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Chapter 12 – Heavy recoverable launch vehicle

Du Xingyu’s remarks naturally aroused heated discussions on the Internet, with both approval and defamation, but at this time he didn’t care anymore.

Rocket Research Center, the research team is having a meeting. This is also the first time Du Xingyu has participated in a research team meeting.

“Du Xingyu, must everyone know each other?” Liu Yuan asked Du Xingyu to introduce himself. Everyone nodded and looked at the young rocket engineer curiously.

“Okay, let me talk about our mission schedule for the two months. Two months later, our’Tianwen-1′ Mars rover will be launched. Every two years and two months, Mars and the Earth will only be launched. Run to the shortest distance.” The team leader and chief engineer of rocket research and development He Jingcheng spoke.

“The United States, Russia, Europe, and India have all completed the mission to explore Mars, and China must not be left behind. So this mission must be successful! As a rocket team, we must ensure that the Long March 5B carrier rocket can’t have any problems!”

“Comprehensive testing must not allow any error in any link! In aviation missions, an error of a decimal point may destroy thousands of people’s efforts and tens of billions of funds!”

Everyone looked serious, and no one wanted to make mistakes in their tasks. The huge pressure was beyond ordinary people’s ability to bear!

“What do you think, tell me.”

He Jingcheng looked at everyone, and everyone was silent. The Long March 5 carrier rocket is a relatively mature series, and there is basically no problem. Therefore, the Long March 5 will be chosen for this Mars rover launch mission.

“Group leader, I have a rocket improvement plan.” Du Xingyu stood up and spoke.

Everyone on the research team looked at him. Today is Du Xingyu’s first day of officially participating in the work. Some people are secretly upset.

“Oh, what do you think?” He Jingcheng was a little surprised, although he also thought Du Xingyu was a man of things. But there is a gap between talents and real rocket engineers, and the school-made rockets are far apart from real launch vehicles.

According to He Jingcheng’s idea, Du Xingyu still needs to train for a few years. Who knows that this is only the first day, and he will stand up.

“I made a recovery plan for a heavy launch vehicle, can you demonstrate it?” Du Xingyu asked.

“Yes!” He Jingcheng smiled, he didn’t think Du Xingyu could make any reliable plans.

But it is also a good thing to make young people suffer.

The other team members thought the same way, they didn’t care too much.

Du Xingyu turned on the projection screen in the conference room and began to explain his rocket recovery plan.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

“Everyone knows that I can enter here to work with you because I made a small recyclable rocket. But now I want to say that this recyclable rocket solution is actually a simplified version of the heavy launch vehicle I designed. As long as we make changes, we can also achieve the same effect on heavy launch vehicles.”

Du Xingyu’s words just started, and someone interrupted: “Do you know how much difference between the real heavy launch vehicle and the toys you made at school?”

Du Xingyu looked at him, this was a middle-aged man with a Chinese face and thick eyebrows. His name is Tao Ran, who is the deputy leader of the rocket research and development team.

Tao Ran was not friendly to Du Xingyu’s face and tone. In fact, he was very opposed to Du Xingyu before joining the group.

Tao Ran believes that the Star Sky One launched by Du Xingyu is just a toy, so lucky to recycle it. There is a difference of tens of thousands of miles from the real rocket. Such students should start from the bottom, instead of taking up an important position as a rocket engineer as soon as they come!

Like Tao Ran, there are some people in the research team who are not cold to Du Xingyu. What genius? These rocket engineers, dynamics, mechanical engineering, electrical, and intelligent systems experts, which one was not a genius in the student days?

“I know the gaps, of course, potter. So my plan needs to be supplemented by you.” Du Xingyu said, “If you have any comments, you can patiently listen to me and then mention it.

“I suggest you talk about it later.” Tao Ran said directly, “We are busy with work tasks and we still need to hurry up.”

The atmosphere in the meeting room was a bit embarrassing at once, and it was clear that the engineer headed by Tao Ran did not approve of Du Xingyu, and opposed him.

Seeing this, Liu Yuan said: “I have read Du Xingyu’s plan, and I think it is worth your study. The task is not busy now, let him finish first.”

Although Liu Yuan did not serve as the team leader or deputy team leader, Tao Ran could only shut up and obedient when he spoke, as the technical consultant of his research institute and the dean of the aerospace industry.

But everyone was still a little dissatisfied, thinking that Liu Yuan was taking care of his students.

Du Xingyu began to explain his plan. At the beginning, everyone looked at it with a leisurely attitude, but gradually, their expressions became more and more serious!

Regardless of personal positions and resumes, the researchers and rocket engineers here are all people who are enthusiastic about research and space exploration.

Du Xingyu’s plan is clearly structured, well-founded, and even he has done various simulation analyses. There is nothing wrong with using computer software to simulate the experiment.

Such detailed preparation is just trying to find out what is wrong, and it will be a little difficult for a while.

Until the end of the reading, none of the experts in the conference room took the lead in speaking out. They are all pondering carefully, thinking about this plan, trying to prove its rationality and find out the shortcomings.

For a long while, the meeting room was silent. Liu Yuan took the lead in breaking the silence and said: “I have read and studied Xiao Du’s plan in advance. I have not discovered any major problems personally. From a theoretical point of view, it can be implemented.”

Team leader He Jingcheng said with emotion: “If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I couldn’t believe this was made by a newcomer who just joined our research team!”

“If this plan can be successfully implemented, we can save the country tens of billions of funds every year! my country’s aerospace engineering will surely usher in great development!”

The cost of each rocket launch is hundreds of millions, or even billions. If Du Xingyu’s rocket recovery plan is successful, the rocket can be launched repeatedly, which is of great significance!

“I admit that this scheme does have merits!” Tao Ran expressed his attitude, “but the results of computer simulation experiments do not prove that it is feasible in actual operation.”

He still had doubts about Du Xingyu’s ability.

There was a lot of discussion, supportive and skeptical.

Upon seeing this, Du Xingyu said, “Everyone, as you said, whether the plan is feasible or not, it still needs to go through actual experiments. I suggest that this plan be implemented on the Long March 5B carrier rocket for our Mars mission! Once successful, it will save more than one billion in launch costs for the first time!”

“Even if it is unsuccessful, the plan I designed will not affect the rocket launch, and our loss is minimal.”

The rocket recovery plan designed by Du Xingyu only takes effect after the rocket is successfully launched. Even without his recycling system, the rocket would naturally disintegrate and crash, becoming a pile of rubbish.

As soon as Du Xingyu’s suggestion was put forward, the discussion in the conference room was immediately redoubled!