Chapter 138, SpaceX
When Li Fu returned to his hometown in Meijiang County, the time had already reached November of 19, and in a blink of an eye, 19 years were about to pass, and it could be said that it had been a busy year on the side of the China National Space Administration.
After the successful completion of the manned lunar landing in October, he still stayed in the space center for more than a month, and there were aerospace planes going back and forth between the earth and the moon almost every week on the Huaxia side, and only when all aspects were already quite familiar and the moon base was already on a small scale, Li Fu and Liu Shiying, these top scientists, were able to relax.
Longling Town, a township around Sanjiang Town, the terrain of Longling Town is relatively flat, and Fuyun Space Exploration Company is placed here in Longling Town.
After 19 years and nearly 1 year, more than 10 large construction companies and nearly 100,000 construction workers have been working day and night, and the space exploration company has been quite magnificent at this time.
A very large airport, covering an area of more than 50,000 square kilometers, which is the company's planned future for space travel, testing its own company's aerospace aircraft, but also built a ground command center, control center, standards and equipment and so on completely refer to the Jiuquan space satellite.
A huge astronaut training and living area, this area is established by Fuyun Group to train its own astronauts, all kinds of equipment and instruments for training astronauts, as well as astronauts and their families living area.
The company is very clear that this astronaut is a treasure for any country, and it is absolutely impossible for the company to dig into the corner, so it must be cultivated by itself, otherwise, in the future, it will not work only with advanced equipment and no personnel to drive, and the company's plan is to set up a special astronaut training school in the future, and open enrollment for training.
There is also a huge industrial park, which is naturally Fuyun Group's own space vehicle production company, which is close to the airport, and the aerospace planes and spacecraft produced in the future can also be tested and taken off nearby.
In the huge park, at this time, Fangzheng, Chen Bin, and Yu Liang were driving a car while accompanying Li Fu to inspect this area, and for the entire 19 years, Li Fu was almost not on the company's side, and everything was also in charge of Fang Zheng and others, and the same was true for the space center in Longling.
The total investment in the Longling Town Space Center exceeds 300 billion US dollars, which can be said to be the largest investment of Fuyun Group outside the research institute in Source Town, and it can almost be said that more than half of this year's virtual machine sales profits have been smashed in.
"It's not bad, how are all the other aspects prepared?"
The car walked for more than 2 hours on the side of the space center to finish a walk, Li Fu nodded with satisfaction, although the investment is very huge, but it has to be invested, Li Fu wants to make a difference in space in the future, and a space center of his own is absolutely indispensable.
"We have already started recruiting personnel, since the second half of this year, we have recruited tens of thousands of fresh graduates in major colleges and universities across the country, and are currently training them, many of which are still quite good, and we have also recruited about 200 people from the retired pilots of the Air Force, ready to train astronauts."
"It's just that there are still some problems in the aerospace aircraft that our company has researched ourselves, and we haven't solved them yet."
Chen Bin, a young man who has only graduated for two years, is already the head of the Space Exploration Company of Fuyun Group at this time, and he reported to Li Fu in detail on the situation of the Space Exploration Company.
He, Yu Liang, Yang Yiping, and Cao Haitao have all participated in the research of the "Divine Arrow" aerospace aircraft, and they have also made significant outstanding contributions and won the title of Huaxia academician, but when they really let the four of them lead a team to independently study the aerospace aircraft, they encountered a lot of problems.
For almost a year, they still hadn't been able to take out Fuyun Group's own aerospace plane, and they were a little ashamed at this time, and they didn't dare to look directly at Li Fu.
"The aerospace aircraft is a very large system work, not to mention our small company, that is, many countries may not be able to develop their own aircraft, let alone aerospace aircraft."
"Although we want funds and funds, and we have already eaten the core plasma technology, but we still know a lot about many other aspects, and it is normal that it has not come out, and now I am back, if there is any problem in the future, we will discuss it together, and there are always more ways than problems."
