Jiuquan is a place with very strange weather, which can peel off a layer of skin during the day and freeze people into a lump of ice at night.

Even though it was already the height of summer at this time, Hu Wenhai still felt a trace of coldness when he just got out of the car.

However, at this time, the people who stood out in the night wind of the barren Gobi seemed to be unaffected by the cold wind.

"The night in Jiuquan is almost catching up with the temperature of early spring in our northeast, and it is not easy to stay in such a desert for decades!"

Hu Wenhai just got out of the car and hurriedly stretched out his hand. Dai Zhongshan, the chief designer of the GF-1 satellite, was next to the car at this time, and although the two had met for the first time, they had actually known each other for a long time.

This is not the first cooperation between Hu Wenhai and Dai Zhongshan, as early as a few years ago, when Hu Wenhai proposed the plan to launch three positioning satellites into synchronous orbit, Dai Zhongshan was responsible for the design of the three positioning satellites.

Dai Zhongshan became a monk halfway through aerospace, which could be said to be commonplace in their time, and they moved where they needed to. Dai Zhongshan, who studied geology at the time, began to change his career to engage in aerospace technology in the 60s, and his achievements were no worse than those of those who came from a professional background, and even better than those of the vast majority of people.

From the remote sensing tracking and control system to the overall design of the satellite, he went from Dongfanghong No. 1 and Shijian-1 to Dongfanghong No. 2 and Shijian-No. 3, and he walked step by step under some pressure back then.

In the 90s, there was only one national treasure in China with experience in the design of CCD resource census satellites.

The nanograting designed by Wang Zhongjun is actually only a component of a relatively important subsystem on the satellite, the infrared horizon. In the past six months, more than 100 technical problems have been solved by mobilizing the whole country to solve the entire GF-1 satellite. The design of this epoch-making satellite was completed by Dai Zhongshan.

Compared with Dai Zhongshan, Hu Wenhai is completely embarrassed to say that he is a scholar.

Due to the international technological blockade, Dai Zhongshan has adopted a lot of original technologies in this "agricultural census satellite." For example, technologies such as area array swing scanning, multi-scan and two-way scanning correction, I am afraid that it will be at least more than ten years later, when this generation of technology is outdated, and everyone comes up with the "right answer", then I will know "Damn, don't you do this?!".

However, because Hu Wenhai and Dai Zhongshan had their own things to do for most of the previous half a year, although the two of them had indirect cooperation in many things, this was actually their first meeting.

"I have been famous for Mr. Hu for a long time, and this is even more famous when I meet!"

Dai Zhongshan and Hu Wenhai's two hands clasped together enthusiastically, and they both had a feeling of hating each other.

Dai Zhongshan has a popular toad mirror on his face, a shirt and trousers on his body, and his gestures have a kind of scientist's calmness and reality, which can be said to be elegant and calm.

Hu Wenhai was dressed a little casually, because he was afraid of the cold, and he wore a leather jacket outside, which made him look younger.

The two people are of different ages and have different identities, but when the two hands are held together, they both feel the temperature of each other's palms.

"This time, Nongpu No. 1 was able to be launched smoothly, and Mr. Hu really helped a lot!"

Dai Zhongshan's smiling face bloomed, and he sighed: "At this time last year, I couldn't believe that it only took half a year for us to complete an earth observation satellite with a resolution of 0.3 meters." This is not possible on our own. ”

Hu Wenhai raised a finger when he heard this: "I think our previous work has proved that your last sentence is wrong." ”

"Although our work has benefited greatly because of our Soviet friends, but—"

Hu Wenhai haha, blinked and said: "The help of friends is also our own strength." ”

"Haha, well, I admit the mistake. Dai Zhongshan spread his hands generously and helplessly.

The two laughed, and the atmosphere of the scene suddenly became lively. After introducing several assistants around Dai Zhongshan and other project leaders, a group of high-nosed, white-skinned foreigners stood up. All right

Dai Zhongshan was a little excited, and personally introduced Hu Wenhai: "This is Vitalit Tatarchiko, a Soviet aerospace expert, and he led the team of the Soviet technical expert group this time. ”

However, at this time, Vitalite suddenly muttered something, but Dai Zhongshan fell silent in embarrassment.

"What, what did he say?"

Dai Zhongshan's graduate supervisor in geology was a Soviet national, and he had already learned fluent Russian when the Soviet Union came to China. Now Vitalite himself has no translator, and if he doesn't speak, then Hu Wenhai and Vitalite will have no way to communicate.

Seeing that Dai Zhongshan was silent, Vitalite's tone became a little excited, and he stalked his neck in a few words as if questioning him.

Vitalite was the head of the expert group on the East Soviet side, and with the Soviet Union's accumulation of space technology, he certainly gave the Chinese side great help. If you don't want to translate even a few sentences, it's really unreasonable.

Dai Zhongshan sighed and said stubbornly: "What Vitalite just said is that they know that you bought Baikonur's Buran space shuttle and put it in a museum in Xiucheng. They think you're interested in space technology, so they want to sell you the Mir space station as well. ”

“？”

Hu Wenhai looked at Vitalite with a question mark on his face, not knowing what to say.

That's right, he did buy Baikonur's Buran, but that doesn't mean he wants to send the shuttle to the sky again! That's just because he thinks it's a pity that the Buran stays in Baikonur to eat ashes, and it's not good to put it in the museum in Embroidery City for everyone to see?

China also bought two aircraft carriers before the Varyag, but in the end it didn't end up being a theme park in Tianjin.

Scratching the family's background, the Chinese version of "Super Battleship" is actually quite good to shoot in Tianjin, but it may not be easy to get together a team of veterans of the Kiev......

Seeing Hu Wenhai's puzzled look, Vitalite became even more anxious and said a lot of words in a row. Dai Zhongshan was translating beside him, and Hu Wenhai realized what was happening.

"The situation with the Soviet Mir space station is not very optimistic, and there has been basically no maintenance funding for these years. Although the Minsk Space Agency intends to take over, the technical and financial situation of Belarus and Ukraine is not optimistic, even if it is combined......"

Aerospace engineering is a gold-swallowing monster, and it is impossible for these small countries that have not yet come out of the quagmire to play a project that even a big empire like the Soviet Union struggles with.

The Minsk Space Agency has already done its best to maintain the organization and operation of the Mir space station on the ground.

After several years of delay, now the Minsk space agency is really unable to sustain itself. In the state of lack of maintenance of the Mir space station, there are frequent alarms and dangers, and even the supply of daily necessities will have problems. If there are no new resources, Mir may have to scrape together a sum of money to take the astronauts above.

Vitalite is an old man in the Soviet space system, how can he not be in a hurry when he sees the current situation of Mir?

Looking at the world today, the only one who can be interested in investing in Mir and has the ability to invest in Mir is probably Hu Wenhai.

Even if Hu Wenhai sells Mir back as a collectible, it is better than a fire and explosion that completely turns Mir into orbital garbage.

Vitalite also didn't want to see Mir finish its life ahead of schedule this time, so he simply acted on his own initiative and took advantage of this opportunity to find Hu Wenhai's body.

"Mir ......"

Hu Wenhai showed a thoughtful expression, to be honest, it was really a waste to leave it alone. But to take over the Mir, how much real money must be prepared to be thrown into the water and heard?

Buying a space station and coming back as a toy, although Hu Wenhai was a little excited, he was also a little undecided.

When Dai Zhongshan saw Hu Wenhai's appearance, he also shook his head again and again: "Mr. Hu, the plate of the Mir can't be connected! That's a big pit!"