Chapter 116 The first launch in 2023
“Okay, Yuan Guang, I understand what you mean, and I will help you convey your demands when I get back.
Great job on the Light Armor Aerospace Yes, it puts a lot of pressure on various research institutes and aerospace industry groups.
It is really not easy for private institutions to achieve the level of light armor aerospace.
We will definitely try our best. It’s convenient,” the middle-aged man said.
Chen Yuanguang saw that the other party agreed so simply, so he added the request he originally wanted to say:
"Bureau Wu, if that's the case, then I will mention some things that require official cooperation?"< br>
Director Wu looked at the huge launch ship docked steadily on the sea. On the deck, a rocket much larger than the Pioneer 1 stood there, ready to challenge the sky. He was in a good mood. A lot.
"Tell me."
Chen Yuanguang said: "You should also know that when buying technology from Europe, the Wassenaar Agreement will be an obstacle, so during the transaction process, state help may be needed. A little help.”
Chen Yuanguang told Bureau Wu about the cooperation methods he discussed with Frank and Wolf.
Director Wu was in a bad mood. This was not something he could decide: "I will help you react, Yuan Guang, you are still impulsive, and the transaction method should not be discussed so early.
< br>If they want to do it, they will naturally find a way to circumvent the Wassenaar Agreement.
The agreement has been circumvented.
Don't put it on the table. We have already negotiated with Amerikan. It's a head-on confrontation. Dealing with Europe depends on Europe's sincerity
To put it directly on the table, Iceland has not joined the Wassenaar Agreement. If Europe wants to trade, just let Iceland do the deal. "
Bureau Wu seemed to be very hawkish: "I will help you coordinate. This matter is out in the open.
This is a small matter. The Vulcan engine is such an old technology. We are willing to sell recyclable rockets to them, and they make money.
These Europeans want to gain benefits but do not want to bear the pressure. How can there be such a good thing?
Yuan Guang, you are still young, and you may feel that the rules cannot be circumvented, so think of some off-the-table solutions.
What I want to tell you is that the rules were broken when they were first established, but you need to be skillful in the way you break the rules. Before you do it, you must judge whether you can bear the consequences of breaking the rules.
Light Armor Aerospace has been put on the list by Amerikan, which means that you have to bear the consequences before breaking the rules, so what are you afraid of? Let it go and get started.
In addition, when doing transactions with foreigners, you must take the initiative in your own hands.
In 2004, the country was far less prosperous and powerful than it is now. Didn’t the high-speed rail technology be bought back at that time?
Now Europe has fallen into an unprecedented low ebb in its aerospace industry, and they need technology to boost confidence.
Recyclable rockets are much more valuable than their outdated Vulcan engines, and if that's not what you want, I think you'd have to let them bleed a little more. "
After hearing this, Chen Yuanguang said, "I understand. "
He thought to himself, since Bureau Wu said so, he naturally has a way, he just needs to wait for the news.
Sometimes it is beneficial to rely on the organization, for some things The organization will have a better way. They have much more experience in this area.
Of course, they will suffer more, and they will suffer more from the accumulated experience.
In the distance, the Pioneer 2 rocket is shining with little rays of light on its surface under the sunlight, making it appear to be extremely large. People worry about whether the launch ship below can really withstand the thrust of the rocket at the moment of launch.
As the launch time approaches, the staff on the deck are busy and orderly conducting final inspections. The sea breeze could not dissipate the tense atmosphere.
The audience watching the launch held up telescopes for fear of missing any detail.
The entire observation deck gradually became quiet.
The first Guangjia Aerospace rocket launch attracted a large number of viewers to watch the live broadcast, so this rocket launch also cooperated with Bilibili, Douyin, Weibo and other platforms.
The entire event was broadcast live on these platforms, and several sponsors were found, including Huawei and Xiaomi. Huawei sponsored it under its own brand, while Xiaomi sponsored it under the name of Xiaomi Motors.
The video of Li Xiyin interviewing Chen Yuanguang actually served as a warm-up for this rocket launch.
In addition, this time it was launched from the sea, and the size of the rocket was much larger than last time.
