"Yes, you're moving pretty fast, even a little faster than I expected."

In the end, Tang Chao sat in the office on the side, looked at the busy engineers outside through the large window, and said to Zhang Liyan.

"Hehe, it's still the boss, the core information you gave is really powerful."

Zhang Liyan brought two cups of hot tea and continued: "If it weren't for those core technologies, we might not even have finished the design now." ”

In fact, Zhang Liyan really sighed, he had worked at the Europa Space Agency for several years, and he really had never seen such a spacecraft built.

If you want to build things like spacecraft and rockets using traditional methods, you have to go through a long technical demonstration, and then the demonstrated technology is broken down, and then the technology is mastered before manufacturing, and the experiment begins in the manufacturing process.

Not only the individual parts must be tested, but also the parts must be tested, and they must be tested after being combined into one piece.

Endless demonstrations, endless tests, and endless completions are the norm in spacecraft design and manufacturing.

A new spacecraft came out, and in a few years, there was no shadow at all.

Later, there was a fierce man, that is, Ma Yilong, who founded the space fork, and their company designed and built new rockets quickly.

Because they are all designing, manufacturing, testing, and modifying.

In the beginning, they don't eat all the projects thoroughly, but they keep improving over time.

It's almost done, test the flight, whether it fails or succeeds, and after absorbing the technology, move on to the next project.

Soon, their company's first rocket, Falcon 9, was successfully developed.

Then, not long after, the second rocket "Falcon Heavy", using ready-made technology, was also successful, and by the way, it set a new record for the carrying capacity of an active rocket.

Now they are even more bullish, and they have begun to build rockets in the open air, and the speed of new rockets is faster.

Of course, because their method of building rockets is different from ordinary people, the data of the "Starship" rocket has changed again and again, and it was only last year that it was completely decided.

So much so that there are now several versions of promotional videos on major video sites.

In fact, it was also the space fork that made the promotional video too quickly, and within a few months, I changed the rocket design plan and had to make the promotional video again.

And now they are just verifying the technology of it, and the process is called a wild, welding, welding, and starting to do experiments.

If it succeeds, let's go to the next experiment.

If it fails, a new one is welded immediately, and then the test continues.

When these technologies are successfully verified, they will build the finalized "Starship" rocket.

It's just that in addition to this super new rocket that is still in the technical verification period, the Falcon 9 is about to become a model worker, and the heavy Falcon has such a large load capacity, and it can't get a launch order.

It can be seen how important the order from the state side is for normal private space companies to survive during this period.

Not normal, that's another story.

Because of this, the rockets of several space powers are "usable", and only when they are really needed, will new rockets be developed.

However, a new rocket is not easy to build, so it is often impossible to launch a new rocket on time, resulting in the postponement of various launch missions.

Pigeon after pigeon.

And the Navigator company builds a new spacecraft, which is another state.

First of all, the Navigator company did not postpone that, only advanced.

Like the previous "Chu Voyage" rocket, the "Kanyue series" lunar probe, various satellites, including the "Dart X" space vehicle test machine, which is now about to be completed.

All this came from Tang Chao, and according to Tang Chao, all this actually came from a secret scientific research center of the company.

The argument data given by the secret scientific research center is not only outrageously detailed, but also very suspicious that they were extrapolated from the finished product.

In addition, the core technology given is also a non-falling, Zhang Liyan said that as long as they get their hands on it, and learn a little, they can use it.

That is to say, Tang Chao said that the secret scientific research center has a heavy task, so there are only core technologies, and some peripheral technologies need to be broken through here, otherwise they will be a simple manufacturing plant here.

That's why they're making rapid progress.

Because it can't be stopped, everything is so silky and so natural.

If they can do it, then they don't have to do it, and they don't even have the face to get paid.

Not to mention that they still have time to study, in addition to holding materials and self-study, Tang Chao, the chief technology officer, sometimes talks about something.

However, Tang Chao does not talk about details, he focuses on future development and big technology direction, and the employees not only feel strange, but also agree that Tang Chao is worthy of being the chief technology officer and boss, and the pattern is big, not comparable to ordinary people.

How do they know, it is only because Tang Chao's foundation is not solid.

However, in the future, when Tang Chao lectures again, he will definitely talk about some details, because his foundation has been consolidated by the golden finger.

So now, listening to Zhang Liyan's praise, Tang Chao really accepted it, because he was not empty-hearted.

As for the retraining of the staff, there is no way, don't look at the work they are doing now is still within the scope of the earth's technology, and in the future, there will be a large number of ultra-high-tech projects waiting for them.

It's okay not to learn at all.

Because of this, the controllable nuclear fusion technology in Tang Chao's mind has not yet been settled, and there are no relevant high-end talents and high-end equipment in the company.

To do that, he had to find another way.

The two drank tea and chatted about the follow-up, and then talked about the current international space pattern.

And because I just watched "Dart X", it was natural to talk about manned spaceflight, especially commercial manned spaceflight.

"Although the progress of 'Dart X' is ahead of schedule, various tests and even test flights must be hurried, and those companies engaged in commercial space tourism have recently made big moves." Tang Chao said as he turned the teacup.

Zhang Liyan took a sip of tea, put down the teacup and said: "Yes, the manned dragon of the space fork has carried out two manned missions, and they will hold a press conference in the near future to announce the specific space tourism plan of the manned dragon spacecraft." ”

"The Dreamcatcher mini-shuttle has already delivered cargo to the International Space Station twice, and after their unremitting efforts, they have finally obtained a manned permit, and if they successfully test manned capabilities, they will definitely join the ranks of space tourism immediately."

Tang Chao nodded, but he glanced at Zhang Liyan and said with a smile: "That's right, but compared to the official space tour of tens of millions of dollars a ticket, the suborbital travel plan of Deep Blue Origin and True Galaxy may be a little more popular." ”

"Because they're cheap enough, they only cost hundreds of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dollars."

Zhang Liyan laughed when he heard this, "Yes, after all, the people who will really spend tens of millions of dollars to go around space are a minority." ”

"Suborbital tourism is also good, it costs less, but after breaking out of the Kármán line, it is still space, you can experience the same sense of weightlessness, and you can see the great arc of the earth."

The two laughed, and Tang Chao suddenly said: "Hey, Lao Zhang, you said that if they were allowed to complete a space tour first, and then we would crush them in all aspects such as price, comfort, and real space orbit, what would happen?" ”

"This ......"

Zhang Liyan was also speechless for a while, he was a rocket engineer, and he really didn't know anything about operations.

However, he could probably imagine that if the Navigator did that, it would probably make the four private space companies they just mentioned hate to death.