Chapter 115 On-site Observation
In the long term, Guangjia Aerospace will need to develop its own engines sooner or later.
It's just that the development of engines takes time, and the engines that meet their current needs will take even longer.
In this window, the best way is to buy, buy existing mature technology.
The Vulcan engine is the engine used by Ariane 5, the rocket with the largest carrying capacity in Europe. Its thrust is not at the forefront among rocket engines, but its biggest advantage is stability.
If Light Armor Aerospace wants to follow the path of SpaceX and aggregate multiple engines, like the starship they are developing, a total of dozens of engines will be used.
If you want to take this path, stability and controllability are the biggest advantages. After internal research and judgment, Guangjia Aerospace believes that the Vulcan engine is relatively easy to obtain.
The Energetic launch vehicle developed by Damao's predecessor is more fragrant. It was a product more than 30 years ago and has experienced several rounds of great changes. They are not sure that Damao still has relevant complete technical materials.
In comparison, the Vulcan engine used by the Ariane 5, which was just retired a few years ago, is easier to get.
As for the Wassenaar Agreement that Frank and Ulf are worried about, if you want a patent and open a deal, you will naturally not be able to get around this restriction.
"We only need technical information. As long as the European side keeps confidentiality when trading technical information, no one will know that the technology of the Trailblazer series rockets comes from the European Space Agency." Chen Yuanguang said.
Frank and Ulf looked at each other and smiled bitterly. They were both supporters of a greater Europe. As they got older, they realized more and more that all European organizations, without exception, were controlled by Amerikan. Penetrating into a funnel, there is no secret at all.
As a person who has come from the age of iron and fire, Ulf had a hunch after hearing what Chen Yuanguang said. Once this favorable deal was completed, Joseph was found to have committed suicide at home.
This kind of cooperation is not just the cooperation itself. Since recyclable rockets and rocket engines can be traded, can more transactions be completed in the future?
The EU's "self-developed" recyclable rocket is completed, so will the EU also get a share of the subsequent International Space Station transportation project, instead of all being undertaken by SpaceX?
China has mastered the large-yield recyclable rocket launch technology and occupied the original Starlink orbit, leaving a vacancy in the Starlink plan.
These are serious damages to Amerikan's interests.
Both Ulf and Frank can think of this. Emotionally, they undoubtedly hope that Europe will get better and better, and that Europe’s aerospace industry will get rid of its current predicament. The problem is that taking this path means fighting with Amerikan Be against.
Whether the European Cooperation Organization, which is riddled with internal penetrations, can keep secrets and successfully complete the transaction, they think it is absolutely impossible.
After completing the transaction, the English media gathered on Fleet Street exposed the incident, and Joseph was found to have "committed suicide" in his own home.
When Chen Yuanguang saw Frank and Ulf's expressions gloomy and uncertain, looking like they wanted to say something but didn't say anything, he guessed what the other party was worried about:
"Our transactions can be transmitted in an encrypted manner. Use stick image steganography technology to encrypt, and then find a way to hand over the storage device to me.
The deal is completed. ”
Because like engine technology, it cannot be all text. A large number of design drawings will be involved. When images are involved, text encryption is not feasible and robust steganography technology must be used.
Frank touched his little hair and said, "Dr. Wright, we are not worried about this.
You are right, as long as you think about it, there is always a way, but the problem is that we cannot guarantee that the transaction will not be discovered.
The European Space Agency has its own set of technical management regulations. After we digitize all technical materials, we need to go through a process to extract the technology from the database.
It’s not like you think, it only needs a few people in the middle to decide.
With so many people involved and formal processes involved, not only the executives of the European Space Agency in Paris will know about it, but also Brussels and Washington will know about our deal with Light Armor Aerospace.
There will be a very strong reaction from Washington. ”
What Frank did not finish was that Washington could either wield the stick of the Wassenaar Agreement to hammer the European Space Agency, or take private measures to have the people who prompted this incident commit suicide.
If you have strict process management, it will be very troublesome when you encounter something that requires flexible operation.
Just like many companies use OA to conduct processes, so that all data is stored online. When you want to search for historical processes, it is much faster than searching for paper documents, but when facing an audit, you want to hide it In the past, when there were some inappropriate processes, if you deleted them on the system side, there would still be records in the database layer.
Chen Yuanguang then thought: "This is not a problem.
It's all electronic, and there are advantages to electronicity. After you discover that there are malicious loopholes in this system, you can fix them before , tell me the vulnerability and the location of the Vulcan engine
Then after I copy the technology, you can fix the vulnerability. ”
The operation method mentioned by Chen Yuanguang only involves a few people, IT technicians from the electronic archives, and several senior executives from the European Space Agency.
It can be controlled to a very small size. The smaller the number, the less likely it is to leak.
The problem is that this is not good for Frank and Ulf. Ulf is eighty years old and retired, and Frank is the director of the Astronaut Center. After the European Space Agency obtained the recyclable rocket technology, it was completely operated in the dark, and the credit would not be credited to him.
This is a belief. Seeing the deterioration of the European space industry, the old astronauts wanted to do something. What belief.
