Chapter 72: Space Launch
"Tomorrow belongs to SpecaX!", Ma Yilong called the success of the Falcon 9 'expected', and said that SpecaX is developing a super-heavy spacecraft that can be used to land on Mars, and the performance will exceed the Falcon 9 by an era......
Although Lao Ma is the second space company to complete the rocket recovery in this timeline, and the Falcon 9 is strictly speaking the fifth recyclable rocket, compared to before the Lin Ju crossing, the Falcon 9 completed the successful rocket recovery 6 months ahead of schedule.
So many fireworks really didn't blow up in vain, and under the stimulation of Xinyuan, the empty fork combined with the power of capital successfully reused the Falcon 9.
This is a stimulant for the world's aerospace industry, proving that rocket recovery is a feasible and achievable route, and although Xinyuan is developing rapidly, it is not impossible to catch up.
The capital that has long been instigated by Xinyuan quickly poured a large amount of hot money into SpecaX, and the new round is expected to refinance 25 million US dollars, and Lao Ma's originally somewhat tight funds are quickly filled, which is enough to support the future heavy rocket plan.
Moreover, after the successful recovery of the Falcon 9, the "heavy Falcon" of the CBC configuration can be turned into reality, with a LEO capacity of nearly 70 tons and a recycling LEO capacity of 45 tons, which is completely enough to compete with the Xinyuan 2 heavy rocket.
Lao Ma Zhi was full of pride, and NACA also pushed the boat vigorously to promote it, and for a while, the empty fork seemed to be running ahead of Xinyuan again.
As for the domestic reaction: netizens are worried that Xinyuan Aerospace's power base is too shallow and may be surpassed by Lao Ma; Lin Ju didn't care; Nasa...... Why go crazy now?
Xinyuan has successfully recovered, Ma Yilong has also been successfully recycled, and the Long March 6 reusable model of the Fifth Academy is almost in the back of the old!
After the Long March 6 was blown up in April, the Fifth Academy has been working overtime to improve the control system, and tried to improve the 1553B data bus to enhance the ability to handle complex situations.
Now the second Long March 6 has been assembled, and it is a full-state version, the kind that can hit satellites.
The eight satellites from various universities and units of the Yao-2 mission are ready and ready to be launched.
But if he still doesn't have much confidence in the Yao-2 mission, it's okay to put the satellite into orbit, but how can it be recovered......
He really wants to delay it a little longer, but if it drags it out any longer, maybe it won't be the third, it's the fourth, the fifth, and the sixth, and he can't drag it out!
After a whole day of ideological struggle, He Ruo decided to launch the Long March-6 multiplexed Yao-2 rocket on June 25!
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On June 9, in the No. 2 assembly building of the Qiongzhou Cosmodrome, the Progress space shuttle was being lifted vertically and installed on the second stage of the Xinyuan-2 Yao-2 rocket.
The workers never stopped discussing themselves, because this time it was a space shuttle!
After all, Ah Ami and the former alliance have spent a lot of effort to create something, you have it and I don't have it, I think this thing is really advanced, it must be difficult.
Now that Huaguo can also be built, there is an inexplicable feeling of "it seems to be nothing more than that".
Progress does not need an external fairing, it is mounted directly on the rocket, so the crew's vision will be quite good:
The porthole in front of you has a view of the sky, and the side is about 87 meters high, which is equivalent to a person facing up at the top of the amusement park jumping machine, and just thinking about it can make people's legs numb.
However, for the duo of Zhou Rui and Zhao Xiaowen, who have accumulated hundreds of hours of experience on the plane, they can overcome it, and Deng Lei, a special pilot who has thousands of flight hours, can turn a blind eye.
In the assembly building, Academician She counted the number of thermal insulation tiles on the surface of the Progress and exclaimed:
"There are only a few hundred thermal insulation tiles, and the area is so large, it is still reused, Xinyuan has done too well in terms of thermal insulation materials, it seems that the accident of the Columbia will not happen to them."
In 2003, during the 29th mission of the Aramco space shuttle "Columbia", the heat insulation tile fell off, causing the local temperature to exceed 2,800 degrees Celsius, the wing failed, and finally rolled and crashed, killing seven astronauts.
An important argument for attacking the shuttle since then was that too many thermal insulation tiles were unreliable, but it was clear that H1 had solved this problem.
Looking at the Progress, which had been able to see obvious traces of use due to multiple missions in the atmosphere, Academician She's thinking began to diverge.
He began to seriously consider the lunar landing plan proposed by Xinyuan: directly launch a space shuttle with a full load weight of about 100 tons, carry 2 to 5 astronauts, build a living service module, and install a 25-ton lunar lander in the cargo hold, run to the lunar orbit with fuel-saving nuclear thermal rocket engines as the power, and then return with all the tail after performing the mission.
It sounded like bragging, but now it seems to be extremely feasible.
The originally envisaged future aerospace development route was broken little by little, and Academician She joined the variables of Xinyuan Aerospace and thought about a new future.
In the No. 1 assembly building, the first-stage rocket of Xinyuan-2 Yao-1 has also been completed and is waiting to be hoisted with a new second-stage rocket.
The H1-2 Tuanjie will also depart at the end of the month for its third launch mission in July.
On June 10, 5 days before the Xinyuan-2 Yao-2 mission, Xin'an Automobile announced that its first pure electric coupe "Xin'an XC4" will be officially released on June 15 and begin to accept orders, which is expected to be delivered in 8 months.
Xinyuan Aerospace Power and Nanfang Industrial Automobile forwarded the news and worked together to top the hot search, which immediately attracted strong attention.
The reason for the concern is not that Xinyuan is preparing to enter the new energy vehicle, but the location of the Xin'an press conference: 300km low-earth orbit.
In the promotional image, a car covered in black cloth floats above the earth.
Combined with the launch time of the Xinyuan-2 Yao-2 rocket, it is easy to understand that the Xindong X4 will be launched into space!
Hold a car launch in space!
Not only did it cause a huge sensation on the Internet, but a group of friends were even more surprised.
In the past two years, the sales of southern automobiles have indeed risen, but they have quietly climbed to the high branch of aerospace, and they have to send the car to space!
They can imagine how strong such a brand effect will be, directly reversing the image of domestic cars.
But that's not all, Nanfang Motor immediately announced that it will launch a 2.0T luxury large-size SUV, CS105 will also hold a press conference in space, but it only takes 3 months from booking to delivery.
Twenty-four hours later, the two press conference notices left car dealers all over the world dumbfounded.
Sometimes, it's not necessarily your peers who beat you, but crossovers.
Obviously, this marketing with a space gimmick immediately gave people a great shock in 2015, and the legend is that Xin'an XC4, which was jointly developed with Xinyuan and applied advanced aerospace technology, was placed on very high expectations, and it came out with nobility.
Now no one will think that domestic cars should be cheap, and even guess that the price is not less than 300,000, and from this time it recognized the positioning of luxury models.
At the group headquarters of Southern Motor, Chen Jun proudly analyzed a group of executives:
"Sending a car into space, the first time was refreshing, the second time was shocking, but not the rest of it.
Sooner or later, people will realize that these are two different things, so although we spend a lot of money, we are completely taking advantage of it in terms of improving the brand positioning and elevating the level. ”
A group of executives applauded vigorously, anyway, you bet on the right everything is right, and there is a big reward.
Then between the transfer to the group headquarters and the recommendation of Xin'an as CEO, Chen Jun decisively chose the latter.
Although the risk is higher, the platform starts better.