Chapter 328: Accelerated Mars Exploration Project (2-in-1)

When the Xue family was urgently discussing how to deal with the crisis, Tang Chuan, who they had been thinking about, had already taken a plane to Kyoto at this time.

Tang Chuan rushed to Kyoto with Academician Li Suihan, a former adviser to the Space Administration, who is 78 years old and a member of the academician group recruited by Academician Xu Shengxuan.

To be honest, just after the New Year, when Xu Shengxuan took Tang Chuan to meet his research team, he really stunned Tang Chuan.

Even Xu Shengxuan, a full 16 academicians, including nuclear energy, materials, biology, chemistry, physics, machinery, computer science and other majors, after listening to Xu Shengxuan's introduction, Tang Chuan was very happy.

There is still a shortage of top researchers, and with this group of academicians, the research on soul science can be carried out in an all-round way.

These academicians are all very old and basically in a state of retirement, Xu Shengxuan has not made much progress in studying his mental power, so he asked all these people to help, and before he knew it, a group of academicians was formed, and there were all kinds of majors.

Because of Xu Shengxuan, they couldn't be sure which discipline the spiritual power research would be related to.

Now that I heard Xu Shengxuan say that there is a place to get research progress, I am very excited, and I followed Xu Shengxuan to Huhai after the New Year.

Tang Chuan's endless achievements in the past half a year are actually related to the urging of these academicians.

It was the soul power physiotherapy cabin that was first developed in order to prolong the life of academicians and enhance their physical fitness.

Of course, these academicians have also made great contributions, and they have opened new topics in their respective fields of expertise in combination with the characteristics of soul power given by Tang Chuan, trying to bring different changes to their respective fields.

Here is the principle of taking small steps and running fast, setting up a series of small projects and small goals, and then the realization of each small goal can be applied separately.

In this regard, Academician Li Suihan likes to do this the most, and has accumulated some practical results.

This time, after hearing Tang Chuan say that he was going to take over the Mars exploration program and accelerate it ahead of schedule, he was even more excited, and the series of small target results that he had just obtained were about to come into play.

Still on the plane, he couldn't wait to ask Tang Chuan, "Xiaochuan, the original plan was to launch next year, and the window period was calculated."

You must know that when you land on Mars, there is usually a window of 26 months, and if we advance it, the launch vehicle will send the landing probe to Mars orbit, but Mars has not yet turned, so you have to wait in vain, which is too wasteful of fuel. ”

Tang Chuan listened to Academician Li Suihan's words and understood what he was worried about.

In deep space space exploration activities, due to the limitations of current human space technology, the requirements for the launch window are extremely demanding.

To get from Earth to Mars, you have to fly through an elliptical orbit called the Hohmann transfer orbit.

After the spacecraft is launched, it first accelerates near the Earth and enters the Hohmann transfer orbit, and then slows down near Mars and is captured by Mars.

The flight time of a deep space spacecraft from Earth to Mars through the Hohmann transfer orbit is fixed, so when the spacecraft is launched, the relative position of Mars and the Earth must be such that Mars is just there to "wait" for the arrival of the spacecraft when it reaches the aphelion of the transfer orbit.

Such a launch occurs only once every 26 months. If you miss it, you have to wait for the next launch window.

"Mr. Li, don't worry, our new battery technology, new solar energy conversion technology, and new ion engine technology can ensure that the rover has enough energy to orbit Mars and take the initiative to meet Mars. ”

"Can your graphene battery technology really have that much capacity?"

The new ion engine technology is a small goal presided over by Li Suihan, which adopts the ion engine technology of the formation confinement ion method to increase the existing 5KW power to 300KW.

Li Suihan is still very confident in this point, but he knows that the existing Mars exploration vehicle was designed last year, and the new ion engine may not have time to match it.

However, if the indicators of the large-capacity graphene cell technology and high-performance solar conversion technology that Tang Chuan told him are true, then even if the entire design is modified, it is worth it.

"Mr. Li, when have I ever exaggerated? Those data are all true and valid, and they have all reached the point of mass production. ”

"That's great, but the entire Mars rover has to be redesigned, and it is estimated that Lao Xiang must be so angry that he will jump to his feet. Li Suihan can already imagine how angry Xiang Mingtao, the chief designer of the detector project, will be.

"Don't worry, Elder Li, the redesign won't be too much, have you forgotten that you have a smart mind that can help?" Tang Chuan said with a smile.

Li Suihan patted his forehead and said, "Look at my memory, how can I forget my lovely heart? This little guy can greatly reduce our workload, especially this kind of design work." ”

After finishing speaking, he suddenly frowned again, leaned into Tang Chuan's ear, and whispered: "Xiao Chuan, can Zhizhi Xinhui disclose it to these people in the fire exploration project?"

