Chapter 296: Comet-Away Fire Combo
However, as soon as it came to the space shuttle, Lin Ju led the topic to the Advance space station.
After a co-construction agreement was reached five months ago, the space agency will undertake half of the 12 centrifugal modules on Advance, and the first of the six modules should be delivered by July 2017 and completed by December 2017.
At the end of January, the centrifugal part of the Pioneer space station will be installed, and Lin Ju does not want to delay the construction of the module.
However, the five institutes that undertook the construction task said that there was no problem, they have always understood the speed of Xinyuan's spacecraft construction, and began to customize various required equipment when the cooperation was finalized, and there was no problem with all of them being in place this year.
The last link is to formulate a launch mission schedule, which is the business of the big guys.
The latter stood up:
"Then the main launch tasks of deep space exploration and space station in the first half of this year are as follows:
On January 17, the fire detector was launched;
On January 20, the Xinyuan-3 Yao-4 rocket was launched;
On January 24, Pioneer was launched;
On February 15, the Long March 10 Yao-2 was launched;
On February 29, the Long March-7 Yaoyao-3 rocket was launched;
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On June 28, the Xinyuan-3 Yao-9 mission was launched;
The Meteorological Bureau will verify the launch plan and give early warning of risks, and tentatively plans to launch 17 main missions and 9 manned missions in the first half of the year. ”
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"Slow down, slow down, this thing is old and expensive, the nuclear reactor inside has already started to run, it's terrible."
At the B-level base, the workers in the assembly workshop carefully hoisted the "off fire" into the cargo hold of the Lightning, and accurately put it into the groove of the buffer mold.
Several researchers from the Aoyama base were also on high alert, and a team of firefighters in protective suits were on standby with water cannons.
The Lihuo probe and the fission-electric thruster, already named Comet, will be mounted on Lightning and Xinyuan-5A rockets, respectively, and assembled in low-Earth orbit before flying to Mars.
These two large spacecraft, both of which are equipped with tens of kilowatt nuclear reactors, must be transported and installed with special care, and if they are broken, it is a trivial matter, and the leakage of nuclear materials inside is really a big deal.
Especially from the fire, not only nuclear reactors, but also super-precision optical components, because they are too sensitive, they will be tested for 24 hours after entering space to confirm that they are correct before flying to Mars, otherwise they can only be caught by the space shuttle to repair it.
Xiao Okada is very proud, the universal platform from the fire is designed by him, and the island country will never be able to build a detector of this level.
"The reactor mass from the fire is a little more than 3 tons, equipped with geological exploration, cosmic rays, optical detection, radio telescopes, infrared remote sensing, communication and forwarding and other more than a dozen functions, it is definitely the most complete ultra-large deep space unmanned detector, 40KW nuclear reactor using thermal ion power generation technology, can work continuously for decades, but also ensure that it has always maintained contact with the earth, which is unique in the past."
Shen Zuozhou of the Fifth Academy was also present, and there were also hundreds of kilograms of payload on the fire detector from the Space Agency.
The space agency hitchhiked in a hurry, because the indicators of leaving the fire came out relatively late, and the participation was limited, but the follow-up plan for the construction of the deep space network was organized by the Aviation Development Commission.
The next few targets are Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter, and several satellites will be launched at the Earth-Moon Lagrange point and in sun-synchronous orbit to enhance communication and navigation capabilities.
However, Shen Zuozhou was more interested in the Lightning at this time.
"I didn't expect Lao Maozi to make a really good thing back then, the transport plane launches, no rocket transfer, no need for a launch pad, no need to clean up the surroundings, which saves a lot of money, and the heat insulation tile of the lightning is also downgraded, not counting the research and development of a launch cost, it should be able to get forty or fifty million, right?"
Xiao Okada: "Uh...... I don't know much about this, maybe? ”
Shen Zuozhou: "High-altitude launch does have advantages, and Lao Tengyun is a little stronger than this, but the R&D investment is too high."
If it weren't for the fact that the Long March 7 was cheap enough, I think the Aviation Development Commission would have made a set. ”
Shen Zuozhou is aware of the launch cost of the Long March 7, the latter's R&D and recovery and maintenance costs have met the expectations of the design, and after some improvements, the single launch cost of the Long March 7 is only 150 million yuan, and if it is a type A, the cost of adding a three-stage hydrogen and oxygen machine is tens of millions higher, but it is still cheap.
In order to quickly improve the launch capability of the space agency, the Long March 7 started construction of three more rockets, a total of four rockets, except for the second stage of the first rocket using Xinyuan's H80 engine, the remaining three were changed to two YF77G.
Just when the fire was completely installed and the lightning was about to close the cargo hold and roll out of the hangar, Shen Zuozhou suddenly asked:
"By the way, Okada, what kind of fuel is your comet thruster, hydrazine compounds or what, I see that your workers are as careful as leaving the fire when transporting it, and you refill the fuel at this time?"
"Huh?" Xiao Okada secretly scolded the "Shanhai" computer that arranged the transfer together in his heart, and after his brain was running rapidly, he fooled around.
"Comet thrusters, because we have to work for a long time, we use a new type of highly toxic fuel, and it is not as safe to refuel at the launch site as here, so we refueled it first."
"Oh, I didn't look at it when I was almost away when I first came over, and I thought it was a heat sink folded outside, and I thought it was a fire with a nuclear reactor on board."
"yes, that's a coincidence, it's supposed to be a solar panel."
"But ......"
"Let's go, Master Shen, the canteen has recently opened a window with island characteristics, and I invite you to eat tempura and roast birds, which are very authentic."
“……”
At the same time, on the other side of the base, the Department of Food and Health Sciences.
It's a department that sounds bland at first glance, and it is.
The Department of Food and Health Sciences is at the bottom of the base, and in addition to researching some good food in the sky for astronauts, it also studies the effects of radiation on astronauts' health.
However, there are many open papers and journals in the world that can refer to these works, and they are not a high priority at the moment.
But now they are busy, and they are the research department that has been assigned to the formulation and process of USBI fortified agents, and they are required to complete the grasp and evaluation of the principles and prospects of the drugs.
USBI Fortified Elixir from Another World Line in 2057, although the system provides the formula and process, the gap between the 40 years of life science is still very huge, although there is no blind spot in knowledge, but many processes are not available now, and there is no suitable equipment in China.
Lin Ju didn't pay much attention to the medicine that this kind of system was not recommended for him, and he didn't care about upgrading a B+ professional researcher and providing an upfront research fund of 1 billion yuan, which was already the biggest investment he could give before seeing the results.
However, the researchers in the department are full of confidence, they are also living people, and the food and health department is about to become the pension department of the base, and it is necessary to make achievements to support the status of the department.
(End of chapter)