Wu Yunfeng's mood Ye Changsi can understand very well, in fact, most scientific researchers are like this, and sometimes only the times restrain them.

TEPA untied Wu Yunfeng's biggest knot, he turned around and opened his hands to face the sunset:

"Long live high-energy physics!"

After this sentence was shouted, he felt hearty, closed his eyes and felt the last afterglow of the sun, which was surprisingly warm.

Ye Changsi stood behind him for a while, and only when the sun was about to completely set did he stand side by side with him, and asked softly:

"The difficulty with TEPA is not in the technology, there is no obvious technical barrier between 10 trillion electron volts and 10 trillion electron volts, and it is impossible for the High Energy Institute to use your precious brain power to build experimental machines."

Wu Yunfeng, who had just soothed his mood, had a stiff face, of course this was a fact.

There was not much need to make accelerators, so they had to wait until TEPA was built, and it was no different from now.

At the World Biological Conference, scientists planned a construction period of 10 years, with completion in 2028, commissioning in another 2 to 5 years, and commissioning by 2033.

In the past decade or so, the Institute of High Energy Physics and scientists around the world who want to use TEPA have had to wait, or use the LHC to try to dig something, and that's it.

"Perhaps...... That's the regret of people like us. ”

Wu Yunfeng only said this sentence in the end, and then looked at Ye Changsi with a wry smile:

"You're different from us, Xinyuan has a lot of things to do, the moon, Mars, will the Jupiter spacecraft have been launched in 2030? I really envy you guys. ”

"Maybe so, but there are a lot of difficulties, do you know what the biggest problem in space is for us?"

Wu Yunfeng frowned and thought for a while, and after vetoing a few answers in his mind, he said his guess:

"Distance, or time."

Ye Changsi nodded heavily, then looked straight ahead and lowered his voice and said quickly:

"Quantum communication, not with quantum encryption, but quantum entanglement synchronous communication.

We've got some prep, you know. ”

Because of his identity, Wu Yunfeng couldn't use the mobile phone issued by the base, and now he thought for a few seconds after listening to Ye Changsi's words, and then suddenly understood something.

A moment of loss and excitement was expressed on his face at the same time: he was glad that the fog of quantum synchronous communication had been removed, but he was even more emotionally TEPA - if only the system had given the grand unification theory directly, it would definitely have been!

"You mean...... Would I like to be, no, the entire Institute of High Energy Physics to participate in quantum communication? ”

"That's right, although there are still very few things to master now, but it is enough to be a stepping stone, and in ten years, with the addition of the entire Institute of High Energy Physics, we will definitely be able to master this technology, and its significance is no less than TEPA, or even higher."

"And the high-energy institute will also have actual application output, and it will no longer be the place where money is blindly thrown."

Wu Yunfeng's sentence is to himself, the practical application of output has always been a pain in the high-energy institute, if there can be certain results, of course, we must seize the opportunity.

"What are you going to do over there?"

Ye Changsi: "I will find an opportunity to send an internal reference paper, and then you take someone to do some private work through our TEPA cooperation, I estimate that at most one or two years can make a feasible demonstration experiment, and then immediately turn into a cooperative project and work together to get it done." ”

Wu Yunfeng: "Go back and call me directly in the evening, I'm very interested in it." ”

……

Florida.

More than two months have passed since Starship's second failure, and SpecaX has worked overtime to improve the B10 booster and SN20 under tremendous pressure.

But it is mainly carried out around the B10 booster, and the second-stage starship spacecraft is a payload transport vehicle that can go back and forth many times, and it will be manned in the future, and the design work is very troublesome, and it has not yet been tested in orbit.

The first stage booster is different, as long as it is successful, you can install the upper stage at will, such as the "Centaur VI" being developed by General Dynamics, equipped with three RL-10C high-performance hydrogen-oxygen engines, with the super-heavy booster can send 180 tons of payload into low earth orbit.

The combination is a giant rocket with a take-off mass of more than 4,500 tons and a thrust of more than 6,000 tons, and it can recover the first stage - it is also cheap not to recycle.

NACA is now in a hurry to need a usable giant rocket, and as long as the first stage booster has completed all its missions and separated this time, then NACA will order 5 at once regardless of the starship.

Now there are still three in stock in Musk's Starship factory, each of which is only $250 million, and 5 pieces are only $1.25 billion!

Even with the very expensive "Centaur VI" upper stage worth 170 million, a complete rocket is only 420 million knives, which has reached the original SLS planned goal, this is the real SLS!

Moreover, NACA is also well aware that the current mass-produced "Raptor V1" engine costs up to $2 million, and 33 engines only cost more than 60 million, and SpecaX can make enough profits.

As a comparison, Boeing's third SLS, now accounting for a cost of $2.5 billion, is simply terrible in comparison.

In particular, the production of Starship's boosters is particularly fast, and it is no problem to deliver a first-class that has undergone rigorous testing a month.

With it, NACA can compete strongly with the other side of the sea, and NACA, which fires a rocket of less than $500 million a month, can still do it now!

Now the highly-anticipated Starship Complex III stands on the launch pad, having completed all the preparations, just waiting for a launch order.

However, this time there was no old horse in the control room, and he was still in Washington.

Starship is the same with or without him, but what Washington is discussing is an extremely important plan - an aerospace plane.

After Tengyun's first flight, the members of Congress were the first to blow up, and a few of them were so angry that they let out unwilling roars: those members invested in Virgin Galactic, which is the one that engages in "aerospace aircraft" suborbital tourism.

Virgin Galactic was originally positioned in the low-end market, and the ticket price was only 250,000 US dollars, but as soon as the real aerospace aircraft appeared, the company could not find the north, completely blocking the direction of business development.

Blue Origin, which also assists the suborbital, is okay, Bezos's family can afford to have a big business and a lot of business, this kind of small company is too miserable.

And after Tengyun came out, those projects that claimed to be "aerospace aircraft" did not dare to bear this name anymore, and Tengyun directly defined the standard of "aerospace aircraft is a single-stage orbit", and latecomers are not allowed to brag.

This time, Congress took the initiative to immediately build an aerospace plane that was more suitable for the Yankees' physique, and it must have this kind of science fiction feeling, and brazenly named the project "SSTO".

Although SpecaX does not have aviation technology reserves, it is Aramco's No. 1 space company, and it is natural that it is also among the tenders.

(End of chapter)