So this rocket launch attracted far more spectators than the last time.
After a long wait, a roar echoed through the sky, and blazing flames spewed out from the bottom of the rocket.
The huge thrust caused the rocket to slowly lift into the sky, and its trajectory drew a beautiful arc in the sky.
"Yuanguang, when will we know whether Luojia 2 is successfully launched?"
After he and Director Wu finished chatting alone, Dean Shu came to Chen Yuanguang and asked.
This time the rocket launched five satellites. Except for the small satellites launched for Tim and the others, the rest were satellites used for scientific research by universities.
Chen Yuanguang said: "This depends on the situation of the rocket entering orbit. As long as it does not explode in the air, there should be no problem."
Dean Shu is the dean of the School of Biology. Now he has been promoted to a higher level. He is also the vice president of Jiang University. In terms of level, he is the same as Bureau Wu.
After all, Director Wu is also the deputy.
As the rocket flew higher and higher, it finally disappeared into the blue sky.
The staff of Guangjia Aerospace finally felt relieved.
Lin Tianmin thought to himself, "Not exploding is the greatest success."
Because the biggest problem faced by multi-engine strap-on rockets is the multiple engines, the forces between them must be balanced. Once the balance is not good, it will tilt. The tilt will cause explosion or crash.
SpaceX's Falcon rocket often had problems during the development stage, and the launch was abandoned as soon as it happened. The main problem was that the engine was unbalanced. The B engine corresponding to the A engine could not be ignited. After launch, it was supposed to reach A balanced AB engine has power on only one side.
After the rocket is launched, it will tilt and deviate from the intended direction. In worse cases, it will explode or crash.
Ulf and Frank were both astronauts. They saw that there were no accidents after the rocket entered the second-stage orbit, and they thought it must be a success.
“The next step is to see whether the rocket can be recovered and dropped to the predetermined point.” Wolf said.
This time he came to China, and he had a completely new understanding of China. The China he had been exposed to in the German media before and the China in reality were not the same China at all.
The progress of Chinese people in aerospace technology has only been seen in the media before, and the local media will more or less make malicious speculations, such as the source of Chinese technology is unknown.
After Ulf came to see it with his own eyes this time, he thought that Europe itself had not even developed a small recyclable rocket. How could it be possible that a bundled rocket that far exceeded the power of the existing recyclable rockets in Europe could be stolen? It's your technique.
He will feel that this group of media sets the pace in the middle and is an important reason why European aerospace technology has gone from leading to falling behind.
The rhythm here not only refers to the rhythm of China, but also that China's technology is either worthless or has questionable origins, and the propaganda content does not respect the spirit of seeking truth from facts at all.
Frank was also very emotional. He had been to China many years ago. At that time, China wanted to join forces with Europe to develop the Galileo satellite system. He had just finished his career as an astronaut and was working as an ordinary member of the negotiating delegation. The people came from China.
Compared with that time, China now has left Europe behind in the field of aerospace.
After the rocket took off and disappeared, Frank took out his mobile phone and opened YouTube to watch the live broadcast.
The official channel of Guangjia Aerospace has hundreds of thousands of followers on YouTube, and people in underdeveloped areas see it as their hope against SpaceX.
For people from countries in the Greater China Circle such as Southeast Asia, Neon, and Korea, the existence of Light Armor Aerospace gives them very complicated emotions.
The people who pay the highest proportion of attention should be the Chinese in Malaysia. Many of them have a strong sense of belonging to the achievements of China's scientific and technological development.
The second is Neon People. Neon’s own achievements in aerospace are mediocre, but like Ah San, he has always had a space dream of a great power. This dream cannot be realized by himself. In the non-governmental organizations of neighboring countries, Seeing hope is equivalent to realizing it yourself.
The real-time comments in the YouTube live broadcast room are very fast.
It is impossible to see it with the naked eye.
