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One day above the sky, and thousands of years on the ground.

Although the time difference between the earth and Kanxing is not so great, there is also "a day on the earth, Kanxing has been ten days".

Coming to Kan Xing again, there are already several satellites in the orbit of Kan Xing, allowing the little green people to better observe and study their familiar and unfamiliar parent star.

This time I came here in the evening of Kanxing, close to the daily meal time, but because a space shuttle was about to land, their meal time was delayed.

Tang Chao watched the landing process of the space shuttle on the roof of the assembly building.

Very shocking.

There is no fuel, and the whole journey is to glide and land.

When the space shuttle appeared at the end and confirmed that the landing attitude was correct, the little green people cheered.

Their cheers are always early.

Accompanied by the whistling sound, the rear wheels of the space shuttle landed on the runway. The rubber and the runway rubbed against the runway to produce a lot of smoke. The deceleration parachute opened to slow the aircraft.

Soon, after taxiing for a while, the space shuttle threw the parachute and stopped slowly.

Seeing a large number of vehicles surrounded them, many little green men jumped out of the vehicles and began to jump and cheer around the space shuttle.

Nothing to say about this atmosphere!

He also wanted to go to the scene to watch.

Previously, because the underground warehouse was too big, he returned to the ground before he transferred to the space shuttle warehouse. I only knew that the space center had this thing.

Later, he caught up with the assembly process of the space shuttle, but he took a quick glance at other things that time.

Now he is not busy. One night on the earth, at least several days here, he has enough time to watch this earth and space miracle on Kanxing.

This space shuttle is 100% the size of the earth, without reduction, 37.24 meters long, 17.27 meters high, and a wingspan of 29.79 meters.

Big guys like this, such as tanks, fighter jets, warships, etc., where they often appear are wasteland, sky, and ocean. It is difficult to determine their size when watching videos and pictures without reference objects.

If you catch up with some of Tianxia's photography geniuses, their size changes can be seen, you doubt life.

Only by standing next to them will you know how big they are.

Just like the space shuttle in front of it, from the ground to the top of the vertical tail, it is nearly five stories high. What is this concept?

Tang Chao circled around it, and looked at the heat shielding tile up close, but didn't dare to touch it.

Because these gadgets had just experienced a high temperature of more than a thousand degrees Celsius, and even radiation, he didn't dare to make fun of his life.

Finally, looking at the three big two small five big chrysanthemums behind him, Tang Chao entered the interior excitedly.

Inside the cabin.

Its front section is the astronaut cockpit, which is divided into upper, middle and lower floors.

The upper floor is the main cabin, with flight control room, bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, gym and storage room, which can accommodate 8 people.

The middle floor is the middle cabin, which is also a place for astronauts to work and rest.

The lower level is the bilge, where there are air-conditioning ducts, fans, water pumps, oil pumps, and waste storage.

Its middle section is the cargo compartment, where artificial earth satellites, detectors, and large-scale experimental equipment are placed. Inside it is installed a remote-controlled robotic arm for launching and recovering those equipment.

The cargo hold is 18.3 meters long and 4.6 meters in diameter. It can carry more than 20 tons of materials into space, and can also load 20 tons of materials back to the ground from space. The upper cargo tank shell can be opened like a clam shell.

Looking inside and out, even sitting in the cockpit full of display screens and buttons, Tang Chao could think of the facial expressions of other countries on the earth.

No way, really advanced.

But its final result is also "too advanced".

The idea is very good, but unfortunately because of the limitations of the times, the hardware is not good, it can be called a "premature baby" in the aerospace field.

After getting out of the space shuttle, Tang Chao felt a little dull when he was blown by the sea breeze outside.

The space shuttle could also be called an orbital shuttle, but it was not the kind of orbital shuttle he wanted.

Without him, too behind.

Advanced and backward are relative.

Even the second generation of space shuttles are beginning to appear on the earth, let alone Kanxing, which is more advanced in aerospace technology.

There are now many second-generation space shuttles on the earth, such as the "spacecraft" launched from the sky by True Galaxy, the mini space shuttle "Dream Chaser" of Mountain Company, and the official X-37B of Merrican.

They are all second-generation space shuttles, and they take the path of miniaturization or unmanned, making the spacecraft more compact, so Tang Chao always has a question mark every time he hears someone say they are space shuttles.

He didn't dare to say that the first spacecraft he wanted to release was an aerospace plane, but he only admitted that it was a single-stage orbital shuttle that could take off and land horizontally from the runway.

It can only simply get into orbit and return to the flight, and cannot wave in the atmosphere casually. It does not have such a good aerodynamic layout and does not have so much fuel.

He summoned several five-star rocket engineers such as Warner to the conference room of the R&D center and asked them to use existing technology to design an aircraft that can take off horizontally from the runway and achieve single-stage orbit in the shortest time.

It is best to carry 5 to 10 people. People his size are not the size of a little green man.

His purpose is space orbit travel, so the cabin should be comfortable.

The time in orbit will not be very long, only a few hours, so the activity space, viewing windows, and life service facilities should be balanced.

"BOSS, it's very simple. We have some aerospace vehicles designed before the'big change'. Using them as a blueprint and referring to the current Kanxing environment, we can design an aerospace vehicle that meets your requirements in a few months. "Werner said confidently.

After all, he also found some materials and displayed them on the big screen in the conference room.

Tang Chao saw that they were all aeroplanes he designed while playing games.

It's just that they are all real aerospace planes, which made him frown, "Why are they all vacuum sky planes that use RAPIER smart aerospace engines. This technology is too advanced and does not meet my requirements. It is best to use it." The "Dart" ring plug rocket engine SSTO aircraft is the reference model."

"Boss, is this still advanced?"

Warner said with a puzzled look: "In order to deal with the situation of Xinkanxing, we all want to study more advanced aerospace engines, as long as you give a permission order."

"Of course, in order to cope with the new environment, a new aerospace engine can be developed, but the advanced has advanced usage, and the backward has the value of backward. I have my own plan. Let me do it first."

"Well, you are the boss, you have the final say."

Tang Chao took out the command of the boss, and the little green people could only execute it.

But they quickly became excited again, because it is also a novel experience to develop new aircraft using old technology to fly on the new parent star orbit.

Anyway, for them, it doesn't matter what they use to make a spacecraft, even if they are physically in orbit.

They are happy as long as they can fly, and the farther they fly, the happier they are.

And Tang Chao was also very happy. These technologies were nothing to Kan Xing, but it was different when he got Earth.

The reason why the first orbiter used a ring plug rocket engine is that this engine is relatively advanced on the earth but not so advanced. After the aircraft came out, it was shocking, but not desperate.

When his aircraft is commercially available, others will intensify research on similar engines.

It's just that after they have worked out the corresponding engines and supporting spacecraft, not to mention that his aircraft has already occupied a considerable share of the market, allowing his company to grow and develop.

At the same time, he can also sell aircraft, allowing more companies to enter the market.

After getting the second wave of benefits, he can launch a new and updated product-aeroplane.

At that time, his company already had a certain scale and status, and it would not be easily judged. It was no problem to produce a real aerospace plane.

Although its technology lags behind Kanxing, it can reap several waves of benefits on Earth and maximize benefits.

This is the reason why some companies clearly have better technology, but they don't take it out all at once, but first release a usable and more advanced version 1.0, and then upgrade 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3.