Frank said: "We will discuss it with Mr. Joseph when we get back."
Chen Yuanguang nodded: "What about Pioneer 1 launching human hibernation equipment?"
Frank said: "We will try our best. Promote this matter.
We also hope to see Guangjia Aerospace’s recyclable rocket technology with our own eyes before completing the technology transaction.”
Chen Yuanguang took the opportunity to propose: “Our rocket launch this year. We are going to launch at sea this week, can you two stay a few more days?
If you are free, we can go to watch it together. It takes about two hours by plane. "
You can't catch big fish without giving some information, Chen Yuanguang thought.
After returning to the hotel, Frank and Ulf looked at each other. They felt that today's conversation with Chen Yuanguang involved The information density is too high and cannot be decided by the two of them.
The dilemma facing the European Space Agency is that it has not produced any results for a long time and is highly dependent on Amerikan for the development of the aerospace industry. < br>
Da Mao can at least use his own launch vehicle to launch cargo to the International Space Station. After Europe’s Ariane 5 is retired, there is no medium or large rocket that can take over.
The rockets operated by some commercial airlines are small rockets. At best, they can launch some remote sensing satellites. Not only are they small in yield, but their launch height is also very limited.
The European space industry has almost fallen into silence.
They need new highlights, and introducing external partners is a solution.
SpaceX is highly bound to Amerikan’s military and looks down on them at all.
As for Light Armor Aerospace, it turns out that European astronauts have stayed on the space station for three months and a half or even more. Everyone generally said that this life is too difficult, and hibernation equipment can help them solve their psychological suffering.
The second reason is that the successful launch of Guangjia Aerospace’s recyclable rocket last year has made the European Space Agency coveted, and they hope to obtain this technology.
Before coming, Joseph talked with them and expressed that he wanted to guide them in this direction.
The Wassenaar Agreement does not allow participating countries to sell technology to China, but it does not mean that they cannot buy technology from China.
As a result, before they could express this meaning, Chen Yuanguang took the initiative to propose, but they couldn't decide the price.
“This deal has to be done.” Ulf said, although he received training at Amerikan’s Marshall Space Flight Center and gave lessons to many Amerikans there.
He has good personal relationships with many people in NASA, but this does not mean that he is on Amerikan's side. As a West German, he is undoubtedly full of affection for Europe.
After retirement, he returned to serve as an external expert for the European Space Agency, otherwise he would not have been asked to come forward this time.
Frank said: “Of course, replace useless technology with useful technology.
Europe makes its own recyclable rockets, whether it is to the superiors in Paris or to EU officials in Brussels Said, these are all achievements, achievements worthy of publicity
The problem is that this transaction is too sensitive, and it faces various problems.”
Ulf said decisively: "When I go to Yantai this week, let's call it this name. After the on-site observation, we will discuss it. If what Wright offers to trade is a bundled recyclable launch vehicle optimized based on the Vulcan engine , then we must complete the deal
We have to do whatever it takes, even if we ask Macron to help us, we have to get this. Leave it to me."
Ulf thought that he was old, had been a professor, and had been in space. This life was worth it. He didn't mind taking this trip, even if his life was in danger.
Ulf continued: "If it is just the version of the technology we saw last year, then we have to consider it carefully.
If it is just this technology, it is not worth the risk we take."
>They have agreed to fly to Yantai with Chen Yuanguang to watch the first sea launch of Guangjia Space.
This launch is not just a sea launch, the Trailblazer 1 has also been iterated to the Trailblazer 2. Compared with the Trailblazer 1, this generation of Trailblazer has multiple rocket engines, and it has multiple rocket engines. Like the Eagle 9, it adopts multi-engine bundled launch.
The carrying capacity reaches two-thirds of that of Falcon 9.
Once the Vulcan engine is used, the carrying capacity can be greater than that of the Falcon 9 currently in service by SpaceX.
Of course, China’s engine technology can also be used, but compared with the Vulcan engine, China’s engine technology requires longer debugging when doing cluster launches, and its stability is not as good as that of the Vulcan engine. god.
Frank said: "Let's wait until we watch the Chinese rocket launch live.
Neither you nor I can decide this matter. We have to wait for news from Paris.< br>
We have to ask them to change our tickets and go back directly to Paris, and then go back to Paris to finish talking about this and then go back to Cologne.”
The European Space Agency is in Paris and the Astronaut Center is in Cologne.
“Hello everyone, we are here again. Compared with the last time, the rocket launch of Guangjia Space moved from Jiuquan in the Gobi landscape to Yantai on the seaside. This is also the first use of Guangjia after its completion. .
This space launch ship costing 700 million RMB is used for the first time. The launch target of the Pioneer rocket is geosynchronous orbit.
This is different from the previous experimental rocket launch. This pioneer carries the mission of one rocket and five satellites. It will send five satellites into space in one launch."
Tim stood on the beach and talked to photographer Xiao Li's lens, his hairstyle was completely blown by the sea breeze. It was messed up.
The first launch of a bundled recyclable rocket was also the first launch of Guangjia Aerospace. Almost all employees of Guangjia Aerospace were present.