After the rocket successfully entered orbit, a mixture of Chinese and Japanese appeared above:
"It's amazing"
"The God of Light is indeed the light of the Chinese people"
Yes, after the successful launch of Guangjia Aerospace's recyclable rocket last year, Malaysian Chinese newspapers gave Chen Yuanguang the title He became known as the light of the Chinese people. Not many media in China use this title. It is quite popular in Southeast Asia. It was first used in Malaysia, and later countries such as Lion City, Thailand, and Vietnam began to use this title.
「よかった」
"楽しい"
There are also many Japanese barrages, and they are mainly space enthusiasts. Although everyone is not necessarily friendly to China, they are happy to see a challenger to SpaceX.
First, the staff of Guangjia Aerospace began to applaud, and then the applause swept the entire viewing platform.
Chen Yuanguang walked to the side to answer the call from his mother, "Yes, it should be successful. Now we just need to observe the rocket recovery situation.
The only uncertainty now is the rocket recovery part Can accurately land within our pre-set sea area.”
"Hey, you don't have to worry about me. I'm not a workaholic like people say on the Internet. I usually have a good balance between work and rest."
My mother always cares about whether you have a good rest and called Chen Yuanguang to congratulate you on your development. The successful launch of Zhejiang No. 2 was just based on the first clue. What was more important was to ask him how his health was recently.
On the other side, after Ulf finished applauding, he saw Frank looking at his mobile phone. He leaned over and said, "Should we ask them about their recycling status?"
Frank put the mobile phone away. Showed it to Ulf, who saw the YouTube interface at a glance, the rapid barrage in the live broadcast channel, and the logo of Light Armor Aerospace.
“Here, the live broadcast room of Guangjia Aerospace is currently displaying images of their recovery areas at sea. Just look at the accuracy of their recovery of rockets.”
Ulf and Frank found a bench and sat down, watching the still images on the mobile phone screen motionless.
“What are the people in the live broadcast room talking about?” Ulf asked.
Frank said: "I don't know either."
As expected, the retrievable part of the Pioneer 2 landed in the target sea area, and the offshore salvage ship quickly picked it up It is ready to be sent back to the laboratory. The data captured by the sensor above is very important for the subsequent optimization of Pioneer 2.
When Frank and Ulf saw this scene, they looked at each other, and both sides could feel the other's complicated mood.
You must know that more than ten years ago, when the International Conference on Lunar Exploration and Utilization was held, Chinese aerospace-related experts and officials were coveting the lunar probe SMART-1 launched by Europe and the automatic cargo spacecraft launched at that time.
At that time, the European Space Conference would also emphasize that Europe must play a leading role in space.
As time goes by, the roles of both parties have completely reversed.
Fortunately, compared with Amerikan, China is willing to trade.
They feel sad about the decline of Europe. They hope that Guangma Aerospace’s recyclable rocket can succeed so that the technology they trade will be valuable enough, but they also don’t want China’s technology to advance so fast in the aerospace field. Europe is far behind.
In fact, Ulf was also very puzzled. Europe was able to launch automatic cargo spacecraft more than ten years ago. He remembered that the research and development of that project alone cost 1.3 billion euros, which was 1.3 billion euros more than ten years ago.
Why were they no longer used and abandoned directly? After launching five ships, they were abandoned and decommissioned in 15 years. And now they have announced that they will bring back this technology and realize autonomous cargo spaceships in 2028. of launch.
Ulf had already retired as an external consultant when the autonomous cargo spacecraft project was being carried out. He was puzzled by the current situation of the European aerospace industry for more than ten years, and his own superior technologies were thrown away one by one. Lose.
Just like the autonomous cargo spacecraft, he vaguely remembered that it was decommissioned because the spacecraft would burn up above the Pacific Ocean during the landing process, and would also take away the waste from the International Space Station and cause a lot of pollution to the ocean. This The project has been subject to repeated protests from environmental groups.
The Kourou Space Launch Center in French Guiana faced several siege protests by environmental groups. Later, the project was abandoned. In the middle, Da Mao’s spacecraft was responsible for delivering goods to the International Space Station, and later SpaceX.
Ulf couldn't understand at all who made the decision and how the senior officials in Paris could agree.
