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

"The Space Development Commission releases the first close-up flyby photo of Mars."

"Crossing 75 million kilometers in 40 days, Typhoon broke the record for the fastest human aircraft."

"Flights to Mars will soon become a reality, and space shuttles will fly across the stars?"

"John, accompanied by Zhong Cheng, Director of the Space Administration and Chairman of the Development Committee, visited the Beijing Space Command Center and praised the Mars exploration results."

"..."

On July 2, the Typhoon space shuttle, the last to depart, passed by 16,000 kilometers from Mars at an astonishingly high speed, and gained a slight increase in speed with the help of Mars' gravity.

In fact, for the Typhoon, passing by Mars is purely a coincidence. Under the propulsion of the nuclear engine, it does not need gravitational acceleration at all, unless it is a giant planet like Jupiter.

This behemoth is the largest, heaviest and fastest "detector" in human history, and has broken several records.

But for Robert and other colleagues in China, they were even more shocked by the extreme reliability of the Typhoon engine.

As the only nuclear-powered space shuttle besides H2N, Endeavor was launched half a month ago and has already undergone a series of tests.

Although it has not yet conducted long-distance and long-term continuous sailing tests, JFT clearly told NACA that Endeavor’s engine has a maximum single start time of only 8 hours, not to mention that Endeavor’s fuel storage tank is not large.

When visiting the command center, Robert and David both wished they could transform into human scanners and observe each screen without missing any detail.

These actions were all seen by Zhou Jie, who was accompanying the team, but he did not show any vigilance, but just complained in his heart.

Not to mention that NACA can’t copy it, it can’t be copied in China either!

Last year, the higher authorities split off the 101th Institute of the Sixth Aerospace Institute, and transferred people from the Academy of Nuclear Science and the Ninth Aerospace Institute to form the 110th Institute to develop space nuclear propulsion devices. Then Zhou Jie became the director of the 110th Institute.

What did Zhou Jie do before? He used to work for the EAST team...

The 110 Institute was very pragmatic when it was first established. It shamelessly went to the Northwest Nuclear Engine Test Site to read some test data of the A100 and NPAE, and then despaired:

The 110 Research Institute could only design an engine with such incredible performance on paper, and could not enter the actual manufacturing stage at all.

A year later, the 110th Research Institute barely produced the core engine of a prototype aircraft. The design specific impulse was only 1,400 seconds, the thrust was 8.5 tons, and the key manufacturing costs were higher than the internal quotation of the A100...

As for the engine used for near-Earth shuttle, the progress is even worse. In order to be safe, the same plug nozzle technology as NPAE was chosen, and then it got stuck on the nozzle design, and the shape is still being optimized.

110 Institute has no shortage of resources and funding. Still, this result only shows that the level of domestic science and technology can only support this far...

The visit to the command center didn't last long. Soon John and his team were taken to another place, and Zhou Jie also planned to leave.

He came here just by chance. He came to the capital to get support from the Academy of Nuclear Science.

However, before he could walk out, he was stopped by He Zhuang.

"Dean He, what are you..."

Zhong Cheng and Shen Zuozhou have not had time to manage the Development Committee recently, and He Ruang is currently taking over temporarily.

He stopped Zhou Jie, looked around and took him to an empty conference room.

"Director Zhou, Director Zhong should have told you this, but he is not here now, so I will convey it to you:

The space agency and Xinyuan Company have reached a cooperation and purchased a complete set of patent licenses for the A100 engine. Now it is decided that you will take over, copy and continue to research high-performance nuclear engines based on it.

This matter is still a secret for the time being. I shouldn’t need to say more about the confidentiality rules. Xinyuan Company’s docking engineer is also in Beijing. When you go back, stay with him. We will also have someone to dock with you. "

The words sounded like an explosion in Zhou Jie's ears, and he felt very incredible.

Will those extremely high-end advanced technologies be sold to space agencies so easily?

Could it be...

Seeing Zhou Jie's expression become strange and wary, He Zhuang immediately understood what the other person was thinking and explained:

"Don't think blindly. This is a voluntary cooperation between you and me. There is nothing shady. It is a normal business transaction."

"but……"

"Let me tell you another news. The relationship between the space agency and Xinyuan is much closer than you think. Not only nuclear engines, but also a large number of technologies have reached patent licensing or exchange agreements, spending hundreds of billions at a time. "

Zhou Jie's brain was almost shut down, and he couldn't understand what kind of arrangement could lead to such a result.

However, He Zhuang no longer planned to continue explaining. He left Zhou Jie alone and returned to the office. He still had a lot of work to deal with.

Several senior officials of the Aviation Development Commission, including him, have all learned about the alien civilization and are busy all day long.

According to negotiations, all the alien technologies acquired by Xinyuan Company were secretly purchased in the name of the space agency, and the premiums were ridiculously high.

All these purchase fees were stored in a dedicated account and belonged to Xinyuan Company, but no one raised any objection.

Anyway, these funds will eventually flow into the space industry and complete the mission to obtain new technologies. Generally speaking, it is just to withdraw the money that must be spent in the future and put it in another place.

In this system, Xinyuan is not like a company, but more like an unofficial public organization, which cannot be viewed from a conventional perspective.

"All" alien technologies will be sorted out by a specially formed expert group and sent to different research institutes for in-depth research, so as to maximize the effectiveness of these advanced technologies. After all, Xinyuan cannot be omniscient and omnipotent as a company.

Although the Aviation Development Commission does not handle these tasks, it needs to absorb a large number of advanced technologies. How to distribute them reasonably without affecting work efficiency is He Ruang's biggest headache.

The key is that because of the high degree of confidentiality, they can almost only experience it personally, and the complexity can be imagined.

Just as he continued to immerse himself in work, the secretary sent in a latest document. The first thing he saw when he opened the document bag was:

"Relevant opinions solicitation on further expanding the application scope of aerospace aircraft and accelerating the training of space talents"

There is a red star on the title. If you look closely, it is a solicitation for submissions published internally by the military. The core idea of ​​the document is to fully increase the production of aerospace aircraft and even develop nuclear-powered aerospace aircraft to provide large-scale access to space. Cultivate a reserve force and provide support for the newly established Space Force that has not yet been spread.

The document boldly proposes to directly retire most space shuttles and rockets with a capacity of less than 30 tons and replace them all with cheaper and more reliable aerospace planes.

Since the ideas in this document have a great impact on aerospace, the Aerospace Development Committee also received a copy.

After reading the document, He Ruang immediately understood the idea of ​​the proposer.

The people above were in a hurry and were already urging everyone to run forward.