Chapter 1087 Starship Corporation's Moon Landing Progress

In the past, Qin Tao had to negotiate all kinds of contracts in person, and there would be various operations during the negotiation process. However, as the scale of the group continues to expand, if Qin Tao continues to do everything himself, he will definitely be exhausted.

He must boldly delegate power and hand over other things to his subordinates. If he trains his subordinates, he will be relaxed.

All senior leaders who can grow up with Mingzhou Group are carefully studying Qin Tao's actions, finding various tricks from them, and then using them flexibly. Zhang Yuzhan is one of them. In the previous negotiation, he has already demonstrated the demeanor of a mature entrepreneur. Every move he makes has the shadow of Qin Tao.

Now hearing Qin Tao's praise, Zhang Yuzhan smiled embarrassedly: "Boss Qin, I am just imitating you."

"This is not imitating you, this is the disciple surpassing the master." Qin Tao said: "You are already very good."

After completing the inspection here, Qin Tao got on his high-end Hongqi car. After getting in the car, Xu Zhengyang introduced while driving: "Boss Qin, I just received the latest news that Russia has also decided to build a 10,000-ton destroyer."

Is Russia also joining in the fun? Qin Tao thought it was funny. The last time they made a 22350 frigate, they made a tiger's head but a snake's tail. They provided the shell, and they went back to outfit it and left it there. They couldn't even handle a few thousand tons, but they actually wanted to make tens of thousands of tons?

Russia already has those modified Kirov-class cruisers, but it's not enough. They want to catch up with this limelight?

"What kind?"

"Of course it is a brand new destroyer with four-sided phased array radar and stealth design. This project is handled by the Northern Design Bureau. Now there are renderings, you can watch it on the screen."

There is a screen behind the two front seats of this car, which is also the standard configuration of luxury high-end cars. However, since the speed of mobile network is not very fast, it is still difficult to go online directly. However, Qin Tao's car is different. It can go directly to the satellite network. It doesn't matter if the cost is higher. Our Mingzhou Group is not short of money.

Qin Tao turned on the screen in front of him, and the relevant reports had been downloaded on it.

"21956?" Looking at this number, Qin Tao felt a little curious. Isn't this Northern Design Bureau too unimaginative? Why is it still using such an outdated name? They have promoted this type of warship more than once. Now they are still wearing such a hat. Will customers buy it?

"According to our analysis, 956 is the only warship exported by the old Russians. They think it is easier to sell with this name." Xu Zhengyang said.

Qin Tao nodded. The Russians were eager to sell their warships so that they could boost the development of the shipbuilding industry. However, even the warships they built for themselves were slow to build. How could they possibly sell their warships?

The Northern Design Bureau was still struggling. In fact, there was no need for it to just go bankrupt. Wouldn't it be better to just shut down? We can just leave the design work to them in the future.

"The power system also wants to use four gas turbines. Do they have such a thing? Will they purchase it from Ermao or from us?" Qin Tao complained as he looked at it.

"Don't even think about manufacturing these four-sided phased array radars in a short time. They don't have the ability to do so. Are users blind to purchase from them?"

Qin Tao shook his head as he looked at it.

"We estimate that the Russians are trying to sell to foreign countries, but with the current strength of the Russians, it is difficult to sell to foreign countries. Many customers will doubt their strength."

"Yes, it is difficult for the Russians to fool people anymore." Qin Tao said: "Even Ah San can't fool them anymore."

A major customer of the Russians' arms sales is Ah San, but after being cheated several times, Ah San has learned his lesson. At most, he purchases a blueprint from the Russians. Even the blueprint procurement is not necessarily safe. Last time, he asked the Russians to help review the frigate blueprint, but he made a mistake and capsized when he drove out.

After suffering several losses, Ah San also began to take the path of self-reliance as a domestic product. In fact, in the 1980s, they began to develop their own destroyers.

Speaking of Ah San, Qin Tao remembered something again: "Should Ah San also propose a plan for a 10,000-ton destroyer?"

The launch of the 10,000-ton destroyer in the East shocked all countries. Many countries whose self-esteem was hit began to develop their own 10,000-ton destroyers, whether they were really doing it or PPT, and Ah San was naturally no exception.

After seeing the launch of the Eastern Shield, India has already started. Last year, their P15 plan, that is, the Calcutta-class destroyer, was officially started. The biggest feature of this destroyer is also the four-sided phased array radar. Of course, India cannot make it by itself, so it is purchased directly from the Elta System Company in David. The model is EL/M-2248 MF-STAR.

The biggest feature of this system is lightness. The four-sided phased array radar weighs only nine tons in total, so there is no need to worry about affecting the center of gravity of the hull. It was directly arranged by India at the top of the mast, with a height similar to that of the Type 45, but it is not a ball, but a tetrahedron, which looks majestic.

Of course, the performance of this lightweight phased array radar is just sparse and ordinary. It has a detection distance of only 250 kilometers for targets the size of a fighter, and the matching Barak 8 air defense missile has a range of only 75 kilometers. Even if India proudly claims to be a shield ship, it is still far behind the Eastern.

