On July 23, the space agency finally submitted the first important space cooperation project to Xinyuan Aerospace Power:

The Tiangong-2 space station, a backup to the Tiangong-1 space station, will be launched in October this year with the Long March-2F earlier than originally planned for 2016.

The Shenzhou-11 spacecraft, which was originally planned to dock with Tiangong-2, will be replaced by Xinyuan's H1 space shuttle, which will transport three astronauts and 500 kilograms of cargo to Tiangong-2 in November, and then return with astronauts 30 days later.

Then the Fifth Academy will successfully develop the "Tianzhou-1" cargo spacecraft by April next year, and launch it to dock with Tiangong-2, operate as a combination and continue to receive astronauts.

After a month of internal squabbling, the space agency finally unified its internal opinion, that is, to leave the rest of the task for the time being, hand over the powerful but timeless mission, and accelerate the progress of the space program.

The H1 cargo version of Progress can send three people or 4.5 tons of cargo into space, and the passenger version of Solidarity can transport six people at a time, and the former data is highly valued by space agencies.

Not only is it more convenient and fast, but most importantly, it is cheap and fast, no matter how the price is offered, it is definitely cheaper than the Long March-2F plus Shenzhou spacecraft, and it can be sent once a month, which is to save money and cost.

The docking with Tiangong-2 is also easy to say, H1's interface is 0.9 meters round mouth, although it is not compatible with Tiangong No. 2's 0.85-meter round mouth, but it is not a big project to change the interface to Tiangong No. 2, and the gap is so small.

Lin Ju attached great importance to the space station cooperation plan sent by the Space Administration, and did not make his own decision, but called the system engineer for reference.

Guo Shen browsed through the entire plan, and said:

"There are no technical problems, and we can provide the standard for retrofitting the interface, but to be honest, this list is too small."

Anderov took over the topic: "The cost of one reuse of H1 is about 18 million to 23 million, and if it is launched in October...... I try my best to complete the K380V engine project before September, and the four boosters of Xinyuan 5 will be manufactured in August, and the core-level rocket body has also been completed, only the engine is missing;

The Xinyuan-5 rocket will be used for the mission in October, and the cost of sending them up will be about 50 million, and the quotation will be according to the price of commercial aerospace minus the cost of astronaut training, 0.5 tons of goods will be given away for nothing, and the total quotation will be 350 million; if it is the Xinyuan-2 rocket, it will be too expensive, and the cost alone will be less than 160 million, and a total of at least 600 million will be given. ”

Lin Ju calculated the price of the Long March-2F in his heart, plus the Shenzhou spacecraft was about 1 billion, even if it was launched with Xinyuan-2, half of the money would be saved.

"It's not small, send them both offers, if you use Xinyuan 5 and it can be half cheaper, the space agency will accept it with a careful budget."

Guo Shen: "I still have an idea to make this project bigger. ”

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"Look, they have a new rocket again, this Xinyuan No. 5 uses a kerosene engine, and the capacity is just right, and the cost must have been severely reduced, otherwise we won't be quoted half the price of Xinyuan No. 2."

The director of the Space Agency put Xinyuan's offer on the projector and handed it to everyone for discussion.

"This is for sure, the second stage of Xinyuan No. 2 is too expensive, and it is also troublesome to measure and control the transfer of additional costs, and the kerosene machine used in Xinyuan No. 5 can be cheaper, and the cost can be reduced by at least 60%."

"Let's use the Xinyuan-5 rocket, although it is a new model, they will definitely hit one or two unmanned flights first, and the rocket body technology of this medium-sized rocket is very mature, so there should be no problems."

"The offer of 350 million is the same as their foreign commercial aerospace, which is much cheaper than Shenzhou 11."

After some discussion, everyone unanimously agreed on Xinyuan's offer, and they all felt that it was a good deal.

But obviously the matter is not over, the director clicked on Zhao Liang, the deputy chief engineer of the space station of the Fifth Academy, and everyone's attention was focused on him.

Zhao Liang stepped forward and opened a new PPT from the USB flash drive.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Chief Engineer Guo Shen mentioned the space station by the way when I was talking, and they thought that the XS-62 space station they designed could be docked with Tiangong-2, which would be conducive to the improvement of astronauts' living conditions and the docking of spacecraft.

The XS-62 has a nodal bay with five docking interfaces, one of which is perpendicular to the axis of the 0.9-meter round port that can dock with the modified Tiangong-2, and then they changed the opposite side of this interface to a 0.9 round port for docking with the H1 space shuttle.

In this way, our astronauts can move to the XS-62 to live, and if it is renovated, it can be increased to 6 bedrooms, 2 independent bathrooms, and 560 cubic meters of space under the premise of comfortable living. ”

Then the projection screen appeared on the image of XS-62 and H1 and Tiangong-2, which was 36 meters long and 7.6 meters in diameter in front of XS-62, 10 meters long and 3.35 meters in diameter, making it look like a small pudding.

But everyone knows that the price of the "little pudding" equipped with a lot of experimental equipment is actually several times that of the XS-62, and it is really awkward.

"How long is the designed in-orbit operation time of their module?"

After a long time, someone finally asked a question.

"In 10 years, the price of the space station is 1 billion yuan, and the single launch of Xinyuan 2 is 500 million yuan, a total of 1.5 billion yuan, they say that the construction period is five months, and Xinyuan now has the ability to build two at the same time."

After Zhao Liang finished speaking, the audience immediately turned their heads and ears again, and some people involved in the design of the space station and spacecraft began to discuss in a whisper:

"1.5 billion for such a cabin, I think 6 people are less, even if 10 people are stuffed according to the standard of their luxury single room, they are rich, which is equivalent to 150 million a year, and they can also receive five cabins, no matter how you look at it, it is cost-effective."

"Tiangong No. 2 is only 1 billion, but it is a beautiful knife, and it is cheap to play the tourist cabin alone......"

Zhao Liang looked at the people who were discussing fiercely below, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Guo Shen said to Lin Ju that "make the project bigger" is to also sell a tourist cabin to the Space Agency, but it brings far more than a single profit to Xinyuan.

The internal volume of XS-62 is dozens of times that of Tiangong-2, and they are used to using such a comfortable space station, and they are still willing to use it back in their own small room?

And after the purchase of the XS-62, the space agency will never be so stingy in the design of the module, not to mention anything else, the design is so small that there is no space to install a 2.5-meter counter interface, at least it has to be more than 5 meters away.

Space stations of this level, except for the Long March 5, only Xinyuan has the ability to launch, and the Long March 5 is far away, so obviously this will force the space agency to choose Xinyuan 2, and the latter is very cheap, only 500 million per launch.

No matter how much the Long March 5 saves costs, it will not be able to press less than 1 billion, and it will never be able to achieve a price advantage.

For Guo Shen representing the first time that Xinyuan Aerospace showed the fangs of capital, Lin Ju chose to acquiesce.

The aerospace market is limited, in addition to creating demand, grabbing demand is also an important means, Xinyuan has a big business, sometimes it must be done, and this is also a normal business logic!

I just don't know what the space agency will do, whether it will maintain its own closed system, or completely open up to Xinyuan?