Chapter 198 This is Wright!
Brussels’ first interest has never been Europe, but America.
A large number of puppets are swarming in Brussels, which makes it difficult for the European Space Agency to deal with space affairs even though they are in Paris.
“I can’t understand what she means. Our cooperation with China is fruitful. After this cooperation, we will successfully have a complete module, just like American and Damao. We This module can be used freely to allow astronauts to perform various tasks in space.
This is not only a great progress for France in the aerospace industry, but also a victory for the entire Europe. br>
France is the largest sponsor of the European space industry. We will still actively provide services to European countries in the new space station project, and we also welcome European countries to join our space station plan. ”
If you look at the budget of the European Space Agency, you will find that France ranks first. They are the largest sponsor of the European space industry.
In the past, Europe had the only heavy-lift rocket launch capability It is France's Ariane 5 rocket.
Now that Ariane 5 has been retired, if it were not for Trailblazer 2, the entire Europe would lose its heavy-lift rocket launch capability.
In this context, the European Commission does not want to quickly promote the research and development of Ariane 6, but feels that this is a good thing, and it can just hand over all the remaining satellite launch projects of Galileo to SpaceX
This incident also made France so angry that the European Commission directly stated the matter openly, which was really a bit disrespectful.
After the news came back to China, the leaders of Pengcheng were helpless and angry. Originally, Guangjia Aerospace had already put its R&D center in Pengcheng. When Chen Yuanguang was also in Pengcheng, the headquarters was only in Shenhai. It's just words, but the actual headquarters is in Pengcheng.
In the end, they were all forcibly moved out of Pengcheng and returned to Shenhai.
From the large orders signed by Guangjia Aerospace, we can clearly see the potential of the commercial aerospace field, and this potential is gradually being realized. In the future, the commercial aerospace market will be at least a hundred billion level, and it will be uncompromising. high-end manufacturing industry.
If Guangjia Aerospace is still in Pengcheng, then they can write such a sentence in the urban development plan without any burden, to build Pengcheng into a highland in the aerospace field.
Now everything is gone, and all the political achievements have gone to Shenhai.
Even this one order of US$5 billion is enough for Shen Hai to write a big note in the year-end summary.
“It’s unbelievable that Europe actually wants to build its own space station.” Constantine complained while reading the news.
The International Space Station also has Internet access, and the latency is a bit high, but browsing the news is not a problem.
When space ray interference is not strong, you don’t even have to wait for the image to load.
Andre, who was floating next to him, said: "It's not Europe, it's France."
Constantin said: "Isn't France Europe?
Maybe you will go to the French space station in the future. On duty.
It’s so cheap. You can buy a complete cabin for only 5 billion US dollars. I don’t think our country should do any research and development on its own and buy it directly from the Chinese.”
André said: "Of course France is not Europe."
Danes do not share this view.
In Mao Zi's view, France, the only country without a federal garrison and with Napoleon's iron heel still fresh in its memory, is undoubtedly the representative of Europe.
"Maybe." Constantine was noncommittal.
Andre said: "The price of the Chinese space station, if the overall package price of construction, launch and commissioning is only US$5 billion, I think the European Space Agency can place an order directly.
After all, if you develop it yourself and spend tens of billions of euros in five years to make it, you still have to spend 2 billion euros to get SpaceX to help deliver it.”
Generally speaking, the launch of a space station is very complicated and requires assembly after multiple launches to build a complete cabin.
Currently Europe does not have this kind of launch capability, but SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft can. It is so expensive that the total price of nine launches is as high as 3.5 billion US dollars.
So in their view, even a price of US$5 billion is too cheap.
If the two astronauts knew that the price would be 40% off, they would think that the Chinese were doing charity.
“I read the report in Le Figaro and said that it should include the launch.
The Chinese people have made so much progress in science and technology that Mao is not only stagnating, but is even regressing. "Constantine's tone was full of helplessness.
"There are only two countries competing in the world, aren't they? "Andre said.
Constantine obviously disagreed with Andre's words: "No, we have not given up, and France does not seem to be reconciled to its current status. "
Andre did not dwell too much on this topic and changed the topic: "Don't you think Wright Chen's appeal is a bit amazing?
Wright Chen has no experience in building a space station, but France has no doubts about paying $5 billion to buy a space station from them.
Not only did France have no doubts, but most of the world's media had no doubts about whether Chan could deliver.
Everyone is focusing on the quotation, the impact, and Amerikan’s reaction, which is really incredible.
Even before SpaceX succeeded, public opinion was full of doubts.
In my opinion, the construction difficulty of the space station will not be any worse than the starship that SpaceX is building.
However, many people doubted whether Starship could succeed, but not Wright's space station. ”
Constantine nodded: "You are right, this is Wright's influence.
Before he failed, no one would think that he would fail.
After all, compared with Wright, Musk’s halo seems to be insufficient.
I saw someone on Twitter questioning whether Wright can build a space station. The most liked comment below is, this is Wright!”
For Chen Yuanguang, after the completion of Guangjia Space's launch mission, their launch mission this year has been successfully completed.
The usage data of the human hibernation equipment on the International Space Station will be sent back to them simultaneously, and he can also use this data to adjust the human hibernation equipment.
As for sending human hibernation equipment to the Chinese space station, Guangjia Aerospace’s plan is to put it in the first quarter of next year.
“Our last task this year is to complete the preliminary design of the space station.
I will be responsible for this project.
Because it is too complicated, and we don’t seem to have the Find engineers or researchers with experience in space station construction," Chen Yuanguang said at a mid-to-high-level meeting within Guangjia Aerospace.
The technology of the space station has only been broken through in China. The relevant personnel are the core backbone of China's aerospace industry. They are too irreplaceable and cannot be dug out.
