ten, nine (Nain), eight(A)......"

In the curry-flavored English of the third brother, in a wasteland at the ISRO Experimental Center in Bangalore, a triangular body with an arced cone and a long "needle" suddenly spewed orange blazing flames in all directions, dragging a white object into the sky.

This is the 0 altitude test of the escape tower of the Gaganyan spacecraft, which is the first safety guarantee from the launch of the spacecraft into the atmosphere.

The escape tower structure of the Gaganyan spacecraft is very simple, just a few small solid rockets placed diagonally, and then a streamlined fairing is covered.

If there is an accident during the flight, the escape tower will immediately force the ship out of the rocket and fly a safe distance, and then disengage and let the ship land with a parachute.

This is an important part of life support for astronauts, and it is also the "easy" part.

Originally, ISRO wanted to test the escape tower alone, and planned to use a solid booster used by a GSLV rocket to convert it into a rocket and launch the escape tower into a high altitude for testing.

However, after Najiradze intervened, it was cancelled and replaced with a "zero-zero (zero height and zero velocity)" ground test, which not only saved time, but also achieved the same purpose of validation.

What's more, Lucia is putting her own technology on the "Gaganyan" to a limited extent, and the escape tower is basically copying, how can there be a problem.

The reason why ISRO wants to do a high-altitude test of actual flight is nothing more than to shoot a few more rockets to create heat, which does not help the development progress of the spacecraft.

It has been more than three months since the Gaganyan spacecraft received technical support from Lucia, and the progress is very high, and it is about to be able to conduct a test flight of the demonstration vessel.

In itself, Lucia gave the second-generation manned spacecraft technology, which can be manufactured even at the level of Indian industry in the past few decades, and the Gaganyan spacecraft is nothing more than a lack of design experience, so the original design is a mess.

Najinadze's actual tasks are only twofold: to design and transform the "Gaganyan" according to the scope of the technical license to meet the level required by the agreement; Sorting out the Indian space industry, producing qualified components and establishing compliant assembly procedures.

What India has gained is not high technology, but a set of manned spacecraft design processes and related experience, which are more valuable than technology.

At least that's how Natiladze explained, otherwise how could the ancient technology of the second-generation manned spacecraft be sold for hundreds of millions of dollars?

Of course, the technology is ancient, and the reliability is still guaranteed, such as this zero-zero ignition test, there are no problems with the flight path of the escape tower and the working state of the engine, and the officials of the Ministry of Science and ISRO on the scene cheered, feeling that they are one step closer to success.

"Natilradze, we are going to have the most solemn banquet in the evening, please be sure to attend!"

"This ...... I still have work to do. ”

Shivin Samarkand excitedly invited Natiladze, but the latter had an embarrassed expression on his face and politely refused.

The reason, of course, is not because Najiradze is so old and dedicated, but because of the local banquet...... How to say, if it's a separate high-level invitation, it's basically a Western-style meal with red wine steak, and this kind of celebration is that everyone sits on the floor and shares curry, and Najiradze doesn't want to go.

Fortunately, Samarkand did not feel disappointed, but admired the rigorous work attitude of Lucia's experts even more.

"Ah, Dr. Najinadze, you are the one who really helped us, but it's a pity that our island partners didn't accept your help, look at them, I doubt that their work will be completed as scheduled."

"Hehe, hehe." Natiladze barely fooled the past, the recent accident at the Tanegashima Space Center made the third brother a little drifting and felt that he had surpassed the island country, and Natilradze didn't know what to say about it.

Although Lucia also looks down on the island country's aerospace, the island country's precision and optical equipment are famous, and Toshiba's machine tools to process nuclear submarine propellers were imported during the alliance period; As for India, Najiradze is only pleased that the smell of cow urine has not been smelling in the workshop lately.

The last time an employee reported to him, it turned out that the guy had just gone to bathe in the Ganges River and drank a large bottle of cow urine, and almost didn't make him vomit.

Now that Lucia experts have taken over the project and are barely moving forward with the plan, if they leave, they are really worried that the third brother will smear cow urine and cow dung on the outer surface of the spaceship.

Huh? This problem seems to be real, should we go back and calculate the corrosion of ablative materials by cow urine? Don't ruin my reputation for Lucia!

Natiladze immediately knew what was going to work at night, quickly fooled Samarkand, and then hurriedly called for someone to prepare a sample of cow urine and cow dung.

……

"Xiaolin, it's better to still have your business jet, it's much more comfortable to lie down than to sit."

The big guy moved his waist and praised the comfort of the ARJ21.

Xinyuan's ARJ21 business jet has greatly reduced the seats, the standard crew is 16 to 30 people, generally speaking, there will be no more than 10 people at the same time, the interior space is quite abundant, except for a separate rest room, the seats are all upgraded to sofas, and the interior decoration has also been upgraded.

The high-level management of the space agency planned to go to the Ninth Academy to do something, and it happened that this ARJ21 was in the capital, so several people also experienced a real luxury special plane.

Since the launch of the Dawning Project, the bigwigs have often flown around, and the chairs of civil airlines are not so comfortable.

Lin Ju said with a smile when he heard this: "Then anyway, our planes often fly this line, why don't you say where you want to go in the future, if you have time, you can directly pick it up, and it won't be bad for that kerosene." ”

The big guy hurriedly waved his hand, and this time he happened to sit once, strictly speaking, it shouldn't be, if he sat a few more times, he would have to talk to him.

But he still couldn't help but complain: "This ARJ21 is so comfortable, you are still flying supersonic on a high-altitude aircraft, it is really more popular than people." ”

Lin Ju: "It's really not as comfortable as ARJ21, but three hours per trip is not short, so it's good to save a little time." Alas, if oil prices hadn't risen, we would have been able to sit on Figure 144 and Concorde. ”

Lin Ju suddenly thought of the supersonic passenger aircraft plans of various countries in the golden period of aviation in the last century, and the alliance came up with the Tu-144, and the country and the belt jointly made the "Concorde" supersonic aircraft, and the latter also flew many times on the Xiangjiang route, but unfortunately in the end these advanced products were dried up by the rising oil prices.

The big guy also remembered a lot of things when he heard these two names, "Concord", in fact, he wanted to stay in China back then.

The Concorde supersonic passenger aircraft can reach a maximum cruise speed of Mach 2.04 and a maximum take-off mass of more than 180 tons, which is more than twice that of the H-6.

In addition to the advantages of supersonic flight, if you think about it carefully, this is a supersonic aircraft that can fully load 140 people and fly 6,500 kilometers at a maximum speed of two times the speed of sound.

Even if you can't get the technology, it's an important reference when you need to develop a large supersonic aircraft.

But it can be seen in China, and others can see it more clearly, so the introduction project of Concord finally failed, leaving only an unforgettable past in the hearts of a small group of people at that time.

However, now there is no need to introduce Concord in China, and the space agency's Tengyun project alone does not know how much it will surpass Tengyun.

(End of chapter)