Navigator Group Headquarters, Conference Room 1.

Today is another big day for the group meeting, and all the senior management of the company is here, after all, the goal of the group meeting is very high, which is different from the internal efforts of each company to solve specific problems.

However, because of the formation of a group company, Tang Chao will be there during most group meetings.

The company has been developing for two or three years, and all the senior executives know that as long as Tang Chao, the company's boss, participates in the meeting, it will not disappoint.

There are technical difficulties, you look for the boss.

There is suffering on the official face, you look for the boss.

It's not even a problem, the boss can give you a big "bomb" and shake a group of people!

With such a boss here, they are quite happy and can maximize their abilities.

When it comes to navigators, BOSS is the navigator of the company.

All the high-level officials were present, and when they were preparing their own materials in related fields, they would also pay attention to the dynamics of other fields, which is currently the hottest aerospace aspect in the world.

The other forces don't have to look at it, and they don't have much to look at, mainly the competition between Tianxia and Merriken, and the time limit is the most recently, which is the competition of the space station.

After all, from the point of view of space transport, it is definitely the navigator who wins.

Although there are too many recovery steps of the "Yuanhang", and they are too scattered compared to the "Starship Launch System", their nature is actually not much different, they are more than 100 tons, but they cannot catch up with the capacity of the Long March 9.

Moreover, both are currently positioned as cargo rockets, the "Yuanhang" is a little more mature, and has carried out many load missions, and the "Starship Launch System" is still only a fledgling and has only carried out test flights.

Of course, the "Yuanhang" has been used as a cargo rocket, and the "Star and Arrow Launch System" is still making efforts to "manned," "refueling space," and "space voyages."

There is nothing to say about manned space equipment in low earth orbit, the leader is definitely the status of the boss, and now everyone knows that its orbital shuttle is the best manned space equipment in the world.

Now that it's time for the space station, it's definitely going to be touched.

It's a collision between commercial companies, but Navigator is already fighting against each other.

“…… The date for the official launch of the space tourism project is set for January 10, that is, 10 days later, and the company can operate after the meeting, and you will discuss when it will be announced. ”

Tang Chao looked at Chen Jing and said.

"Yes, we'll talk about it after the meeting." Chen Jing nodded.

Tang Chao is talking about some big directions, or determining the definite time of a certain project, and then they execute it, but when it comes to space travel, Chen Jing also asked about the current situation.

"I have something to say, Mr. Tang, recently Geluo's inflatable space station has been put into orbit, which has also caused discussion from all walks of life, you should also read it, should we do some measures?"

If it is really an ordinary company, as the general manager of Chen Jing, these things do not need to be discussed at all, she directly says a goal, and orders the public relations department to do it, but the Navigator Group is different from ordinary companies, and the top of its pyramid is Tang Chao.

Tang Chao is not the same as the general company boss, he always has some sudden riot operations, although it has been proved afterwards that these riot operations are benign and positive, but the sudden new tasks will definitely affect some of the projects that the company has arranged before.

So after a few times, Chen Jing understood, leaving some flexible space when arranging the project, and then took the initiative to ask Tang Chao every time.

After making sure that Tang Chao didn't have any troubles, she proceeded according to the arranged project order.

If Tang Chao is going to make trouble, then the flexible order can allow him to add a plug for a long time, so as not to have problems with the normal operation of the company.

Just like on the highway, it is very dangerous to plug casually, not counting the destruction of cars and deaths, and it may also block a bunch of cars to the point of blocking the entire highway.

If you let the distance between the car and the car widen, then there is no problem with a sudden car stuffed in, and it is not called stopping, but overtaking.

Tang Chao led the Navigator company to overtake.

Hearing Chen Jing ask this, Tang Chao said: "Feel free, they don't pose a threat to us at all, and I won't do any snaking operations recently, don't worry." ”

"You also know the progress of the company's follow-up projects, if humans want to survive in the sky safely, our next equipment is the key, and other space stations or anything can't affect us at all."

Chen Jing knew what Tang Chao was talking about, because the project started very early, and the group company had not yet been formed at that time, so the other high-level executives also knew what the boss said, and they all smiled.

Otherwise, how could they all obey Tang Chao.

