After the brainstorming group's meeting, Luo Jia and Li Moran returned from the conference center together.

"I need more engineers." Li Moran said with some anxiety: "This mission is too hardcore, rocket simulation calculation, geosynchronous orbit cruise, space elevator engineering mechanics and bionics calculation, you see, all are the most difficult fields." ”

"Maybe you can call Bai Xianyong from the industrial software branch back, after all, the branch is already very stable, mainly doing some product extension and maintenance, and it is more idle."

Luo Jia nodded, "Yes, transfer manpower from the industrial software branch, the software required for the space program is not only highly complex, but also requires a lot of experience, and then you not only have to poach global experts, but also be bolder, if you haven't written space-related software before, you are not afraid, and you can try boldly." ”

Many people don't know that behind the world's outstanding hardware companies, there is often an extremely powerful software department, why is Dassault's computational fluid dynamics software so powerful? The main reason is that Dassault builds fighter jets, and if the fluid dynamics are not strong, the Rafale fighter will lie on its stomach.

Not only Dassault's software department is very strong, but Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Siemens, Airbus, and even financial companies such as Standard Chartered Bank and Allianz Insurance also have strong software departments behind them.

This time the space program is incomparably huge, not only for Enron's hardware department, but also for the software department in charge of Li Moran and the human resources department in charge of Di Wuchang, they are also under tremendous pressure.

Of course, the department with the most pressure is the finance department in charge of Lu Tao, as long as he turns on the computer every day, all the emails from various departments asking him for funds.

The stall is too big, and more than 30 new factories are planned in the north and south of the country just for the production of graphene and super-strength carbon fiber required for the space elevator.

The length of the 36,000-kilometer space elevator far exceeds the total mileage of the Huaxia high-speed railway, and even if it costs $100 million per kilometer, it will cost $3.6 trillion to build the space ladder itself.

As for other supporting costs, auxiliary consumption costs, and the cost of a 10,000-ton space station, Lu Tao didn't dare to imagine it at all, and the huge number almost suffocated him.

If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, Mr. Lu's eyes are red every day, thinking about making money every day, thinking about opening up sources and reducing expenditure, just like a powder keg that is about to explode, even Luo Jia doesn't dare to provoke him, for fear of provoking him.

"Come on, but don't tire yourself out." When they broke up, Luo Jia patted Li Moran on the shoulder and said.

"It's better to pay more attention to yourself, listen to the young man in our department, the lights in your office were on all night last night." Li Moran said.

"Haha, you found out, but it won't be from today." Luo Jia said.

"Ready to get rid of the problem of staying up late?" Li Moran asked curiously: "Impossible, you have always had the habit of working at night, and you have been doing so for many years." ”

Luo Jia shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "I mean, even if I stay up late in the future, I won't be discovered by you, because I plan to move directly to the rocket lab to work." ”

……

Since rocket research and development is the most important task of the entire company at present, Luo Jia plans to take command in person, let Enron engage in the machinery he is good at, and work the rocket project by himself.

The newly established rocket laboratory is located in Qidong, across the river, not far from the subsidiary Xingchen Chemical, where there is a large dangerous goods test base of the Ministry of Chemistry, which can also conduct rocket booster fuel tests.

"Suddenly I feel like Idol, following the path he once walked." After entering the rocket lab, Luo Jia put down the cardboard box in his arms, looked around and sighed.

The boss insisted on moving the office supplies by himself, which touched the colleagues in the logistics department and the administration department.

"The teacher's idol?" Shen Lang, who was following behind Luo Jia, tilted his head and asked.

"Oh, old man Qian Xuesen, he is one of the founders of the rocket team, which is now the famous jet propulsion laboratory." Luo Jia said: "Today, we Xingchen Technology also have our own rocket laboratory, which is really emotional. ”

Shen Lang frowned and muttered in a low voice: "I'll go, Old Man Qian's rocket team is very murderous, and a teaching building at Caltech was almost blown up by them, teacher, you have to take it easy." ”

"What did you say?" Luo Jia didn't hear Shen Lang's muttering clearly, so he asked.

Shen Lang said that he didn't say anything, and then looked at the empty desk on the left side of Luo Jia's office.

"What? Do you want to move over too? Luo Jia saw through the apprentice's mind and asked casually.

"Hmm!" Shen Lang nodded heavily, his eyes released a light, after all, he was a boy, and Shen Lang was full of interest in studying such things as rockets.

"Not yet." Luo Jia shook his head and refused, and Shen Lang suddenly hung his head a little frustrated.

Luo Jia threw his coat to him and pulled him out, "Do things from beginning to end, Xingchen Entertainment needs you more than Rocket Labs, you have to continue to stay in the subsidiary and make suggestions for the cultural front, after all, after the start of the space project, I will have no time to pay attention to the entertainment aspect, and cultural hegemony is extremely important." ”

Luo Jia explained to Shen Lang that the rocket laboratory is very majestic when it hears its name, but in fact, the work is quite boring, and through continuous modification of models and parameters, the design and process of the Xingchen launch vehicle are basically 90% of the research work.

