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Chapter 30 Space Plane

The National Space Administration and Xingyao Space Technology Company have officially reached a cooperation project "Commercial Spacecraft Research", which is also an aerospace plane.

The space agency provides the people and technology, while Shining Star provides the money.

The person in charge of the task is naturally the link between the two parties, Du Xingyu, who also serves as the chief designer.

Deputy Chief Designer Zhang Yan is an expert from the Fourth Institute of Spacecraft Research of the National Space Administration. Under his leadership, their team has developed the "Shenlong" spacecraft, and in previous secret experiments, it was launched in space It took two days and was successfully recovered.

"Chief Engineer Du, I have long admired your name!" Although this was Zhang Yan's first face-to-face meeting with Du Xingyu, he had heard Du Xingyu's name so many times in the research institute.

"Professor Zhang was joking. We will be colleagues from now on. Xingyao's team is still very immature. I hope Professor Zhang can give them more guidance." Du Xingyu shook hands with him.

"This is natural!" Before coming, Zhang Yan had already received instructions from his leadership. This time it was said to be cooperation, but in fact it was more about helping to improve Xingyao's aerospace research level.

Apart from them, many people in the team are old faces. Most of the experts recruited by Xingyao Space Technology are talents from various research institutes under the Space Administration and top universities. After a brief introduction, they all became acquainted with them.

"So many big guys!" In the corner of the team, Xingyao's interns Wang Wei and Lu Liang looked and discussed.

They are both classmates of Du Xingyu, and they have been preparing to find jobs recently. Chatting with Du Xingyu a few days ago, Du Xingyu suggested that they go to Xingyao Space Technology for an interview.

Having the experience of launching a rocket together with Du Xingyu, the two of them entered Xingyao without any surprise.

Another roommate of Du Xingyu, Zhao Qingquan, went to a famous university in the United States to study for graduate school, and they were not together.

"According to my visual inspection, we are the only two here, and we are the least qualified!" Lu Liang raised his glasses and said.

"Aren't you talking nonsense? For such an important project, it would be great if we can help with it. Du Xingyu's face is probably still there." Wang Wei said in a low voice.

"Shh!" Lu Liang said in a low voice, "Don't say that we are classmates of Du Xingyu in the research group, otherwise everyone will think that we are coming in through the back door! We are too junior and not as capable as he, so we can't take on the responsibility. raise their expectations.”

"Yeah." Wang Wei agreed.

The research project has officially begun, called the "Reusable Spacecraft Research Project Team". The main task is to develop their own "aerospace plane", tentatively named "Xingzhou".

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"The material of the fuselage is selected as carbon fiber composite material, coupled with silicon carbide coating, which is light weight and has good high temperature resistance. In addition, our titanium alloy is not strong enough, so we need to find a way to add silicon carbide fiber to the aerospace titanium alloy. Made into composite materials to make the fuselage!”

In the conference room, Du Xingyu was explaining to everyone his ideas on the design of various aspects of the aerospace aircraft.

"The engine is the top priority. The experience of the Shenlong can be used as a reference, but it cannot be copied. At present, I recommend the use of an integrated design of three types of engines."

Existing aerospace aircraft often use rockets to lift off, but Du Xingyu believes that this not only wastes resources, but also fails to reflect the multi-space operation function of aerospace aircraft.

"Aerospace aircraft have to fly in the atmosphere and space, experiencing aerobic and anaerobic spaces. Turbojet engines can allow aerospace aircraft to take off on flat ground and enter the stratosphere."

"But once the speed of the aerospace aircraft exceeds 6 times the speed of sound, the air resistance will increase significantly. At this time, a ramjet engine will be used to make it rush out of the atmosphere. After leaving the atmosphere and entering space, a rocket thruster will be used to allow it to fly in space. Keep flying..."

"The integrated design of the three engine groups is very difficult. This is an important problem that we must overcome."

The development of multi-cycle working combined engine units is the top priority of the R&D team.

To this end, Du Xingyu did not hesitate to throw millions of energy points into the technology simulator. Failure after failure allowed him to gain a lot of valuable knowledge and experience, preventing the R&D team from taking detours.

In this way, the waste of R&D funds can also be reduced.

Xingyao seems to have invested a lot of money, but spending money on aerospace technology research and development is faster than burning money. One project can burn more than one billion. Otherwise, there would not be only a few major countries in the world that have mastered spacecraft technology.

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During the development process of the "Xingzhou" aerospace plane, countries around the world were busy, and news came out every week.

For example, Russia has restarted its "nuclear-powered rocket" research and development plan; Germany will manufacture new spacecraft; the French Parliament approved a bill on aerospace technology research and development, the details of which are temporarily confidential; the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and other countries have followed suit.

Around China, although the islanders have kept quiet, they have conducted frequent rocket launch tests in recent months.

The Indian Space Agency directly announced that it will overtake China within three years and become the world's second largest space country!

They announced several major space programs and started implementing them.

Canada and Australia also have their own projects. The most eye-catching one is the United States, which is known as the world's most powerful country and the most developed in terms of military, business and technology!

The American Space Agency has redeployed its space program. In addition to returning to the moon, they have even begun preparing to land on Mars.

The leader of American commercial aerospace, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, has also announced a latest plan. They will launch the latest Falcon 9 heavy-lift launch vehicle in two months.

At that time, they will try to efficiently recover the rocket, and this time they will cooperate with the American Commercial Space Station Company to launch the independently developed "Manned Dragon" spacecraft into space.

This time, two astronauts will enter the International Space Station on their spacecraft, and two astronauts will return to the ground on their spacecraft from the International Space Station!

As soon as SpaceX's plan was announced, it immediately attracted world-class attention.

Rocket recycling, manned spaceships, and bringing astronauts back to Earth from space, no matter what it is, it is a space technology that all countries are looking forward to!

And when these three points are concentrated in one launch mission, a huge advertising effect is formed!

The "Washington Post", "New York Times" and other mainstream media in the United States have reported on this matter, and wrote in the news: "SpaceX is undoubtedly one of the most commercially valuable space exploration technology companies in this century!"

"Their feat of launching this time will change the future of commercial spaceflight. There is already news that Space Service Company intends to cooperate with SpaceX and plans to launch a space tourism plan within a year and send at least four passengers into space!"

This incident was also reported not only in the United States but also in China, causing a violent response.

Many people lamented: "The technology in the United States is still strong! SpaceX is just a private company, and aerospace technology can actually reach the point of sending people into space. In comparison, there is no company in our country that can achieve this!" "

Thanks to Li Fengding, 20~43, Top Ten Ghost Generals, 198215dai, and Yongying Yongshao for their rewards.

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