The Start Of Technology Live Broadcast To Build Rockets

Chapter 30 – Aeroplane

The Space Agency and Starlight Space Technology Corporation formally reached a cooperative project “Commercial Spacecraft Research”, which is the space plane.

The space agency provided people and technology, while Starlight Corporation provided the money.

The person in charge of the task is naturally the link between the two parties, Du Xingyu, who also serves as the chief designer.

Deputy Chief Designer Zhang Yan is an expert from the Fourth Academy of Spacecraft Research of the Space Agency. Under his leadership, their team has developed the “Shenlong” spacecraft. It stayed in China for two days and was successfully recovered.

“Executive Du, long admiring the name!” Although this is the first time Zhang Yan has met Du Xingyu face-to-face, he has never heard of Du Xingyu’s name in the research institute how many times.

“Professor Zhang laughed, and we will be colleagues in the future. Xingyao’s team is still very immature. I hope Professor Zhang can give them more guidance.” Du Xingyu shook his hand.

“This is natural!” Before coming, Zhang Yan had been instructed by the leader. This time he said it was a cooperation. In fact, it was more of a help to improve Xingyao’s aerospace scientific research level.

Except for them, many people in the team are old faces. Most of the experts recruited by Xingyao Space Technology are talents from various research institutes under the space agency and top universities. After a little introduction, they all know them.

“A lot of big guys!” In the corner of the team, Xingyao’s interns Wang Wei and Lu Liangqian were talking about them.

Both of them are Du Xingyu’s classmates, and they have been preparing for a job recently. I chatted with Du Xingyu a few days ago, and Du Xingyu suggested that they go to Xingyao Space Technology for an interview.

Having had the experience of launching rockets with Du Xingyu, the two of them entered Xingyao without surprise.

And Zhao Qingquan, another roommate of Du Xingyu, went to a famous university in the United States for postgraduate studies, and did not go together.

“According to my visual observation, there are only two of us here, with the lowest qualifications!” Lu Liang lifted his glasses and said.

“Aren’t you talking nonsense? For such an important project, it would be nice if we can follow along. Du Xingyu probably still has the face.” Wang Wei whispered.

“Hush!” Lu Liang said in a low voice, “Don’t say that we two are Du Xingyu’s classmates in the research group, otherwise everyone must think that we are going through the back door! Their expectations.”

“Yeah.” Wang Wei deeply agreed.

The research project has officially started. The name is “Reusable Spacecraft Research Project Team”. The main task is to develop their own “sky plane”, temporarily named “Xingzhou”.

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“The material of the fuselage was selected as a carbon fiber composite material. With the addition of silicon carbide coating, it is light in weight and has good high temperature resistance. In addition, our titanium alloy is not strong enough. We need to find a way to add silicon carbide fiber to the aerospace titanium alloy. Made into composite materials to make the fuselage!”(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

In the conference room, Du Xingyu was explaining his ideas on all aspects of the aerospace aircraft design to everyone.

“The engine is the most important thing. The experience of the “Dragon” can be used as a reference, but cannot be copied. At present, I propose to adopt a three-category engine integrated design.”

Existing aerospace aircraft often use rockets to lift off, but Du Xingyu believes that this not only wastes resources, but also fails to reflect the multi-space operation function of the aerospace aircraft.

“Aerospace planes have to fly in the atmosphere and space, experiencing aerobic and anaerobic space. Turbojet engines can allow the aerospace planes to take off on flat ground and enter the stratosphere.”

“But once the speed of the aerospace plane exceeds 6 times the speed of sound, the air resistance will rise significantly. At this time, a ramjet will be used to make it rush out of the atmosphere. After leaving the atmosphere and into space, a rocket thruster will be used to allow it to travel in space. Keep flying…”

“The integrated design of the three engine sets is very difficult. This is an important problem that we must overcome.”

The development of a multi-cycle working combination engine unit is the top priority of the R&D team.

To this end, Du Xingyu did not hesitate to throw millions of energy points into the technology simulator. Repeated failures have allowed him to gain a lot of precious knowledge and experience, avoiding detours in the R&D team.

In this way, the waste of research and development funds can also be reduced.

Xingyao seems to have invested a lot of money, but the research and development of aerospace science and technology spends more money than it burns, and a project can burn more than one billion. Otherwise, there will not be only a few major powers in the world mastering spacecraft technology.

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During the development of the “Xingzhou” aerospace aircraft, countries around the world are not idle, and news of information comes out every week.

For example, Russia has restarted its “nuclear-powered rocket” research and development program; Germany will build new spacecraft; the French parliament has approved a proposal on space technology research and development, the details of which are temporarily kept secret; Britain, Italy, Spain and other countries have followed up.

In the surroundings of Huaxia, although the islanders did not make any announcements, they have conducted frequent rocket launch tests in recent months.

The Indian Space Agency directly announced that it will surpass China in three years and become the world’s second largest aerospace power!

They announced several major space programs and began to implement them.

Canada and Australia also have their own projects. The most eye-catching of them is the United States, which is known as the world’s number one power, the most developed country in military, commerce, and technology!

The US Space Agency redeployed its space program. In addition to returning to the moon, they have even begun preparations for landing on Mars.

And the leader of commercial aerospace in the United States, Space Exploration Technology Corporation also announced a newest plan, they will launch the latest Falcon 9 heavy carrier rocket in two months.

By then, they will try to efficiently recover the rocket, and this time they will cooperate with the US Commercial Space Station Company to launch the self-developed “Crew Dragon” spacecraft into space.

This time, two astronauts will take their spacecraft into the International Space Station, and two astronauts will take their spacecraft back to the ground from the International Space Station!

As soon as SpaceX’s plan was announced, it immediately aroused world-class attention.

Rocket recovery, manned spacecraft, and picking up astronauts from space back to Earth, no matter what it is, they are all space technologies that all countries are eager to see!

And when these three points are concentrated on a launch mission, a huge advertising effect is formed!

U.S. mainstream media such as the Washington Post and the New York Times reported on the incident, and wrote in the news: “SpaceX is undoubtedly one of the most commercially valuable space exploration technology companies in this century!”

“The feat of their launch this time will change the future of commercial aerospace. There has been news that the space service company intends to cooperate with SpaceX and plans to launch a space tourism program within a year to send at least four passengers into space!”

Not only from the United States, but China also reported this incident in China, which caused a violent response.

Many people said with emotion: “The science and technology in the United States is still strong! SpaceX is only a private enterprise. Aerospace science and technology can actually reach the point of sending people into space. In comparison, our country has not yet had a company with this brand. ”