"No problem, after talking with them this time, I will let them all go to the Huhai base, the entire fire exploration project must be fully closed, I want to complete the design, production and launch preparations in the shortest possible time, and then directly send them to the Guangnan Wenchang launch site for launch. ”

Li Suihan thought for a while and asked: "Xiaochuan, is there anything that can be improved on the Long March 5 rocket, if the thrust is increased with the same fuel, then it will be able to have more load." ”

"Well, there is no research in this area, you can consider it, if there is an extra load, then the Mars rover can also bring some new batteries, and the life can be longer. ”

The two chatted all the way on the plane, and when they got off the plane, they came out of the VIP passage and were greeted by a middle-aged man with white hair.

"Commander-in-Chief Tang, hello, I am Liu Wenxun, general manager of the Aerospace Group, I didn't expect Academician Li to come with you. ”

Tang Chuan was directly appointed as the commander-in-chief of the fire exploration project this time, coordinating all matters of the project, and it can be said that the entire project was completely under his management.

This is another middle-aged man who also walked over, shook hands with Tang Chuan warmly, and spoke, "Mr. Tang, I am Deng Shuhuai of the Z** Cadre Department, and our leaders are already waiting for you in the Aerospace Group." ”

Tang Chuan didn't expect that the general manager of the aerospace group would come to pick him up in person, as for the people from the personnel department, Master Bai said that the form of the departure would still go.

The commander-in-chief of the fire exploration project is also quite level, Tang Chuan doesn't know how to arrange it above, he doesn't care about this, as long as he is given full authority to manage and promote this project, and implement the exploration activities of landing on Mars as soon as possible.

The group didn't waste much time, and rushed directly to the location of the Aerospace Group's fire exploration project.

All the researchers of the fire detection project are concentrated here, responsible for the design and manufacture of the fire detector, lander, rover, and Long March 5 launch vehicle.

Originally, the commander-in-chief of the fire exploration project was concurrently served by the commander-in-chief of the lunar exploration project, and many of the personnel in the fire exploration project were from the lunar exploration project.

After all, he has a greater urgency and purpose in accelerating the fire exploration project, and if all goes well, the first launch is likely to overlap with the activities of the lunar exploration program next year.

If the personnel are not separated now, they will definitely affect each other at that time.

In an auditorium, the personnel department and the aerospace group arranged an all-engineering meeting for Tang Chuan, the new commander-in-chief, to appear on stage.

The researchers below were originally disgusted with Tang Chuan's youth, but soon someone spread Tang Chuan's details.

Let's take a look at the platform for Tang Chuan, there is actually the biggest leader of the personnel department, and even Secretary Ye of the Aerospace Group, who rarely shows up, also appeared, and welcomed Tang Chuan to join him with warm words.

At this time, most people have been shocked, where will they say anything strange.

When it was Tang Chuan's turn to speak, Tang Chuan took a sip of water to moisten his throat, and then said: "I am very happy to be a member of the fire exploration project, and I am also grateful to the superior leaders for trusting me and giving me such an opportunity."

I am also very grateful to Deputy Commander-in-Chief Liu Jihai for the work of determining the division of personnel before this.

I just want to tell you that the fire exploration project is urgent, so we must start it in tandem with the lunar exploration project, and even if possible, the sooner we land on Mars, the better.

The first thing before you now is that you will all be transferred to work at the Shanghai Sea base, and it will be closed until the successful completion of the fire exploration project.

I think as an astronaut, you should have heard of this situation, and if you have any doubts, then when you go to the Shanghai base, you will get all the answers.

Thank you!"

With Tang Chuan's inauguration, researchers who have been assigned to the fire exploration project feel a sense of urgency from Tang Chuan's brief speech, and closed research and development is something that astronauts have not had for a long time.

After Tang Chuan met with everyone, accompanied by Deputy Commander-in-Chief Liu Jihai, he listened to a report on the progress of the fire exploration project.

These researchers may not have taken Tang Chuan in their eyes yet, but in the face of Academician Li Suihan beside Tang Chuan, it was tense.

Academician Li Suihan was notoriously stern at the beginning, and there were very few people who were able to pass Academician Li's repeated questions.

However, this time, Academician Li did not ask a lot about each part of the work report, but helped explain it to Tang Chuan on the side.

Academician Li's respectful tone for Tang Chuan can be heard by anyone.

Tang Chuan stayed in Kyoto for a week, during which he met with Secretary Chen and other bigwigs, and also explained in detail the reasons why he took over the fire detection project in person.

He also showed these people the photos of the ruins of the Martian civilization taken by Milicon and shocked them all.

It also made them feel the urgency, but they were slightly relieved after hearing that Tang Chuan promised to successfully realize the launch of the fire exploration next year.

It's just that then Tang Chuan was invited by the military to make a special report, and then inexplicably had an extra major general uniform, and an extra position that he had never had before - the chief instructor of the whole army.

