In the evening of the same day, the Grand Elder held a grand dinner at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse to entertain Chen Xin and the delegation of the negotiation of the war in the capital to celebrate the complete success of the rescue operation of Shenzhou 9.

Li Yunbo, the only astronaut in Shenzhou-9 who was not injured, did not attend the dinner because he still needed to undergo medical observation.

However, all the high-level leaders of China's military and political powers, as well as most of the top scientists in the aerospace industry, came to the banquet to celebrate this historic moment, and Chen Xin became the focus of all the guests.

It's a pity that for confidentiality reasons, this banquet was not open to the public, and there was no reporter at the scene, otherwise Chen Xin's photo would have made headlines in major media the next day.

The banquet was a joyful atmosphere, the previous CCTV live broadcast operation was a great success, the appearance of the Dream space plane brought great prestige to the ruling party at home and abroad, and the prestige of the Saturn community once again shocked the world.

No one expected that the accidental crash of Shenzhou 9 would be an opportunity for China's aerospace development.

Members of the Council of Elders and some of the military's top brass have learned from the Grand Elder that the war will provide China with two aerospace planes for free, and if the two sides can agree on a space elevator project in the future, China will have more aerospace planes.

Although everyone knows that the space elevator project is by no means easy, the temptation of the aerospace aircraft can not be ignored, and a consensus has been reached within China's high-level to wait for the delivery of the aerospace aircraft to see the use effect before deciding whether to carry out comprehensive cooperation with the war in the space elevator project.

In the next half a month, Chen Xin lived a busy and fulfilling life. He flew the Dream space plane back and forth between the capital, Jiangcheng and Mogadishu, and there were too many things for him to deal with personally.

After the power problem of the Longshoushan underground base was resolved, the production of metal batteries began in full force, and most of the metal batteries were taken away by the Chinese military, except for a small part of the power reserves used for the Longshoushan base.

The first batteries will be used for the electrification of China's 093 and 094 class nuclear submarines, in addition, the new generation of 095 and 096 class nuclear submarines have overturned the original power design and will adopt an all-electric propulsion scheme.

On this basis. The relevant research institutes of the Navy, in addition to conducting research on supercavitating torpedoes. The development of an ultra-long-range heavy electric torpedo was also launched, and before that, the German Navy was developing a heavy torpedo with a range of 140 kilometers with the longest range in the world, and the Chinese Navy was targeting a super torpedo with a range of more than 300 kilometers. This is even more than the range of many heavy anti-ship missiles!

Furthermore. Like the Air Force's electric helicopter project. The electrification transformation project of the high-tech series of electronic warfare aircraft and the Y-9 medium-sized transport aircraft project of electric propeller have all been launched. Some people even mentioned that the Y-20 large transport aircraft under development will also be changed to all-electric power, but in view of the fact that AVIC has started the research and development of high-thrust jet engines with the war. Therefore, this suggestion was not adopted.

Chen Xin was left in Mogadishu to work on the construction of two other aerospace aircraft.

This time, the two aerospace planes that Chen Xin built for the Chinese government were named "Shuguang" and "Julong" respectively, and compared with the "Dream", these two aerospace planes were not equipped with any weapon systems, and the engine configuration was also very different from the "Dream", and four variable-cycle jet engines for flight in the atmosphere and four liquid hydrox-fuel engines with high specific impulse together constituted the power system of the "Dawning" class aerospace aircraft.

This also makes the two space planes can only operate in low-earth orbit, and cannot be able to raise their speed to the third cosmic speed without fear like Dream, and fly freely within the solar system.

This is not that Chen Xin wants to hide his secrets, the technical level of solid hydrogen and oxygen fuel engines is too high for Chinese rocket experts, just like asking primary school graduates to do high school topics, without three years of junior high school accumulation, it is simply unrealistic.

The variable-cycle jet engine and the large-specific impulse hydrogen-oxygen fuel engine are both new-generation aerospace engine technologies being developed by various countries, and these two engines should inspire Chinese scientists more than solid hydrogen-oxygen fuel engines.

Of course, the Aurora-class aerospace aircraft is not without advantages compared to the Dream aerospace aircraft.

For example, its 120-ton low-Earth orbit payload is twice as large as that of Mengmeng, and it is even more incomparable to China's Long March 5 (13-ton geosynchronous transfer orbit and 23-ton near-Earth launch vehicle) launch vehicle, which is still under development.

This also led to the super-large size of the Dawning-class aerospace aircraft, which is more than 80 meters long, has a wingspan of 42 meters, and is nearly 20 meters high, making this aircraft an unprecedented behemoth in the history of human spaceflight.

When Chen Xin handed over the technical numbers related to the Dawning aerospace aircraft to the Chinese military, he almost lost a bunch of jaws, and compared with the Dawning-class aerospace aircraft, China's "Shenlong" sub-orbital bomber has become a dispensable little toy.

The large volume and large load have also caused the flight cost of the Dawning-class aerospace aircraft to rise, and the fuel cost alone is as high as 4 million US dollars for each flight of the Dawning-class aerospace aircraft, and compared with the launch cost of the original rocket, the flight cost of the aerospace aircraft is still low and cannot be lower.

According to Steel's estimates, the two aerospace planes will not be completed until at least mid-September, and the entry into service with China's space sector will be a matter of the next year.

However, for China's aerospace department, the most important thing now is to modify the next space development project according to the performance of the Dawning-class aerospace aircraft, and the new rocket project will no longer be the focus of China's aerospace development, and the scientific research department will put all its focus on the reverse imitation of the Dawning-class aerospace aircraft.

In addition, such as the large-scale space station project, the deployment of the Beidou satellite navigation system, and the launch plan of a new-generation communications satellite and military reconnaissance satellite, must be greatly revised.

The advent of the Dawning-class aerospace aircraft brought China to the status of world space hegemon almost overnight.

From July to September, the United States seemed to have forgotten the war and forgot about Somalia, and did not take any action in military diplomacy or economic activities. (To be continued......)

PS: There will be two more updates later, so stay tuned