of 3.5 meters and a SSO capacity of 770 kilograms. This capacity almost squeezes the limit of the rocket. The designer is too bold."

A professor who had participated in some rocket designs couldn't help but sigh after seeing the Xinyuan-1 modified rocket shared by Lin Ju.

The domestic space agency has always been very conservative. If the rocket has a capacity of 28 tons, they will reduce it to 25 tons (I’m talking about you, Changwu), leaving a large margin.

The advantage is that there is more room for safety and it can increase the ability to resist risks. The disadvantage is that it gives people the impression that China's rocket design is poor.

Because the carrying coefficient (the ratio of carrying capacity to rocket mass) of several foreign medium and large rockets is above 3%, the domestic ones are generally around 2% and less than 3%.

Androv's C variant has almost completely squeezed out the power of Xinyuan-1, extracting an SSO transport capacity of 770 kilograms, which is extremely efficient for a rocket with a take-off weight of 100 tons.

Of course, Lin Ju unconditionally trusted the system engineer's ability, but others seemed very surprised.

Everyone was discussing enthusiastically, and suddenly someone said:

"If the diameter is changed to 3.5 meters, the LEO transport capacity is 1.6 tons and the SSO transport capacity is 770 kilograms. Why do you feel that this data is so familiar?"

"I also think, wait, Long March 6!"

Zhou Rui suddenly said the name of a rocket, and a string of technical information came into his mind.

Because of his relationship with Tang Weitian, he knew some data about the rockets being developed by the space agency, and this was not a secret.

Everyone reacted one after another and found that the Xinyuan-1 A and C variants collided perfectly with the Long March-6!

Zhou Rui held his forehead, thinking that the Long March 6 of the Eighth Institute (Magic City) would only fly for the first time next year, and sighed deeply.

"What evil did the space agency do? The YF100 crashed, and the Long March 6 also crashed. Lin Ju, did you travel back from the future to cut off the beard?"

"Uh...coincidence, coincidence."

Lin Ju just realized that what happened was indeed a coincidence, but at this time he just thought it was a joke, completely unaware that Zhou Rui's words were true.