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The whole world is jubilant!

When "Dart X" landed smoothly on the runway where it took off, it wasn't just the departments that paid attention to it, but also a large number of ordinary people.

And those who are most concerned about are undoubtedly those space enthusiasts. They are the people who care about space most, but may not have contact with space for a lifetime.

Of course, this cannot be said absolutely. In the era of the information explosion, many aerospace departments and aerospace companies are open to the outside world, and ordinary enthusiasts can also visit.

With that said, they can still get in touch with the aerospace industry and even touch the big rocket with their hands.

Even if these big rockets are not active, they are content.

However, many people will never have access to space.

Not to mention ordinary people, even those who have worked in space agencies and companies for a lifetime cannot go to space once before they die.

Those famous rocket designers, manned spacecraft designers, rocket engineers, etc. watched the spacecraft they designed and manufactured fly into space time and time again, but they could not go to space for their entire lives.

The cost of entering space is too high, and it is not even a pure price reason.

Because it takes a long time to prepare a manned rocket and manned spacecraft, a lot of manpower and factory cooperation are needed during this period. These people are busy around this rocket and manned spacecraft, so every time they enter space, the quota All are extremely precious.

And so far, with the exception of a few space tourists who spend a lot of money in space, other astronauts have to perform a large number of missions and do a large number of space experiments.

Usually rocket designers and engineers are very busy, so how can there be free time for professional astronaut training.

But Navigator's "Dart X" space plane...oh, it should be an orbital shuttle.

As the research and development company of "Dart X", and also made the first flight of this kind of aircraft successful, the leader company certainly has its own standard setting rights.

Therefore, in their latest standards, this kind of spacecraft that can be placed into orbit by a single plane and can only wander around in earth orbit should be called an orbital shuttle.

Tianxia’s aerospace agency immediately responded to the standards for this new type of spacecraft, and then Maozi responded and unified the name. Other aerospace agencies stated that they were in the process of identification, and only Meriken did not respond. .

In any case, the successful test flight of "Dart X" gave these technicians who are usually busy with work hope to enter space.

A "Dart X" can do so many things. If it is just to send astronauts back and forth between the space station and the ground, it is estimated that it will not be used several times a year.

After all, the astronauts of the space station cannot be changed every day, just like working on the ground, using the space plane as a shuttle bus.

The usage rate of several times a year can't even reach the minimum number of times of use of the orbital shuttle. If it is parked for a long time, its loss is faster than the normal use. If it is abruptly broken, it would be too nonsense.

According to official calculations, each launch of the "Dart X" orbital shuttle can cost at least one million dollars and cannot be used arbitrarily, but it is very good to modify it for short-term space experiments and even train astronauts.

As an astronaut, weightlessness training is necessary. It turned out to be a parabolic flight with an airplane. The weightlessness experience time is only half a minute. Within this half a minute, you have to train to drink, eat, exercise, and so on. The effect can be imagined.

With the orbital shuttle, the training of astronauts can be put directly into the orbit of space, and by the way, do some short-term scientific experiments, and by the way, let an old scientist go up and see.

Going to space may allow those scientists to design better spacecraft.

Field visits and laboratory research always have their own strengths, and the combination of the two can get better results.

The carrying capacity of two tons is a very small carrying capacity in the leader company. After the fine decoration, the commercial operation load is even smaller, but in the official space agency for professional and scientific research purposes, it is a considerable carrying capacity, enough Do a lot of things.

It costs a million dollars at a time. If you can do more experiments, you can do more experiments. Like the pilot, only 8 tourists are transported at a time, which is a bit too wasteful.

This is the official attitude, and the attitudes of those local tyrants are different. What they care about is the eight seats into space.

The original seat of 20-30 million US dollars is really not something that ordinary people can consume. Even if they can afford it, they may not consume it.

But the price dropped to one million US dollars. This price is really hard to say, but people who wanted to travel in space before, but because the price is too expensive, people who are more entangled... oh, rich people, they won't be entangled immediately.

"One million dollars, this is too cheap!"

"No one really thinks this price is expensive, right?"

"When will the official first flight to space travel? I want to pack it down and take my family to space."

"I like space so much. I was worth only tens of millions of dollars. It was too expensive before, and I couldn't afford to pay. Now that 1 million dollars is much better, I want to go to space."

"Fuck, there are families upstairs, then I also said, I paid 100 million US dollars to buy the seat of the first tourist airliner, just ask the pilot company to agree or not, if I agree, just treat it as I did not say ."

"Scared me, I thought there was another local tyrant."

Yes, these can only be regarded as local tyrants, not real rich people, rich people will not chat in the barrage or comment area.

The real wealthy people are already consulting Navigator, and they can always get the phone calls from the leaders of Navigator.

None of the Navigator’s equipment is 100% manufactured by itself. Except for the core components, the others are either contracted for OEM production or purchased by other companies internationally.

However, the next-level important parts are all produced in China, and only the outermost parts are produced abroad.

Tang Chao obtained a full set of technology from Kanxing. In fact, all the parts can be produced by Pioneer, but Pioneer is too small and has limited productivity.

If he wants to build a certain device in the shortest time, it is the best choice to find other companies and purchase directly.

This is the case in the era of globalization.

If he wants to make everything in his own company, he must expand the company and then upgrade the manufacturing equipment, so as to save money and effort to build things, and all the initiative is in his own hands. .

But don't worry...

Well, very anxious, Meriken is here to make trouble.

"We are about to conduct the selection of equipment suppliers for the final stage of the return to the moon plan, so we invite the qualified suppliers to come to Meriken to participate in the meeting."

"Please note that because of the importance of the lunar plan, this is the only opportunity. If the scheduled time is not available, it will be regarded as a waiver. We will select new suppliers from other equipment suppliers present."

Director Jim of Meriken Space Agency said to the camera.

"At the same time, this meeting will announce major events, and the entire Merrican's aerospace strategy will make major adjustments..."

Before the press conference was over, Tang Chao received a call from Zhao Li: "Tang Chao, don't go to the meeting. This is a trap against you."