It's because Tang Chao has been flying with the Navigator Company.

When the company's technology reaches a certain height, especially when the BOSS's vision reaches a certain level, some things are indeed not a thing.

If it is another company, there is competition for items of the same category like this, and the equipment on the opposite side is indeed larger than its own company, the general company must panic, and then engage in some publicity, public relations, and get the form back.

The Navigator company is different, it has already passed that stage, or they have more bullish "propaganda", directly engage in a lore equipment, and then completely turn the situation back.

This topic passed quickly, and one topic after another.

"The equipment manufacturing progress of the Tianting space station project is ...... smoothly"

"The first modules of the voyage spacecraft are already being manufactured......"

"Lunar base module manufacturing ...... smoothly"

"The manufacturing equipment of the virtual reality helmet is all in place, and it can be fully put into production after commissioning, and the output of the virtual reality helmet can reach 100,000 ...... in the first month."

………………

Because the navigator did not respond, so the competition on the Internet about the space station intensified, I don't know if there are other people here to exert force, anyway, in the inflatable space station without any decoration, it is still in the state of "balloon", its status exceeds the "Star Inn" that can be officially operated at any time.

Maybe it's really big.

But that's not the point, after all, the Navigator knows that he has a few days to officially operate the space tourism program, and the inflatable space station is conservatively estimated...... It will take half a year to put it into use.

But one day, some photos suddenly appeared on the Internet, and it was a special flying machine.

The Internet has a memory, so someone quickly picked up the information about the aircraft.

It was the legendary "Adventure Star" space plane, and Merrican actually built it!

"Damn, didn't you, didn't you give up at the beginning? What's this big bomb that came out of nowhere?! ”

"It can't be that the X-33 was pulled out, right? How could there be a 'Star of Adventure' all of a sudden? ”

"There is a big guy who has already calculated the size, compared to the people, vehicles and buildings next to him, it is definitely a 40-meter-sized adventure star!"

"Merrican is really the light of mankind, and the aerospace plane was built like this, amazing!"

"Have you seen it, this is a large Dart orbital shuttle, why is it an aerospace plane? Do you know what the concept of an aerospace plane is? ”

"This thing is a little bigger than the Dart orbital shuttle, just like the inflatable space station, it has no other purpose, and even the launch is more complicated than the orbital shuttle, it can only be launched like a rocket at a fixed launch position, and it can only land on the run when it returns."

"I see, I thought it was an aerospace plane, it scared me."

"I know that this flying machine, with a take-off of 1,000 tons and a load of more than 20 tons, is directly ten times that of the orbital shuttle, how can I play with this?"

"The Navigator is no longer good, Merrican is still a cow, this thing can be made."

All of a sudden, the Internet exploded, after all, the network information transmission is the fastest, and other media will follow up after a while, but this is enough to affect the world.

After all, even if someone doesn't watch the Internet, then his friends will definitely watch it, and then spread it, although it may not be clear, but it is enough.

As a 5G surfer, Tang Chaonaturally knew about it for the first time.

Compared with those ordinary netizens, as the boss of an aerospace company, with an intelligent housekeeper, and a lot of people with black technology, he has collected a lot of information.

Or his seaside villa, when he was talking to the little green man on Mars, those network messages triggered the "early warning mechanism" he set, and the smart housekeeper immediately notified him.

Because of supercomputers and intelligent systems, Tang Chao has really become a person who surfs the Internet 24 hours a day, and the information on the network is definitely the fastest, so it is very important, so he set up some judgment mechanisms.

If any information meets the criteria, the smart butler will notify him immediately.

Or when he is not there, the smart butler will store it, track the development of the event, collect important node information, and notify him as soon as he appears.

This time, when he read the relevant information and confirmed that it was really an "adventure star", he sighed: "Merrican has also fallen, and he has learned what he did at the beginning, 'if you don't make a sound, you will be a blockbuster', dog... Oh no, Merrican, you've changed. ”

According to the previous state of Merrican, the plan was announced when it first came out, and after that, it was definitely to make a part and send a dynamic, so as to cause a lot of waves.

At the time, they must have thought, "No one can catch up with me anyway, and these displays are good for improving my image as invincible in my skills."

