The Glory's encounter with the Dream Chaser in the sky dilutes the atmosphere of rivalry for the two transpacific nations and can contribute to a few days of folk fun.

After all, for Aramco, the Artemis program has been successful so far, the Orion spacecraft has entered the lunar orbit and everything is normal, coupled with the small spread of the K-line's equation of "1*SLS=2*CZ-10", and the manned flight of the Dream Chaser, the previous tension has eased a lot.

In particular, if the Dream Chaser successfully made its first manned flight, then the six astronauts of the two Alliance missions that were canceled this year and the next batch of three astronauts will fill the Dream Chaser to replace most of the crew in international space, roughly in January next year.

The Aviation Development Commission is about to celebrate the New Year, so everyone naturally has a relaxed atmosphere, and there is good news: the four boosters and core stage of the Long March 10 Yao-2 rocket have been completed.

At this time, only four months have passed since the launch of the Long March 10 Yao-1 rocket.

The Long March 10 rocket is relatively technically mature because it uses the Long March 5 rocket body, and the Long March 5 sample rocket was actually tested on the shaking table before the Long March 10 project, and it was very fast to manufacture.

When the Long March 10 Yao-1 rocket was manufactured, the Jingu rocket manufacturing base started construction of 8 boosters and 5-meter-diameter rocket bodies of the core stage (general) at one time, 5 were used to assemble rockets, 1 was taken to test, and there were 2 left, and three more were manufactured during this time.

The YF130 engine used in the first stage is quite reliable and has been installed on the rocket body, only the upper stage of the YF77 is missing.

After solving the design flaws and dark problems of YF77, the thrust increased by 10% and the weight was reduced by 500 kg, and the performance jumped to the first-class level.

The Sixth Academy was extremely greedy for the engine engineers sent by Xinyuan, and tried to poach people with heavy money and future guarantees, but it was unsuccessful, so it extended the residency time of several engineers to February to help improve the YF77 mass production line.

The first batch of improved YF77s, known as YF77G modifications, have improved reliability and performance by leaps and bounds, and are expected to be delivered to the Long March 10 Yao-2 rocket at the end of January, enabling the latter to complete its launch mission in February.

Therefore, the interval between the Long March 10 Yao-2 and Yao-1 rockets is 6 months, although the SLS manufacturing capacity is accelerating, but the Jingu rocket factory is even crazier......

Both are now in a state of "advantage in me", so the attitude is also very harmonious.

But for the world, it already belongs to the point where the gods can't understand the fight.

……

New Delhi.

JAXA, IRSO, and RKA gathered here to participate in the moon landing plan.

A week ago, Kishimoto received the evaluation report of the moon landing program by the "Asia Star Program Preparatory Committee (JAXA and IRSO)", which proved through thousands of pages of long statements that the Asia Star program can guarantee the completion of a manned moon landing around 2020 and no more than 2022.

So the two countries began detailed consultations, and finally, after consideration, it was decided to develop the Asiastar program to Lucia "to a limited extent" and increase the speed of the program.

Lucia's experts, who were already directing the construction and improvement of the Gaganyan spacecraft in India, gathered for a tripartite demonstration meeting of the Asia Star program.

may know that their aerospace technology is still slightly behind Lucia, and JAXA and IRSO did not hide it, and handed over all the technology they could provide to Lucia's experts for evaluation.

Alexander Natiradze was the commander in chief who had been appointed to help India's Gaganyan project, and he was given an order before setting out to use the technology of the "Ascent Series" to guide the Gaganyan spacecraft as much as possible.

What about the "Ascent" series of spacecraft, which was developed by the Alliance in the 60s, upgraded from the "Vostok" spacecraft on which Gagarin rode to complete the task of extravehicular walking......

Natiladze began to wonder if it was too ruthless to sell these technologies for $500 million, but after coming to guide the work of the IRSO, his thinking changed:

At India's level, the Vostok spacecraft may not be reliable for them!