Li Fu seems to have been prepared for this for a long time, without the slightest sense of reproach, participating in the research of the national aerospace aircraft, Li Fu knows very well how huge the aerospace aircraft is.
This is definitely something that can only be studied by gathering the strength of a country, involving power, physics, mathematics, electronics, materials, and chemistry. Machinery and other huge projects with almost all the natural science content of human beings, although our own company is now strong, but in the face of such a huge project as an aerospace aircraft, it is really not so easy to manufacture.
"If you have Brother Fu, we will definitely be able to come up with our own aerospace aircraft this year, in fact, it is not difficult to study our own aerospace aircraft, the difficulty is how to produce it on a large scale and reduce the cost."
When Yu Liang heard that Li Fu was going to join the project team, his eyes immediately lit up, but he knew that Li Fu was powerful, and there were almost no problems that Li Fu could not solve.
Without Li Fu, Huaxia would not have wanted to have its own aerospace aircraft, let alone realize the current manned landing on the moon and establish a permanent base on the moon.
"Yu Liang is right, in fact, if we just rely on the gourd to draw the scoop, we can now manufacture an aerospace aircraft, but this cost will not be cheaper than the aerospace aircraft made by the state, at least it will take more than 3 billion Chinese dollars to make an aerospace aircraft, and this is because of the black gold material we can obtain at cost price."
"In terms of material processing, processing accuracy, etc., we are still too vegetable, the materials consumed are very large, and the scrap rate is too high, this cost has not been reduced, even if the black gold material is produced by ourselves, can be obtained at cost price, our cost is still very high."
Chen Bin also nodded, having good materials is one thing, and processing is also very important on the other hand, and the accuracy of processing is a crucial thing, not to mention Fuyun Group, even the whole Huaxia is also a short board in this regard.
Although Fuyun Group uses imported advanced processing equipment, although these processing equipment is something that has been purchased with a huge amount of money, it can only be regarded as second-rate, first-class advanced things, which will not be sold to any country, and many things, even if you give you equipment, you may not be able to achieve the same processing accuracy.
"It costs more than 3 billion, but this black gold material is produced by our own material company, and the scrap rate is too high."
When Li Fu heard this, he immediately frowned, Li Fu knew very well the cost price of black gold materials, although the cost of selling to the country was calculated in grams, but the cost of manufacturing was actually very low, because the rare metals used in it were very few, they were all common things, and the price of selling them to the country was hundreds of times the cost price.
The cost of black gold materials is low, but Chen Bin even said that if he made an aerospace aircraft, the cost would be more than 3 billion, which shows that in the material processing, the scrap rate of Fuyun Group is really terrible, and the cost will directly rise in a straight line.
"The scrap rate is very high, we process dozens of parts sometimes may not be able to get a qualified product, now this piece is also a headache for us, batches of materials sent over, but our processing has been unqualified, we are also spending a lot of money in this area to tap talents, but there is still no big improvement."
Yu Liang also nodded helplessly, only when he really participated in the whole process would he know the difficulty of building an aircraft, and there were many problems in almost every detail.
"Especially in the processing of blades, the blades involved in the surface processing is very complex, we process our own blades, the thrust of our plasma engine has been reduced by several grades, obviously, there are many problems, maybe there is a little flaw on a blade, when the overall assembly is completed, countless defects are piled up, and the power of our plasma engine is greatly reduced."
Chen Bin shook his head and said with some sighs, plasma engines can be manufactured, but this processing accuracy is too far behind, and the thrust of the plasma engine is greatly reduced.
"If there is a problem, we are not afraid, we are afraid that there is no problem, we started from scratch, we are not good at any aspect, we will overcome which aspect, we are not only to manufacture aerospace aircraft this time, we have to involve aerospace aircraft related technology to all thoroughly, now it is just beginning, there is nothing to encounter problems, if we are helpless because the processing accuracy of the material is not up to standard, it is really terrible."
While listening, Li Fu kept pondering in his mind, and after a long time, he slowly spoke, obviously making up his mind.
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