"This is undetectable 20...... If the project is really established, the price of the TP-25 will have to be lowered. ”

Dou Ping said to himself, at this time, the ground crew on the runway has removed the power supply vehicle and heating and de-icing equipment, and the Wuzhen 20 must take off quickly, otherwise the surface of the fuselage will freeze.

The TP-25 engine is still very expensive, if it is only the ramjet-turbofan part, the maximum 11-ton class generally costs 10 million, and the price is more than 20 million; And a methane gas tip engine with a thrust of 25 tons is cheaper, and one or two million can do it.

But combining these two parts, the price list that the military got was a TP25, and the price was 130 million yuan for a single unit.

The simple price of TP-25 is not high, and Xinyuan's internal statistics believe that the cost of each unit after mass production is about 25 million, and the normal quotation is 50 million.

But don't forget that the military and the space agency invested 4 billion yuan in research and development for the TP25, and initially planned to produce four Tengyun, and placed an order for the first batch of 50 engines, so the 4 billion yuan should be added.

Wuzhen 20 can accept 50 million engines, but 130 million is really unaffordable, so we have to find a way to expand the application scenarios and production of TP25.

Especially the four Tengyun in the early stage, the cost of ten engines per aircraft is 1.3 billion yuan, which is a bit too much of the military budget.

Fortunately, the engine of this Wuzhen 20 was sent by Xinyuan for testing, and it didn't cost money, otherwise Dou Ping would have a headache.

Anderov reminded:

"The load that can be used for detection equipment by the non-detection 20 is very small, at most 350 kilograms, and it is necessary to open a reconnaissance window, I don't know much about your technology, but this is not easy.

The fuel temperature of the Wuzhan 20 is too low, either using ultra-high-speed flight to heat up and de-icing, or staying in orbit, the application range is also relatively limited, and the detection function must be very powerful The military will pay for it. ”

Dou Ping: "Actually, I think I can increase the load mass a little, one ton, and not take off on the ground." ”

Don't take off on the ground?

Anderov instantly understood: "You mean to release it at high altitude with a carrier aircraft?" Then I think about it, there are not many planes that can hang 18 tons, and they must be jets that fly high and far, and the H-6 is not good, then there is only the Y-20, Il-76 or Y-35, and there is no problem with placing it on the back of the plane. ”

Dou Ping: "That's right, the importance of the Wuzhen 20 is worth preparing a special carrier aircraft for it, the fuel saved and the muzzle velocity obtained by this method can definitely increase the load mass to 1 ton." ”

Anderov: "In other words, if we still have the same target, we can continue to reduce the size, and the 12-ton body should be enough, and it can be much cheaper." ”

Dou Ping: "But Chief An, I want a cheaper and more convenient platform, just enough to fly to 15,000 kilometers with Wuzhen 20, and release it at subsonic speed." ”

Anderov: "Drones? Take-off mass...... About 50 tons, I know what you're letting me stay here for. ”

Dou Ping let out a somewhat embarrassed laugh.

"But your Xinyuan's efficiency is well known, from design and development to production speed is almost three times that of other institutes, and the military would rather spend more money to find you."

……

"Unidentified high-speed aircraft? It must be a hypersonic vehicle from the Mukden Technical Institute, right? I really envy them. ”

Tanegashima Space Center, Shinichiro Sakai saw the news of UFOs in the sky in China again, although he had never been exposed to hypersonic weapons at all, but as an astronaut, he still saw at a glance what it was.

It is nothing more than a test of a conical warhead that can fly to several tens of Machs, but this has nothing to do with the island country, and it is powerless to resist anyway.

Of course, he didn't know that it was a huge movement when Wuzhen 20 returned to the atmosphere, and the high-speed friction of the fire illuminated half of the sky, showing the hidden but terrifying power of the Eastern Continent.

For Shinichiro Sakai, the Star of Asia program is already enough to overwhelm the scientific research forces of the entire island nation.

According to the division of labor planned by Lucia experts, the island nation is responsible for the development of the first stage of the H-X rocket core and the spacecraft service module, both of which have been formally established and the project team has begun to advance.

The service module is the part that provides electricity, communication, and power for the entire spacecraft, and its status is very important, and Lucia's experts value the fact that the island nation has developed the "Stork" cargo spacecraft, which has a solid foundation compared to India.

Power and communication are okay, but the propulsion part is more difficult for JAXA, especially the precise orbit control rendezvous and docking technology, JAXA has no technical reserves at all.

Every time the "Stork" spacecraft delivered supplies to international space, it flew to a distance of 10 meters and stopped, and then was grabbed by the robotic arm of the space station for docking.

The advantage of this is that it saves technical difficulty and the quality and cost of automatic rendezvous and docking, but the Asiastar program requires the spacecraft and lander to rendezvous and dock in lunar orbit, which is not easy.

Just after Aramco paid the nine astronauts of the Soyuz spacecraft to launch the Dream Chaser B1, and asked the island nation's "Stork" spacecraft to carry out a replenishment mission in advance, Shinichiro Sakai took the initiative to add a preliminary and precise attitude control system to the "Stork" and tried to carry out a simulated automatic docking.

Note that it is a simulated docking, and this system is only developed and designed to carry out real rendezvous and docking, so the development is relatively simple and hasty, just to accumulate a little experience.

The rocket for this resupply mission is the H-2B, and the H3 rocket has been shelved to make way for the H-X, and there is no commendable technological progress between the H-2 and H-3 anyway.

And the H-2B rocket is still reliable, and it has never missed since the first launch of the Stork spacecraft to deliver supplies to the ISS, look at that...... Huh?

Shinichiro Sakai blinked, how could it not look like a solid booster's flame?

I saw billowing smoke coming out of the back of the launch pad, and at first he thought it was a solid rocket engine working, but it seemed that the place was wrong, and there was an open flame?

？？！

He immediately turned on the intercom, and there was a lot of gibble and fire alarms, and it was clear that something was not normal there.

Naturally, the launch process of the H-2B rocket was terminated immediately, but the fire was still getting bigger and bigger, and the billowing smoke cloud had already enveloped the entire launch pad.

Shinichiro Sakai was stunned, although he didn't know where the fire started, but once it spread to the rocket, it was hundreds of tons of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen plus violent solid propeller fuel, if the shell was burned through and leaked out, it would be enough to lift the surrounding area of the launch site into ashes!

There is also the "Stork" cargo spacecraft, which this time loaded with supplies worth more than a billion!

He was about to rush over, but the people around him held him tightly, and at the same time stopped the other people who were preparing to pass, and no one was allowed to go except the firefighters.

What are you kidding, if there is an explosion, these remaining aerospace elites will turn to ashes, and the loss of their Mitsubishi's aerospace career will be over.

But the firefighters could not cope with such a fierce fire, and their initial guess was that there might be a problem with the place where the rocket fuel was stored, and that kind of flame was not something they could solve, so they could only stay where they were and wait quietly, as for whether the H-2B rocket would be affected, it could only be up to God's will.

The busy time has passed......

(End of chapter)