NASA is embarrassed now, and it is estimated that they would never have expected that the birth and rapid rise of Star Arrow International would cause subtle changes in the pattern of the world's aerospace industry. At the meeting, Luo Sheng said with a smile.

At this moment, in this internal high-level meeting, Luo Sheng and the senior executives attending the meeting and the heads of major scientific research project departments are discussing some core confidential issues.

An executive at the meeting said: "The key is the North American military industrial system, basically supporting NASA's decades of space development companies are involved, these companies are the core of North America's aerospace status, NASA has to take care of it, no matter from the demand problem, promote technological progress, raise the core of the military industry enterprises, etc., although the SLS project is very awkward, but the significance is very large, the probability of cutting is not large." ”

Luo Sheng couldn't help but nodded, obviously agreeing with this point of view.

The issue now is a discussion between the managers of Star Arrow International, and Yang Jian'an and other technical chief engineers basically can't interject, which is not something they should consider, let alone their strengths.

The topic now should be the management post, Yang Jian'an and others are technical posts, but they are the core figures of Star Arrow International, so of course you have to know something.

Luo Sheng said: "Although NASA is vigorously supporting the commercialization of the space industry, even if the support is so strong that it is the envy of other countries......

It is indeed enviable, for example, SpaceX has received orders of up to $2.6 billion from NASA, and has been handed over to SpaceX from research and development to many missions.

Because of the order, it is very likely that the "national team" such as the Aerospace Science and Technology Group will not be able to live, because the market size is so large.

Fortunately, Luo Sheng is rich, otherwise it is really possible that he will not be able to operate, but the attitude of the country obviously also sees that Luo Sheng has money to give blood transfusion to Star Arrow International, in other words, there is nothing wrong with letting Luo Sheng have more blood, which Luo Sheng himself knows and understands.

Anyway, Star Arrow International has already set up a super big project - the space ladder.

With this project, I really eat the series for a lifetime, and I don't care about the other lists.

Luo Sheng continued: "...... But the core of NASA is still those traditional military giants, Boeing took out $4.2 billion on the StarLiner manned spacecraft at a time, and at least $2 billion a year in SLS, Orion, X37B and other projects, which all beat SpaceX, not to mention Lockheed Martin, the first military giant in North America. ”

One of the executives at the meeting went on to say: "Yes, from NASA's point of view, the commercial launch order for SpaceX is just to knock on the black stores such as Boeing and Loma not to ask for sky-high prices, which can save NASA a lot of money, and save this money, only $2.6 billion to SpaceX is just a small part of the reward, and at the same time warn the other party not to blindly report sky-high prices at every turn, and I NASA also raised SpaceX, Blue Origin, and orbital science to compete with you." ”

In any case, SpaceX is a NASA tool, after all, people are the winners of the space race with the woolly bear in the last century, of course, there is something.

Academician Yang Jian'an and other technical bigwigs who attended the meeting were stunned when they heard it, there were still so many curves and curves, and they suddenly felt that participating in the company's management and competition was called a layman.

This kind of overall game and intrigue hurts to think about, it's better not to participate in this regard, I honestly lead the team to engage in scientific research, anyway, if I lack funds, I just ask Luo Sheng to reach out, he has money, and he is willing to spend money.

The meeting soon moved on to the next topic of discussion, and one of the executives at the meeting immediately spoke: "The major plan that the company is implementing is to build our own private launch center, which has started at the beginning of the year and is expected to be officially put into use around 2020, and the first test flight of the 'Star Arrow 20S' super heavy rocket will be used at our own launch site." ”

When it comes to topics that interest scientists such as Yang Jian'an, it is different when it comes to technical issues, and the previous topics are not relevant at all.

"The location of the launch base is on a medium-sized isolated island in Linjia County, Yinni, on the equatorial line, and we have rented the dredging ships 'Tiankun' and 'Tianjing' to artificially expand the island, and the area of the island will triple within a year."

At the same time as the company's headquarters is reporting, far away in the area of Linjia County near the equator line in the southern sea, two dredgers that are the envy of the entire Southeast Asian countries are in full swing to reclaim land and expand the island.

Compared with the big brother "Tianjing", it can excavate rocks with higher hardness on the seabed, which can be described as cutting rock like mud, which can be called an excavator.

This kind of island-building artifact is not only forbidden to be exported, but also not leased to foreigners, Southeast Asian countries can only covet it, and with this island-building artifact, you can build a big island that can build an airport in a year, and the kind that can take off and land Boeing 747 aircraft.

And the countries of Southeast Asia have built a small island, and they have started in ten or twenty years, so this gap can not be envied.

If Eagle Sauce comes to this sea area to fight the autumn wind, the rabbit will shoot a few islands directly on the spot to suppress the shock.

