"90 tons, 90 tons, 110 tons, 110 tons."

Claire snapped her fingers and counted the loads fired from Qiongzhou over the past four days, then dangled four fingers in front of a crowd.

"If we can also launch that much material into space in just a short period of time, we can land on the moon next week."

It's NACA's headquarters, which now brings together more than a dozen powerful space companies, from the established as-built complex Boeing Loma to the Sky Fork Blue Source.

Xinyuan launched a big rocket for four consecutive days, and Claire was criticized by lawmakers for four consecutive days, and it was all up to the president to ensure that she was not resigned.

The former has accumulated more than half a month of concentrated production capacity release, and immediately showed its crazy power, which made the old astronauts tremble.

Claire, who had been in a stressful state for a week, quickly gathered the companies involved in the Artemis Project and began to count the family to see if there was any way to speed up the loose Artemis II.

Boeing's representative was the first to raise his hand: "As of now, the shell of the second SLS has been built, but it will take a long time for inspection, and we can guarantee that it will be ready for launch as early as mid-July." ”

Lockheed engineers followed: "The Orion spacecraft is completely sufficient, you all know. ”

The representative of SpecaX is Tom Mueller himself, who is also confident:

"We have seven Falcon 9 rockets, and the reinforcing core stage required for the Heavy Falcon has already been built, and the next one can be completed in a month, so SpecaX can provide two Heavy Falcon rockets."

At the time of the official start of the Artemis program, the Heavy Falcon was still a concept, and although the CBC configuration was not new and highly reliable, many people at the time considered the reliability of the 27 engines to be questionable, so it was only a stopgap measure that the Heavy Falcon rocket was included in the program.

But by now the Heavy Falcon has been launched three times, which is enough to prove its reliability.

Claire turned her gaze to the representative of Blue Origin.

"Well, the Blue Moon lander is progressing well, the first one can be delivered in June, but its design has been modified so much from the original that we had better have two months to verify its reliability."

"Believe in the progress of computers!" Claire interrupts the latter, Blue Origin is not as competitive as SpecaX, but it is also the second-largest space company supported by NACA.

"Blue Moon needs a Heavy Falcon or SLS, and so much fuel, but what about your new Glenn rocket? The BE4 engine has already passed the test run! ”

After tapping the slow blue origin, Claire returned to the topic:

"In other words, we will be able to meet all the conditions needed to land on the moon by the end of July at the earliest, which should be a little earlier than the Chinese Long March 10, but not by much.

Gentlemen, I would like to say that we are too slow, we need to have a super rocket that can produce one shot in less than four months, preferably reusable, and we must also be able to launch a payload of 500 tons into space in four days! ”

The huge solid wood table was slammed by Claire, and the representative of Boeing lowered his head and pretended that nothing had happened.

Boeing does not yet have a reusable rocket program, but the budget of the SLS has already made many people dissatisfied, and if it is accelerated, it will inevitably increase investment, which is to make trouble for itself.

Among the dozen or so companies, Blue Origin's New Glenn, SpecaX's Falcon Heavy, and starships that have not yet flown meet this criteria.

Tom Mueller: "The B6 booster and SN12 are ready and on schedule...... It will be launched tomorrow. ”

Claire: "Have you done all the project testing?" ”

Tom: "It's done for the time being, and you know our route, so it probably won't go too well......"

Claire nodded, why are conventional rockets slow to manufacture? Because each new model is not just a combination of housing and engine can be successful, it requires long-term testing, which can take up about 2/3 of the time.

SpecaX's approach of using launches instead of testing was not recognized in the early days, but with the success of the Falcon 9, no one will say anything now.

But for the veteran military-industrial complex present, the starship seemed to them to be an out-and-out monster, with a shoddy appearance of steel, and 33 engines without any protective measures were so close together, which was definitely a nightmare for every aerospace engineer.

The scene of the N1 bombing four rounds in a row is still vivid, and most of the people present did not even think that the B6 was more technical than the N1.

……

"SpecaX will conduct a Starship-Super Heavy Booster Combo test on May 28 with the number B6+SN12"

"With 33 Raptor V1 engines, Starship will be the rocket with the largest number of engines."

"The Dream Chaser B1 space shuttle has completed its first unmanned launch after being grounded for three months, and will resume the next manned launch mission."

"The Veneto 1 rocket body has been manufactured, and ESA: the first flight is expected to be completed this year."

“……”

ESA's Veneto rocket has provided engine and technical support since February, and has finally completed the trial production of a new 5.2-meter-diameter rocket body, which is still far from a full-body rocket, but it is also very exciting for ESA.

This is quite fast for scattered Europe, but it is still much slower than that of the top players.

"Mr. Lin, the starship is about to be launched!"

"I know, you don't have to yell that loud."

Lin Ju looked at Chen Jun who was shouting and saying hello with black lines on his head, and the memories that had been forgotten resurfaced, and the stainless steel background of the starship spaceship was so clear.

Xin'an Automobile - has been vigorously developed in the hands of the latter, not long ago delivered the 1 million car, you must know that their products are mostly in the high-end, can reach this speed is very amazing, is the most conspicuous rookie in China.

If the base wants to pay dividends this year, it can almost get tens of billions.

And Chen Jun came over today, in addition to paying homage to the owner, he came to be a hand-outing party.

"Mr. Lin, our battery technology has stagnated, can the new 600Wh power battery be given to us?"

"No, no, this won't work." Lin Ju shook his head very resolutely, Xin'an's battery route is a single cell route to purchase 21700 standard battery cell assembly, this solution is enough to meet the needs of the next seven or eight years.

BYD's lithium iron phosphate battery is only 140wh/kg, and it is too bullying to take out the base, and it is not necessary.

Seeing Lin Ju's resolute attitude, Chen Jun didn't want to fight anymore, just sat there and sighed vigorously, saying that the base dividends are under great pressure and R&D costs are cloudy, Lin Ju has no choice but to speak:

"This kind of power battery can't enter the market yet, but other technical support can be given, autonomous driving? Or a flying car? We can all give more support to these projects. ”

Chen Jun: "Is it okay with the No. 2 robot?" ”

“……”

"Nope."

(End of chapter)