There are a number of problems with the Gaganyan spacecraft, including but not limited to:

The materials and requirements of the spacecraft's shell were unqualified, but the third brother in charge of the project told him that it was not so good that the ground test did not pass through the atmosphere anyway, and he was proud to save a sum of money;

The assembly workshop can't be said to be dust-free, how did those workers in slippers get in?! The accuracy of this assembly is comparable to that of Lucia's light industry;

The structural design was obviously unreasonable, and the structural designer was a former employee of NACA, and he had no problem designing the original drawings, but the leaders of the Ministry of Science made quite a lot of unrealistic requests, so it was done like this;

Excrement was found in the workshop;

The ignition system of the escape tower was falsified and fell below safety standards.

Lucia has always been known for her roughness, but Natiladze only discovered what real roughness was when he arrived here, and without him, the Gaganyan spacecraft would not even have the ashes left for the astronauts......

Fortunately, as an RKA expert, his words are still very effective, and through hard work, he is changing these little by little, at least he can make the Gaganyan spaceship undead.

After going through so much, Najiradze's mentality to participate in the Asian Star preparatory meeting can be imagined.

But he didn't show it, and the more unreliable these two countries were, the better, if they were both as serious and hard-working as that student in the East, business would not be able to be done.

He has seen the information provided by JAXA about the same, and feels that it is much stronger than IRSO - if there are no false standards, but at least their industrial standards are much better implemented, and the island country's precision machinery is good, it should be okay, right?

However, judging from the comprehensive level of rockets in the past of the two countries, they may not be able to rely on themselves.

"I don't think there are any problems with the design of the rocket base of the H-X."

Najiradze's first sentence made the meeting smile, as if the Asian Star program had been successful.

"There is no problem that the core stage of the rocket is manufactured by the island country and the booster is undertaken by India, but the task division of the lunar spacecraft needs to be improved."

"Please give your opinion, it's hard work!"

Shinichiro Sakai, the proposer of H-X, was humble after listening to the translation, because they really had no foundation in this regard.

Natiladze: "I propose to improve the Lunar spacecraft based on the Gaganyan spacecraft, which will save a lot of time, and JAXA is responsible for the design and construction of the service module, you have built cargo spacecraft, this should be fine, right?" ”

Shinichiro Sakai hesitated for a moment, but Shiwin Samarkand on the other side preemptively said that it was no problem, and he had to nod first.

Natiladze: "The other thing is the lander, I suggest that we make it together. ”

Shinichiro Sakai: "What is tripartite joint manufacturing?" ”

"Tripartite joint manufacturing means that we come up with a feasible solution, distribute the parts to be manufactured, and finally assemble them in India or an island country."

Shivin Samarkand: "What do you mean?" ”

Najiradze said it seven or eight times before JAXA and IRSO finally understood.

Lucia's own manned lunar landing program has been determined with the establishment of the Energy 2 rocket, and the preliminary decision is to use the "Eagle" spacecraft and the traditional lander to launch the Energy 2 rocket in two times, assemble it in low-earth orbit, and fly to the moon together.

The Eagle spacecraft was not very difficult for Lucia, but the landing and ascent return landers were different, and they were not done during the Alliance period.

However, there is generally no problem in terms of technical principles, the alliance has done an unmanned sampling and return mission on the moon, and the process and specific data are available, only the money is missing.

In order to save time and money, RKA decided to "borrow chickens and eggs" and insert the development of the lander into the Star of Asia program, and use the money of these two countries to pay for research and development, which can also be used when it lands on the moon.

This is Lucia's tried and tested routine, throwing a valuable project out for foreign cooperation, and then constantly pulling investment to realize spending other people's money to support her own baby.

However, Shivin Samarkand is not from the Ministry of Defense, and he hasn't realized what the problem is, and in his opinion, it is a matter of course for the three countries to make it together, and he subconsciously wants to nod.

Only JAXA, on the other hand, smelled the smell of conspiracy and quietly probed:

"So, in which country is the main body of the lander manufactured?"

Natiladze: "Haha...... It's all small problems, small problems. Mr. Sakai, everything Lucia has done is for you.

My friend, Lucia just wants to get a little bit of money in helping emerging countries realize their dreams, and we Lucia are the most sincere in international cooperation. ”

(End of chapter)