But this was enough to satisfy Ah San's heart.

"Yes, Ah San proposed a plan for the P18 10,000-ton warship." Xu Zhengyang continued to introduce: "The length of this warship has been increased to 185 meters, the displacement has been increased to 13,000 tons, and the weapons are still the weapons of the P15, but The hair hanging device is divided into a front 72 and a rear 72 layout, bringing the total number of hair hanging devices to 144. "

"Well, they think they can defeat us in terms of numbers." Qin Tao said: "They still use Barak 8 missiles. This missile is similar to our Hongqi 16. We can have two bombs in one pit and 112 vertical missiles. As long as 72 launch units are allocated to install the Red Flag 16, the same number can be achieved, and there are still forty launch units left. "

Even if the Davidic State claims that the Barak 8 is a regional air defense missile, not many people believe that the range of this missile is too close. After its own Red Flag 16 has been upgraded, its range has also reached 70 kilometers. Of course, our own This kind of air defense missile will still be used as a medium-range air defense missile. As for the long-range area air defense missile? If the range is less than 200 kilometers, how can we talk about regional air defense?

Barak 8 not only has a short range, but also has a low speed. It cannot intercept supersonic missiles at all. It is simply a joke. However, for Ah San, he can only make do with this kind of anti-aircraft missile. After all, the radar belongs to the Davidians and the missiles belong to Lao Maozi, so they cannot be integrated at all.

"Yes, in addition to these vertical launchers, they have also arranged two quadruple inclined missile launchers to prepare for launching BrahMos missiles. This missile is not a vertical launcher."

The Yankee's MK41 vertical hair device led the trend of generalization, but in the process of further development, various countries have given up on generalization and developed light and heavy launchers, gradually moving closer to the old Maozi, and even special-purpose bombs , but after all, he was still a loser. Ah San didn’t have the strength, so he simply continued to use the tilt launcher.

Qin Tao smiled. Although Ah San's warship has various flaws, one thing is still worthy of recognition. Ah San's warship is not a PPT plan. If Ah San wants to build it, he can definitely build it. ! It just takes longer to build.

"By the way, Ah San recently proposed a moon landing plan."

"Moon landing plan?" Qin Tao was curious again. What stimulated Ah San to do this?

Qin Tao opened the screen in front of him and entered the words Asan's moon landing plan, and a lot of results came out immediately.

Asan plans to launch Chandrayaan-1 in 2008, which will fly around the moon and impact the moon. This mission will obtain a large amount of images and detection data and is planned to run for two years.

Ah San will conduct manned space missions and develop a new Jaganyan manned spacecraft.

The planning of this set made people very curious. Ah Santie must have been stimulated by something!

"Our Starship Company has made preparations and will launch the Dragon spacecraft in the near future. The destination of this flight is not low-Earth orbit, but the lunar orbit. The Dragon spacecraft will orbit the moon for several times and then return. "

"Is there anyone on the Dragon spacecraft?"

"Of course there are people. It's a three-person team. Two of them are astronauts and the third is a passenger. The passenger's ticket is enough to cover all the costs of the flight." Xu Zhengyang said.

"Yes, let's go to Qiongzhou and see what's going on there." Qin Tao said with great interest.

Winter is about to enter, and 2004 will pass. The north has become colder, but Qiongzhou is still warm.

When Qin Tao and others came to Starship Company, the place was even more lively. After Max received the news of Mr. Qin’s arrival, he didn’t run over immediately, but waited for more than two hours. Qin Tao came first Listened to Frank Rubio's report.

"If you want to land on the moon, you must first fly around the moon to check whether the flight trajectory is reasonable, and at the same time search the lunar surface to find a suitable landing site." Rubio did not have a ready-made PPT, so he explained to Qin Tao while playing promotional materials. animation.

"Currently, we are still using the Dragon spacecraft. After improvements, this spacecraft has the ability to fly to the lunar orbit and return. It will be our main transportation vehicle for carrying out manned lunar landing plans in the future. At the same time, it will be used to land on the moon and leave. For missions on the lunar surface, we will have a dedicated lunar module.”

This is also the moon landing plan proposed by Starship Company.

The Saturn V back then had a low-Earth orbit carrying capacity of 127 tons, so that it could send a 45-ton payload to the lunar orbit and complete all activities at once. However, the Starship MK1 only had a low-Earth carrying capacity of 60 tons, so it could only carry 45 tons of payload to the lunar orbit. A payload of 25 tons is sent to the lunar orbit. In this case, one will definitely not be enough.

The solution is to use two to transport the orbital module and the lunar module respectively. The astronauts who land on the moon sit in the orbital module and go back and forth between the earth and the moon. When they dock with the lunar module in the lunar orbit, they can travel to and from the lunar surface. Moon Orbit.

This orbital module is served by the Dragon spacecraft, and the lunar module needs to be specially developed.

"Is the lunar module already under development?" Qin Tao asked.

