Chapter 179: The Imminent Manned Space Flight (Subscription Requested)

The design and finalization of the fighter plane is not a particularly difficult thing for Zhang Xingyang.

In particular, the most important wind tunnel experiment has been basically completed under the general work of continuous rotation before Song Tianxing.

This also reduced Zhang Xingyang's next work a lot.

"Xiaofu, let's take a good rest for a few days."

After a brief exchange with Sun Hongtao, Zhang Xingyang and Xiao Fu, who had been worried about Song Tianxing, said.

"Dean Zhang, how is my teacher doing now?"

Although Xiao Fu didn't rest all night, he still gave priority to his mentor's situation.

Song Tianxing treated him well on weekdays, but after Song Tianxing's accident, Xiao Fu was also worried for a long time.

"Mr. Song, his situation has stabilized now."

"Don't worry too much, the medical conditions of the Air Force General Hospital are very good, and Mr. Song's follow-up treatment has been arranged."

Zhang Xingyang said that he finally coaxed the worried little fu away.

"Xingyang, it's better not to spend too much time on fighter planes now."

Sun Hongtao reminded a little:

"You have other important work to do."

"Shenzhou 3 is about to be launched, and the rocket preparations before launch must not be sloppy."

Shenzhou-3, scheduled to launch on November 23, is now less than three months away.

"I understand."

"We have used the Hongyan rocket hundreds of times, and the overall system reliability is very high, and there will be no accidents."

Zhang Xingyang was not particularly worried about the problem of the rocket system.

After all, in the past few years, there have been several launches of Hongyan rockets every month.

In the whole system, it is very clear about all aspects of the rocket, and everyone has taken precautions in advance when there may be problems.

What's more, the manned Hongyan rocket has added many measures to ensure the safety of astronauts.

For example, the escape tower, which has taken a lot of effort to design and manufacture by the Rocket Research Institute, can ensure the safety of astronauts before the rocket is launched and during the launch process.

"Although it has been launched hundreds of times, for us, manned space flight is the first time after all, and we can't pay too much attention to it."

Sun Hongtao stressed the importance of this launch mission.

Manned spaceflight, as the most complex space activity on the planet, involves an incomparably large number of scientific and technological and engineering capabilities, and even after 20 years, the countries that can independently realize manned spaceflight can be counted on one hand.

As for the construction of a manned space station independently, there is only one country.

In addition to the fact that China has completely completed the construction of the Tiangong space station.

It is as strong as Eagle Sauce, and it also united more than a dozen countries in the world to complete the construction of the International Space Station.

And after 2025, the International Space Station will basically complete its decommissioning.

Since then, the only space station that has been manned in space is Tiangong.

Behind this is the growing scientific and technological strength and manufacturing capacity of China for decades.

As the world's first industrial power, it can complete such a space miracle.

It is almost impossible for a country with the world's largest GDP on paper, but which has completely hollowed out its industry and almost completely relocated its manufacturing industry, to accomplish such a task.

"The Shenzhou-3 rocket, which is specially designed and manufactured for manned spaceflight, has completed the factory work."

Zhang Xingyang also began to talk about the current progress of Shenzhou 3 to dispel Sun Hongtao's worries.

"At present, it will be transported to the Jiuquan launch center for pre-launch inspection and preparation."

The manned space launch work in China is completed by the Jiuquan Launch Center in the interior, mainly for the safety of the launch.

In order to prevent sabotage by hostile foreign forces.

"Tomorrow, the first stage of the rocket will be transported by rail to the Jiuquan launch center."

Zhang Xingyang rubbed his sleepless all night and said with a somewhat groggy head.

As a high-thrust rocket, the first stage of the Hongyan rocket is nearly 50 meters high.

It can be very difficult to find a vehicle that can carry such a behemoth on road transport, not to mention the traffic control and all kinds of troubles along the way.

In comparison, the special railway train is much more convenient and faster.

In less than two days, the first-stage rocket was able to be transported from the manufacturing base to the Jiuquan launch center.

