Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Time passes day by day.

As the end of the year draws near, both pilots and engineers are as nervously busy in their positions as they are tightening their hair gears.

As for the Ark side, the closer the whole project is to completion, all the work has been arranged, and there are few things that require his project leader to be busy.

The design of the shuttle was the responsibility of the luminaire who had been involved in Project 863. Ai was able to perfectly process the required parts using five-axis CNC machines and flexibly assemble various networked engineering equipment, such as logistics vehicles and mechanical arms. The entire Shuttle Xiangrui was moving from blueprint to reality at a visual speed.

The completion of this aircraft is almost a nail to the plate as long as the ark ensures the stability of the chain of funds.

And of course, it's not a simple thing.

Although Ai, who owns a full processing equipment, has performed well enough in the industrial field, there are still many things that can't be produced by the ark. Flight control systems, for example, were purchased by the Aeronautics Group. Surface coatings, for example, are designed by the Institute of Computing Materials, but production is outsourced to specialized chemical enterprises.

A series of cutting-edge materials, such as high-temperature surface insulation tiles, reinforced C-C composites at the front of the wing, and even the special steel used on the main structure of the aircraft, are not the usual colours. While ensuring that the material is relatively light, it also requires a range of properties, such as tensile strength, fracture toughness, corrosion resistance and high temperature resistance, to be maintained at a fairly high level.

Corresponding to its excellent performance is its complex to heinous workmanship.

It is no exaggeration to say that its cost per square metre has even exceeded the price of a home in downtown Jinling.

Because these things are not manufactured by Startech itself, but by upstream suppliers in the industrial chain, a large part of the cost of the entire shuttle is concentrated in these places, where the prices of various orders fluctuate by tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, and the entire Xiangrui is almost stacked with RMB.

Therefore, it is not exaggerated to say that space is the burning of money.

But the ark is more comfortable than the Americans.

The Columbia shuttle spent hundreds of billions of dollars from the United States Government around the time it was in service to retirement, at an average cost of up to $500 million per launch, and there were always problems.

On the other hand, the Ark directly inherited and improved the design scheme of the 863 Plan, eliminating significant amounts of funding that should have been invested in the R&D. The Hall thrusters were even more because of the scanning gun, so he reversed the technology without spending a penny.

Otherwise, he would have emptied the bottom of the house and wouldn't have been able to build one from beginning to end.

Standing in the building of the Space Shuttle Assembly Center, Nie Yun couldn't help but exasperate looking up at the huge space shuttle and the five coarse electric push engines behind it.

“Unbelievable. ”

Standing beside him, the ark laughed and asked, "What's incredible? ”

Nie Yun: “I can't believe you made this in two months. ”

Nieh did not speak, but the expression on her face was no calmer than her brother's.

Compared to Niehun, who runs a fighter plane, she can get more excitement from this huge big guy by driving a -20. If there had been some disappointment at first, she was looking forward to the test flight.

The look on the faces of the brothers and sisters reads that shock, and the ark simply replies: "It's not just two months, the preparation for production started six months ago, and if it goes back to the power supply parts on it, it starts at the beginning of the year. ”

”'I think that's scary enough,' said Nie Yunhan.

“Really?” I hesitated slightly after hearing this, and the ark gauged the shuttle and thought about it for a moment and said, “I think this is relatively simple compared to the Young Mills equation. ”

Nie Yun: “…”

Nie: “…"

In a sense, he who is qualified to make such a metaphor seems to be the only one on the planet.

……

In fact, making such a metaphor is not an ark bragging, but what he really thinks in his heart.

After completing the Young Mills equation and creating the unified theory of strong electricity, he quickly came up with a theoretical model of the acoustic fusion device by calculating it. It goes without saying that the design and fabrication of the shuttle were done by professionals, and when you think about it, he didn't have much energy.

On the other hand, under the aegis of the chief engineer, a number of technicians are conducting a thorough inspection of the various parts on the completed space shuttle. In order to maximize accidents, he divided the maintenance staff into two teams, starting with two different positions on the front and rear of the machine, and took 120 points of caution in any place where problems were suspected.

“Have you checked? ”

Technician: “already checked! ”

Weathering: “What about the interface between the ionization chamber and the work chamber? There are also hydraulic pumps for thermal cycling devices, have all these critical equipment been checked? ”

The technician must have nodded: “I checked everything! Everything is fine!”

Weather: “OK? ”

Technician: "OK! ”

"Then check again! ”

“… Yes! ”

While repeating the inspection was a very painful matter, the technicians at the scene did not complain at all about the greeting order.

The shuttle is a huge and sophisticated piece of equipment that can safely take astronauts into outer space and bring them back safely only by ensuring that each of the more than 100,000 parts is functioning properly.

And any minor omission, even if the screws are not tightened, can have extremely serious consequences.

Thus, as one of the predecessors of China's aerospace industry said, every launch success is almost a failure, and every launch failure is almost a success.

Maintenance work lasted three days.

Finally, on the day before New Year's Day, all the inspection work was completed, and he walked to the side of the ark with the repair report that had already been sorted out.

He took the report from his hand and swept it and the ark asked.

“Ready? ”

“Ready!” Looking at the landing boat, we were excited to say, "Now all we have to do is find a way to get it to a launch site over a dozen kilometres away, and then do the final overhaul, and we can start scheduling the launch! ”

Getting this big guy over a dozen kilometres away is not an easy task.

Especially in the context of confidentiality.

However, it is difficult for others, but it is nothing more for an ark.

“That's a good one. ”

The Ark laughed and threw down the sentence.

Immediately afterwards, he took his cell phone out of his pocket, walked aside and dialed a familiar number.

“Captain Dai, there's something I need to ask you. ”