Now it's different, this dog will be hidden, there is no news, and the whole finished product will come up.

Full Adventure Stars...... Aerospace aircraft.

That's how Merrican defines it.

It is also an act of verbal advantage.

Those pictures should not have been leaked or taken by accident, but should have been released voluntarily, because it didn't take long for the Merrican space agency to send out some detailed data and clearer photos.

However, Tang Chao's research found that it seems to be a bit ...... Chicken.

"It's a pity to discard the tasteless food."

First of all, don't look at its size, but it has very few things, and its load compartment is stereotyped and cannot be changed.

Don't look at its length and width are 40 meters, and the height is more than 10 meters, but its cargo compartment is only 20 meters long and 5 meters in diameter at most, which is about the same capacity of a heavy rocket.

Just like the original Long March 5, it also has a take-off weight of about 1,000 tons, a load capacity of more than 20 tons, and the fairing can be used 20 meters * 5 meters, and now the adventure star is about the same, about 1,000 tons, more than 20 tons of load, and the cargo compartment is also about the same.

Originally, the Adventure Star featured a reusable and smooth landing, which was not available between the Long March 5.

But after the Navigator traded some technology, the new version of the Long March 5 can also be recycled and reused, and its take-off weight is actually just over 800 tons, which is much smaller than the 1,200-ton take-off weight of the Adventure Star.

The point is that the load difference between the two is good.

Then, there is the advantage of the Long March 5, its "warehouse", that is, the fairing, can be changed, not to mention the smaller, the point is that it can be made larger.

The 5-meter-diameter fairing belongs to its standard fairing, which is as thick as its core stage, but throughout the history of rocket design and manufacturing, the fairing can usually be made larger than the rocket, so the Long March 5 can use 6 meters, 7 meters, 8 meters, or even larger fairings.

As long as the weight of the load is still more than 20 tons, it can still be transported into space if it exceeds the diameter of the core level.

Just like the small rotating simulated gravity capsule that the Navigator will launch in the future, its shrinkage diameter can reach more than ten meters, so the "Yuanhang" rocket, which has a core stage of only 5 meters, has to top a fairing with a diameter of 15 meters.

Tang Chao tested it with Canxing Technology in Kanxing, and it ...... It's doable!

But the Adventure Star's cargo compartment is not good, it is only so big that it cannot be moved, so it can only transport equipment with a diameter of less than 5 meters.

That's too restrictive.

Like the "Starship Launch System", it can also be 100% recyclable, but it is divided into two parts, but its cargo compartment diameter is much larger.

Except for the landing that is a bit violent compared to the horizontal landing of Adventure Star, the performance of everything else is quite a bit.

And if you pursue the "smoothness" of horizontal landing, the Dream Chaser of the second stage of the small space shuttle can also be realized, which lands horizontally on the runway.

And then to its new mission - manned.

The original design of the Adventure Star was an unmanned cargo spacecraft, and now it has added manned missions.

Carrying people is not the same as carrying cargo, it requires a lot of life-sustaining equipment, especially its load capacity of more than 20 tons, it will certainly not carry only a few people like a 2.5-ton rail shuttle, it must be dozens or hundreds.

If it is also used for space tourism, the number of manned people in the tens or hundreds of people will also be increased, and the corresponding number of crew and service personnel will also increase, accounting for at least one-tenth of the number of manned.

It can't take off directly on the runway, it needs a special launch pad, and it can only be launched and taken off.

Because its wingspan is up to 40 meters wide, the average rocket simply does not have that "width", so it is necessary to build a new launch pad.

The variety of equipment and services will certainly lead to an increase in the cost of the launch, which will cost at least $150 million.

If the money is distributed to the space tourists, according to the number of passengers 100, the service staff will be removed from 10, and 90 passengers will be left.

At least $1,666,660 each.

It's still a cost price, and if it's like making money, it might cost $2 million per passenger to get into space.

Although it is cheaper than the previous manned space fee, with the price of $1 million per Navigator, they have directly doubled!

People are good at calculating, even if it's complicated and hard to calculate, but $1 million is still very good for $2 million.

There's no comparison.

Therefore, the commercialization of manned space flight is also a bit of a chicken rib.