Same as last time, this time they also invited Tim to come over for filming, including the rocket specially designed by Tim and others, which will also be sent to the established orbit by the Trail Blazer rocket.
Because this is the first time, the battle is quite big.
In addition to the employees of Guangjia Aerospace, various official media, self-media and partners invited by Guangjia Aerospace, the people who came also included representatives of Guangjia Aerospace’s investors, representatives from Yantai, and domestic aerospace experts and officials.
The scene was full of people, hundreds of people were waiting on the shore to watch the launch results of Pioneer 2.
There were too many people, and there were just as many people trying to talk to Chen Yuanguang. Chen Yuanguang couldn't spare the time to greet Frank and Ulf.
Fortunately, officials from the Chinese aerospace department are very interested in these two people, and they are responsible for dealing with the two of Ulf.
"Dr. Wolf, welcome to China." Gui Hai is a professor at Beihang University and the third batch of astronauts stationed on the International Space Station.
He will ride on the Shenzhou 16 rocket to enter the Chinese Space Station next month. This time he came to Yantai, firstly to observe the launch of Trailblazer 2, and secondly because he wanted to chat with Ulf.
Scientists go to space to engage in scientific research missions on the space station. It is very common abroad. They have been doing this since the last century, but this is the first time in China.
Wolfe was one of the first scientists to conduct experiments in the sky. He was engaged in load experiments.
Gui Hai will be the first Chinese scientist to go to heaven. He is very interested in Ulf's experience. It is a rare opportunity to chat in person.
After Gui Hai briefly introduced himself, Ulf couldn't help but be filled with emotion when he saw that such a young astronaut, like himself, had the opportunity to go to space to do experiments, but he was already old.
On the other side, Chen Yuanguang was chatting with the leader of the aviation port: "We don't mind doing some transactions with recyclable rockets."
For the current Chen Yuanguang, it will never be a problem for him in the future. Transferring technology to modern times is of course the fastest, but doing so involves the risk of explaining the source of the technology. This is one of the reasons.
The second is that he hopes to train his team. Whether it is rocket engines obtained from Europe or rocket engines obtained from China, he will not directly use these technologies, but requires the R&D personnel of Light Armor Aerospace to build on this basis. Go up and iterate and create a large-yield bundled rocket.
The middle-aged man in a white shirt with a strong scholarly air said: "The ministry may need to evaluate the technology transaction when the time comes."
Chen Yuanguang said: "Okay, I am Thinking about it this way, I have recyclable rocket technology, and we can’t receive orders from Europe.
European orders are almost taken care of by SpaceX. I might as well give the technology to Europe and trade it for something useful. Technology comes back and gives full play to its value
As for whether Europe will resell our technology to other countries, such as the Neon Maple Leaf Country, these countries and we have no business in the aerospace field. There will be little impact if sold.
The one most likely to be affected is the European Space Agency itself. "
The other party has a strong technocratic atmosphere, so Chen Yuanguang spoke very frankly.
"Including China Aerospace Industry Group, we can also sell technology to them, and we can jointly develop the technology in the future.
What I just said is an easy-to-think purpose.
Privately, there is a deeper purpose. I said that Light Armor Aerospace wants to become a learning organization. It needs a lot of experience to train its team, whether it is rocket launch experience, satellite design, detector design, etc.
The demand of Light Armor Aerospace alone is not enough to train the team on a large scale. We need to involve other countries. No demand creates demand.
Take Europe as an example. It doesn’t matter if they don’t hand over rocket launches to Guangjia Aerospace. Then we may not be unable to cooperate in satellite design, detector design, and lunar landing.
And we cannot cooperate with Europe. After Europe has the ability to launch large-scale satellites, demand will arise from countries in South America, Asan, Southeast Asia, etc. We can cooperate with these countries.
The diffusion of technology has brought about the activation of the global commercial aerospace market, and Guangjia Aerospace will gain a lot of opportunities from it.
We have recently signed rocket launch contracts with Bolivia, Brazil, and Indonesia, including the design of remote sensing satellites with Bolivia.
The segment with the strongest demand in the entire commercial aviation market is monopolized by SpaceX. China, which has the second largest demand, is dominated by state-owned institutions. We have to look for external markets. "
A hidden space has been specially enclosed here, and the people closest to them are about ten meters away.
But these are conspiracy, and it doesn't matter even if the outside world knows about it.< br>
The middle-aged man nodded after listening: “It’s a very good design, but the domestic market space is indeed limited.
But you just mentioned that the business Europe will give you will only be marginal business. ”
Chen Yuanguang said: "There are enough marginalized businesses, marginalized businesses in Europe, and core businesses in Southeast Asia and South America.
What I need is data and team training. Money is not important to us at all. "
The middle-aged man asked: "What help do you need from the country?"
Chen Yuanguang said: "Give me higher authority
Like a recyclable rocket. Technology, SpaceX does not sell it, we do.
Of course, the sale is conditional. We want to buy technology that is valuable to us, and I am willing to share the technology with the country unconditionally. ”
Chen Yuanguang is very wise and knows what to do if he wants to get along well in the country.
(End of this chapter)