"The two-stage rocket and the escape tower will also be shipped tomorrow, but they will use road transportation."

"All rocket components are expected to arrive at the rocket assembly plant at the Jiuquan launch center in three days."

Zhang Xingyang had already arranged these tasks before.

In fact, he should have been arranging the launch of rockets at the rocket manufacturing base now.

It's just that now they have been delayed by Song Tianxing's sudden illness.

"Now that you've got a plan, I won't say anything more."

After Sun Hongtao finished talking about the issue of manned spaceflight, he turned his head and talked about the issue of astronauts.

"How's the astronaut training going?"

"Are they all ready?"

Although the current training of astronauts is not under Zhang Xingyang's control, he also knew about this aspect before.

"The training of astronauts has been completed, and the first batch of astronauts are ready to go to space."

The manned module of Shenzhou-3, although it was designed to be able to carry three astronauts.

However, for safety reasons, the first manned spaceflight will still only carry one astronaut.

This way, even in the worst-case scenario, when the rocket has an accident and the escape tower is unusable, there will be no greater damage.

As an extremely important part of the three-step process of domestic manned spaceflight, the space system has devoted infinite efforts to this launch mission.

Everyone hoped that the launch would be a success.

But as a large-scale systems project, we have to consider the worst-case scenario.

As the ancients said: If people have no foresight, they must have near-term worries!

"Do you want to go back to the Northern Capital together?"

After talking to Zhang Xingyang and finding that he was not flustered, Sun Hongtao was ready to go back.

After all, he still has a lot of important business to attend to, and it is impossible to spend all his time on the wind tunnel base.

However, he still invited Zhang Xingyang by the way.

Because he has to rush back to the rocket manufacturing base today to be responsible for the launch of manned rockets.

"No, there's still some work to be done at the base."

Zhang Xingyang shook his head and rejected Sun Hongtao's kindness.

The fighter design team in the base has just been arranged by Zhang Xingyang to rest.

However, the follow-up work arrangements still need to be planned, and it is impossible for them to remain in a state of leaderlessness.

Sun Hongtao's special car, crushing the wind and sand on the grassland, left the wind tunnel base.

After seeing the other party leave, Zhang Xingyang began to think about how to arrange the design team left by Mr. Song.

However, before that, Zhang Xingyang still has to learn more about their current work progress.

Zhang Xingyang's reading speed is comparable to quantum reading, and the upper limit of speed is mainly limited by the information that the eye can receive within a unit of time.

Even so, it took Zhang Xingyang nearly an hour to read the fighter's current wind tunnel experiment report.

I finished reading the mountains of paper reports and I don't know how many gigabytes of electronic data.

After reading it, I realized that in fact, the wind tunnel experiment of the fighter can be regarded as completed.

Because at present, only the effect of the fighter tail nozzle on the flight state remains, and no tests have been conducted.

But this part goes into the design of the engine.

If Zhang Xingyang is not mistaken, the Aviation Development Research Institute, which is responsible for engine design, has completed the research and development of the WS-10 engine for the stealth fighter.

The full-thrust version of the WS-10 uses a zigzag tail nozzle, which can greatly reduce the infrared signature of the engine's tail flame, improving the survival rate in air combat.

And the use of binary vector thrust technology, can improve a lot of maneuverability.

The thrust has also reached a point unprecedented in China, 178KN.

Two full-thrust versions of the WS-10 can allow the fighter to reach more than 30 tons of thrust and a maximum take-off weight of more than 40 tons without afterburner.

Zhang Xingyang finished thinking about the engine, although he knew that the more advanced WS-15 engine was also in full swing in research and development, but the performance indicators should be very high, and the development was very difficult, and there was no possibility of implementation within at least five years.

So for a domestic fourth-generation aircraft that wants to complete its first flight as soon as possible, it is basically impossible to count on the WS-15.

However, the WS-10 engine can actually be used at this stage.

After learning about the current work progress of the design team, Zhang Xingyang took out an A4 piece of paper from the laboratory desk and began to arrange the next work for them.

