Chapter 116: Cloud Palace Launch

Low-level training aircraft CJ-01 (Caiyun): Magic Modified Telex Enhanced Version Beginner Teaching Six;

Intermediate training aircraft ZJ-11 (Wyvern): a modern modified version of the Westland Wyvern;

Advanced training aircraft GJ-21 (Meteor): A replica of the Yak-130 equipped with a single XW-9.

Although it is said to be fully self-developed, since almost all of the optimal configurations of these types of training aircraft have been used, Wang Xun directly copied them, and Lin Ju could only do this in the end, which was regarded as saving some research and development time.

There are 50 training planes for each of the three types, and 40 for training and 10 for backup at a time in normal times.

These 150 aircraft of various types are ready to be completed with 2 billion, of which 1.7 billion are for the purpose of building meteor-type high-education aircraft.

The first batch of 10 clouds was completed in 20 days, the Wyvern needed 60 days, and the meteor took 90 days.

Among them, the first batch of Caiyun junior education aircraft will be served by Chairman Lin Ju as the honorary chief engineer, who is responsible for the design of the throttle lever in the cockpit.

At the same time, Lin Ju announced: all employees in the company, down to the security and canteen chefs, up to the chairman himself, as long as they pass the physical examination, all must spend four hours every Sunday to learn flight technology, participate in the company's internal flight school, take turns to train, qualified part-time future pilots, unqualified must master basic aerospace knowledge, become payload experts.

According to the level of flight skills obtained, you can get a different amount of allowance every month, 1000 base.

The whole company was deeply shocked by Lin Ju's crazy move to squeeze them over the weekend, but considering that there was a perk, there was no opposition from top to bottom.

Although Xinyuan implements a two-day holiday system, due to the crazy work in the past year, the overtime is actually very serious, and it is good to be able to fly a plane on weekends......

On November 11, the first batch of colorful clouds had not yet rolled off the assembly line, but another Xinyuan-2 was erected at the Qiongzhou launch site.

This Xinyuan-2 is different from the previous ones, the fairing on the top of the head is nearly 8 meters larger than the rocket body, and the load wrapped is obviously very long, making this heavy rocket with a diameter of 6 meters look a little thin.

The XS-62 Yungong space station was completed five days ago, and was airlifted to Qiongzhou by Il-76, ready to be launched today, and docked with Tiangong-2 tomorrow.

This is the sixth launch of Xinyuan-2 since the end of May, setting a record for the number of launches of a heavy rocket in a short period of time.

The space agency's desire for recyclable rockets is even more urgent, and Xinyuan has placed two Xinyuan-2 in Qiongzhou, and one is stored in the factory, but just those two recoveries can be used in rotation, and it can easily and continuously project mass into space for a short time.

It was a rocket weighing 1,300 tons, and it would take more than two months to manufacture such a rocket, but if it could be recycled, it would only take about 10 days to prepare, and it would be able to be launched quickly with a new second stage, which was low cost and high efficiency.

Although Xinyuan-2 has become an old familiar customer in Qiongzhou, the number of people who came to see the rocket launch has not decreased at all.

How many people across the country want to watch the rocket launch live? I don't know, even if it's only 20 million, 200,000 people have a hundred times a game.

According to a rough calculation by the Qiongzhou government, the total tourism economy of that year has increased by 30% compared with last year, just the tourists brought by the rocket launch this year, which is incredibly exaggerated.

This time, the launch of the core module of the Cloud Palace also attracted a lot of people, including many foreigners, such as Yuri, the director of the Lucia Space Agency in the VIP seat.

The last Soyuz TMA-17M accident caused a heavy blow to the entire Lucia space, and the international dissatisfaction with Lucia was even more, and they sought support from other space agencies or private spaceflight, and they were not willing to sit on Maozi's tin can.

Fortunately, Yuri's official position was not lost, but he made meritorious service and came to Huaguo to seek cooperation.

There are two contents of cooperation: one is the large-scale space station program promoted by the Aviation Development Commission, and the other is the manned lunar landing program.

However, the attitude of the Chinese space agency is obviously not very enthusiastic, perhaps because it is too busy, or it may be that Lucia's space technology is not much that they need.

Even if you really have the technology you want, why not go to Xinyuan?

Yuri also knew this, so even if he was driven to Qiongzhou to watch the rocket launch, he still didn't leave.

Fortunately, Director Huang of the Launch Administration Bureau received him very politely and chatted.

Yuri pointed to the fairing of Xinyuan-2 Yao-6:

"Huang, this space station is second only to Aramco's Skylab, but the technology is much more advanced and the space is much larger, and it would be too luxurious to use it just for tourism.

If our astronauts are crammed into a single tent, yours is a luxury estate with a pool. ”

Director Huang: "The core module of the Cloud Palace is actually commercial, which is normal, and the Tianhe space station launched next year is completely scientific, and the core module of the Cloud Palace will be completely operated by the outside world." ”

Yuri: "The Tiangong space station, it's also open to international cooperation, right?" ”

Director Huang: "I think so, but I'm sorry I have nothing to do with this, I'm just a launch center manager...... Look, the rocket is about to be launched. ”

The 7 methane engines of the Xinyuan-2 Yao-6 rocket ignited, and the methane fuel engine was almost indistinguishable after flying off the ground, only the engine vent at the bottom emitted a light blue light, but the rumbling sound was not reduced at all, and it could be felt in the launch control room.

"Oh, Xinyuan has such a high-frequency launch, and there is a Xinyuan 5 every few days, so we should send our astronauts up, five, one more than the Shenzhou spacecraft."

Well, the number of astronauts stationed in the first batch of space stations has also been determined, and the astronaut brigade has one old with three new and four people, and Xinyuan is also one old with one new.

The "old" refers to Zhou Rui, who will go up with a professional pilot recruited by Xinyuan who has only five months of training.

Originally, Zhao Xiaowen was going to go up, but Xinyuan seems to have carried out a laser project, and it just so happens that Zhao Xiaowen is in this direction, and now it is estimated that he is preparing the team.

Therefore, Professor Zhou had to go to heaven to make up a place after teaching new students for two months, as the only payload expert for this mission.

The mission was led by Liu Ming of the astronaut brigade as the commander and the pilot of the Unity, and a total of six astronauts were sent to space at one time, second only to the seven people of the Aramco space shuttle.

Yuri only felt envious, on the surface, Lucia has always been the only manned mission undertaker of the International Space Station, but in fact, she is working for Ami for the dollar, and she is still excluded everywhere.

They barely sent a payload specialist up, because Lucia no longer had the financial strength to conduct such space experiments.

He thought of Putin's request before coming to China: to find a way to participate in China's manned lunar landing program to build a scientific research station together, send Lucia to the moon, and no matter how bad it is, he must negotiate the Tiangong space station this time.

Although the ISS was officially completed in 2011, due to the old technology and the high intensity of the early module, the life of the ISS is at most five years, and NACA does not have the strength to reorganize and build a new ISS for the time being, so it is important to find a home in advance.

However, Lucia was not the first to think so, and Italy had already begun to act.

(End of chapter)