Chapter 174: Xinyuan No. 3, Leaving the Factory!
On June 18, this year's 618 is not only a shopping festival for the Internet, but also a shopping festival for many private aerospace companies.
Due to Xinyuan's opening of a full range of engines and recycling control systems for sale, the private enterprises that were originally struggling to crawl suddenly became supportive.
There are 5-meter reusable rockets using a single K380V, which directly cover the range of 9 to 30 tons of low-earth orbit capacity through the combination of CBC configuration and second stage.
There are many K120s engaged in 7-meter heavy rockets, and even small space shuttles and Musk starships.
With the engine, they can really do whatever they want, and other private aerospace companies that are small and transparent have come out of the closed and begun to use the characteristics of commercialization to accelerate their development.
Rockets with a capacity of hundreds of kilograms to hundreds of tons are covered by the rich rocket pedigree of several companies in an instant.
And although the key components are sourced, they can also reduce costs in other ways to make profits, and reusability is the best cost compressor.
However, in order to prevent unrestricted bad competition from constantly suppressing prices, the Aviation Development Commission took the lead in making mandatory regulations, through the constraints of the source of technology, to completely cut off the impact of low prices on the market, so that everyone has no fun.
After so many years of business, the country has long been no small novice, and the regulations have been formulated from the beginning.
These measures have strongly promoted China's confidence in private aerospace, and also made people feel that Xinyuan Aerospace and the Space Agency will not eat alone, and the aerospace sector has responded very well.
For Xinyuan to take the initiative to open up the products of other private enterprises, foreign reactions are not small.
Aerospace has always been relatively closed, everyone is doing their own thing, like a car here to purchase there to make the cost of the cost is actually rare, but if it is open, it is still very beneficial to small aerospace enterprises.
Several of Aramco's smaller space companies took the opportunity to call on companies such as SpecaX, ULA, Blue Origin and others to open up their engines and the hottest rocket recovery control system, but surprisingly, the giants responded coldly and seemingly nothing.
This is not in the interests of large companies, their purpose is to monopolize, the original World Line Air Fork using the Falcon 9, which can be launched continuously, has created a miracle that the annual launch volume accounts for 70% of the world's total.
What if I sell these things, what if I come out in reverse and steal business from me? Even if you buy my parts, you just want to maximize profits.
NACA is also silent, they are currently relying on a few large companies to work on Project Artemis, which is much more important than a group of small shrimp.
And their main focus now is not here, in Qiongzhou.
On the same day, it was rare to see two An-1250s taking off at the same time at the B-class base.
The No. 1 machine B4043 mainly runs the route of Xinyuan and Qiongzhou, which is relatively fixed, and the No. 2 plane flies east and west, originally planned to sail around the world, but it may take a period of time for a pigeon due to various factors.
In addition to Aramco's troubles, these factors are that companies continue to come to the door and hope to use the An-1250 for freight tasks.
The biggest one was the CRRC Group, which carefully reviewed the data of the An-1250 and then chartered it to transport the Harmony trainset.
With a width of 3.2 meters, a height of 4 meters and a length of 25 meters, the cargo compartment of the An-1250 can be placed in two cars side by side, for a total of eight carriages.
8 knots, just a group, a train was transported over, but because the cargo load of the An-1250 only supported 360 tons, in the end, only 7 knots, 335 tons, were placed for safety, and they took off on the stuck line.
The An-1250 flew five times, and transported the two EMUs with 16 carriages in series to the destination, and the crew rotated for 48 hours to get it, and the efficiency was scary, and the EMUs were also worth the high rent paid by the CRRC, that is, selling some tickets.
There are also large-scale medical devices, and the An-1250 is also completed in one trip, and all kinds of unexpected industries will be transported by a time when they need a large air transportation capacity.
Due to the high appearance rate of the B4143 machine, the outside world jokingly said that the eldest lady was pampered and only transported the rocket, but the second lady had to work hard to make money to support her family, and some people even made the Q version of the second machine, and the sales were very good.
This time, the No. 2 machine just had no schedule, so it flew back to its hometown, loaded the disassembled Xinyuan No. 3, and arrived in Qiongzhou one after another.
This time, the huge figure of the An-1250 could not cover the arrow body on its back.
11 meters, the Saturn V rocket is 10 meters, and the N1 rocket is up to 17 meters, but the latter is gradually shrinking in diameter due to the conical upward diameter, and there is no Xinyuan 3 full arrow with a diameter of 11 meters.
Therefore, it is mostly meaningless for the media to call Xinyuan-3 "the world's largest and thickest rocket".
Xinyuan is now announcing less and less to the public, and it seems more and more mysterious, and there is almost no news before the departure of Xinyuan No. 3.
When people photographed the first stage on the back of the An-1250 aircraft, they naturally saw the 19 engines placed in three circles behind it.
19 K380 liquid oxygen kerosene engines with a take-off thrust of up to 7,500 tons, twice as much as the Saturn V rocket's 3,400 tons!
The carrying capacity also lived up to expectations, reaching a terrible 247 tons, capable of sending 101 tons of payload into lunar orbit.
For a moment, NACA felt hopeless.
Whether it is an SLS or a heavy Falcon rocket, it will only send more than 20 tons to the moon, and Xinyuan-3 will have at least one top three.
With a mass of 101 tons, it can send a spacecraft, a lander, a space station, and a simple lunar habitation module all at once, and this capacity is so rich that people can't help but doubt the Artemis program.
And the diameter of the rocket reached 11 meters, which means that if the fairing is slightly larger, a spacecraft with a diameter of 15 meters can be dropped!
With such a large diameter, you can open a basketball court!
Some people also think that the reliability of 19 engines arranged on the same rocket body will be reduced, repeating the mistakes of the N1 rocket, but thinking about the 21 engines of Xinyuan No. 2A are all working normally, 19 seems unlikely to have problems?
And the space agency, which was only impacted by Xinyuan-2A last month, was also under great pressure in an instant, and the low-earth orbit capacity of 135 tons could not satisfy Lin Ju, and it required a giant rocket of more than 200 tons.
If Lin Ju hadn't made it clear that the mission of Xinyuan-3 is to build a space station, instead of landing on the moon immediately, the space agency would have been able to directly push the moon landing.
The gap is too big to play, 101 tons of lunar orbit capacity can be a simple and rough miracle, and no matter how much effort is needed to reduce the quality, there is no need to optimize, maybe 100 tons of capacity will not be used up.
But even though Lin Ju repeatedly stated that they would not rush to the moon, but would carry out a manned lunar landing after preparing for the development of the lunar surface in the later stage, the big guy still urged the progress of the Long March 10.
Now the Long March 10 will soon complete the final assembly of the first sample arrow, which will be used for the test of the rocket body, and if it tries to catch up with the schedule, it will be able to fly in early August.
Yun Hongjun's Chang 10 team is almost living in the Jingu rocket manufacturing base, and in order to supervise the progress of the first Long March 10, they will make changes at any time.
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