A senior executive at the meeting distributed a few copies of the paper documents to Yang Jian'an and others, who attended the meeting, and said: "This is the basic layout plan of the launch base. ”

The name has long been determined, it is called "Xinggang Launch Center", and not far from the launch base is the "Xinggang Ring Rail Transfer Center", the world's largest intelligent unmanned cargo terminal, which is currently under construction.

The island has now been leased by Star Arrow International from India Muddy for 75 years, with the right of first refusal to renew, and it took several months to reach a consensus that Star Arrow would have a high degree of autonomy on the island during the lease period, and the right to hire a security company to protect its legitimate assets, in other words, Star Arrow International could establish its own regional denial/anti-access force to protect its legitimate assets.

In the future, the final assembly, production, reserve, and R&D center of rockets will be arranged here, and there are many high-tech things, all of which are overseas.

With this right, it's different.

Yin Ni also saw the expansion of the island and economic benefits, and finally signed this contract, the matter is actually very simple, just collect tax rent, rent is paid in fifteen years, and paid in installments.

The tax rate created by the island's output value has also been agreed upon in the negotiations between the two parties, and everything is done according to the contract, and the other party cannot blindly change the tax rate.

"Entering the launch site area, all kinds of long under the shade of coconut groves are very tropical, the two roads in the launch site are connected in series with the take-off control command center, the rocket vertical assembly test plant, the launch tower, the tracking and control center and other buildings. The road in the factory area is an ordinary three-level highway, but there are certain requirements for the turning radius to meet the needs of special transportation. ”

At this time, Luo Sheng was also silently looking at the copy of the plan in his hand.

The total height of the test plant is 165.5 meters high, 22 floors above ground, and a total construction area of 55,120 square meters, creating many "world's best": the world's largest steel gate, the world's highest single-story workshop, the world's highest truss installation, etc.

The foreign company of this project cannot accept the project order, because it is too difficult, only the infrastructure company of Huaguo can take over the work, even if the foreign company has the strength to take the order, Star Arrow International will not hand over the project to them, and some things involve confidential issues.

If you want to take this list, you must gnaw many "hard bones", such as: ultra-high formwork construction technology, ultra-high gate steel truss frame installation technology, ultra-high span steel roof installation technology, ultra-large volume steel structure embedded parts Kyoto control technology, special non-standard crane girders and track ultra-high installation technology, etc.

In addition, it is necessary to coordinate many specialties such as aerospace-level strong and weak electricity, fire protection, electrical engineering, and automatic control.

There is no doubt that only the infrastructure group of the national team can take on this project.

Due to the environmental factors of the geographical location, the construction of the launch site will also face the "three highs" and "three strong" factors, namely: high temperature, high humidity, high salt, strong typhoon, heavy rainfall, and strong thunderstorms.

If you are in an empty rocket vertical assembly test plant, people here seem extraordinarily small, more than 100 meters high in the building is equipped with 22 floors of movable work platforms, and the ground must also have a track to provide rocket transport and transfer.

The average square meter of construction with 395 kg of steel bar, which is something that the project contractor has never encountered in his life, dense steel bars, beam-column intersection nodes must not only meet the requirements of frame beams and columns, but also can not weaken the strength of the steel structure, the construction team must take the trouble to correct.

The launch tower of the launch site is located about 3 kilometers from the rocket vertical assembly test manufacturer and is connected by orbits.

In addition, six stationary rocket recovery landing platforms were to be created, four of which were intended for routine use and two for emergency backup.

Luo Sheng nodded with satisfaction after reading the planning information, put down the information and said: "Also, the company will recruit people as soon as possible, and the construction of a sea-based floating recovery port must also be launched as soon as possible." ”

"Understood."

Luo Sheng: "Is the company's budget enough?" ”

"There is still 138.4 billion yuan, which is definitely enough to burn this year."

Luo Sheng: "Then let's inject capital at the end of the year." ”

Sea-based floating recovery port, which is an important part of the offshore recovery platform, the barge is still too small, and it is not very stable, and the future Star Arrow 20S super-heavy rocket will not be able to meet the demand.

The newly recruited engineer will be responsible for the construction of a floating recovery port for deployment to the high seas according to the plan.

70% of the Earth's surface is oceans, and at least 70% of the oceans are open oceans, so half of the Earth's surface should be the area of the high seas.

Star Arrow International plans to build 20 sea-based floating recovery ports in the future, with branches on the high seas around the world, and the launch frequency of the future construction of the space ladder must be quite high-frequency, and it will definitely not be able to be recovered in the future if it is not prepared.

The space ladder itself is time-consuming, and if it affects the progress of the project, the construction time of the ladder will continue to be extended, which is unacceptable to Luo Sheng.

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(End of chapter)