Throughout the frenzied space shuttle launches of the first half of the year, Advance's completion has increased dramatically.

Since the Long March 10 rocket has completed the important mission of preemptively landing on the moon, the production capacity of the Jingu base finally does not need to be concentrated on the rocket, and the construction of the remaining four service modules has also started at the same time, and it is expected to be delivered from October to November.

This also means that the Endeavor space station will be completely completed this year, becoming the largest and strongest single space station of mankind with a mass of more than 1,500 tons, establishing a crushing advantage.

It can be used as a space station and spacecraft, and can also be used as a starting point for more projects in the future, such as building space power stations or other large facilities, similar to the role of floating docks on Earth, and is a very important support point.

Especially predictably for navigation within the solar system, as long as you bring sufficient supplies, it is a perfect spaceship, and 0.3G gravity is completely sufficient.

It is the real breakthrough milestone of the new century, and the significance of the moon landing cannot help but dim in front of it.

Xinyuan's H2 people have been resting for more than a month and are about to work again.

In Academician She's mind, the significance of the Advance is much more important than lunar mining, so he constantly took the space agency to participate in its construction.

After chatting for a while, Lin Ju suddenly changed the topic to the Great Wall No. 1, which had been transformed in Fengtian for two months, and had always been mysterious, and now it was still an empty shell.

"Great Wall One, this is a bit of a statement, the military plans to change the load.

They abandoned their original plan to carry giant lasers, and decided to install smaller, more flexible lasers specifically for satellites for anti-satellite missions. ”

"Anti-satellite, what about the anti-missile part?"

"Well...... Academician She was a little embarrassed, but he seemed to think of something and said:

"This thing couldn't be said originally, but now it's okay to tell you, you know the Aurora Project, right?"

Of course Lin Ju knew, and now he was very familiar with this thing.

"The Coalition's laser anti-missile system? Are you going to resurrect it? ”

Academician She nodded: "After our research and judgment, although this system needs to operate in low-earth orbit, the space shuttle is not stable enough as a carrier vehicle, and it is more appropriate to make a satellite alone."

It is expected to achieve a sustainable output of 5 megawatts, an instantaneous peak power of 30 megawatts, and a mass of about 40 tons. ”

It seems that China has also recognized the feasibility of laser anti-missile, but I didn't expect Xinyuan to still participate.

The base itself also changed the previous plan after absorbing the technology of smelting satellites, and Qianjun Stick No. 2 was abandoned to create a more powerful Qianjun Bar No. 3, the light source is still 20MW, but the effect is increased by 15 times, and it only takes less than 1 second of irradiation to destroy the warhead, and the total weight is only 130 tons.

The paper on plasma mirror reflection technology was also published in the internal reference, and the domestic scientific research community may not think it is very reliable and do not plan to use it.

Lin Ju: "40 tons, removing the other parts, I'm afraid there is not much mass left for the power stack." ”

Academician She: "There is no need now, this will take at least two or three years to get it, and it is only a rough idea at this time."

In fact, the military also has an idea, using the Advance to modify a 100MW super laser, which is easy to solve in terms of volume and power, but the opposition is very large, and I don't agree with it. ”

Lin Ju: "Then why not connect it to the space power station, which can provide 170MW of electricity?" ”

"You reminded me, I'll go back and mention it."

“……”

"Okay, just kidding, where can this kind of thing be so obvious, in fact, this is a long-term reserve research, and it is not a big war at any time, even if it is really created, it will be used as a technical reserve and a small amount of deterrence."

Lin Ju: "If it's on Earth, it's true. ”

Academician She: "Could it be that there can still be aliens?" With our current technology, we can't expect it in 100 years! ”

……

"Jeff Bezos, now I am asking you to respond to the above questioning on suspicion of causing astronauts to be in distress on suspicion of illegally curtailing quality inspection procedures and falsifying certificates of conformity."

Jeff Bezos looked at the lawmakers who surrounded him alone, and it felt a little uncomfortable.

He has been worried since it was confirmed that the accident of "Blue Moon" had happened, but he didn't expect to wait for this moment.

Congress has been pressing for Claire's dismissal and punishment in the past few days, and the former has to be busy cleaning up the mess and letting it go for the time being, but Blue Origin, the direct contractor of Blue Moon, is different.

Unlike Musk, Bezos has relied on Amazon to become the richest man when he created Blue Origin, and NACA has given the same support as SpecaX, but Blue Origin's biggest achievement in the past few years is the "New Shepard" suborbital rocket, which cannot go to space and is not very reliable.

The BE4 engine test was also completed after NACA's increased technical support, and the research process of the "Blue Moon" was supported by three billion dollars.

And what about the result, what is the result?

The blue origin of Wang's explosion is completely inferior to SpecaX, and this time it almost cost two astronauts their lives, and the public is denouncing the "hateful bald head" Bezos, and Musk also made remarks that Bezos is "half-hanging".

The whole country was in desperate need of an outlet, so Bezos was pulled over for a hearing, and lawmakers threatened him with jail time.

Bezos is actually not afraid of hearings, there have been a lot of commercial hearings such as anti-monopoly, but this time it is obviously different, and the Internet is scolding Bezos for how to make Blue Origin slack off and embezzle funds, and it is possible to force himself to be named a criminal.

"Mr. Councillor, I must state the cause and effect of the 'Blue Moon', which was only an immature idea when we took on HLS, and it was only after half a year of discussion that it was completely settled, and the time given to Blue Origin was less than 15 months.

It took 15 months to develop the world's most advanced lander from scratch, and finally five months ahead of the expected delivery time, that is, less than a year.

If it weren't for NACA's desperate attempt to compete with Aurora III, we wouldn't have had this happening. ”

Senator A: "But we have seen that the quality inspection report is qualified, but the reality is obviously not, why did the SLS rocket and the Orion spacecraft not fail, why did the Huaguo lander developed at the same time as you fail to fail?"

They were completely successful in unmanned experiments at the beginning of the year, which was much earlier than the 'Blue Moon', and this is not an excuse, and we gave three billion, three billion dollars! ”

Senator B: "If Blue Origin can't give a reasonable explanation, we'll consider withdrawing the commercial space license." ”

Bezos: "At least we need to know the cause of the accident first, which needs to be investigated before we can draw conclusions, or maybe it is not human?" ”

Senator A: "How long will the investigation take?" ”

Bezos: "Because the communication was completely cut off, we needed to find the black box on the lander, which stored everything.

It's more cumbersome to get it down, though, and it will take the next moon mission to get it back. ”

Senator A: "You mean to wait more than a year?" It can't be, it's ridiculous. Can you imagine that we are preparing for the next moon landing in order to find out the cause of the last accident? And you mean we need to use the 'Blue Moon' again?

Then I suggest that the richest man can pay for a Chinese spaceship, at least not burying two more human elites. ”

Bezos was so uncomfortable with this sarcasm that he was about to defend himself when he was interrupted by another senator:

"It seems that the Chinese will go to the moon again next month, why don't they help us retrieve the black box?"

This sentence directly made many lawmakers emotional, some thought it was a good idea, others thought it was too embarrassing to denounce it, and the Senate itself quickly became a mess of yelling, allowing Bezos to breathe.

(End of chapter)