Looking at the large cabin space with a width of nearly 5 meters in the picture, Lao Ma asked his assistant:

"Can we make such a wide section?"

"Yes, but the Falcon 9 is only 3.7 meters in diameter, and such a large space station is close to 8 meters after the fairing, which is too big, and the Heavy Falcon has enough capacity, but it can't be launched."

The old horse did not speak, but just supported his mouth with his hand and put his thumb on the tip of his nose.

Originally, specaX had always regarded himself as an explorer in the sky realm, and even the continuous failure of Falcon 9 before did not dampen his confidence, but the appearance of Xinyuan Company did put great pressure on Lao Ma.

Although the upcoming Heavy Falcon is enough to compete with the Xinyuan-2 rocket, it is the limit of this configuration, and the rocket body is not as good as the opponent.

The second-generation Dragon spacecraft actually has the ability to fly manned, but it is estimated that there are still many troubles in undertaking manned flight missions.

The bidding for the basic part of the Artemis program has been completed, with the Orion spacecraft being developed by Lockmartin, the service module being handled by ESA, and the lander with the bulk of the Blue Origin and a small part to specaX.

However, the role of specaX is still very important, and the Falcon Heavy rocket is currently the only heavy rocket that can project 26 tons of material to the moon, but it cannot be reused, so two Heavy Falcon must be made, and both will be discarded in the end.

Three-engine SLS, three-engine heavy Falcon, specaX already occupy a fairly important place in the Artemis program, but the old horse is still not satisfied.

Because Xinyuan has proposed the more powerful Xinyuan-3 giant rocket and nuclear-powered space shuttle, and his starship is still in the imagination and there is no specific plan.

The "Raptor" liquid oxygen methane engine that laid the foundation for the Starship has not yet been born, and the first generation of Raptor will not be tested until 2016, but it has been positioned as the main engine of the specaX in the future.

Jeff Bezos's blue origin, the BE4 engine was originally very slow, but after the success of Xinyuan 2, it immediately increased its investment, and once successful, the thrust of 250 tons will be stronger than that of Xinyuan's M220.

"Project Artemis, too far behind."

Lao Ma said suddenly, and the assistant knew that the boss was going to have a new idea again:

"NACA selected Bezos' Blue Moon lander, which is no different from the Apollo program except for its size, the spacecraft and lander are still separate, and they still need to dock multiple times, and the procedure is complicated.

specaX is ahead of everyone else, and we figured out a way to keep the astronauts out of running around in the next compartment so that the spacecraft could land on the lunar surface and back. ”

Ma Yilong opened the memo on his phone and drew a blurry outline with twisted lines, a bullet-shaped spaceship with a flat head and two wings on each side.

"Such a spacecraft can land on Mars and the Moon, as well as land in the atmosphere, and it's a real spaceship, I call it a Star Ship.

I know that there are liquid oxygen and kerosene engines with more thrust in the factory, but methane is the fuel that can be produced on the planet of the future, so we will continue to stick to methane power in the next step...... I understand what to do. ”

Three days later, when Lin Ju sat in the back seat of the Caiyun trainer and was led by Deng Lei, he swiped his mobile phone before taking off, and the little blue bird found a message of special concern, and Lao Ma released the next goal of specaX.

It's a starship, and it's different from what it remembers, but the general design has appeared.

"This damn world line correction."

"Huh? Boss, what do you say? ”

The cockpit canopy had not yet been closed, and the propeller driven by the V8 air-cooled gasoline engine manufactured by Southern Automobile made a huge noise, and Deng Lei didn't hear what Lin Ju was saying for a while.

"I said, do a good job, the next batch of space stations will rotate you up!"

Lin Ju's voice was similar to before, but the amazing thing was that Deng Lei actually heard it clearly, and excitedly took off quickly with his boss and flew at high speed in the woods around the airport.

Caiyun's level flight speed is only 290km/h, which is no different from a kite for Deng Lei, but for Lin Ju, who only cares about looking at the scenery on the ground, it is a novel experience, and he shouts excitedly on the radio.

The air traffic control just kept asking Deng Lei not to do stunts in order to make the success rate of ejecting the seat the highest.

As the boss, Lin Ju is, of course, a special pilot to fly one-on-one, and can experience flying every day after taking theoretical classes, while the rest of the company's trainees are taught by hired retired pilots in small classes, and they can also be taken to fly, but the time is much less.

……

On November 24, the Long March-6 Yao-4 rocket was erected at the Bingzhou Space Launch Center.

This rocket has no satellite mission, and the first level and above are all counterweights, apparently for testing.

After a successful recycling in August using the recycling control system purchased from Xinyuan, the pressure on the Eighth Academy was actually even greater, using all the data from the Yaosan mission to improve its own recycling system.

The bus has been changed, the RX01 board has been purchased, and the parallel processing capacity has been doubled.

The posture library has added a lot of data, after all, there is a successful experience, and it is right to try to lean on it.

Although Xinyuan's recycling control system is encrypted, the peripheral part is still inevitably parsed and set in its own system.

In order to maximize the success rate, the Eighth Academy creatively created a set of simulation software to simulate the rocket recovery test, and collected a lot of data for the authenticity, and then took it to the supercomputer to run, the new generation of recovery system internal code name "Yunkai", in the supercomputer has been simulated thousands of times, really can't find fault.

At 14 o'clock in the afternoon, the Long March-6 Yao-4 rocket conducted the fourth test of the self-developed recovery system.

In the nervous worry of the researchers, the rocket successfully dragged the orange tail flame into the air.

By the way, the Sixth Academy, which worked the YF130, actually had the spare power to make a small change to the YF100K, increasing the pressure and increasing the thrust to 130 tons.

A few minutes later, the Long March 6 Yao-4 rocket lowered its altitude towards the landing site at a certain inclination, not because there was anything wrong, but because there was plenty of room for adjustment.

As the rocket slowly approached the ground, beads of sweat continued to gush out of He Yu's face, and he almost forgot to breathe.

100 meters, 80 meters...... At 15 meters, the support leg is deployed within one second, and the engine continues to reduce the thrust, and when the sharp angle of the support leg is about to touch the bottom, it will be shut down immediately to avoid the backflow ablation of the bottom pipeline.

The first stage of the rocket bounced the ground, then stopped.

A group of researchers forcibly resisted the urge to run into the hot landing field, and excitedly threw He Yu up, and the scene continued to burst into applause.

……

"At about 15 o'clock this afternoon, China successfully carried out a carrier rocket recovery test, the rocket type is the Long March 6 multiplex type, which is developed by the Eighth Research Institute of the Space Administration.

In the process of development, the team encountered many difficulties and failures, but under the leadership of the chief engineer of the team and the vice president of the Eighth Academy, He Wei, innovated research methods, strengthened the morale of personnel, and greatly reduced the cost of data collection with the help of computer simulation technology, so that China has a recycling technology with completely independent intellectual property rights......"

In the evening, Lin Ju looked at the broadcast content in the CCAV news and pouted unconvinced.

(End of chapter)