Chapter 291: High-tech does whatever it wants
Tang Chao was resident at the Navigator's Sweet Potato Island Space Launch Center during this time.
The company's virtual reality helmet production line is still being assembled and debugged, he doesn't have to care too much, various experiments and official announcements are also arranged, and even some of the company's astronauts have signed a confidentiality agreement and have begun to use virtual reality helmets for training and testing.
Space, he has been to space many times, whether it is in Kanxing or in virtual space, he has been to space in various forms, but he has really not played it from the earth to space, so he is also looking forward to it.
Originally, the company's orbital shuttle technology was quite mature, and the first two space pilots had flown at least 10 times, and they both began to lead their own students to train other space pilots in the company.
By the time the company officially starts commercial space tours, Navigator will have at least a team of 15 professional space pilots.
In addition to astronauts, astronauts of various professional nature are also being trained, and the company has also built an orbital shuttle.
This training orbital shuttle has only two cabins, the cockpit, the transition module, and the passenger compartment are connected to the training module, and there are some training equipment in the training module, which can allow 4~5 mission astronauts to train in it.
During training, the orbital shuttle will fly into space, and those trainees will assemble, disassemble, repair, detect, control, plant, pollinate, care, harvest, and cook in a real weightless environment...... Well, this one doesn't have training waiting for the wait.
This is also due to the fact that there is no dedicated space station section for training, and only small aircraft can be used.
But just use it, anyway, having an orbital shuttle is what you want, and flying many times will cost other space agencies the cost of a manned spaceflight.
This kind of high-density, even normalized, manned space mission directly looks at other institutions with manned space capabilities.
Think about how often you have to carry out a manned space mission, and then look at people, times have changed!
There are also some countries that have space agencies, but do not have manned space capabilities, and they have also paid attention to orbital shuttles.
And it is also a manned space club, a high-end club in one step!
There is only one point, that is, you can't boast about "autonomous manned space capability", which sounds a cut short of those countries that have independent manned space capability.
Of course, if you don't have a face, this "autonomy" can still be blown, such as a certain country.
But it doesn't matter if you don't blow it, times have changed, who uses it is not used, and the Navigator company is not Merrican, people have already said that everyone will sell it, and there is no political kidnapping.
Now that the aliens are coming, buy a modified and modified orbital shuttle like this, no matter what the modification becomes, how can you mix up a high-end position in the possible "Earth Alliance".
If you lose, everyone will play together, but if you win, this is a good thing to increase the proportion of contributions and the right to speak.
The rules of the world have been fixed for decades, and now that we have reached a fork in history, the world pattern may usher in a sudden change, and we should fight hard.
These agencies have approached the Navigator company to buy rail shuttles, and now the company has more than 12 external orders in addition to its own orbital shuttles.
This is also because although some space agencies have been established and rocket research and development tasks have been carried out, they have not received much attention in China, and the leaders of the space agency have to argue with the financial institutions, and then the financial and management departments have to look at the use of other institutions that have purchased relevant equipment before making a decision.
This is also known as the "wait-and-wait party".
When something is the latest to appear, many situations are irrational, and after a period of time, the essence of the thing can be revealed, and then it is advantageous to make a decision.
For example, in a certain graphics card upgrade event, the graphics card series has risen by one level, and the price has been reduced by half, that is, to wait for the victory of the party.
Let's talk about the specific orbit mission of the Star Inn, Tang Chao is resident on Sweet Potato Island, and he doesn't care much about the affairs of the head office, but he is not idle, and has opened several live broadcasts and answered the questions of many netizens.
With Tang Chao, a young person who knows most netizens, it is very simple to deal with the problems of netizens.
At the same time, he is the boss of the company, and he has extremely high authority, and he decides what to say and what not to say, so he can speak freely.
And he is also the company's chief technology officer, don't look at him young, and he is the boss of the company, but he can also say the same about technical things, when it comes to the company's equipment, no one knows better than him.
There are so many buffs gathered in one place, and there is no one.
While preparing for the "Yuanhang" rocket and the "Star Inn" space station, two more orbital shuttles came to the space launch center on Sweet Potato Island, both of which flew from the total company.
Of course, it's certainly not a direct flight in the atmosphere, they don't have that ability.
They took off from the head office and went into space, one of them on an astronaut training mission, and the other on a replenishment mission to the Tiangong space station.
There is nothing to say about the training mission, which is basically a normalized mission for the company's aerospace talent training, and the supply mission is interesting, which is the business scope of the Navigator company - national space missions.
Although it is not cost-effective to use the orbital shuttle to transport goods in terms of the load ratio of a single mission, it is not cheap!
And it is very convenient to use, and the preliminary preparation is also simple, if it were not for the orbital shuttle ordered by the Tianxia national team that was still being manufactured, they would use the shuttle to come by themselves for this space station supply mission.
It is conceivable that when they get the orbital shuttle, they will definitely change it to the kind that can be used for both passengers and goods.
Of course, the shuttles of the Navigator company are dedicated, passenger transport, freight transport, and training, after all, dual-purpose also means that which mode can not be fully loaded.
The pure cargo version of the orbital shuttle can carry 2.5 tons of cargo, although it is not as good as the 6-ton Tianzhou cargo spacecraft, but in other aspects, its comprehensive price is simply ridiculously cheap.
Anyway, Tianxia has the technical reserves of cargo spacecraft here, so it is very safe to use and purchase the orbital shuttle of the Navigator Company.
Even if the orbital shuttles were retired like the space shuttles that preceded them, they would have a way to get cargo onto the space station without worrying about encountering a situation like Merrican, where astronauts would have to fly on manned spacecraft from other countries for a long time.
Now these two orbital shuttles are parked here because they have been assigned new tasks.
One is to land here and check the landing and tower command capabilities of the new runway, as well as the repair and maintenance capabilities of the maintenance workshop.
The second is to wait for the Star Inn to enter the space orbit, and then the orbital shuttle takes off from here, not only to check the take-off capacity of the new runway, but also to send supplies to the Star Inn that has just gone up.
The kind of thing that waits for a long time to deliver supplies is not done by the navigator company, and the time spent waiting for the orbital shuttle to dock at the Star Inn is enough for self-inspection, and there is no problem in completing the self-inspection to replenish, and if the self-inspection cannot be passed, the shuttle will land again.
The single-stage orbital reusable aircraft is so capricious!