Super technology leader
Chapter 172: Competitors in Commercial Manned Spaceflight
"Yes, your progress is quite fast, even faster than I expected."
In the end, Tang Chao sat in the office on the side, looked at the busy engineers outside through the big window, and said to Zhang Liyan.
"Hey, the core information you gave is really awesome, the boss."
Zhang Liyan brought two cups of hot tea, and then said: "If it weren't for those core technologies, we might not even complete the design yet."
In fact, Zhang Liyan really sighed. He has worked for Europa Space Agency for several years. He has never seen such a spacecraft.
For things like spacecraft and rockets, if you want to make them using traditional methods, you have to go through a long technical demonstration, and then break down the demonstrated technologies, and then manufacture them after mastering the technology, and start testing during the manufacturing process. Up.
Not only each part must be tested, but also each part must be tested. After being combined into one, it must be tested.
Endless demonstrations, endless tests, and endless completion are the norm for spacecraft design and manufacturing.
After a new spacecraft came out, there was no shadow at all within a few years.
Later, a fierce man appeared, namely Ma Yilong, who founded Space Fork. Their company designed and built new rockets quickly.
Because they are all designing, manufacturing, testing, and modifying.
In the beginning, they will not thoroughly understand all the projects, but will continue to improve over time.
It’s almost done. Let’s take a test flight. Regardless of failure or success, we will move on to the next project after absorbing technology.
Soon, their company's first rocket "Falcon 9" was successfully developed.
After that, it didn't take long for the second rocket "Heavy Falcon" to use off-the-shelf technology also succeeded. By the way, it broke the record of the carrying capacity of the active rocket.
Now they are even more admired, and they are all starting to build rockets in the open air, and they produce new rockets faster.
Of course, because their method of building rockets is different from that of ordinary people, the data of the "Starship" rocket has changed again and again, and it was completely finalized last year.
As a result, there are now several versions of promotional videos on major video websites.
In fact, Space Fork made a promotional video too quickly, but within a few months, I changed the rocket design and had to make a new promotional video.
And now they are just technically verifying it. The process is called a wild one, let's solder it, solder it, and start experimenting.
If it succeeds, the next experiment.
If it fails, just solder a new one and try again.
After these technologies are successfully verified, they will build a finalized "starship" rocket.
Except for this super new rocket, which is still in the technical verification period, the Falcon 9 is almost a model worker. The heavy Falcon has such a large load capacity that it can't win the launch order.
This shows how important national orders are for normal private aerospace companies to survive this period.
If it's abnormal, say otherwise.
Because of this, the rockets of several major aerospace countries are "usable," and new rockets will be developed only when they are really needed.
But a new rocket is not that easy to build, so it is often because the new rocket cannot be launched on time, which causes various launch missions to be postponed.
Dove after pigeon.
The creation of new spacecraft by Navigator is in another state.
First of all, Navigator did not postpone that, only advance.
Like the previous "Chuohang" rocket, the "Kanyue Series" lunar probe, various satellites, including the "Dart X" spacecraft test machine that is about to be completed.
All of this came from Tang Chao, and according to what Tang Chao said, all of this actually came from a secret scientific research center of the company.
The argumentation data given by the secret scientific research center is not only outrageous in detail, but also makes people suspect that they are deduced from the finished product.
In addition, the core technology given is not lost, Zhang Liyan and the others can use it as long as they get it and learn a little.
That is to say, Tang Chao said that the secret scientific research center has heavy tasks, so it only has core technology, and some peripheral technologies need to be broken through here, otherwise they are just a simple manufacturing plant.
This is why they are progressing so fast.
Because I can't stop at all, everything is so silky and so natural.
If they can do this, they don't have to do it, and they don't even have the face to get paid.
Not to mention that they still have time to study. In addition to self-study with materials, Tang Chao, the chief technology officer, sometimes also talks about something.
However, Tang Chao didn't talk about the details. He focused on future development and big technology directions. Not only did the employees find it strange, but they also agreed that Tang Chao deserves to be the chief technology officer and boss, and the structure is big, not comparable to ordinary people.
They don't know, it's just because Tang Chao's foundation is not solid.
But in the future, when Tang Chao lectures again, he will definitely talk about some details, because his foundation has been consolidated by the golden finger.
So now, listening to Zhang Liyan's flattery, Tang Chao really accepted it because he was not guilty.
As for the retraining of staff, there is no way. Don't look at what they are doing now is still within the scope of the earth's science and technology. In the future, there will be a large number of ultra-high-tech projects waiting for them.
Just don’t study.
Because of this, the controllable nuclear fusion technology in Tang Chao's mind has not yet been realized, and the company has no relevant high-end talents and high-end equipment.
If he wants to do that, he must find another way.
The two drank tea and chatted about the follow-up, and then they talked about the current international space pattern.
And because I just watched "Dart X", I naturally talked about manned spaceflight, especially commercial manned spaceflight.
"Although the progress of'Dart X'has advanced, all kinds of tests and even test flights have to be carried out. Those companies engaged in commercial space travel have recently made big moves." Tang Chao said while turning his teacup.
Zhang Liyan took a sip of tea, then put down his tea cup and said: "Yes, the manned dragon of Space Fork has already carried out two manned missions. They will hold a press conference in the near future to announce the specific space travel plan of the manned dragon ."
"The "Dreamcatcher" mini space shuttle of the Mountain Company has also delivered cargo to the International Space Station twice. After their unremitting efforts, they finally obtained a manned permit. If they successfully test the manned capability, they will definitely immediately. Join the ranks of space tourism."
Tang Chao nodded, but he glanced at Zhang Liyan and said with a smile: "Yes, but compared to an official space tour with a ticket of tens of millions of dollars, the suborbital travel plan of Deep Blue Origin and True Galaxy may be even better. Be welcome."
"Because they are cheap enough, they only need hundreds of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Zhang Liyan laughed loudly after hearing it, "Yes, after all, there are only a few people who really spend tens of millions of dollars to go to space."
"Suborbital tourism is also good, it costs less, but after rushing out of the Carmen Line, it is still in space, you can also experience weightlessness, and you can also see the big arc of the earth.
The two laughed, and Tang Chao suddenly said, "Hey, Lao Zhang, you said that if you let them complete a space tour first, and then we will come out with the price, comfort, real space orbit and other ways to crush them, we will how about it?"
"This one……"
Zhang Liyan is also short-spoken. He is a rocket engineer, and he really doesn't know about operations.
But he can probably think that if the navigator does that, it is estimated that the four private aerospace companies they just mentioned will hate it.