Frank can roughly tell one, two, and three. It’s not just about the votes. No one wants to take responsibility. If you don’t do anything, you won’t make a mistake.
When everyone thinks this way, it is natural for the project to be suspended.
"Two gentlemen, what do you think? If we reach cooperation in the future, we are willing to share more data with the European Space Agency.
Including if we transport cargo to the European Space Agency through the Trailblazer series rockets International Space Station, we will share the data during the flight with the European Space Agency.”
In the afternoon, they met at a five-star hotel in Yantai. Compared with the tired Ulf and Frank, Chen Yuanguang seemed high-spirited.
The successful launch of the Trailblazer 2 rocket has brought another big step forward for Light Armor Aerospace.
Not only does it bring fame, but it also brings real business.
The previous orders with Bolivia, Brazil, and Indonesia were only intention orders, but now they can't wait to turn the intention orders into actual orders.
Malaysia, Thailand, Serbia and other countries have also expressed their hope for opportunities to cooperate, and the commercial department of Guangjia Aerospace is almost overwhelmed.
In terms of funding, state-owned assets in Pengcheng, Huizhou, Shenhai and other places have said that they can increase investment. The next round of US$5 billion is no problem, and they will squeeze it out for you.
Because Guangjia Technology was blacklisted by Amerikan, these five billion US dollars do not require foreign exchange. If foreign exchange cannot be used, RMB will do.
rmb is not a problem for state-owned assets.
The most urgent one is Pengcheng, because the R&D center of Guangjia Aerospace is in Pengcheng. For Pengcheng, one more aerospace and aviation item can be added to their list of advanced manufacturing industries.
This is the benefit of success, the whole world is giving you the green light.
Frank and Ulf followed the strategy they had made during the lunch break. Frank remained silent and Ulf said:
"Excellent results. The landing was so precise in the first recovery. It's already It’s beyond our expectation.
We are very interested in the technology of light armor aerospace, and I think the officials in Paris will also be very interested in this deal. ”
Thinking of this. This technology will be available for purchase soon, and Ulf's heart will be years younger.
Chen Yuanguang waved his hand: "Sorry, this is not a matter to be discussed with me now."
Ulf was surprised and said: "Why?"
Chen Yuanguang was afraid that the other party would misunderstand, and then said: "This deal will still go ahead.
But the negotiating partner is not Guangjia Aerospace, but China Technology Import and Export Corporation, we will give them full power to negotiate this technology."
Ulf looked at Frank, his eyes revealing his confusion about what this company does.
The reason why Ulf said that is because he, a retired old man, talks casually and does not have to take responsibility even if he is wrong.
And Frank is also the director of the Astronaut Center. If he says the wrong thing due to his status, he will be misunderstood.
Just because they want to cooperate does not mean that the officials in Paris also want to cooperate. When everyone just wants to stay in a good position and does not want to take on the responsibilities corresponding to the position, then they often make mistakes. decision making.
Chen Yuanguang disrupted their arrangement by playing cards out of common sense.
Frank had to take over the words: "Didn't we talk about private transactions before?"
Chen Yuanguang said: "I'm sorry, because aerospace technology is very sensitive, the specific transaction method and transaction content will be determined by Hua. A company in China specializes in this area.
Whether it's a private transaction or not, that's not up to me. ”
Chen Yuanguang’s business-like appearance left them at a loss.
Based on Frank’s knowledge of the people in Paris, there is a 30% chance of a private transaction, and a 30% chance of a public transaction. The possibility of a transaction is less than 1%.
Chen Yuanguang continued: "Please bring the news back to everyone at the European Space Agency. Guangjia Technology is very sincere.
People from the European branch of Huaguo Technology Import and Export Company will contact you later.
We and Europe can complement each other in many ways, and I hope this cooperation is just the beginning. "
The same words were said again by Chen Yuanguang after returning to Pengcheng the next day with the representative of Mao.
It was just that the word Europe in the words was replaced by Mao.
Damao is much more flexible than Europe in this kind of transaction.
As long as the price is right, there is nothing that cannot be sold, let alone rocket engine technology from thirty years ago.
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