Chapter 1249: ESA

In later generations, when it comes to the world's aerospace technology, of course, the United States and Russia are the first to be the first echelon, and the aerospace technology is far behind other countries. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info and the second echelon is Huaxia and ESA.

The merit of Huaxia lies in the fact that its personnel are hard-working and dare to fight, and although the allocation is not much, it has produced results, and has successively developed the Beidou navigation system, manned space technology, and space station. However, the carrying capacity is not outstanding, and the largest launch vehicle in China, the Long March 5, has a low-earth orbit carrying capacity of only 25 tons, which has been launched for the first time in November of the 16th year.

Moreover, the most important engine above is the high-pressure refueling liquid oxygen kerosene engine that was developed after the introduction of 2 RD-120 engines from the former Soviet Union in 90 years for principle research, even so, the technology to the Soviet Union is still a big step behind.

And ESA, when it was conducting research in China, the Arian 5 rocket, which had already begun commercial launches in the nineties, had a near-earth carrying capacity of 20 tons.

It can be seen that Huaxia's carrier rocket technology is still backward. It's just that ESA also has a big disadvantage.

It's an international organization, so it's normal to have a fight with each other.

After the Second World War, space technology began to develop rapidly, and at the same time, the prosperity of the 50s allowed Western European countries to invest in space research, and as a result, they found that it was impossible for any single European country to compete with two superpowers. If Europe wants to develop independently, then it can only be united!

With this in mind, two organizations soon emerged, the ELDO (European Launch Development Organization) and the predecessor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization). By 1975, the two organizations had merged to form what is now the European Space Agency.

Over the years, ESA has 19 full member States, with its headquarters in Paris, a launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, the European Centre for Space Research and Technology in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, and the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, which coordinates the activities of all European astronauts, and the European Space Centre in Cologne. There is also the European Space Research Institute (ESRI) in Frascati, Italy, whose main task is the utilization of Earth observation data and information services.

However, it is still France that dominates, which can be seen from the proportion of the French, and at the same time, France is also the developer of the important Arian rocket.

It can be said that the exploration of space, just the act of science and technology, can not produce too much economic value, or in other words, the input and output is not very cost-effective, so, when the economy of various countries is good, it can also operate normally, once the economic recession of various countries, there will be a phenomenon of mutual pulling, which can be seen from the European Galileo navigation system, Europeans have been pulling skin for more than ten years, missed a good development opportunity, as a result, the frequency band is occupied by Beidou, and the networking is far away.

At the same time, the focus of ESA, unlike the United States and the Soviet Union, ESA did not pay much attention to manned spaceflight, they paid more attention to deep space exploration, ESA has launched various Mars, comet and other probes. It was not until later generations that ESA shifted its focus to manned spaceflight, began to cooperate with the United States, participated in the construction of the International Space Station, and so on.

And now, ESA, too, has reached a juncture.

Outer space, already Soviet!

There are not a few ESA satellites, outer space, all of them are the Soviet Union and the United States, and now, outer space has been completely militarized, and the Soviet space laser cannons are constantly sniping American spacecraft, so to speak, the United States has been expelled from outer space!

In this process, the ESA has always been cautious, for fear of angering the monster of the Soviet Union, you must know that European countries have easily accumulated some funds and launched so many satellites, which are very precious, and it is impossible to set off fireworks as if they don't need money like the United States and the Soviet Union.

Of course, ESA was also recruited, and several ESA reconnaissance satellites and communications satellites failed in space for no reason, and they endured all this!

They know that if they stand up and shout, they will only lose more, and the Soviets are looking for opportunities!

They waited and waited on the sidelines, and now, at last, seeing the result that made them desperate, the United States, has no chance of winning!

Where does Europe go from here? Without the Western world, which is dominated by the United States, it will not survive at all, and it will definitely be gradually encroached upon by the Soviet Union!

Therefore, in this case, Mitterrand's visit is quite important, which represents the direction of the wind in Europe, and now, after Mitterrand's arrival, the first thing mentioned is actually the exploration of the moon!

At the beginning, in the process of global colonization, whoever has enough ships can conquer the world! And now, the situation is different, whoever is strong enough in space technology will be able to colonize the moon!

What is the use of colonizing the moon? What are the sufficient benefits? None of this matters, the important thing is that the Soviet Union has now begun to colonize the moon in a planned way!

The original mighty lunar exploration project has passed, and the Soviet Union must have smelled something when it returned to the moon, and since this is the case, then Europe will definitely not be wrong!

Therefore, as soon as the European countries discussed, they decided to invite France as a representative to make a request to the Soviet Union to jointly develop the moon! Didn't the USSR say it? The Moon belongs to all mankind!

Didn't say anything about the garrison on the border, didn't say anything about ideology, and after the arrival of the French president, he first said about space!

Of course, if you look at it from another point of view, it is better to start from space, after all, in the far reaches of space, everything is unknown, and there is not much controversy, if you start from the situation in Europe, if you don't do it, you will let the Soviets give an order to evict customers.

Andrei understood in his heart that with the help of the lunar base, this was to test the attitude of the Soviets! After conquering Germany and sanctioning Britain, what was the attitude of the Soviet Union towards the rest of Europe?

Will the Soviets encroach little by little, destroying from within, deterring from the outside, as they did with the United States? In that case, Europe will have to continue to unite and make a final counterattack!

Now, just look at the attitude of the USSR?

Andrei, although young, has a maturity and sophistication that is not the same as his age, Andrei said with a smile: "If you are willing to participate in our lunar exploration program, of course it is great!" In particular, we are looking forward to European technology. Europe has a lot of experience in deep space exploration, especially space telescopes, which are even more sophisticated. ”