Chapter 1108 Creative Rocket Fairing Recovery Technology
In addition, even the Falcon rocket, after so many years of development, the first-stage rocket body recovered from its landing has to undergo some repairs and replace some parts before it is reused.
This time usually takes half a month to a month, but Haoyu Technology can be reused and launched within ten days, does this mean that this parachute and engine composite landing recovery technology is more reliable and more advanced.
Then there is the payload of this launch, these two launches, one is to launch two communication satellites, and the other is to launch a heavy experimental satellite.
The weight of a single communications satellite has also reached more than one ton, and the weight of the heavy satellite has not been announced to the public, but it is reported that the weight of this satellite has reached six tons. This also means that the thrust of this Jianmu-2 rocket has increased significantly.
Even this time it should not be the original version of the Jianmu-2 recoverable rocket, it should be an improved model Jianmu-2! Recyclable launch vehicle.
However, this news has not been confirmed by Haoyu Aerospace and Haoyu Technology. However, many people are comparing the rocket body in the launch video and the recovery video, and they still find a lot of differences, so they have strengthened this statement.
If that's the case, it's not enough to get so many people concerned.
During these two launches, Haoyu Aerospace also carried out the recovery test of the rocket fairing.
You know, at present, only the Falcon rocket is conducting fairing recovery research experiments, and good results have been achieved.
However, the Falcon rocket's fairing recovery technology is not always successful, and it often happens that only half of the fairing is recovered, and the other half of the fairing falls into the sea and cannot be recovered.
This time, Haoyu Technology's two rocket launch missions carried out fairing recovery tests.
In the first recovery test, only half of the fairing was successfully recovered after it fell, and the other half fell into the vast desert and was severely damaged.
In the second recovery test, both halves of the fairing were successfully recovered. Such a high success rate has made the entire industry boil.
In the same way as the Falcon rocket's rocket fairing, the two halves of the Jianmu-2 fairing will also slide off to a predetermined area after they fall off and separate? A paraglider is also thrown to slow down and control the direction of the slide.
But what's different? When the Falcon rocket finally lands, the unmanned boat below supports a large net to catch the landed fairing.
It's like a precise docking? It is necessary to control the landing site and speed of the fairing? At the same time, it is also necessary to control the speed of the unmanned boat, so that the fairing and the unmanned boat can be successfully docked.
And what about the Jianmu-2 rocket fairing? There is no such unmanned boat prepared, and there is no mobile receiving platform.
Wu Hao, what about them, they used another one that was more concise? A more convenient way to recycle.
Directly in the process of the fairing sliding in the air? Helicopters are used for recycling.
To put it simply, the helicopter first hovers over the edge of the area where the rocket fairing is about to slide down.
After discovering the fairing, the helicopter quickly flew over and then hung the paraglider above the fairing through the hook rope hoisted under the helicopter? Thus hanging the entire fairing.
And then there is a helicopter to transfer the fairing to the predetermined place to put it down? Thus the recycling is successful.
Unlike rocket bodies, fairings are light enough, although they are relatively large. It is also because it is light enough that it lays the foundation for the adoption of helicopter aerial capture, hoisting and recovery technology.
The fairing is located at the top of the rocket and is there to protect the rocket load from aerodynamic forces? Pneumatic heating and acoustic vibration and other harmful environmental influences.
After reaching a sufficient altitude, generally after the booster and the first-stage rocket body fall off? Fly for a while, and then the fairing will come off automatically.
This also requires the fairing to come out sturdy? Must be light enough because every gram on the rocket? will affect the final carrying capacity of the rocket.
So don't look at it as just a protective case? But in fact, the manufacturing difficulty and requirements are very high? This also makes it more expensive.
The price of the Falcon rocket's fairing is around $1 million, and half of it is about $500,000.
The manufacturing price and raw material price of the two halves of Jianmu No. 2 are about one million yuan, which is far less than the price of the Falcon rocket's fairing, but it is also very expensive.
If this recycling technology can be successful, these two half fairings can save them a million yuan in costs, which is very cost-effective.
Moreover, this recycling method is far simpler, more reliable, and cheaper than the fairing recovery method of the Falcon rocket.
And this news made the entire field of aerospace technology lively all of a sudden, and many rocket load transportation experts affirmed and spoke very highly of this fairing recovery technology.
On the other hand, bolder ideas have also been proposed.
For example, some experts have put forward such an idea or idea suggestion, since the fairing can be recycled in this way, whether the first-stage and second-stage rocket bodies of rockets can also be recycled in this way.
You must know that at present, whether it is the recovery technology of the Falcon rocket or the Jianmu 2 rocket, the rocket engine is used to work to slow down.
This method has higher technical requirements for rockets, and the cost is naturally higher. However, if this helicopter aerial capture and transportation method is used to recover these rocket bodies, the technical difficulty and recovery cost of the rocket will be greatly reduced.
Anyway, after the rocket is launched and then disengaged, the fuel in the rocket body will basically be consumed, so that the weight of the empty rocket body is not too heavy.
The use of parachutes for deceleration and the use of heavy helicopters for aerial capture and dispatch should not be a problem.
And if one heavy helicopter is not enough, multiple heavy helicopters can be used to capture and transfer together.
Some experts even proposed that a number of helicopters be used to pull up a net in the air, and then use this net to catch the first-stage fairing of the first-stage and second-stage rocket bodies of the landed rockets.
In this way, 90 percent of the rocket body can be partially recycled, which will greatly reduce the launch and transportation costs of the carrier rocket and lay a solid foundation for mankind to use space on a large scale.
Since the first and second stage fairings of the rocket have been recovered, why is it only 90% and not all of them?
Generally, in the fairing of the rocket, there is actually a first-stage transport device, which is generally called the upper stage, which is used to transport satellites for orbit change and send satellites to precise orbits.
In addition, when launching some high-orbit satellites and spacecraft, the upper stage will also be used.
Once the upper stage is used, it will fall into the atmosphere and burn up, which is basically unrecyclable.
However, the cost of the upper stage generally only accounts for a very small part of the cost of the whole rocket, so there is not much recovery value. And it has to pass through the entire atmosphere, which is very difficult and expensive to recycle, so there is no need to recycle. Even before Wu Hao's new recycling technology, almost all of the second-stage rocket bodies were unrecyclable.