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The "Wen Tian" experiment module was successfully launched, and the three astronauts in the space station finally had a dedicated scientific experiment module. There was no need to do simple experiments in the "Tianhe" core module.

The name of the core module "Tianhe" refers to the core of the Tiangong space station, which includes three parts: the node module, the life control module and the resource module.

It has a total of 3 docking ports and two docking ports. The docking ports are used for manned spacecraft, cargo spacecraft and other aircraft to access the space station. The docking ports are used for the assembly of two experimental cabins and core modules to form a space station combination, and one outlet port. The hatch is for astronauts to move out of the cabin.

Its axial length is 16.6 meters, the diameter of the large column section is 4.2 meters, and the diameter of the small column section is 2.8 meters. It is mainly used for the unified control and management of the space station and the life of astronauts. It has long-term autonomous flight capability and can support astronauts. Stay long-term to support the development of space medicine and space science experiments.

It is not an aerospace laboratory like Tiangong No. 1 and Tiangong No. 2. No. 1 and No. 2 are for testing purposes, so they are fully functional and simple.

The core cabin is a part of the overall space station, and the space station has a special room for experiments, so it does not need to be as comprehensive as it is capable of doing experiments, but it is to not waste space.

Now the special "Wen Tian" experimental cabin is here, and the space station can finally do higher level experiments.

The "Wentian" experimental cabin has an axial length of about 15 meters and a maximum diameter of 4.2 meters. It is the same heavyweight as the core cabin, and both exceed 20 tons.

By the way, this "Wen Tian" experimental module is not a "Tian Wen" series of planetary exploration missions, nor is it a "Tian Wen No. 1" Mars exploration mission. Don't get confused.

After the successful launch, the Aerospace Center immediately held a routine press conference. After summarizing the gains and losses of this mission, it began to release some plans to be executed later.

For example, the launch time of the "Mengtian" experimental module, the construction of the second Long March 9 and the manned moon landing next year, etc.

This information has attracted considerable attention from the media, but what the media is most concerned about is the last information about the "New Long March 9" super-heavy launch vehicle.

After a rocket comes out, it will definitely not be qualitative, there will definitely be various revisions, adding a suffix such as "ABCD".

Many reporters do their homework and also know that the original Long March 9 has two types "A" and "B", which means that the corresponding number of boosters are removed to achieve the effect of changing the carrying capacity.

For example, removing two boosters to reduce the carrying capacity to 100 tons.

Remove all boosters and reduce the carrying capacity to 50 tons.

In this way, the use of Long March 9 is more flexible, because some goods are big enough, but the weight is not large, it is wasteful to use the complete Long March 9, and the Long March 5 can’t be shipped and troublesome.

The "A" and "B" types of the Long March 9 are for this purpose.

But this press conference is different. They didn't mention these two new models, but directly said "New Long March 9", which is strange.

Immediately after that, another message was thrown out. The Long March 5, which has been executed several times, also added the word "new", and its engine was also replaced with a new material engine.

The most important thing is that it has to be recycled.

According to the understanding of reporters, this rocket never thought about recycling at the beginning!

And its recovery is very exciting. It is the core stage with four boosters for recovery. To achieve this goal, the length of the core stage has to be adjusted.

Level 1 has been adjusted, and Level 2 will also be adjusted accordingly.

Therefore, in addition to the appearance of the recycled version of the Long March 5, it looks similar to the original, but also has an additional landing bracket at the bottom. In fact, many new things have been changed inside.

Seeing the follow-up transformation plan of the Long March 5, the reporters suddenly became connected with the situation of the Long March 9 in front.

"Long March 9 will also be recycled?!"

Thinking of this possibility, the reporters couldn't hold back their minds, and immediately began to ask questions, but they didn't get the accurate information, so they scratched their hearts.

However, they have already determined in their hearts that the Long March 9 will definitely be recycled.

But why does this super-heavy rocket need to be recycled?

At present, it seems that only the Starship Launch System of Space Fork in the commercial aerospace field is engaged in the recovery of super-heavy rockets.

The purpose of the recovery of the starship launch system is to save launch costs.

If it cannot be recovered, the number of launches must be bankrupt.

This can refer to the previous Saturn V, a one-time super-heavy rocket destroys an aircraft carrier once, even a super country like Meriken can't stand it, let alone a private company.

After it can be recycled, the more launches, the cheaper it is. This is in line with Space Fork's needs, because they plan to use the starship launch system as an aircraft in the future. You can imagine the number of launches.

By the way, some time ago, Meriken announced that it would not build another SLS rocket. The reason was that it was too expensive. Instead, it fully supported private super-heavy rockets, the starship launch system.

The New Glen Rocket... I can barely count it, plus, after all, the diameter is large enough and the height is high enough.

So in other words, there will be a large number of launch missions after Tianxia, ​​too many to save costs?

Many reporters are excited. It doesn't matter if they haven't made it clear, they have already made a lot of brains.

They even thought about the titles of many reports!

"Tianxia will have a large number of launch missions in the future, and the new space race has begun!

"Tianxia and Meriken have successively developed recyclable super-heavy rockets, and a new space race is inevitable!

"International space launch missions surge, recoverable rockets dominate the next era!

"The space race starts again, where is the future of mankind?"

Don't care if you are right or wrong, anyway, if you don't make it clear, then we can only make up...Bah, news, how can it be called making up? This is a reasonable guess!

In fact, these were all within Tianxia's expectations. They were waiting for Meriken to respond first.

Under normal circumstances, Tianxia would plan to move later, occupy the moral commanding heights, and make herself famous, but this time the fishing line and hook were thrown out, and Meriken didn't even bite.

After all kinds of information were sent, Meriken was silent.

It is not silent, Meriken is still propagating about returning to the moon, and the progress of the plan for sampling and returning to Mars later, and the concept of manned landing on Mars.

Then there are the business plans of private companies, such as commercial space stations and space tourism.

Although he has been exporting influence, he is no longer targeting Tianxia, ​​it is simply promoting himself.

There are even problems with the private space travel plan. The Space Fork’s "Crew Dragon" and Poyin’s "Interplanetary Airliner" have already begun to take orders, but no one buys tickets at all.

The rich are waiting for "Dart X".

This is weird.

When Tang Chao had a secret meeting with the bosses of those aerospace companies, they told us that Meriken was going to make a deal with the leader company in the near future.

Tang Chao also asked them to take the initiative to arrogate the fire after returning, let Meriken attack himself, and then provoke a more intense space race.

But waiting left and right, Meriken remained silent.

In order to deal with the possible "offensive", the pilot company has tightened its nerves and is ready, but the nerves cannot be tight all the time, and it will become neurotic after a long time.

Even if the pilot flies the "Dart X" every two days, seeing it getting closer and closer to success, the eyes of the rich international are getting more and more eager to see it, and there is no one in the space tourism that Meriken Private Aerospace has already started operating When they bought the tickets, they were just as complacent, without any reaction at all.

So after a period of time, if he doesn't want to relax, he can't handle it by himself, but the entire company can't do that.

As the saying goes, "Thousand days are thieves, and there are no thousand days to guard against thieves."

So Tang Chao thought, how to take the initiative to "lead the snake out of the hole"...

Soon, the opportunity came.

"The 72nd International Astronautical Conference will be held in the capital of Sakura Country!"