Before clicking the start button, Wang Zhiwei felt the stiffness of his arm, and it seemed that the tension in his heart had affected his body. He laughed self-deprecatingly, comforting himself that it was the first time after all, just like a big girl getting on a sedan chair, it was inevitable to be excited and excited, and a little panic.

Through the transparent protective window in front of him, there is a workshop covering an area of more than 1,000 square meters and a ceiling height of at least 20 meters.

At this moment, a long metal cylindrical device with a diameter of less than 1 meter and a length of about 1.5 meters is already fixed to the bench.

Wang Zhiwei exhaled a long breath and tapped his finger on the red start button. Then, seemingly just after the time to breathe in, the tail of the long cylindrical device on the outer bench began to emit a little blue light.

The new electric propulsion engine began to be tested, and the force bench and exhaust system units connected to the electric propulsion engine immediately began to work in sync, and many unseen test instruments in the front desk were also running faithfully.

A few seconds later, a large amount of data was summarized into the general control area of this control room, and on more than a dozen virtual projection screens, the values of various parameters that were originally blank or static began to change instantly.

"The thrust value continues to rise, and there are no anomalies."

"The engine core temperature is in the standard range! The spray zone temperature is in the standard range! ”

"The multivariate control system is working fine!"

"The rate of inert gas consumption is within the normal range."

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The members of the electric propulsion technology research and development team have long been in place, each guarding several light screens, staring at the dazzling data readings on them, and reading out the operation aloud at regular intervals. Wang Zhiwei made an inspection and was pleased to find that the first test run of the electric propulsion engine had a very smooth start.

In the past month or so, he has received enough surprises: after the report to the boss, the project R&D team has received more financial and resource support, and the team members have also received generous bonuses, and their morale is high; Subsequently, the boss took a data model, which is said to be able to simulate the thrust enhancement curve of the electric propulsion engine, and he was still skeptical, but he did not expect that after replacing the basic materials of several key nodes, the experimental data was gradually close to the simulation value of the digital model, and it only took more than a month to win the results of most of the previous half a year, and the thrust was increased dozens of times on the basis of the existing one, and the thrust of the single engine was close to one hundred tons! Far more than expected! The bigger surprise is that the project team has just completed the design and architecture details of the engine system, and the intelligent production workshop in the park has begun to manufacture real samples, and then it has entered the test stage today.

In fact, he has not fully recovered from the fact that the company has built such a high-standard test workshop in Houshan District. When he was in the United States, he also followed his mentor to use the test benches of several large industrial groups, and he knew about this: for example, the conventional supporting instruments required for engine engine testing need to be customized in advance according to the different requirements of the test project, and the cycle time is often 3-6 months. In other words, the company has already started the construction of supporting facilities when the research project of the electric thrust system has not yet made any progress, and it may not even be possible that the project has started.

If it weren't for the real achievements in front of me, I really don't know whether to say it was far-sighted or ambitious. Thinking about it, I am afraid that it can only be attributed to the company's confidence in the technical base of the reserve. However, it is indeed powerful, and colleagues in the R&D team sometimes talk about this topic in their spare time.

There is a view that there must be an elite R&D team outside the company, which is biased towards the theoretical research route, otherwise this kind of cutting-edge project with full gold content, the technical framework and direction have been determined, and what is lacking is only the test and material selection scheme, and it is impossible to buy it simply by money. Leaving aside the strict control of such sensitive technologies by a few space powers, it should be easy for teams that can develop such technologies to find sponsorship, even if there is a gap in funding. Of course, there are logical inconsistencies in this statement, which have been complained by researchers who have different views. However, the more unanimous explanations cannot be obtained, the more people have a sense of mystery and inexplicable expectation about the company.

Of course, these topics and gossip can only be occasionally carried out between members of the same project team, and everyone has signed a strict confidentiality agreement, and no foreign words can involve confidential content. In fact, even members of the same group have different access to scientific and technological information according to their respective specialties and the parts they are responsible for. To this end, the company has developed a set of strict confidentiality management system, which is based on the military's confidentiality system, and has rich experience in this area.

As a hole card, the small card sitting in the supercomputing center monitors the park at the nano level, and there is nothing to hide from any operation of sensitive data. In fact, more than a dozen infiltrators from peers or intelligence companies have been caught by it. In retaliation, the core accessories of several companies' servers were electrocuted, the data was completely erased, and the bosses of several intelligence companies had various fancy electric shock accidents. The other party took the initiative to provoke and die, touching the legitimate defense standard of Xiaoka, no wonder others, unless they hide in a place where there is no power grid and have to shield electromagnetic signals, they may be able to escape.

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Seeing that the operation was stable, Chen Wenhao, who had been watching from behind, came over and congratulated the members of the project team, although there was an alien black technology data foundation, but this technology was much more complex than the previous transformation, and the difficulty was obviously on a ladder, and the project team members were able to initially digest and concretize it in more than half a year, and he was already very satisfied. These members have received rigorous and professional elite scientific and technological education, and compared with the experts who have already become famous, their gap is mainly reflected in the judgment and grasp of the general direction of research, and the last thing he lacks at hand is the correct general direction.

Just like this time, compared to the apprehension and excitement of the project team members, Chen Wenhao has always been very calm, he has enough confidence in Alien Technology, and he has always paid attention to the progress report of the project team, as long as the direction is correct, the results can always be on the right track.

Looking out the window, the engine on the test bench is steadily and efficiently pumping power, the blue light in the tail injection area has changed from the original light blue to dark blue, and the power lines and inert gas pipes connected to the test bench continue to provide raw materials for the engine. After that, it will continue to run for 480 hours, or a full 20 days. For the first test, the difficulty of the selection was close to hell. Next, the engine will undergo a series of tests to verify the performance and stability of components in different environments, such as normal use and high-load use.

At the moment, in the smart workshop, the new electric thrust engine is being manufactured, and once the finished product is built, it will be immediately transported here for testing of other projects.

At the same time, right next door to this test room, a capsule is being built that can control the intake conditions and parameters such as ambient pressure and temperature. The newly built engine will be placed in the space capsule, and through parameter adjustment, the engine can be simulated at different flight altitudes and flight speeds, and the performance of the engine at high altitude and in space can be tested.

Relying on this kind of testing method, the test time of the new engine can be minimized, which must make countless aerospace industry people cry out for extravagance, and then envy and hatred. However, for Chen Wenhao, these costs are acceptable compared to the time saved.