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The No. 4 Aerospace Assembly Workshop is one of the earliest assembly workshops built.

Of course the secret project needs to be low-key, so Tang Chao didn't arrange it in the No. 1 assembly workshop, but threw it in the No. 4 workshop.

Assembling workshop No. 1 is the largest one and is used to assemble rockets.

The company’s current smallest rocket is more than 40 meters long, and the super-heavy rocket under development will reach 80 meters. Of course, the largest one will be used.

But let's not talk about it over there, there is enough excitement in Workshop 4 here.

Entering the real workshop area, the eyes are white, just like the anti-static clothes on them.

All kinds of equipment are listed among them, many but not messy, many engineers wearing the same anti-static clothing are busy.

The most eye-catching thing is the aircraft in front of it. It is surrounded by many scaffolds, flyovers, moving ladders, and robotic arms. It is white on the top and black on the bottom. It has a space shuttle flavor, but it is flatter than the space shuttle and looks even more flat. Sharp and more sci-fi.

This is the first orbital shuttle to be completed by Navigator.

In other words, a single-stage orbital vehicle or a space plane will work.

It has no official name, only a code name, "Dart X".

Cough, because it uses a T-1 "dart" ring plug liquid fuel engine.

All the foundations of this aerospace vehicle are on those six engines, so Tang Chao simply used the engine's name to give it a contemporary number.

As for its positioning, how can I say it, although many people want to call it an "airplane", it is not at all.

Because the aerospace aircraft is a new type of aircraft capable of both aviation and aerospace, and a highly integrated aircraft with aviation technology and aerospace technology.

The "Dart X" cannot carry out aviation flight, at least it cannot carry out long-term aviation flight, because it is equipped with a rocket engine.

Everyone knows that rocket engines are all oil tigers...no, all are oil whales.

Even if the fuel can account for 90% of the aircraft's take-off weight, it will only take a few minutes to ten minutes.

This time is comparable to a trembling for an aviation vehicle in the atmosphere, just to the point of taking off.

At this time, someone asked: "Has it started?"

You say: "It's over."

This is embarrassing.

However, compared with the traditional space shuttle, "Dart X" also has its own advantages, and the advantages are huge.

Otherwise, Tang Chao wouldn't use it as a transitional spacecraft, just by the way.

Zhang Liyan would not rather go bald for it, and then get excited when it is almost finished.

The traditional space shuttles are only owned by Meriken and the dead white bear, but they all need auxiliary rockets to send them up, and they cannot enter orbit only by their own capabilities.

I won’t say anything about the Polar Bear. The space shuttle "Blizzard" was sent up purely by rockets, and it has not been in service, only a test launch.

It does not exert any force during the take-off phase, and the rocket that sent it into space is the legendary "Energy" rocket, with a low-Earth orbit carrying capacity of more than 100 tons.

Meriken has more space shuttles, and they have all performed actual missions.

They also said that they don't rely on rockets, they only need to hang a fuel tank and use their engines to fly into space.

But the external orange fuel tank it uses is larger than its own. It looks like it is attached to the fuel tank itself, not to mention it has two solid rocket thrusters, each of which can produce more than 1,500 tons of violent thrust.

So just listen to what you say.

However, both the White Bear and the Meriken have been retired, and they are now in the world of the second-generation space shuttle.

Oh, possible, the world in the future.

Because the second-generation space shuttles are all being tested and have not yet been officially put into service.

The second-generation space shuttle has shrunk a lot and is basically unmanned. It can be launched directly on top of the rocket.

In the final analysis, external forces were used.

The only one that can go to the sky with its own engine is the legendary reusable, unmanned, single-stage orbiting space plane "Adventure Star"... the one-half reduced-scale prototype-X-33.

This space plane can be launched vertically on the launch pad and then land horizontally on the runway.

It is a pity that this technical demonstrator, code-named "X-33", has never taken off. The final progress is fixed on 95% of the parts manufacturing and 75% of the assembly.

Then, because of technical problems, it was discontinued, leaving a big hole for space enthusiasts.

If "Dart X" can succeed, it is really, absolutely!

It will definitely become a unique achievement in the history of the earth's spaceflight.

How do you say the previous achievements of the Navigator...

For the competition, their prize money is not the highest in the world.

With regard to rockets, a bigger one appeared decades ago.

In terms of lunar rover, lunar rover, and sampling return, it is not the first in the world.

The fifty-ton Yuegong-2, despite its large tonnage, did not really have much breakthrough. It was just a large lunar module, which was still without people.

Therefore, the construction of his company's single-stage orbital aircraft is about to be completed, and Zhang Liyan's excitement is not adulterated at all.

Zhang Liyan led Tang Chao in and out of "Dart X", then circled it up and down a few times, introducing a ten percent.

Tang Chao also smiled and listened.

It's just that these are mostly for outsiders, because today's scene, he has already experienced it when he was in Kanxing.

Thinking about it now, it was several years ago in Kan Xing's time.

Time is really embarrassing.

When he first saw this spacecraft, he was as excited as Zhang Liyan.

But now Kan Xing has passed several years, and even not long ago, he just ran to Kan Xing’s "Moon" and "Mars" and obtained the controllable nuclear fusion technology and nano-robot technology like black technology. For this thing in front of him, He really looked down on it.

Of course, Tang Chao is still very happy to see it on the earth, especially in his own company.

This means that the earth is about to usher in a new era of spaceflight, an era in which manned spaceflight has fallen from the top specialization to the popularization.

The cargo capacity of a single-stage orbiting aircraft is extremely hip, and the carrying capacity is generally only 2% of the take-off weight, or even less.

I want to transport cargo to space without separating anything, just because early rockets were prone to danger when they were separated.

However, with the increasing scientific and technological strength of human beings, safe separation is no longer a problem, then there is no need for the whole to orbit, it is better to throw away the deadweight recovery rocket at the critical moment.

Because their carrying capacity can reach about 5%, and the warehouse is easy to build larger and can easily carry large equipment.

Of course, that is for freight.

For humans, an aircraft that does not throw away anything seems safe.

This kind of thing that flies in the sky and has to go into space is frightened when it drops.

Not to mention throwing away such a big piece, even two or three times.

There are even some precision equipment, a batch of aircraft that take off and land at this level, and the word "stable" is very important to them.

After introducing the "Dart X-1" with a completion rate of 97%, Zhang Liyan took Tang Chao to look at the "Dart X-2" at the back. The assembly completion rate of the No. 2 testing machine reached 38%, and the parts were also manufactured. By 45%.

Perhaps when the No. 1 testing machine can be used for the orbit test, the No. 2 testing machine will be almost built.

Everyone in the factory is looking forward to it.