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

Chapter 297 Comet-Lihuo Combination

But when it came to the space shuttle, Lin Ju brought the topic to the Advance Space Station.

After reaching a cooperative construction agreement five months ago, the space agency will undertake the construction of half of the 12 centrifuge modules of the Advance. According to the agreement, the first one of these six modules should be delivered in July 2017 and completed before December. .

At the end of January, the Pioneer will begin the installation of the centrifugal part of the Forward space station, and Lin Ju does not want to be held back by the manufacturing of the cabin section.

However, the Fifth Academy, which is undertaking the construction task, said there is no problem. They have always understood Xinyuan's spacecraft construction speed, and began to customize various required equipment when the cooperation was finalized. There will be no problem if everything is in place this year.

The last step is to formulate the launch mission schedule, which is the boss's business.

The latter stood up:

“Then the main deep space exploration and space station launch missions in the first half of this year are as follows:

On January 17, the fire detector was launched;

On January 20, the Xinyuan-3 Yao-4 rocket was launched;

On January 24, Pioneer was launched;

On February 15, the Long March 10 Yao-2 was launched;

On February 29, the Long March 7 A-3 rocket was launched;

…

On June 28, the Xinyuan-3 Yaojiu mission was launched;

The Meteorological Bureau will conduct verification and risk warning on the launch plan. It is tentatively scheduled that there will be 17 main mission launches and 9 manned missions in the first half of the year. "

…

"Slow down, slow down. This thing is very expensive. The nuclear reactor inside is already running. It's a big fall."

At the B-level base, workers in the assembly workshop carefully hoisted the "Lihuo" into the cargo hold of the Lightning and accurately placed it into the groove of the buffer mold.

Several researchers at the Qingshan base were also on high alert, and a team of firefighters in protective suits were on standby with water cannons.

The "Lihuo" probe and the fission-electric thruster that has been named "Comet" will be mounted on the Lightning and Xinyuan-5A rockets respectively, and will fly to Mars after being assembled in low-Earth orbit.

These two large spacecrafts, both of which are equipped with dozens of kilowatt-level nuclear reactors, must be transported and installed with special care. Breaking them is a trivial matter, but leaking the nuclear materials inside is a really big deal.

Especially Lihuo, not only the nuclear reactor, but also the super-precise optical components. Because they are too sensitive, they will be tested for 24 hours after entering space to confirm that they are correct before flying to Mars. Otherwise, they can only be captured by the space shuttle for repairs. Just fine.

Xiao Gangtian is very proud. He designed Lihuo's universal platform. The island country will never be able to build a detector of this level.

"The Lihuo reactor weighs a little more than 3 tons and is equipped with more than a dozen functions such as geological survey, cosmic rays, optical detection, radio telescope, infrared remote sensing, and communication forwarding. It is definitely the most complete ultra-large deep space unmanned detector. The 40KW nuclear reactor uses thermionic power generation technology, which can work continuously for decades and ensure continuous contact with the earth, which is unique in the past."

Shen Zuozhou from the Fifth Academy was also present, and there were hundreds of kilograms of payload on the fire detector belonging to the space agency.

The space agency was in a hurry to free ride, because the indicators for leaving the Mars were released relatively late, and participation was limited. However, the subsequent deep space network construction plan was organized by the Aerospace Development Commission.

The subsequent exploration targets are Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter. At the same time, several satellites will be launched at the Earth-Moon Lagrange point and sun-synchronous orbit to enhance communication and navigation capabilities.

However, Shen Zuozhou was more interested in the Lightning at this time.

"I didn't expect that what Lao Maozi came up with back then was really a good thing. When a transport plane is launched, it doesn't require rocket transfer, no launch pad, and no need to clean up the surrounding area. This saves a lot of money. The insulation tiles of the Lightning are also downgraded. The cost of a launch, excluding R\u0026D, should be 40 to 50 million, right?"

Xiao Gangtian: "Um...I'm not sure about this, maybe?"

Shen Zuozhou: "High-altitude launches do have advantages, and Lao Teng Yun is better than this, but the R\u0026D investment is too high.

If the Long March 7 wasn't already cheap enough, I think the Aviation Development Commission should also develop one. "

Shen Zuozhou is aware of the launch cost of Long March 7. The latter's R\u0026D and recovery and maintenance costs have met the design expectations. After some improvements, the single launch cost of Long March 7 is only 150 million yuan. If it is a Type A The cost of a hydrogen-oxygen machine that needs to be added with three levels is tens of millions higher, but it is still cheap.

In order to quickly improve the launch capability of the space agency, three more Long March 7 rockets were launched, for a total of four rockets. Except for the second stage of the first rocket, which used Xinyuan's H80 engine, the other three were changed to two YF77Gs.

Just when Lihuo was completely installed and the Lightning was about to close the cargo bay and push out of the hangar, Shen Zuozhou suddenly asked:

"By the way Okada, what kind of fuel is your comet thruster, hydrazine compounds or something else? I see that your workers are as careful as Lihuo when transporting it, so you have refilled it at this time?"

"Huh, huh?" Xiao Gangtian secretly cursed the "Shanhai" computer that arranged the transfer together. His brain was running rapidly and he made a fool of himself.

"The comet thruster, because it has to work for a long time, we use a new type of highly toxic fuel. It is not as safe to refill it at the launch site, so we refilled it first."

"Oh, when I came here just now, I almost took it away and didn't even look at it. I thought the folded fins on the outside were heat sinks. I thought that was the Lihuo equipped with a nuclear reactor."

"Really? That's such a coincidence. It should be a solar panel."

"But……"

"Come on, Master Shen, the cafeteria recently opened a window with island country characteristics. I'll treat you to tempura and roasted birds. It's very authentic."

"..."

Meanwhile on the other side of the base, the Department of Food and Health Sciences.

This is a department that sounds very bland at first glance, and in fact it is.

The Department of Food and Health Sciences is at the bottom of the base. In addition to researching good food for astronauts in the sky, it also studies the impact of radiation on astronauts' health.

However, there are many published papers and publications in the world for reference on this work, and it is not considered a high priority at the moment.

But now they are busy. They are the research department that issued the formula and process of the USBI strengthening agent. They are required to complete the mastery and evaluation of the principle and prospects of the agent.

USBI strengthening potion from another world in 2057, although the system provides formulas and processes, the forty-year gap in life sciences is still huge. Although there is no blind spot in knowledge, many processes are not available now, and there is no suitable equipment in China.

Lin Ju didn't pay much attention to the medicine that this system did not recommend him to use. He upgraded a B+ professional researcher and provided an upfront research fund of 1 billion yuan and then ignored it. This was already what he could do before seeing the results. The maximum investment given.

On the other hand, the researchers in the department are full of confidence. They are also real people. The food and health department has almost become the elderly care department in the base. It must produce results to support the department's status.