"How long are we from Mars?"

"During May next year, it will be the closest time between Mars and the Earth, and it is also a window period for countries to launch Mars probes, and China's super space station Advance is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

Below we invite aerospace technology experts to ......"

When the Dawning 3 mission was successfully completed, the mood in China was jubilant.

The three astronauts took the float in the capital for half a circle and then stopped urgently, because there were too many people gathered, which not only seriously disrupted the traffic order but also caused huge safety hazards, and it is likely that more stampede safety incidents will occur if it continues.

At the same time, many countries also invited the three astronauts to pay a friendly visit, especially the countries that organized the Huayin Conference.

While celebrating the success of the moon landing, many people also raised another question:

When will it land on Mars?

Sources have already leaked spy photos of the two Xinyuan-3 rockets that are being reconditioned in Jiuquan, and according to convention, they should be the cabins of the Qianjin again, and they are likely to be two.

Seeing that the progress of Endeavor has passed most of the time, and many media and professional organizations in the outside world are also showing more and more interest in it, after all, this is the first centrifugal space station with a promising ultra-long-term residence, and it is also powered by nuclear power, which seems to have the potential for interstellar travel.

It seems that as long as the lander is installed, it can fly to Mars and achieve the first landing of mankind on an extraterrestrial planet, which is much more significant than landing on the moon.

But at this time, the Aviation Development Commission broke the news again.

"According to the 57th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Aviation Development Commission, it is proposed to make the following instructions on the development of lunar resources:

1. According to the current situation of the rising demand for global rare earth resources and the objective fact that the reserves are not high, carry out the preliminary verification task of exploration and development of lunar ore resources, so as to realize the development and utilization of lunar resources in the next few years;

2. Complete all the launch missions of the Dawning Program and the Chang'e Program by 2020, and establish a lunar base on the moon that can accommodate more than 100 people for long-term survival;

3. Make every effort to develop a new type of recyclable launch vehicle based on a new generation of high-thrust reusable rocket engines, achieve the long-term goal of reducing rocket launch costs by more than 50 percent, and vigorously develop nuclear-powered space propulsion technology. ”

The spokesman for the Aviation Development Commission read out the brief resolution forcefully, and then added another sentence before leaving:

"Out of the objective demand for the development and utilization of lunar resources, the Space Development Committee plans to build a logistics highway on the moon in the next two years.

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"150 C822s, 50 C832 airworthiness certificates, but if you set up an assembly plant or a key subsystem manufacturing base in Europe or Aramco, you can also automatically obtain an airworthiness certificate."

Shepard Hill was under pressure to finally come up with a final bottom line that they could accept.

With the sustainability of both the astronauts and the lander black boxes in someone else's hands, Congress, including John, demanded a deal as soon as possible, and giants such as Boeing had to make concessions again.

Commercial aviation refused to outsource the key subsystems, so they decided to carry out the "quota" after discussion, as long as it is a passenger aircraft that has obtained the airworthiness certificate of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, there are 150 regional passenger aircraft quotas and 50 trunk passenger aircraft quotas can directly obtain the internationally recognized airworthiness certificate, and export without restrictions.

As for the C810 and An-1250, it doesn't matter, they are all the same.

Zeng Xiangdong of his own side thought about it and reported another number:

"500 C822s, 200 C832s, landing gear, aircraft tails, de-icers, cabin pressurization equipment, carpet upholstery, window glass, as long as international suppliers provide qualified products at normal market prices, will be used in this batch of aircraft."

Shepard thought about it, although it is not the three major parts, it is also some good parts, and the added profits are quite considerable, at least not all of them have been digested within Huaguo.

"300 C822s and 100 C832s, at most these."

"Hmm......"

Zeng Xiangdong communicated with the others, and felt that this was about the same bottom line, and he recognized the deal, and finally reached an agreement on the aviation side.