In other words, China will not give you the opportunity to poach people.
The Rockets are equally important, but after all, the Rockets have so many years of history and have cultivated a complete team. The talent echelon of each age group is very complete.
If someone is poached, there will be newcomers who can take over.
The space station is completely different.
The leaders of each group present here breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.
Because none of them have the confidence to undertake such a huge task alone.
Their internal budget for this project is RMB 10 billion, and it is estimated that the total cost will be RMB 10 billion, including the French section. The completion time is 2026, so the pressure is huge and everyone has no experience.
If the mission is forced to show down, it is estimated that 007 will not be able to complete it.
And Chen Yuanguang took the initiative to take responsibility, and everyone felt a sense of unconditional trust in their hearts. They couldn't do it by themselves, but Chen Yuanguang would definitely do it when he came.
“Before, we dismantled some tasks of the space station and assigned them.
I have also read the plans written by everyone, as well as some ideas on project management and projects.
I should have seen every one of them.
Everyone’s idea of building a space station is roughly similar to that of the International Space Station. We first launch a module to provide power, storage space, propulsion and positioning.
Then based on this module, other modules are slowly added.
I think this idea is okay because it has been proven, that is what the International Space Station did forty years ago.
This will also help us test our docking capabilities in space.
The docking capability in space is related to whether the accuracy of the control system and communication system is high enough, which will help us launch and recover mining spacecraft during future space mining.
We now need to think about a core issue, that is, the International Space Station has a lot of modules. If we build the space station according to their standards, which modules should be cut off and which modules should be added?
I expect that the space station we build this time will become a behemoth over time.
Even similar to a satellite city in earth orbit.
So we need to lay a strong enough foundation for it.
My expectation for it is that in the future, all cargo transfers and mining transfers in the universe will be carried out in our space station.
We now need to give full play to our imagination, what to add to it and what to cut off.
Everyone's ideas need not be limited to the present, but can take a longer-term view.
Considering the evolution of technology over the next thirty years, we can all take it into consideration. ”
After Chen Yuanguang finished speaking, at the other end of the video conference, the researchers at the Guangjia Aerospace Headquarters began to whisper to each other. Everyone is aerospace practitioners, and they naturally chose this path because they have a passion for the stars and the sea. We are ideal.
Now Chen Yuanguang tells everyone that we are going to build more than just a space station. In the future, it will become a city and a window for space mining. What a great undertaking this is.
We will all be personally involved in this great cause, how can we not be excited
Having worked with Chen Yuanguang personally, I will not doubt whether Chen Yuanguang can do it. Instead, I feel that Chen Yuanguang is too modest in many cases.
“Guangshen, I think what we need to consider most is energy and computing power.
In the final analysis, for future space mining, we will definitely need to rely on robots, not humans.
< br>Neon currently has experience in space mining. The objects they mine are non-metallic asteroids. Even for such asteroids, they obtain partially solid materials by methods similar to explosions.
We mine. The target is a metallic asteroid, so in the short term it is only possible to complete mining by explosive means. This also determines that we cannot use manual methods and must use robots to carry out the operation
This involves the need to have enough computing power on the asteroid to command the robot nearby.
There must be enough energy to provide energy to the robot.
It is impossible for us to rely on the computing power on the earth to provide it to space remotely. Our best way is to deploy computing power on the space station.
So the modules we need to add are computing power modules and more and larger solar arrays to obtain energy. ”
Everyone in Guangjia Aerospace is called Chen Yuanguang, and there are various names, such as Guangshen, Boss, Boss, Mr. Chen, etc. Most employees like to be called Guangshen, but middle-level people rarely call them like this.
"I partially agree and partially disagree with Team Leader Li's views.
I don't think that space will still rely heavily on solar energy to provide energy in the future. With the maturity of small nuclear fission, we can definitely send small nuclear fission Fission energy goes up.
Powered by nuclear fission.
The energy module should be composed of nuclear fission energy.
Team leader Li immediately said: "I don't agree. As early as the 1960s, there was a project called SNAP within NASA. They hoped to develop nuclear fission reactors for use in space."
Some time ago NASA solved the mystery internally for this project. They used a radioisotope thermoelectric generator to generate heat through the natural decay of radioactive elements.
Having powered dozens of spacecraft over the past few decades, Amerikan's Curiosity Mars rover is powered by nuclear power.
Based on the current progress, what we want to do is space mining, not space tourism.
Nuclear fission sounds awesome, but in fact the energy it provides cannot be compared with solar energy.
Not to mention that in space, solar energy is more stable and efficient. "
"What Mr. Chen just mentioned is the future. We cannot only consider the current technological status.
Small-scale nuclear fission technology has developed very rapidly in recent years, and our space station is a process that lasts for many years.
It will always be under construction. I think nuclear fission is the solution and photovoltaics is only a temporary option. ”
Everyone is quarreling about energy issues.
These discussions gave Chen Yuanguang a lot of inspiration, and he realized that they could start research in the field of robotics.
Especially the real humanoid mining robot.
After the meeting, he approached Lin Jia: "You can see if there are any advanced robotics companies on the market. I think we should acquire a cutting-edge robotics company.
Similar to Boston Dynamics That kind of thing.
Space mining is a bit far away in three to five years, but it does not prevent us from preparing in advance
We are doing research on robots and may not be able to mine asteroids in the short term, but they can first complete mining tasks on earth. "
After hearing this, Lin Jia said, "That's no problem.
I just have a question after listening today, that is, since our space station will be a transfer station for space mining in the future.
It will grow to the size of a city.
According to my understanding, it will be a port in the age of space navigation. So half of the land in this port was sold to France for only 2 billion. Isn’t it a bit too cheap for them? ”
(End of this chapter)