In addition to the XC4 sports car, the Progress's cargo bay also has some space exploration equipment, and she will stay in space for 24 hours before returning remotely, and is expected to land at Ulan Hasan Airport.

During this period, the ground center will test Progress for complete cabin tightness, air circulation system, etc.

The H1 space shuttle has two configurations, the Progress is a cargo version, the crew compartment is smaller and can accommodate up to 4 people, and the rear half is widened to create a larger cargo compartment; The second unite, on the other hand, is a manned version with a maximum of 6 people and a much more spacious crew compartment, at the cost of a small cargo compartment size and a cargo capacity of only 2,100 kilograms.

The former is not allowed to move out of the cabin, while the latter has a narrow transition section that allows two crew members to change into extravehicular spacesuits, drain air, and then exit through the hatch at the top.

The crew compartment in front of both configurations has a 0.9 x 0.9 m circular node above the head, which can be used for future docking missions.

At 9 o'clock in the morning on June 16, Lin Ju got the results of the Xin'an Automobile press conference:

Within 16 hours of the start of the pre-sale, more than 20,000 people booked by phone and online, and the number is still skyrocketing, and it is expected to be around 25,000 in 24 hours.

You know, the price of XC4 is as high as 490,000 after being strongly subsidized by the state, and it reached this number through marketing in 2015, and there is no water injection, which is enough to prove the success of the space conference.

The Xin'an XC4 is expected to take five months to build the first prototype, and the intelligent driving system only exists in the list of the System Research Institute!

Xinyuan's disadvantage of having fewer people is more obvious, and a new expansion is brewing.

The construction of the B-class base will be completed in 20 days, and now that most of the buildings have been built, Xinyuan is already sending people to take over one after another, and it is expected that it will be able to fill the giant base in September and October to reach its full potential.

The automatic silicon carbide chip production line will also take 7 months to complete the commissioning, and the cycle of producing a batch of chips will take 30 days, that is to say, the original ternary chips can be obtained in August.

In order to make this huge base operational, the preliminary preparation funds are as high as 1 billion, and there are some remaining renovation parts, and the price has not yet been calculated.

But for Lin Ju, funding is no longer a problem at present, and Xinyuan Aerospace already has a strong enough profitability.

At 13 o'clock in the afternoon of the 16th, Progress tilted the fuselage, and the hydrogen-oxygen engine in the tail began to work, reducing the speed a little bit.

After a sustained deceleration, Progress rapidly decreases in altitude and heads towards the atmosphere.

Of course, the way to re-enter the atmosphere is not to go straight to the atmosphere, but to touch the atmosphere with the bottom of the thick insulation layer, and slide at an elevation angle of 40 degrees to slide many times until it passes through the atmosphere.

This process takes a long time and spans a wide range, and it is necessary to rely on the state's tracking and control stations on the ground and satellites in the sky to provide navigation, otherwise as long as there is a slight mistake, the distance will be offset by several thousand kilometers.

For example, the return satellite launched by Aramco in the last century, which was expected to land in Hawaii, turned out to be biased to Siberia, and the distance of more than 8,000 kilometers is only a small part of space.

During the high-speed descent, the bottom of the Progress rubbed against the thick atmosphere, and the 1,600-degree heat caused the surface of the insulation to begin to turn white, and the fine particles washed out long white-brown marks.

The long and thrilling gliding process lasted about half an hour, and it was not until 13:50 that the ground detected that Progress had entered the territory of China.

After the altitude dropped to 30,000 meters, the Huaguo Military Region that passed along the way constantly took off fighter planes to accompany the flight, monitored the flight attitude of the Progress, and shot it down in a suitable area if it had a tendency to crash into a densely populated area.

Fortunately, the Progress, which withstood the high temperatures and severe tremors, still performed well, methodically flew at supersonic speed over one Air Force identification zone after another, and finally reached the sky over the Northern Military District.

At this time, her altitude was less than 5,000 meters, and the J-8F reconnaissance plane that took off from a nearby airport accompanied her and guided her to land little by little.

At this time, the Ulan Hashan base was completely relieved, after all, they had made countless flights and landings in the atmosphere, and the Progress, as usual, approached the field with a large elevation angle, taxied for a distance and slowly stopped at the end of the airport.

A group of ground crews hurriedly stepped forward and hung up the special hangar for trailer maintenance.

Footage of Progress's high-speed approach was also leaked, and CCAV consistently reported that night, announcing to the world the successful return and landing of China's space shuttle.

After completing the preliminary inspection, Progress will be hung on the Tu-154 and fly to Xinyuan to return to the factory for preparation, and the next time she awaits her is a manned space flight.

Xinyuan's manned flight plan continues to advance in an orderly manner, which has caused considerable pressure on all parties in the world.

NACA announced that the Dream Chaser small space shuttle, developed by Sierra Nevada, will complete its first maiden flight by December 15, and said that the future small space shuttle is not a continuation of the STS (Space Shuttle Program at the end of the 70s), but a completely new reusable spacecraft with great promise.

In the original history, after a test flight in 2016, Dream Chaser was tragically neglected because of Lao Ma's reusable rocket, and its design tasks were almost replaced by Lao Ma's second-generation Dragon spacecraft, becoming a long-term unfinished project.

But now NACA clearly wants to support the Dream Chaser, with a take-off mass of 20 tons and a maximum crew of 7 people, it looks like it can match the H1.

Lao Ma is not alert enough to this, and is still immersed in the joy of the successful recovery of the Falcon 9, and is actively planning the subsequent launch mission and the heavy Falcon plan.

Domestically, the space agency congratulated, but did not say whether it had any relevant plans, but a top-secret research institute became more and more interested in H1 and kept reporting to its superiors.

In addition to this, there are more people who want to get H1 before Arbor.

The first thing I found was... JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, wants to buy an H1 for $2 billion to launch at their Tanegashima Space Center on the same terms as Abor.

Lin Ju directly refused.

Of course, he can't sell it, and Abel can be because Aber's situation is complex and his technical strength is weak; And next to the island country, there are two Aramco aircraft carrier formations, and they are crazy to sell the space shuttle to them?

Then the stick also came to the door, and it was the same rhetoric that fooled the past, don't ask, getting too close to Ami is the original sin.

However, there are no countries in Asia that can get so much money except for these two, although Europe has money, but people are arrogant, and the remaining group of small countries can only ask if they have flight plans in the future, and they can pay some money to send one or two of their own astronauts to the sky.

Of course, more importantly, there are finally rich people who have begun to ask Xinyuan about the question of heaven, and it is actually domestic.