"Warmly celebrate the successful ceremony of the Tianmu-3 lunar exploration mission"

On January 27, Tengyun landed at a military airfield in Baofu and returned the last five payload experts of the Tianmu-3 mission to the ground.

More than half a month ago, the airport completed the final renovation with the ability to carry out simple maintenance for space aircraft to a state of re-takeoff, allowing manned return spacecraft to land so close to the capital for the first time.

It's a pity that several airports in the capital are too busy and the airspace management is strict, otherwise it will be more face-saving to land directly in the capital.

This time, the celebration ceremony was also held at the headquarters of United Mining, and all major important figures attended, including the main leaders of the Aviation Development Commission.

Nine payload experts received praise and gave brief speeches on the platform in turn, but because this was the first large-scale lunar exploration mission organized by a "private enterprise", the whole ceremony was still grand and lengthy, and Lin Ju hid in the most unobtrusive corner early, and it was difficult for even the camera to catch him.

He was frowning and staring at his phone at this time, his face full of puzzlement.

Yesterday, the Shanghai Composite Index opened at 3075, closed at 3044, and reached a low of 3011, hovering around the 3,000-point mark once and again.

Although he doesn't pay much attention to the stock market, he vaguely remembers that the situation at the beginning of 2018 was not so bad, is it because of the sharp drop in exports since July?

In this case, there has been a voice for United Mining to be listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, which ......

Rao was also unable to think of how to save Big A, so he could only silently turn off his mobile phone, sigh and continue to sit hard.

"What, worrying about Jupiter?"

Academician She's voice sounded next to him, he had just spoken on it, but when he walked down to find a place to sit, he saw Lin Ju sighing.

"No, I'm wondering when I'll be able to make money with the big A skyrocket."

“……”

Academician She pretended not to hear and forcibly changed the topic:

"I just met someone from the Astronomical Federation backstage, a good news and a bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

Lin Ju didn't raise his head:

"Let's talk about the bad ones first."

"Your business has been ruined, and NACA has come forward to make the IAU find a reason to abandon the self-funded plan to launch a probe, they are willing to sponsor a lot of funds, and they also use nuclear engines, but it is a big order of nearly 1 billion US dollars, and now it is completely gone.

But there is also good news, although the business of the International Astronomical Society is gone, our own astronomical society has also proposed a deep space exploration plan, and you can start studying it now, but there is no 1 billion US dollars, and only 1 billion yuan can be given immediately. ”

Lin Ju was not surprised by the twists and turns in the IAU's plan, he was extremely skeptical of this plan from the beginning, but he was impressed that his own astronomical society could come up with 1 billion yuan, and the status and organization of the two astronomical societies were completely different.

As if knowing what Lin Ju was thinking, Academician She explained:

"Now there is an opinion that we still have a blank gap in deep space, and many projects are set up by the space agency itself, asking for more influence on academic institutions...... Got it? ”

After squeezing his eyebrows, Lin Ju understood that the Astronomical Society was just a name, and Academician She's meaning was also obvious, although the 1 billion was far from enough for the entire exploration plan, it was enough to give Xinyuan an emergency start.

This kindness is not light, and it may also be that Academician She is afraid that he will take out some scary things in exchange for money.

"We'll do our best...... Xinyuan plans to launch a probe in May, which will fly by Jupiter and Saturn, and survey their main moons. ”

"In such a hurry?!"

Academician She didn't expect that he would lead to such an amazing news, and now there are only three months left!

"Our plan is to use a platform like fire, the structure and detection functions are almost optimized, and there is no special design, but there is another sub-detector that can enter the atmosphere, and if it is propelled by a nuclear engine, it may be able to reach the destination in one year.

However, the main purpose of this time is to test the new space shuttle, and we will use Storm's sister aircraft, the Typhoon, to complete the mission and test the reliability of the ultra-long-range ultra-long working time of the nuclear power platform. ”

Lin Ju's next words were even more surprising, but they allowed Academician She to accept a year to complete the journey.

The base originally considered the highest cost of the Titan exploration program in the propulsion part, the nuclear engine is really expensive, and the cost of special modifications is even more hot.

Even if the huge amount of money from the follow-up system reward arrives, it is impossible to ignore this, and the most engineers finally came up with a solution: retrofit the second H2N and use the Typhoon as an ultra-long-range interstellar transportation platform, carrying a large amount of fuel and probes to complete the mission.

The biggest advantage of this solution is that there is no need to build a new platform, and the Typhoon can increase the overall mass to nearly 300 tons when traveling in space, and can carry up to 80 tons of payload and provide an unimaginably large amount of power even if it has enough fuel to return to Saturn, but it will have to be attached to the fuselage or an external fuel tank.

The Typhoon's three nuclear engines also bring high reliability, and with the blessing of the control system, as long as one of them can work properly, it is enough to ensure that the mission does not go wrong.

Another hidden advantage is the characteristics of the shuttle itself, according to the preliminary calculations of engineers, for planets with atmospheres such as Europa and Titan, the Typhoon has the feasibility of entering the atmosphere to fly and survey, and its nuclear engines can still remain partially working and can linger repeatedly for a long time.

In particular, Titan has an atmosphere that is thicker than the Earth, and at the same time, the gravity is very small, which fully provides the conditions for the use of aircraft.

Originally, the Typhoon was designed to serve the Earth-fire route, but it had little impact on the Saturn mission, and its strong payload capacity could still support carrying a certain Mars exploration payload.

It is also necessary to test the reliability of the nuclear engine for long-term maintenance-free operation, and if successful, it will inject more confidence into Advance's future deep space voyages.

Academician She listened to these explanations silently, and although they were reasonable and well-founded, he still felt that something was not right.

But he has no reason to object, Xinyuan's plan is well known for its rigor, and since it can be said, it has already passed the feasibility verification.

Moreover, the Deep Space Exploration Program team has just been formed, and if it can be carried out immediately and a fairly large program can also increase its prestige, at least it is not a bad thing.

However, the space shuttle is used on another planet...... It was a pretty bold idea, at least he couldn't think of it.

"I'll have time to discuss this...... One more thing, the Advance should find a time to turn, and the name of the first artificial gravity device in space is about to be snatched away. ”

(End of chapter)