And Shen Lang is a natural commander, and letting a commander engage in research work is really a tragedy, and the cultural and entertainment front is fiercely fighting against the Western entertainment industry, and the fight is inexorable.

Disney, Marvel, DC, Universal, Warner, Columbia, Sony, Lionsgate, Netflix, HBO, all the Western entertainment institutions that can be named take turns to fight, and the battle is so fierce that people's brains are about to beat out dog brains.

Not only movies and TV series have to compete, but also documentaries, anime, talk shows, reality shows, and all entertainment industries.

In addition, there is also the competition between culture, the Star Journal and Western academic journals, the creation of the Science Prize and the Nobel Prize for scientific research hegemony, which also require capable people to decide and operate.

Although Xingchen Technology is huge, it mainly takes the R&D route, and Culture and Entertainment is one of the few subsidiaries that directly stand on the front line and fight fiercely with the West.

Seeing that Luo Jia had made up his mind, Shen Lang didn't say anything, he liked the feeling of giving advice in Xingchen Entertainment, but the carved star sea represented by Rocket Laboratory, it was difficult for any man to resist the deep temptation of the universe.

Coming to the parking lot, Luo Jia and Shen Lang got into the car, the task of moving things has been completed, this weekend, Luo Jia will go home for dinner as usual, and from tomorrow, he will officially preside over the work in the rocket laboratory.

"Let's go, I'll take you to cumin lamb chops." Luo Jia said, and then drove away from the rocket lab and drove in the direction of home.

Shen Lang nodded again and again, it was his privilege to go in and out of the teacher's house freely, and even Chen Qingyue and Gu Beiyin were very envious.

As soon as the car reached the halfway point, the Luo family was drooling with hunger and their stomachs were growling.

It's strange to say, after tasting the dishes of so many top chefs, Luo Jia's favorite is the home-cooked food made by her mother.

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After eating dinner cooked by her mother at home, and chatting with her father about the international format and the shortcomings of the parents, Luo Jia drove back the next morning.

Since the new office location is farther away from the Baoshan headquarters, Luo Jia rushed to the elevated highway before dawn before the morning rush hour, and the sun just rose when it came to start.

To the east, the Space Communication Laboratory, jointly established with Huawei, focuses on ultra-long-range signal transmission and satellite communication networks covering the world, the Space Observation Laboratory to the south, and the Space Mining Laboratory to the north.

All the labs are of different sizes, but the design is like a mold carved out, which belongs to the reserved building of Xingchen Technology.

The so-called reserved building is to build the laboratory first in the case of unclear company planning, and once the company decides to start a new project, there will be enough space to put it into use immediately, without the need to temporarily buy land to start construction, which saves too much time, which is in line with the tradition of Xingchen Technology.

Because it is a newly established laboratory, researchers also come from all over the world, mainly in the Department of Chemistry, Automated Machinery, and Materials, but there are also experts in unpopular fields such as the Theoretical Mathematics Group and the Graviton Physics Group.

In addition, there is also the global poaching of the Ministry of Human Resources, they not only poach ESA experts, but also the major institutes under the command of the Ministry of Aerospace will not let go, of course, poaching people from the national team must be measured, and the above acquiesces to Di Wuchang will act.

In short, there are new people joining in the rocket lab every day, and everyone has long been surprised by this, to say that the freshest thing is that the boss is in charge himself, the office next door to the person in charge Qi Lilai was simply cleaned up, and Luo Jia moved a few cardboard boxes over, which can be regarded as a permanent residence.

At first, everyone was a little uncomfortable, but after finding that Luo Jia himself did not have any shelf, and his research on rockets was also very professional, the atmosphere slowly relaxed.

On the first day of Luo Jia's arrival, a huge whiteboard was erected in the center of the laboratory, and such a complex name was written on the whiteboard: liquid oxygen methane full-flow refueling staged combustion cycle engine.

This kind of engine with a complex name to the extreme, is the goal set by Luo Jia for the laboratory, the rocket thing, the importance of the engine accounts for at least fifty percent, as long as the engine problem can be solved, everything else will be solved, and it can help the national team to improve intercontinental missile technology.

The first step in the development of a rocket engine was to design and build a digital model, and Luo Jia soon hung up a second whiteboard, which read:

The combustion chamber pressure is 37MPa.

The maximum thrust of a single machine is 550T.

Oxidant main pump flow rate 742.72KGS...

As soon as the whiteboard was hung out, the researchers gathered around with a little surprise on their faces.

"This preset parameter is a bit high, Musk's new generation of Raptor engine, the combustion chamber pressure is only 28MPa."

"The theoretical jet speed of the methane engine is 3600ms, while the jet speed of liquid hydrogen is 4400ms, and it seems that the boss intends to maximize the performance of the methane engine."

"An engine with a monobloc thrust of 550 tons? Mr. Luo really has a wild heart. ”

"Obviously, Mr. Luo is not going for a 100-ton rocket, but to do something bigger."

"I made a simple calculation just now, the Long March 9 is 140 tons, Musk's large falcon is 150 tons, the super falcon is 220 tons, and if we build this, it will be at least 300 tons!"

As soon as Luo Jia's preset parameters came out, everyone quickly discussed them.