Chapter 217 H2M Passenger Edition
"Seryov? Does that name sound a bit like Lucia? ”
"Hehe, authentic Chinese people, it may be that Bingcheng has a deep influence and has taken an ambiguous name."
Xinyuan's major personnel changes have long attracted attention, and the space agency was the first to discover that a college student who graduated for one year actually became the first vice president in one step, and one person is more than 10,000 people?
During the second manned launch of the Firm on August 7, the big guy caught Lin Ju in Qiongzhou and asked his doubts.
Seryov has long been checked, it is indeed an orthodox Chinese, or the older generation moved from the south, and his grades in school can only be said to be good, and then he was depressed because of family changes and went to travel the world poorly.
Such a mediocre college student was actually issued an offer from Xinyuan Company, and then went straight to a high position without being excluded?
The last point is said by the experts of the Fifth Academy of Sciences in the B-level base to jointly build the experimental cabin, the employees in the base have no opinion on the second boss is young and lacks qualifications, or what should they do, several executives not only have no opinions, but even some people say that they seem to respect Selev?
Lin Ju didn't explain much about this, anyway, Seryov was not like everyone else, and he had an innocent background and no problems.
"Our company is all about ability, Seryov's ability has been recognized by others, as for being the direct vice president, in fact, our Xinyuan internal is different from the general company, the first vice president is more inclined to technical positions."
This misty explanation made the big guy nod and at the same time realize that he didn't seem to say anything, but it was not easy to ask, anyway, it was Xinyuan's own business.
He mainly came to see the Long March 10, and Lin Ju came to supervise the launch of the Steadfast Mission, and he just happened to run into it.
This time, the firm was full, Xinyuan's own astronaut Hu Dong served as the commander, with two newcomers as deputies, and the remaining 7 passengers, 4 of them were foreigners from commercial aerospace, and 3 were lucky owners who won the space ticket last year.
At present, the number of space tourists accepted by Xinyuan and Orient International has exceeded 100, and the first batch of tourists has just finished training, and then there will be at least one flight mission every month, ushering in the period of ultra-high frequency manned launch.
To this end, the Steadfast will also be launched intensively, and at the same time, its own astronauts and engineers will be sent into space one after another.
And it is expected that around next year, Xinyuan will also send students who have signed employment contracts with Xinyuan into space to continuously enrich their space team.
At that time, the steadfast will not be enough, and a low-earth orbit tourist version of H2M may be built, and the cabin will be completely a passenger plane layout, with 4 seats on the left and right, a total of 24 rows, and can carry 192 passengers.
The single maintenance cost of H2M is about 140 million yuan, because there is no need to replace the heat insulation tile, so compared with H1, the cost has actually dropped significantly, and the new Yuan-2A rocket that launched the space shuttle does not need a two-stage rocket, and the cost is not too high, and the fuel consumption and maintenance of the combination after each launch is about 520 million yuan.
192 seats, which means that the cost of a single seat is only 2.7 million yuan.
If the cost of the passenger version of H2M is set at 3.5 billion, with an average of 100 launches, the cost of each time is 35 million, and the cost of a single seat is about 2.9 million yuan.
If it is completely commercial, each ticket will be charged 5 million yuan, almost 9 flights will recover the manufacturing cost, and then each flight will net about 400 million yuan, and 40 billion yuan will be earned back after 100 flights.
Counting every 15 flights in the middle to be thoroughly overhauled and inspected, assuming 15 flights a year, most of the middle is mixed with their own people to send up, basically a small profit.
But the biggest significance of the H2M passenger version is that it can send a large number of people into space, sending nearly 200 people to space at a time.
And H2M because it is particularly heavy, the thrust-to-weight ratio of Xinyuan No. 2 A is not high, theoretically you can go up if you are healthy, no additional training is required, and it is about the same as a passenger plane, but the speed when returning is a bit high.
This is the era of real space tourism, and as long as nothing else, the value for money and practicality of the H2M passenger version will be unmatched, allowing people to travel to and from space in batches.
It's just that the risk is so big, that's nearly 200 lives, or a space shuttle, I'm afraid it's not easy to approve a manned flight.
Of course, this is also forced to be helpless, because as far as the current technology is concerned, before the space plane that can enter orbit in a single stage, the space shuttle is already the cheapest means to go to space.
However, even the cost price of 2.9 million yuan per person is still very expensive, and it is difficult to make these 192 people play a role, unless it is possible to carry out a large-scale development of the moon.
But just the current launch capability of the Firm is enough to be envied by the big guys.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, four foreigners and three lucky car owners took a group photo with Lin Ju to show that the latter vouched for the mission, and then seven passengers wearing the ultimate simplified version of the cabin spacesuit went to the launch tower.
In order to continue to reduce costs, Xinyuan and the space agency have developed the latest generation of in-cabin spacesuits, which are extremely lightweight at best, and have poor performance, which can only be said to be okay.
Its sole purpose is to ensure that the humans inside can survive 120 minutes in the event of an accident on the space shuttle and not be exposed to a vacuum due to blood boiling and suffocation, during which the space shuttle will quickly return to Earth and survive in the atmosphere.
The price of such a spacesuit, coupled with mass manufacturing, can be reduced to about 1.5 million, and as long as it has not been exposed to a vacuum, it can be reused forever, and it can reduce a lot of costs.
At 11 o'clock, 3 crew members and 7 passengers were sent into space by the Xinyuan 5A rocket at the No. 2 station of the Xinyuan Space Launch Site, and then went on their own 24-hour space journey.
Also on this night, Lin Ju saw the Long March 10, which had been hoisted for most of the time, in Building 1 of the Qiongzhou launch site.
The core stage and four boosters have been installed, and only the upper stage is missing.
Unlike the new Yuanji rocket, which likes to use counterweights as the upper stage for the first time, the Long March 10 Yao-1 rocket of the Space Administration is a full-state three-stage rocket, which can theoretically hit the load to the moon.
Standing at the very bottom of the assembly building, Lin Ju and the big guy were accompanied by Yun Hongjun and looked up at the tall Long March 10 rocket together.
Because of the same structure of four liquid boosters, sometimes the Long March 10 will make people think that it is a large old Chang 5, but in fact, the height of the Long March 10's 5-meter booster is more than 40 meters, which is almost equal to the overall height of the old Long March 5B.
In order to increase the manufacturing speed, the Long March 10 uses a universal core stage, which is exactly the same as the booster, with the same height, diameter, and number of engines, which makes its first stage run out of fuel almost at the same time as the booster.
Therefore, the second stage design is relatively long to extend the working time to continue to put the load and the third stage into orbit.
This makes the Long March 10 also more than 110 meters in its entirety with the escape tower, which is also higher than the Saturn 5.
(End of chapter)