Chapter Ninety-Nine: Deep Space Probes

"Young Master! Although it only took a few months for our plasma aircraft to be designed and prototyped, and it was the first time we had designed such a spacecraft, I can pat my chest and guarantee that the overall performance of this aircraft is definitely the best of all aircraft in the world. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Although it is the first time for us to design this type of aircraft, there may be some flaws, but some fatal flaws I can guarantee absolutely none, and the safety aspect can also be guaranteed, as for other minor problems can only be modified after the test flight in the future.

After this plasma aircraft is fully qualified, then we will be more mature when designing the next generation of aircraft, and we can avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble.

The next generation of plasma aircraft our design team has now begun to prepare, and when the test flight work is completed, the design work of the next generation of plasma aircraft will begin immediately, the next generation of aircraft we will design larger, and the environmental system and protection system inside we will design more perfect, so that our next plasma aircraft can stay in the universe for a longer time, and the load capacity will be doubled. Li Xingyu said again.

"Hmmm! Very good, our future plasma aircraft will be designed to be more huge, and the functions will be stronger and stronger, more and more. Someday we'll be able to design real space battleships like in science fiction movies and novels. Zhu Lei also said.

After that, Zhu Lei followed Li Lao and they carefully visited the plasma aircraft research and development center, to tell the truth, although he has been here many times since the beginning of the construction of the plasma research and development center, but he has never visited it properly, most of the time is in a hurry, there is no time to visit here.

Of course, this is nominally a plasma research and development center, but in fact it is a plasma aircraft assembly factory, after all, there are not many production equipment here, and the precision is not as high as those machine tools in the old factory, and many parts and components can not be produced here at all. Therefore, most of the accessories are produced in the old factory and then transported here for final assembly.

However, after the next batch of high-precision machine tools produced by the old factory, a considerable part of them will be shipped here, after all, the business of the old factory is now busy enough, and now the production of various accessories for plasma aircraft in small batches is fine, and there will definitely be no time after the large amount in the future.

So he is now considering whether to absorb some outsourcing manufacturers, after all, the factory is busy enough now, and it will only be busier in the future, as for the processing of accessories materials, Zhu Lei They can produce a batch of machine tools with such a high precision grade to sell to them, let them produce some non-critical parts, and now those ordinary accessories can also be called to them, now think about Zhu Lei, he is too stupid, such a simple thing can't think of it, Although the nature of their factory is a military factory that does not allow the production of civilian equipment, there is no rule that outside manufacturers are not allowed to help produce their accessories!

You must know that the production of plasma aircraft has a very large project like ordinary aircraft, and the precision requirements of most of the accessories are also very high, but there are also a large number of accessories that do not have very high precision requirements.

And Daming can process ultra-high precision parts of the manufacturers is not nothing, and there are a lot of them, but limited to the problem of machine tools, there is no way to process Zhu Lei these materials in their factory, so there is no way, if Zhu Lei provides some secondary machine tools to these manufacturers, Zhu Lei They can completely free up these high-quality talents in the factory from the production line to do what they should do, instead of around the production line all day long as they are now.

When he walked to another plant, Zhu Lei saw very strangely that in this plant, everyone was assembling a rocket, and when he saw this, he was a little puzzled, why did he have to assemble a rocket with a plasma aircraft? Although it seems that this rocket is also the same ion to be used for the engine, and this rocket is not very large, about three meters in diameter, but only about ten meters in length, unlike the traditional rocket with a height of forty or fifty meters.

So this rocket looks very incongruous, like a big fat man. But looking at his appearance, there is not much difference from a traditional rocket, so Zhu Lei looked at Li Xingyu and Li Lao suspiciously.

A conventional rocket is composed of a fairing, a storage box for oxidizer and fuel, an instrument compartment, an interstage mechanism, an engine, and other parts.

"Young Master! Now the countries of the world and our Ming Empire have a very limited understanding of space, and even the understanding of near-earth space is very limited, most of them are obtained through various telescopes on the ground and some exploration satellites, but the understanding of deep space is basically nothing, so we designed a deep space probe.

After all, if we want to implement manned spaceflight, then we must have this data, and what you see is a deep space probe, this is not the rocket that the young master thinks, he does not have a series of complex designs such as fairings like rockets, and it does not need to throw away all kinds of things in space to reduce weight and make the rocket more powerful.

In addition to the three plasma thrusters and batteries at the tail, our deep space probe is full of various detection equipment, and in order to make the probe more durable in space, we have also installed solar poles in it.

Even in order to protect the safety of this detector, we all use the best special metal in the factory as the shell of this detector, so even if this detector does not hit too large objects in the universe, there will be no major damage.

Young master, don't look at our this is only a little bit big, not yet one-fifth of the size of a traditional rocket, but its weight is very amazing, its weight has reached more than 180 tons, but it is such a heavy weight, the probe we designed does not need any auxiliary thrust, you can lift off from the ground, fly directly into space, and you don't need to abandon any equipment in the middle.

Therefore, we are going to launch this deep space probe before manned spaceflight, do a detailed survey of the space environment near the earth, and list the data for research.

In order to ensure the absolute safety of personnel and equipment during manned spaceflight, when the data collection in near-Earth space is almost complete, this probe will gradually fly to deeper deep space, begin to explore the entire solar system, and draw a detailed star map. Li Lao explained in detail the role of this flying machine, which Zhu Lei believed was a rocket.