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After discussing with the liaison team and the rear headquarters, they realized this was feasible!

Okay, with this established, the atmosphere became much more relaxed.

Upon hearing this news, the rocket experts stopped looking at the engine and immediately sat down to eat hot pot.

There were six of them, and they had only taken a few bites each before finishing a pot of meat and vegetables. Not only were they not full, but they had also stirred up their hunger, making them even more famished.

If they weren't worried about failing to reach an agreement, they wouldn't have rushed to examine the engine, trying to get a few more glances and touches, hoping to help domestic aerospace technology avoid some detours.

Now that an agreement had been reached, there was no need to rush.

Fumbling around here was nothing compared to returning to the Academy of Engineering to study detailed data.

However, with the cooperation intention settled, details still needed to be discussed. Tang Chao knew his weaknesses, so he didn't delve into too many professional details.

He only stated his requirements, focusing on the big picture, leaving the liaison team and all the experts behind him to worry about the rest.

"We want to develop commercial aerospace, and a platform is definitely crucial. Therefore, we plan to build our company in Jiangkou City, located at the mouth of the Yangtze River and a major international metropolis, which perfectly aligns with our strategic definition."

"Of course, we won't be asking for prime real estate in the city center. Being a bit out of the way is fine, but the surrounding infrastructure must be adequate."

"Ideally, it should be near the sea, with a pier for easy maritime transport of large equipment. There should also be an airplane runway for our spacecraft to take off from. Oh, and if that's the case, I'll also need to apply for several air routes towards the East China Sea, for..."

The team members started to feel that something was off. What had they just heard?

Spacecraft taking off from an airplane runway?

The rocket expert who was familiar with Professor Zhang immediately gave him a look. Professor Zhang understood instantly, picked up a piece of green vegetable with his chopsticks, dipped it in sauce, and casually asked, "So, does your organization also have spaceplane technology?"

"Of... of course not."

Tang Chao, who was getting carried away, almost misspoke. Realizing his mistake, he quickly stopped himself and activated the advanced version of the "speak halfway" skill: "bullshitting."

"Spaceplane technology is certainly a key area of our research, as it's one of the future's aerospace hotspots. But we don't currently have the technology to fly freely both inside and outside the atmosphere. We only have a SSTO winged aircraft technology that's showing promise."

"Using this technology, which involves launching a bunch of dead weight into space, isn't cost-effective for transporting cargo. Fortunately, we're not planning to use it for cargo. Our goal is manned flight."

"Although there are several companies working on manned spaceflight projects, they're still thinking about technology and cost, only focusing on getting passengers into space and back. They haven't considered the issue from the passengers' perspective."

"Consider it from the perspective of a passenger, a regular passenger. Does a spacecraft that keeps dropping rocket stages and discarding parts look reassuring?"

"Or does a complete spacecraft, like an airplane that you've flown on many times, taking off from the ground and entering orbit, look more reassuring?"

After hearing Tang Chao's explanation, the aerospace bigwigs thought, "We don't need to think about it from the perspective of a regular passenger. Even from the perspective of a rocket expert, a complete spacecraft is safer."

Because every separation of a rocket has a small probability of failure, and there have been many accidents in aerospace history due to separation failures.

Moreover, a "tin can" re-entering the atmosphere and a winged aircraft re-entering the atmosphere are two different concepts. The latter is much smoother and more passenger-friendly.

However, knowing is one thing, and it ultimately comes down to technology.

As long as the technology is there, anything is possible.

Like the space shuttle in the past, it was a great concept, but the concept was too advanced, and the technology at the time didn't meet the standards. In the end, it was not as good as a simple and crude rocket.

Moreover, the team members present felt that Tang Chao was very slippery, not telling the truth. They hadn't missed that pause earlier.

"The technological strength of his organization is too high."

Of course, in fact, they didn't know if Tang Chao was telling the truth or not, but since Tang Chao could produce the complete technology of the Long March 9, they needed to analyze and analyze every word he said!

There was no choice. It was too important.

Tang Chao found the sight of the bigwigs pondering very interesting, because he had often imagined sitting with some bigwigs, chatting and laughing.

It was just the simple dream of a small person, a newbie's longing for the experts.

For example, when he wanted to be an astronaut in elementary school, he had imagined going into space with those heroic astronauts to carry out missions.

Also, when he was learning to paint, he had imagined exchanging painting skills with those internationally renowned painters.

Furthermore, when he saw foreign private aerospace companies launching rockets, he couldn't wait to build a big rocket himself and launch it.

And now, it had actually come true.

Not only was his own aerospace company on the agenda, but he was also sitting here, chatting and laughing with several bigwigs, and baffling them.

This situation was very interesting, fulfilling some of his... low-level interests.

After talking about the comprehensive company headquarters, he talked about the launch site.

According to his idea, or the internationally recognized principle, the closer the location of the space launch site is to the equator, the better. The closest place to the equator in Tianxia is Zhanghai at the southern end of the territory, so he wants to build the launch site at the southern end of Zhanghai.

Coincidentally, Tianxia has filled in many islands on Zhanghai, and he has taken a fancy to one of them—Hongshu Island (Sweet Potato Island).

Its predecessor was Hongshu Reef, shaped like a long ellipse, like a sweet potato, hence the name.

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There are many reasons for choosing it, such as being large enough to build complete large-scale facilities, and there is already a large-scale survival community on it, with residential areas, supermarkets, hospitals, schools, airports, vegetable gardens, etc.

Its location is also very important, within 10 degrees north latitude, very close to the equator.

It is also on the busy international shipping main road, with a lot of ships coming and going.

Logically, Tianxia's positioning of it is a material distribution center, which can provide services such as ship berthing, cargo transshipment, material supply, and maritime rescue.

This convenient transportation is too important for commercial space launches.

These things are under construction, and fortunately, they have not yet been completed, otherwise there would be no place for Tang Chao.

After such a large artificial island is completed, it will definitely need to attract investment, so let him be the first.

However, the order received by the liaison team was to save as much money as possible, so Xiao Zhao suggested whether the services of the Binhai launch site could be used instead.

The reason is that the Binhai launch site is currently the southernmost launch site in Tianxia, and its latitude is also very low, making it one of the few low-latitude launch sites in the world.

Moreover, the supporting facilities are very complete, the staff is experienced, and they can launch spacecraft at any time.

They promised that all of Tang Chao's team's launch missions would be free of charge, and the most experienced technicians would be responsible for every aspect.

Basically, Tang Chao's team only needs to say "I want to launch a spacecraft," and have the spacecraft and payload ready, and the country will be responsible for transporting them from the factory and sending them into space.

For ordinary companies, these conditions are simply too tempting.

Not only is it money-saving, but they also don't have to deal with troublesome things, and they don't have to wait for the completion of the launch site. But Tang Chao is not opening an ordinary company, so he did not accept.

In fact, he can understand what the above means.

Currently, there are four space launch centers in China, and it is said that a purely commercial launch site will be built, but there are not so many launch missions in China, resulting in most of the launch bases being idle, so they do not want to spend more money to build a space launch center.

It's just that Tang Chao really needs such a private launch center, so he used a killer move—alliance.

"Although the Binhai launch site is good, located at 19 degrees north latitude, plus other supporting facilities, it is basically one of the best launch centers in the world, but I still insist on building a launch site on Hongshu Island. We also promise that this space launch center can undertake national launch missions."

"And just ask the aerospace bigwigs, see if they want a space launch center located at 9 degrees north latitude?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Zhao looked at the aerospace bigwigs next to him, and the bigwigs smiled without saying anything.

The meaning was obvious.

"Hehehe~"