Ape-eating Eagle 1 is located near the Kármán line, 100 kilometers above the ground, and separates from the booster and core stage.

Seeing the tracking signal, steadily flying out of the atmosphere, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief.

The most dangerous stage has passed, and the safety of the next voyage is relatively high.

However, José and Antonio and others are not taken lightly, the danger of the atmosphere comes from the natural environment of the earth, but in low earth orbit, there is another thing that can threaten spacecraft - space junk.

For example, the large number of communication satellites launched by SpaceX, which not only occupies a large amount of orbital resources in low-earth orbit, but also forms a large amount of space junk.

When Antonio designed the Ape-eating Eagle class launch vehicle, he made a special design for the core second stage (spacecraft), using high-strength composite materials to create a shell with extremely high defensive performance.

This special shell can resist the impact of space junk.

At the same time, the hull layout of the spacecraft has also been specially designed, and the probes and communication signal receivers that need to be exposed are set up in the area behind the spacecraft, and the front of the spacecraft is covered with hard armor.

For the solar panels that are most likely to be hit by space junk, in addition to the surface coating to increase the strength, a solar panel is composed of hundreds of micro photovoltaic modules, each of which can generate electricity independently.

The Ministry of Space has deployed 16 special monitoring satellites in low-earth orbit to monitor artificial satellites, spacecraft, space stations, space junk, and natural stars in low-earth orbit.

In addition, the spacecraft of the Ape-Eater Eagle 1 is also equipped with various monitoring equipment, which is more than enough to avoid some obvious space junk.

The autopilot system operates the spacecraft and flies towards a synchronous orbit.

Ape-eating Eagle 1 is actually still for testing, but the previous tests did not reach the synchronous orbit and the moon, so the core task of this launch is to collect flight data to the synchronous orbit and the moon.

In this regard, Homo sapiens is indeed wealthy, and the launch vehicle, which costs more than 6 million gold yuan, is used for testing without any distress.

The space departments of other forces are carefully calculated for every launch mission.

Even if it is NASA, in fact, the investment in this spacecraft is also a deduction and search, and they have engaged in many big projects, and a lot of money has been invested on the surface, but only a small part of the money is really used for spacecraft and technology research and development.

After all, contractors and management also have to make money.

Inside the command center.

Antonio looked at the data on the computer, turned his head to Jose and said, "Then arrange a team to keep an eye on it, let's go and report the situation first!" ”

"Yes."

The two of them went to the VIP room.

Sanchi Badalal poured tea for the two of them.

Jose, who had just sat down, immediately reported: "Mr. Chairman, Ape-Eater Eagle 1 has entered low-earth orbit and is currently on an orbital flight, and the next step is to go to geosynchronous orbit and then to the moon." ”

Antonio added: "This kind of testing is still necessary, after all, the company has too little data accumulation in the space field. ”

In this regard, Li Qingye waved his hand: "It doesn't matter, isn't it just a launch vehicle, by the way, what is the manufacturing speed of the launch vehicle now?" ”

"This needs to depend on the needs, if the supporting plant is running at full capacity, it can produce 40 ape-eating eagle-class launch vehicles per month, and it is currently about 2~4 per month." José was quick to give the answer.

Li Qingye thought for a while, and then ordered: "Jose, I discussed with Dr. Antonio in the morning that a space station will be built in low-earth orbit in the near future to test the operation of various biotechnology in microgravity. ”

Jose nodded, "I heard from the doctor. ”

"There are currently five launch sites in the Harbor Ramon Space City, and you must arrange the progress of each mission to avoid affecting the progress of the Guigong plan."

"I'll make it happen."

As for why not use the sky city in Honsavady or Ceylon, the reason is that the positioning is different.

The Port Ramon Space City in Medan is mainly on the route of launch vehicles.

The Hugang Space City in Honsavady, on the other hand, mainly focuses on small and medium-sized solid rockets, which is more inclined to military, emergency, and covert directions, and also manages the Longerang cannon project in the southern part of Honsavady.

Ceylon Space City focuses on metallic hydrogen fuel-based launch vehicles, and at present, due to the lack of breakthroughs in metallic hydrogen passivation technology, although there are several design schemes for launch vehicles, they have not been officially put into operation.

Egypt and Madagascar have not yet been built, and the technical routes of these two space cities are also different from those of other space cities.

Among them, the Madagascar Space City is engaged in mass projectors, planning to build a 500-kilometer-long annular sub-vacuum pipeline, plus a 500-meter-high launch building, using electromagnetic acceleration to project spacecraft into outer space.

The Egyptian Space City is engaged in the space shuttle route, and the supporting facilities have not yet been completed, and the space shuttle is also being designed.

The five space cities are engaged in five technical routes.

It includes six technologies: cannon launch, liquid launch vehicle, solid launch vehicle, metal hydrogen launch vehicle, space shuttle, and mass projection.

Even America didn't dare to play like that.

After all, a space shuttle project made America complain.

But Homo sapiens doesn't care, for the company, even if this kind of big project fails, it will not shake the company's foundation.

Since it will not shake the foundation of the company, in order not to make a mistake in the technology tree, it is necessary to invest on a large scale in all possible technological directions.

At that time, even if several of these projects fail, as long as one of them succeeds, it is equivalent to the success of Homo sapiens' space strategy.

Although the cost of this trial and error is very huge, Homo sapiens has the strength to support it.

When Li Qingye first approved these projects, he had already seen various professional evaluations, including the previously criticized space shuttle project.

After all, America has already touched the way for latecomers on the road of the space shuttle.

But Li Qingye still approved the space shuttle project.

Because this time and that time.

Americalika's failure in the Space Shuttle program was actually due to material problems, and the space shuttle had aging components in the process of repeated use, resulting in a rising failure rate and rising maintenance costs.

But the material problem is not a problem for Homo sapiens at this stage.

Even if Homo sapiens replicates America's space shuttle, as long as Homo sapiens unique materials are used, especially biomaterials that can repair themselves, the failure rate and maintenance costs of the space shuttle will be reduced by an order of magnitude.

What's more, Homo sapiens will carry out a comprehensive upgrade of the space shuttle.

As a result, the space shuttle route has a second spring.

As for the future aerospace development route, even Li Qingye is not sure.

Other forces are limited by the economy and resources, so they can only choose one, but Homo sapiens said: I want them all.

Li Qingye talked with Antonio, Jose and others for more than an hour, and after assigning some tasks, he secretly took the subway back to his temporary residence.

He has been working on a very critical topic recently.

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