400 aircraft exported or flown international routes have been a lot, and selling aircraft to make a lot of money, the later 400 aircraft have to be maintained every year and regularly overhauled is a stable income, in the long run, it is also a good deal to bring hundreds of billions of income.

The pull of the airworthiness certificate is over, and the international satellite commercial contract on the other side is barely negotiated.

The Wolf clause remains unchanged, but Aramco has confirmed that after the issuance of the FAA launch license, China's private aerospace companies (except for XAP) can undertake orders for satellite launches for non-military purposes containing Argentine dollars, provided that the unit launch price is not lower than the minimum level established.

The biggest difficulty in this article is obtaining an FAA launch permit, which not only includes some testing items for rockets and satellites, but also tests for environmental pollution problems after launch.

Therefore, this is destined to be only undertaken by a smaller private aerospace company in China, and the secrecy of their rockets and launch sites is not too high, and the space bureau and Xinyuan will definitely not be able to.

Although there are some restrictions, I finally get an international order in the true sense of the word.

In other aspects, TSMC sold a mature 28nm production line and a 22nm production line to the mainland, while symbolically liberalizing some chip technology restrictions.

Aramco, on the other hand, will have full access to the "Blue Moon" black box and the results of the dismantling and analysis of the wreckage by the explorer robot, at least to be able to quickly understand the cause of the accident and the design and manufacturing defects.

When these terms were reached one by one, it was late at night on July 10, McMaster and our personnel signed each specific letter of intent, and finally signed the "Agreement on Deepening Friendship and Cooperation between the two countries" together.

In the photo taken by the reporter, McMaster squeezed out a smile that was a little panicked.

Even the celebratory dinner was canceled by him, and the envoy took two astronauts on a transoceanic flight early the next morning and hurried back to his homeland.

But Boeing's vice president, Shepard Hill, stayed behind and found Zeng Xiangdong alone.

This time, he completely lost the arrogance and indifference at the negotiation table, and instead smiled like an old friend.

"Zeng, you should know that the real big market in the air has always been international routes, and 400 planes sounds like a lot, but in fact it has been digested in a year or two, and I think you guys are not happy with that."

Zeng Xiangdong faintly felt something, and silently checked the door of the lower room before he said:

"But the number of airworthiness certificates has been set, and we can't sell more planes to the international market."

"Yes, in fact, you should also know that the market protection of passenger aircraft is very strong, even if you can sell it, you will encounter some obstacles, why not change the way of cooperation that everyone is happy with?"

Zeng Xiangdong: "I want to hear about it." ”

Shepard: "Boeing can provide advanced production equipment and process patents, and then we can set up a joint venture assembly plant, which can be located here or in other countries, and we can make some improvements to the C822 and C832 into new models of this subsidiary.

With at least 50 percent of the components of these new aircraft, which are similar in technical parameters, international contractors would easily be able to obtain FAA airworthiness certificates and sell them around the world without restrictions. ”

However, Zeng Xiangdong frowned, it sounded very beautiful, and he cleverly said it by changing his skin.

The so-called joint venture assembly plant is an empty shell, most of the C822 and C832 are built and made small changes to become new aircraft, natural operation space is larger, Boeing can get a part of the profit without making any effort, but why are they not afraid to grab their own market?

Shepard immediately answered his question:

"In fact, many parts of Boeing and Airbus's passenger aircraft are also produced in the mainland, and even Airbus has set up an assembly plant here, and I have received some rumors that it may be more difficult to do cross-border passenger aircraft trade in the future.

This final assembly plant can build your planes, and of course Boeing's planes, and you should understand that a lot of the time...... In fact, the orders we get will be subcontracted to Huaguo enterprises with lower prices, and we are only responsible for the final acceptance, do you know what I mean? ”

"This ...... I'll need to talk to someone else, but it won't be long. ”

Zeng Xiangdong was also a little unsure for a while, what Shepard said made some sense, but the stakes were too big, and it was not something he could easily decide.

(End of chapter)