Obviously, they knew that Tang Chuan was currently the chief instructor of the Guardians, and if it weren't for the fact that he was too young, this rank would probably be one level higher.

Because when the Immortal Sword Action Team was on standby at the frontline airport of the Western Military Region to rest, at the invitation of Li Jian, the captain of the Sky Wolf Special Forces, one person was sent to compete with the Sky Wolf Special Forces, and one person easily wiped out the entire Sky Wolf Brigade.

This matter has spread in the middle and high ranks of the army, and now after seeing the chief instructor mentioned by Zhao Yi of the Immortal Sword, of course, he can't let it go.

Knowing that this is arranged by the leaders above, it is convenient for me to be able to deal with God's apostolic organization with all my strength, and at the same time give myself a position and a greater responsibility.

Tang Chuan was popular with several veteran generals, and as a former soldier, he was ready to design several new weapons for the military.

After all, he didn't know to what extent the pseudo-god controlled the Milican government and military, and the Immortal Sword in Afuhan had already suffered from the Milican military's washing.

If the false god completely controls the Milican military, then maybe there is a possibility of a big war between the two sides.

At that time, if the Chinese army lags too far behind the Mi army in terms of weapons, it will have to pay huge sacrifices.

Hearing several new weapon designs proposed by Tang Chuan, the old generals' eyes were red, this is all a good thing, if it can really be realized, the Chinese army will no longer have weapons backward in the face of the Mi army.

In fact, what Tang Chuan provided was not a brand-new concept weapon, but only the application of some soul power research results on the existing military equipment.

For example, the radar stealth ability of stealth fighters is equipped with corresponding jasper in some parts of the existing fighters to form a radar stealth formation, which can form a telekinetic shield similar to that of Tang Chuan when the fighter pilot opens the formation.

Although the scarcity of soul power cannot reach the level of a shield, this thin layer of protection formed can be completely invisible to radar.

In other words, all third- and fourth-generation aircraft of the Chinese Air Force can achieve complete stealth after modification, and this alone gives the Air Force a great advantage.

On the army side, Tang Chuan has prepared a power armor, or should be called a power exoskeleton auxiliary combat system.

Limited by the power source, it is currently partially armor and exoskeleton assistance, that is, the head, chest, torso, leg joints, and feet are driven by armor, and the rest of the parts are made of Kevlar lightweight bulletproof materials.

In this way, the weight of the overall power armor will not be too heavy, and with the support of Tangchuan's newly developed graphene battery, it can fight at full strength for 48 hours, and the battery only takes ten minutes to charge each time.

In fact, the exoskeleton auxiliary combat system has also been studied by the military, but it is much simpler than the power armor designed by Tang Chuan, and it has no protective ability.

On the naval side, Tang Chuan provided them with quantum radar, which is a streamlined and stable version of the current experimental version, which can ensure accurate detection of the 1,000-kilometer perimeter of the warship's position.

Such a radar will completely replace the Chinese Aegis, think about where its final use is, it is an endless sea of stars.

In the relationship of time, Tang Chuan can't get more research results, but it is enough to improve the combat strength of the Chinese army a lot, and in some aspects, it surpasses the Mi army.

By the time Tang Chuan returned to Shanghai, the relocation of the researchers and some of the equipment had been completed, and the fire exploration project, which had once been seen in the media, had temporarily disappeared.

However, the lunar exploration project is in full swing, which is a common method of diverting the attention of flower growers.

Just like when the 10,000-ton drive was developed, there was news of a new type of aircraft carrier everywhere, which made many intelligence officers pay attention to the aircraft carrier, but they didn't expect the 10,000-ton drive to come out, and as soon as it came out, there were four ships under construction, and the follow-up batches followed closely.

It is believed that by the time the lunar exploration project is ready to go, the fire exploration project should have been launched.

Under the overall planning of intelligent minds, the entire fire exploration project was in full swing in the Shanghai base, and Tangchuan even began to establish a number of new intelligent factories for this purpose.

These plants will be completed and put into production by the end of the year, by which time the design of the fire exploration project should be fully completed and ready for plant production.

The entire fire detection project entered a state of full speed, and Tang Chuan implemented a silence spell on all personnel to ensure that they would not leak some important information during any external contact.

In fact, Tang Chuan was also worried that the apostles of God would know that they were involved in the fire exploration project, and not only asked him to become the commander-in-chief without making any reports.

At the same time, after the fire detection engineers left Kyoto, they still maintained the listing there, and arranged for the corresponding personnel to pretend to enter and exit from time to time.

After Tang Chuan returned to Huhai, he planned to meet with a few elderly people in his family, and then planned to enter the base laboratory for closed research.

After all, the fire exploration project is the first time of deep space exploration in China, and it has given it an important mission, shortened the preparation time, and cannot tolerate sloppiness.

Who knows, not long after arriving home, an uninvited guest will come to the door.