Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

China's demand for energy is urgent, but not for space.

Even if the success of the controllable fusion project saved the country far more than two trillion dollars in energy costs per year, it would not be possible to put that money on space projects.

Wherever money is spent and what role it plays requires a rigorous set of procedures to make decisions.

Especially with the solution of rocket recycling technology, launch costs are not what they used to be.

In the case of the launch of near-Earth orbit satellites, for example, Space-X falcon rockets have been able to reach $1,141 kg at international prices, nearly tenfold lower than the cost of $1,1660 kg of Delta 4 rockets designed by NASA in the 1990s.

At present, China's most commercially advantageous Fast Boat A rocket at the international level has also reduced its launch cost from US $10,000 per kilogram to around US $5,000.

If the implementation of a manned lunar landing plan entailed the first delivery of spacecraft with a mass of about 50 tons into near-Earth orbit, it would ignore the reality that the spacecraft were not satellites and could not be sent to the sky more than a dozen times, and that part of the launch cost could theoretically be contained within $250 million.

Therefore, there is no need to build mass projectors just to get on board.

But the idea of an ark is not just to send people to a flag, but to establish a scientific observation station, or even a resource extraction base, of a semi-permanent or even permanent nature on the Moon.

Given this long-term objective, it is quite necessary to project mass from the surface into near-Earth orbit outside the atmosphere using a less theoretically costly launch mode.

If chemical powered rockets had been used all along, when the number of launches had broken through a thousand times, or even risen to 10,000 times, to make space exploration truly an industry, not to mention the issue of costs, the mere issue of environmental protection would be enough to give rise to a headache.

You know, nitrous tetraxide and metformazide are toxic.

Of course, it is also clear to the mind of the Ark that this trillion-dollar project, with just one idea, cannot convince the Presbyterian House, especially in projects such as space, which do not have urgent needs.

However, it was believed that his words would be more convincing once he had achieved sufficient results.

The meeting was divided into two parts, with the intermediate break announced at 12 a.m., and after a brief meal of the meeting, the meeting continued at 1: 30 p.m.

The afternoon segment was dominated by researchers and engineers, and discussions focused mainly on technical areas.

Delegates from the major research institutes took the floor to present their views.

In addition to the Aeronautics Group showing a conceptual map of the Long March IX rocket, a number of interesting technical ideas were put forward.

For example, a high-ranking researcher at the Center for Space Science and Applications Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences showed a model of plasma engines that, in addition to being different from the idea of an ark in terms of acceleration technology, is an interesting idea.

At this meeting, the Ark did not make much of a statement, but simply said what it thought of the technical route of the Hall thrusters.

Part of this was his own view, and the other part was some of the ideas that arose during his time as a consultant at PPPL Laboratory and during a chat with researchers in the AF-MPD project team.

He thought his opinions were avant-garde enough, but he didn't expect anyone else to be more sci-fi than he was, and even threw out the idea of no quality push at the meeting.

In fact, it's not entirely a science fiction to be progressing without work, at least NASA has done some research in this area, and even found relevant papers on Arixv.

After all, no one dares to say anything absolute about the future. Even the most distinguished scholars would not dare to make “absolutely impossible" assertions about the “future”, even if those things seemed frightening at the time.

But in any case, advancing such a distant thing without quality is not the subject of this era.

You've heard of it, and you've just laughed. You don't really care about it.

There was no taboo in the seminar itself, basically speaking freely, and there would be no such thing as a rebuttal lever.

As for the final adoption of that technology line, it is natural to look at the results.

That is, there will be a tender conference in the middle of the year to bid for the most critical heavy-duty spacecraft in the lunar plan.

Whether it's a rocket or a shuttle, whoever can deliver at least 30 tons of load into the Earth moon transfer orbit and bring it back safely will have hope of winning the bid.

At present, the most promising assumption of this heavy burden is probably Long March IX.

However, the first flight in 2028, even without an extension, is now eight years away.

If the National Moon Climbing Project intends to complete the manned moon climb within five years in order to achieve the strategic objective of holding back countries such as the United States and Europe, Long March IX, which is still at the design stage, will probably miss the battle.

Against this background, other enterprises would also be competitive if they were able to come up with less costly, more time-consuming launch options.

About whether to make this fun or not...

Actually, the ark hasn't really thought it through yet.

For the electric propulsion engine, he was only at the research stage, not to mention whether he could reverse the technology in the wreckage, but whether he could use it in the atmosphere after the reverse.

Could it not be said that such a high-civilization spacecraft was itself assembled on a space station or some space port? There is absolutely no need to consider the question of breaking through the atmosphere and launching into orbit from the surface.

This possibility exists entirely.

In short, what he said was merely to express his views before he was absolutely certain or had a clear expectation of the realization of the technology. As for the bidding project at the end of the year, he probably would not be involved...

After the meeting, the ark came out of the hall.

At that point, he suddenly found himself surrounded by more people than he had ever done when he first came in.

From the short guns and microphones they carry, there is no need to speculate on the identity of these people, who are undoubtedly journalists.

By the time the representatives of the penguins and Ali businesses had just stepped out of the hall, the journalists had suddenly been surrounded by bees like sharks smelling the smell.

Watching the journalists' movements, the ark's eyebrows couldn't help jumping, but it wasn't yet time to be lucky that he wasn't surrounded. Soon an eye-pointing journalist found him here, and suddenly his footsteps flew up.

Even though Wang Peng was in front of him, a microphone drilled in stitches.

“Hello Professor Lu, we are a reporter on the Internet Billion News Technology Channel. Did you propose China to relaunch the Lunar Program? ”

“Hello Professor Lu, we are a reporter from Penguin News Technology Channel. What do you think of the online rumor that China will soon achieve space travel? ”

“… is it true that there have been rumours that you will be the chief designer of the human space program? ”

The scalp that was asked the following question was numb and it was unlikely that the siege would break out, and the ark immediately caught a journalist nearest to him, suddenly unable to return defensively: "False. ”

Reporter: "Um... so, what...”

Taking control of the initiative, the Ark took a deep breath and said in strict terms: "The reactivation of the human space programme is not solely due to my advice, but to the fact that the country does have a strategic need in this regard. I don't know where you heard the news about the designer, but as far as I know, the department just invited me to a consultancy position. ”

At this point, however, when he walked next to him, Secretary Xu suddenly added with a defensive smile: "He is the general adviser. ”

General Counsellor!

These three short words completely detonated the atmosphere on the scene...

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