Zhang Xingyang did not arrange some extremely difficult work for them, mainly to conduct a certain number of wind tunnel experiments.

There are still a lot of things that can be fine-tuned in the current fighter design.

Before Zhang Xingyang was able to free up time and preside over the work of the fighters, they mainly carried out some tinkering work.

Of course, Zhang Xingyang also set a relatively strict work schedule for them.

In case of falling ill at work.

After writing the work schedule, Zhang Xingyang took the paper and went to the office building first, and found Qiao Yang, who is currently in charge of the life and work of the base part-time.

"After three days, let them work according to this schedule."

Zhang Xingyang said patiently to Qiao Yang.

"Especially the timeline on this, we must let them strictly enforce it."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Xingyang seemed to remember something:

"That's right."

"I'll talk to the doctors at the base hospital today, and I'm going to organize a base-wide physical examination."

"Everybody's going to participate."

Qiao Yang looked at Zhang Xingyang with a serious face, and naturally understood what he meant.

Obviously, Song Tianxing's sudden fall yesterday gave everyone in the base a big warning.

"I see."

"I'll go and discuss with them later, the order of the physical examination arrangement."

However, after finishing speaking, Qiao Yang said a little seriously:

"Dean Zhang, you also want to participate."

"Me?"

Zhang Xingyang's first reaction was to shirk, after all, he had to return to work at the rocket manufacturing base in the afternoon, and it was too much of a waste of time to have a physical examination at this time.

"Next time, next time."

"No, if you, as the person in charge of the base, can't take the lead in participating, how can we convince everyone to participate?!"

Qiao Yang's attitude was much more serious, and what he said was not unreasonable.

If Zhang Xingyang, who has stayed up late for a long time in the base, does not have a physical examination, then others will have a reason not to participate.

Zhang Xingyang quickly reacted to the consequences if he did this.

So he said a little reluctantly:

"Okay, I'll participate."

"But I don't have much time, let's arrange it as soon as possible."

Qiao Yang's work speed was very fast, and in less than half an hour, he and the doctors determined the items that needed to be checked in the physical examination.

And the order of physical examinations for each department was also worked out.

An hour later, the physical examination of the whole base officially began.

The first person to undergo a physical examination was Zhang Xingyang, who was the person in charge of the base.

Although the scale of the base hospital is not very large, after all, it only needs to provide medical services to a few thousand people in the base, but all departments are complete.

Therefore, during the physical examination, there are many items to be examined.

There are seven or eight items of color ultrasound, CT and so on alone.

As for the blood routine, urine routine and other laboratory examination subjects, there are more than a dozen contents.

Even though Zhang Xingyang repeatedly asked to speed up the physical examination, it took three or four hours to complete such a complete set of examinations.

However, the examination proved that even if the work and rest were irregular for a long time, Zhang Xingyang's body was still relatively healthy.

Except for the fact that I usually eat too little, which leads to a little low weight, there is nothing wrong with it.

But most of the researchers in the base don't have a good body like Zhang Xingyang.

Because of staying up late for a long time and eating irregularly, many people have high blood pressure.

Some researchers who like to overeat to relieve stress also have fatty liver problems.

"Dean Zhang, most of the people in the base have some physical problems."

"It's these guys who are serious, and we found some shadows on their bodies through CT scans."

The physical examiner handed several physical examination reports in his hand to Zhang Xingyang and said.

Zhang Xingyang originally planned to leave after the physical examination, but he found that the health of the researchers in the base was even worse than he thought.

So I postponed my departure for half a day, planning to leave after seeing them have a physical examination.

"You're saying there might be tumors on these people's bodies?"

Although Zhang Xingyang doesn't know much about medicine, he also understands what shadows mean.

"Can the hospital's equipment detect whether it is a benign tumor or a malignant tumor?"

"Our equipment is not particularly complete, so it is best for them to go to the big hospital in Beidu for such an examination."

Zhang Xingyang looked at the report in his hand, thought for a few seconds and said:

"Okay!"

"I'll arrange for them to be checked."

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