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

"The Xinyuan-2 Yaoyi launch mission will be launched on May 26 from Station 1 of the Qiongzhou Wenchang Launch Site."

On the morning of May 16, Xinyuan’s official WeChat account and official website released news simultaneously.

At 6 a.m. on May 17, a convoy of two semi-trailer trailers set off from the former Xinyuan City Tractor Factory, now outside the Xinyuan City Logistics Development Zone.

The standards of this escort are higher than the last one, because everyone knows that this one is a real rocket compared to half a month ago, and there must be no accidents.

Anyway, the passenger flow of Xinyuan City Airport is not large, so most of the roads are simply closed and isolated to ensure the smooth progress of Xinyuan No. 2 transportation work.

There is also one vehicle in the convoy that belongs to the Sichuan Tourism Bureau.

They spent a friendly price of 10 million to buy the painting rights of Xinyuan 2 Yaoyi, and will paint the arrow body with bamboos and pandas that Shuchuan always promotes...

As a Sichuan native who rode a panda to school every day as a child, Lin Ju couldn't figure out what was so good about this thing.

Xinyuan Airport has specially divided an area to ensure that the rocket will not be affected by other influences during hoisting.

The IL-76 will fly once today and tomorrow to deliver the first and second stages to Qiongzhou. The fairing can be disassembled and stuffed into the cargo hold.

Lin Ju personally climbed onto the transport plane. This was Xinyuan's rocket that ushered in a new era. He had to guard it at all times to feel at ease.

At the same time, the Eighth House.

He Zhuang answered the phone and announced something that night:

"The Xinyuan-2 Yaoyi rocket was launched on the 26th. The space agency allowed various academies to send people to observe. Who is going?"

He raised his hands.

"There are only twenty places, but you can bring your family members!"

Still a hand.

The same scene happened in various research institutes affiliated with the space agency. After all, whether it was China's No. 1 heavy rocket or Xinyuan Aerospace, the space agency bosses were invited.

Deng Lei's trio didn't want to go. They had to intensify their training now, but Li Wei and several members of the astronaut team agreed to the invitation.

At the same time, after the news was released, there were still countless people who wanted to watch the launch of the rocket, which has won many first places.

How many are there? On May 16 alone, Qiongzhou Airlines’ ticket sales increased by 40,000.

During such a non-popular tourist season, Sanya Airlines seized the opportunity and decisively raised its fares to tourist season prices. At the same time, it required flight attendants to change the specialty products sold by flight attendants from handicrafts to aerospace peripherals.

As of May 25, the cumulative number of tourists arriving in Wenchang to watch the launch has exceeded 140,000.

Many people from the aerospace science and engineering industry also came, but they were guests, unlike tourists who could only watch from a distance on the beach.

In addition, there are more than a thousand foreigners entering Qiongzhou, and nearly half of them are islanders who have lived a good life.

The locals are used to this, and Xiao Benzi always pays too much attention to his neighbors.

On the afternoon of May 25, the Xinyuan-2 Yaoyi rocket, which was assembled in the final assembly building, was slowly towed vertically to the launch tower by a transport vehicle.

The first thing that the onlookers saw... was a line of large characters "Beautiful Tianfu welcomes you" on the rocket body, and on the back was the name of Xinyuan No. 2.

In addition, the entire rocket body has been painted, consisting of green bamboo, white background, and cartoon pandas.

But this does not affect the shocking power of Xinyuan 2 at all. After final assembly, it is 75 meters tall, which is as high as more than 20 stories. Long March 2F is only 49 meters including the escape tower.

Xinyuan-2, which is 6 meters in diameter and 75 meters high, stands on the launch tower like a slender arrow pointing to the sky. Even tourists on the beach a few kilometers away can see it clearly and understand it better. to the shock from the heavy rocket.

The ground for this launch mission was jointly organized by Xinyuan and the space agency, because the former lacked experience in ground monitoring systems and the latter had never experienced a launch mission close to a 1,300-ton rocket.

In the launch control room, a group of big shots sat together.

Tang Weitian looked through Xinyuan's mission process and kept shaking his head, staring at Lin Ju from time to time like he was looking at a monster.

What he was thinking in his mind was: Young people don’t have martial ethics.

Xinyuan-2 is such a big rocket, is it created?

There is also a 20-ton space shuttle. Isn’t it a waste to build a rocket with a capacity of 45 tons?

Academician She sat next to the boss and talked about his experience at Xinyuan Factory.

Lin Ju took it very seriously when he knew that such a big boss wanted to come and have a look. He asked the system chief engineer to take Academician She to visit all the non-technically sensitive areas, and they also held several technical exchange meetings together.

It was also in this environment that Academician She deeply felt the unique environment of Xinyuan.

He left two impressions: advanced and clean.

The first is the Xinyuan Factory. Although it can only be considered a small to medium-sized factory after expansion, its degree of automation is quite high. It can use machines but not people. Most of the entire factory is filled with technicians, and there are very few pure workers.

The space agency is not incapable of acquiring the same advanced equipment, but the problem is that the national budget is limited and there is no demand for rocket production capacity. Rubbing it by hand can still meet the standards.

You must know that the aerospace industry is different from the automotive industry. The former is still stuck in the era of handcrafting and customization, and this is becoming more and more true as the technological content increases.

But this is obviously contrary to the civilianization of aerospace, and Xinyuan has achieved this by automating as many components as possible.

For example, the industrial printer he saw could directly complete the main body of an engine, and then install the electrical and control parts to complete the production. It achieved a production speed that the Sixth Institute could not even imagine.

The second is that the employees here give people a very different feeling. Almost all of them have to participate in the technical work of the R\u0026D department, organize learning and progress at any time, and have a serious and responsible attitude.

Moreover, the communication between superiors and subordinates is smooth, and everything is based on technology. It is simply purer than schools. This is clean.

Although it is unclear whether this is the reason for Xinyuan's success, it does give Academician She a feeling he has not experienced in decades.

Of course, the person he studied the most was Lin Ju himself. The latter handed over everything with almost absolute confidence. He was only responsible for making decisions and did not interfere in any technical work.

Academician She specially summarized the last point and focused on reporting to the big boss of the space agency.

The boss said "Oh" and was slightly dissatisfied. He also had a technical background, so even if he interfered, it would not be a blind interference!

And even if he wants to imitate Lin Ju and delegate power, which one of his subordinates can worry less? Can you really ignore it?

But the slander is a slander, and the boss also secretly feels that improvements need to be made in this direction, and the space agency cannot continue to remain lagging behind.

Of course, when he reports to his superiors, he must focus on the budget issue. Although it is quite a lot every year, how can it be better than Xin Yuan when it is shared equally among projects?

At 20:00 on the evening of the 25th, the control room selected the time according to the weather conditions, and Xinyuan-2 Yaoyi decided to launch the rocket at 18:00 on the evening of the 26th.

After seeing the news, Lao Ma on the other side of the ocean set an alarm clock for himself in the early morning after calculating the time difference, and then went to catch up on his sleep.

In his dream, he dreamed that Falcon 9 successfully landed and recovered.

I slept too late yesterday, my family~