It had only been a few days since Director Robert relaxed a little, and he felt a tremendous pressure on his shoulders again.

He has the right to know the bidding for the blasting project at Yushu Base No. 1, but the price is still being negotiated.

With Roh Rhodes in the lead, the other parties also know how to quote, and they have given the price code:

The country proposed to be equivalent to the band, 5 places and 5 million US dollars for nuclear bombs; Lucia doesn't need money as long as the quota is available, and 7 bullets are exchanged for 7 people; The demand is 10 places, and the total price of the hydrogen bomb is 10 million US dollars.

The process of talking was not too pleasant, only the people of the country seemed to have reached a tacit understanding, and Lu Meidu was still slowly grinding, but as a country that has the ability to train astronauts on its own, they have already selected personnel for emergency training.

No matter how much is negotiated in the end, anyway, Robert thinks that even if there are only 5 people, these places will run through the entire blasting mission, at least two or more landing operations, and the lot of experience gained is a good thing that can't be bought, and you can save a lot of money in the future.

In fact, there is only one core requirement insisted by the presidential administration: Ami must be treated the best, but we have 9 nuclear bombs, and we have cooperated with you one extra time, and it is not enough to bring that.

John is thinking of making back all the face he has lost in this collaboration, and NACA is also actively planning how to make the most of the project.

For example, in order to keep secrets, is it reasonable to have to build a separate facility on the lunar surface to store hydrogen bombs? The astronauts guarding them must have a temporary station, right? There must be a set of equipment for measuring data...... Anyway, there are many aspects that can be entrained with private goods, and they may all be used in the future.

When planning these, Robert was also thinking: Where did the Aviation Development Commission get the confidence to bring so many people to the moon repeatedly?

Now that the puzzle is basically solved, his mood is also getting worse.

Because on September 25, the Aviation Development Commission announced that a ground ignition test of a 2,800-ton segmented solid propeller was carried out at the Xinyuan launch site.

A single solid thruster with a thrust of 2800 tons!

The SRB thrust used by the SLS is just over 1,500 tons, which is almost doubled.

Look at the published test screen, the S2800 booster with a diameter 35% wider than the SRB is long and thick, and the body of more than 70 meters is a heavy rocket in itself, and the entire camera screen is constantly trembling during ignition, and it is not an exaggeration to use "the ground shakes the mountain" to move and static, and the ground thrust of Saturn 5 is 3400 tons!

What kind of core stage will this level of booster be equipped with, and how big will the rocket be?

Sure enough, the Aviation Development Commission then announced the specific data of the next generation of super-giant rocket, the Long March 18:

The diameter is 18 meters, the height is more than 210 meters, the thrust of the four solid boosters is 11,200 tons, the core stage adopts 39 YF-96 (H280) liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen engines, the sea level thrust is 280 tons, the take-off thrust is 22,000 tons, the take-off mass is more than 15,000 tons, and the sea launch scheme is adopted.

Careful people have found that the data of the Long March 18 is very similar to the previous Xinyuan-4, in fact, it is the Aviation Development Commission that "turned this model into a regular", and for the first time included the rockets of private rocket companies in the "Long March" series, which will become the official sequence of active rockets in the future.

As a super rocket second only to the imaginary "Sea Dragon" in the 60s, the Long March 18 is divided into three configurations: basic, A and B, with a basic low-earth orbit capacity of 550 tons and the same class as the Sea Dragon, and Type A is the first second-stage semi-configuration low-earth orbit with a capacity of 800 tons aimed at lunar missions, which can directly send 360 tons of payload to the moon.

Robert even wondered if he had been spoofed after seeing the news at the time, but at the same time as the Long March 18, the Long March 9 rocket under development by the Space Agency was also fully finalized, using a 12-meter diameter rocket body, with a maximum take-off thrust of more than 10,000 tons, which can hit 400 tons of payload into low orbit.

Just when he wanted to fly to the other side in person to ask these colleagues what kind of madness they were making to create these monsters, the Aviation Development Commission also gave the reason for creating a super rocket: the "Chapter 9" landing spacecraft, the specific data is unknown, but the maximum take-off mass can reach 350 tons, and it can transport more than 200 tons of payload to the moon at one time.

According to the description, the "Chapter 9" spacecraft can carry a large number of payloads between low-earth orbit, the moon and the lunar surface for a long time, and will be the absolute main force of future lunar missions, but there is no appearance and specific size parameters disclosed.

However, considering the carrying capacity of more than 200 tons and the need for an 18-meter diameter rocket launch, it is probably quite large.

This also means that the Chinese lander has directly evolved from the split type of the Apollo program to a large spacecraft that can only be compared to the Starship Moon version, and the service time will definitely not be later than the Starship Moon version.

The Starship is indeed a good project, although the overall high-orbit capacity is scarce, but the versatility and value for money are quite good, but it has not yet had a successful test launch......

It has been 2 months since Starship's second flight, and Musk has also prepared the third launch of the B10 booster and SN20 spacecraft, and the skipped sequences are consumed during ground testing, which is enough to see that SpecaX still maintains their iteration speed on the Falcon 8.

However, the thought of the Long March 9 and Long March 18 rockets Robert has a headache, although I am not sure whether the other side will produce these two monsters, but at least the propaganda must not be left behind.

So what to take to benchmark a super rocket with a take-off mass of 15,000 tons?

……

Capital.

More than half a month has passed since the public opinion of the new giant accelerator was born, and the scope of discussion has spread from the high-energy institute to the whole world.

At first, there were only a few vague sentences, but as time passed, the idea of a new accelerator became more and more refined, and "TEPA" began to appear in the official media, and the data and construction location gradually became clear.

There are also three important people who have been hyped up together: Frank Yang, Wu Yunfeng and Lin Ju.

Last year, the first two people were on the hot search:

On September 4, 2016, in response to the CEPC plan proposed by the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Academy of Sciences in 2012, Frank Yang published an article "China is not suitable to build a super-large collider today", insisting on opposing views; On September 5, Wu Yunfeng immediately wrote "Huaguo Should Build a Large Collider Today" to fight back.

Although the total budget proposed by CEPC at that time was "only" 30 billion yuan, the Institute also proposed the SQCC (Proton-Proton Collider), that is, to build a positron collider and then a proton collider with a circumference of 70 kilometers, the latter budget is 70 billion yuan, which is actually 10 billion yuan less than TEPA.

Moreover, CEPC is expected to be launched in 21 years, put into use in 35 years, SQCC in 30 years, and put into operation in 50 years.

Therefore, TEPA's budget of 110 billion yuan was quickly overturned, and the higher authorities ordered the Academy of Sciences to recalculate, and the new budget table came to about 140 billion to 170 billion yuan.

The 200 billion investment exaggerated by the media before is not just talk!

(End of chapter)