Both H2Ms, although they were both the first to leave the factory, had different tasks.

The Pioneer was transported directly by the B4043 to Qiongzhou, where it formed a combination with the specially modified Xinyuan-2A rocket to await launch, while the Glory was tested at the B-class base.

There was no power in the space shuttle's atmosphere, but the Soyuz-born Seryov did a simple and crude approach, strapping two XW-9 jet engines on each side of the Vanguard's tail, and with a slight modification, the Glory had the ability to take off and land autonomously in the atmosphere.

This will allow the Glorious to take off on the runway on its own, completing at least 20 test flights before manned flights.

Although the pneumatic verification machine in the Ulanha Mountain base has also glided hundreds of times, after all, there is still a big difference, in order to hurry the Pioneer directly pulled the unmanned test launch, and the Glory stayed at the B-level base for test flight, and it was easy to modify if something went wrong.

The launch of the Pioneer Xinyuan-2A rocket also needs special modifications, and the two general-purpose core-stage boosters can directly take the Xinyuan-2 first stage as a role, but the middle core stage needs to be newly manufactured to strengthen the rocket body, adding a lot of steel structure, so as to withstand more than 100 tons of lateral stress without cracks.

All preparations have been made, and the launch date of the Pioneer is tentatively set for November 28, with the tail of December stuck for its first flight, and half a month to inspect the assemblage.

Theoretically, H2M is no less significant than a super rocket like Xinyuan-3, but now the limelight is in Aramco.

“…… Space is the ultimate dream of mankind...... Ami will change from now on and ...... again great"

The big guy slept at the base all night, and early in the morning he saw the popularity of Douyin push: John George was elected the 45th Ami boss with 302 votes.

Trembling and opening Tik Tok, Ami time was at night, two hours after John's speech.

In the picture, John looks far less energetic than before the campaign, but a little restrained, and the draft is decent, and there is nothing outstanding about it.

The big guy's instinct told him that John must also be underprepared, in a hurry and not even ready to be elected.

He suddenly found that he couldn't understand the people of Ami, why did he suddenly abandon the traditional elite Diane and choose the red-necked John?

After being stuck by this question for a while, the big guy walked out of the storm of building politics and turned to think about another question: The god of war Ares plan will not really be carried out, right? Won't it really continue to drag CASA into the space race?

Wouldn't it, wouldn't it?

Until Lin Ju and the others found him, the big guy was still in a trance.

"It's really the ...... of history"

"Xiaolin, how did you say this John George was chosen, it's not scientific!"

The big guy interrupted Lin Ju's spell casting, and he couldn't hide the doubts on his face.

The rest of the people also echoed one after another, they are all high-level members of the Aviation Development Commission, and it stands to reason that the vision is not bad, how can the most unlikely person be elected?

"Ahem, we can't understand the internal affairs of Ami, after all, we are not Ami."

Lin Ju said a few perfunctory words, this topic is more sensitive, or say something else:

"Leader, no matter what, the truth is like this, so should we ...... Got a little bit of a Mars exploration mission? ”

"Shhh...... That's right, John will take office in January next year, and if the God of War Ares project is really launched, we will be the lagging side. ”

The big guy immediately reacted, if the track was changed to Mars, his side would not have an advantage.

Aramco has conducted quite a few missions to Mars, with a large number of probes available, ranging from flyby explorations, Mars orbiting satellites, surface landers, roving robots, and more in the last century.

In 1971, NACA launched Mariner 9 became the first artificial satellite to orbit Mars, and in 1997, the Sojana rover landed on the surface of Mars by the Mars Pathfinder lander to become the first Mars ground probe, followed by Ingenuity, Phoenix, Spirit, Curiosity and so on.

Coupled with the Mars orbiters of island countries, Europe and other allies, they have comprehensive and perfect exploration methods, which can almost provide preliminary preparations for manned landing on Mars.

On the other hand, CASA's first attempt at a Mars exploration mission was in 2011, when it built the Firefly-1 satellite and reached the Lucia rocket to go to Mars with the Forbes-Soil probes.

And then...... The main engine of the rocket's upper stage failed to start, and Forbes-Soil crashed in the Pacific Ocean with the Firefly-1 in January of the following year.

Since then, CASA has been convinced and will never cooperate with Lucia on Mars exploration missions again.

The Alliance has launched the Mars exploration program since 1960, on the contrary, NACA was only launched in 1964, but from the Alliance to Lucia, from 1960 to 2011, 20 probes in 51 years, all failed.

Some of them failed to leave the Earth's orbit during the flight, some lost their signal, some passed over Mars and disappeared, and some finally landed and worked for a few minutes before they were finished.

Maozi seems to be born to clash with Mars, and the Mars mission has not been successful once.

The rabbit didn't believe in evil and tried it as an atheist, and then he knew that some things were indeed metaphysical.

In January this year, a full five years passed for Firefly-1 before the space agency once again planned the Mars exploration mission "Tianwen-1".

Although the time is the same as in history, because Xinyuan has been making waves for more than a year, the plan has also made a lot of changes.

Initially, it is still planned to be launched around 2018, using the experience of Chang'e-3 to hit the satellite, lander, and rover at one time, with an overall mass of about 5 tons, which is similar to the Long March-7A rocket.

Tianwen-1, CASA's first probe to Mars, has nothing but that.

Therefore, if a manned landing is really carried out, it means that CASA needs to spend an extra window to launch a probe, at least to confirm a suitable landing site first.

Because Mars, unlike the Moon, has a greater gravity and an atmosphere, it is not cost-effective to travel thousands of miles to bring the returned fuel from Earth to Mars and then use it back, and you need to find a place where you can synthesize fuel (roughly determined to be methane).

Lin Ju: "There is too much trouble in the time for Mars landing, the window period is only once every 26 months, and the rest of the time is even if it is launched, because the distance is too far, the time taken is similar to the waiting window, this year's window has been missed, the next time is May 2018, we have almost 16 months to plan the 2018 Mars exploration mission." ”

Big guy: "Then Tianwen-1 will not work, the probe launched this time must have the ability to find a suitable landing site and provide basic environmental exploration on Mars."

A window period is still too little, oops, Tianwen-1 should be planned early, it will be very suitable to launch this year, about 10 months, and there will be more than a year of detection time. ”

The big guy blamed himself a little, because compared with lunar exploration, the priority of the Mars mission is relatively low, so the space agency has not paid much attention to it, and the main focus is on the Chang'e series of missions.

This led to the failure of Firefly 1 to launch the second fire exploration program five years later, although it was more radical, but it could not make up for the lost time.

But no one expected that the space agency would soon fall into a race to land on fire after the moon landing, and it can only be said that the plan could not catch up with the changes.

At this time, Serov, who was standing silently on the side, finally spoke:

"A window period does not mean that only one rocket will be launched, the Mars orbital capacity of Xinyuan-2 can reach about 10 tons, and the number of Xinyuan-2 we have is equal to the number of launch sites."

"You mean......" Academician She remembered that when the alliance was competing for the first launch probe in the early days, because the success rate could not be guaranteed, he prepared 3 to 4 rockets and the same probe at one time, and launched intensively during the window period.

And now the number of Xinyuan-2 rockets has reached 6, and there are just 6 launch sites in China that can launch it, which means that it can project 60 tons of mass to Mars within a one-month window at most?!

Academician She looked at Serov, feeling the firmness and confidence on his face, and suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu.

(End of chapter)