"Yes, in our Starship Company, more than fifty engineers who originally designed the Apollo spacecraft are designing a new lunar module for us. The technology of this lunar module is more advanced. After all, the original Apollo spacecraft used It's just the technology of the 1960s. For example, the computers above can only write a few hundred lines of code. But now, we have advanced technical equipment, and our lunar module is also more advanced. To put it simply, from the original two-stage to It became a formula.”

The original Apollo lunar module was divided into two sections. The lower section was used for descent. It had four legs and a rocket engine. After landing on the lunar surface, it would become a stable launch platform. After the mission is completed, , only the upper half flew up and flew into space to join the command module.

This design was the best option at the time, but is no longer needed.

Rubio opened an animation demonstration of the lunar module. Below the lunar module, you can also see a separate cabin with a single nozzle.

"This structure is all the payload of Starship MK1." Rubio continued: "It consists of two parts. The upper part is the lunar module, and the lower part is the propulsion module. This propulsion module will bear the power of the lunar module. Slowdown mission.”

Entering the lunar orbit was completed with the help of Starship MK1. The subsequent docking mainly involved fine-tuning the orbit. After the astronauts climbed into the lunar module and separated from the orbital module, the lunar landing would begin.

So, what’s the first step?

Of course, it is deceleration. When the universal gravitation is equal to the centripetal force, the lunar module will fly in a circular orbit around the moon. When the speed decreases, the centripetal force required will be smaller and the universal gravitation will remain unchanged. At this time, the lunar module will be on the moon. Flying to the moon under the influence of gravity.

The entire deceleration process is almost completed by this propulsion module. In this way, the lunar module only needs to consume very little fuel during the entire landing process, that is, it only uses some when it finally lands on the lunar surface. It does not require two The segmented structure has sufficient fuel supply for use during take-off.

The lunar module has to both land and take off, which greatly reduces the total weight of the lunar module. This is an innovation and the best choice for two rockets to perform manned lunar landings. Since it does not use a rocket like the Apollo moon landing, A rocket, of course, requires a new plan.

However, Qin Tao thought about it briefly and understood more: "In this way, can it be used many times in the future?"

Max has always advocated frugality, and this lunar module is definitely not a one-time use.

If it is made into two parts, then half of it will be wasted every time it performs a mission. Now if it is made into a whole, it can be used to travel back and forth in space. Even the propulsion module can be returned to orbit and replenished with fuel for continued use.

"Yes, when large-scale manned landings on the moon occur in the future, a space station will definitely be built on the lunar surface. At that time, the lunar module can receive fuel supplies on the lunar surface or on the space station, and be reused many times, becoming "Transportation to and from the lunar surface and orbit." Rubio nodded: "Next, let me introduce to you the advanced technology used on it."

"The load of the lunar module is 260 kilograms. In the first few lunar landings, we will only carry two people, so that half of the weight can be used as lunar space suits, lunar rover and other loads. By the way, Did you see it? There is a four-wheeled structure hanging outside, which is a folding lunar rover. We put it outside. We don’t need to bring it back. It will be left on the lunar surface to be used next time we go there. "

Qin Tao nodded. The thing was very small and looked like...a small courier truck.

"The entire moon landing process is almost automated. We will use a large number of advanced equipment, including inertial navigation measurement units, microwave ranging and velocity measurement, laser ranging and other technologies. The most critical one is the laser three-dimensional imaging sensor, which can Obtain high-precision three-dimensional images of the landing area to avoid obstacles and select the best landing point. In order to complete this task, we also installed four state-of-the-art 7500 N variable thrust engines on it. It’s like flying a helicopter, even if it’s hovering a hundred meters above the moon, there’s no pressure.”

The orbital module is the Dragon spacecraft. There is nothing to introduce about this. It is just that a high-thrust engine and enough fuel are added to the service module behind the Dragon spacecraft so that the Dragon spacecraft can return from the lunar orbit. The key technologies are all here. On the lunar module.

Qin Tao became more and more surprised as he watched. Isn't this the manned moon landing method in our Chang'e plan in future generations? The entire process is almost exactly the same, and the designs of the lunar module and the propulsion module are also very similar. Is there a time traveler in the entire team?

Of course not. The reason why the plans are similar is because there are not only foreigners in the team, but also locals. These excellent scientists work together and come up with various plans. In the collision of ideas, of course they will be closer to future generations. After all, the Chang'e moon landing project in later generations is the best technical route.

Rubio is still introducing gushingly.

"By the way, this is our first time orbiting the moon, right?" Qin Tao suddenly thought of something.

"Yes, it's the first time."

"In other words, you sent astronauts on the first flight. Shouldn't you launch an unmanned spacecraft to explore the way?"

What if there are technical problems? Wouldn't that be a huge loss? During the Apollo program, the moon landing was not officially scheduled until the 11th. In fact, it could have been on the 10th, but they didn't dare to. In order to prevent the astronauts from taking actions on their own, it is said that they deliberately added less fuel to the lunar module of Apollo 10, so that if they really flew up, they would not be able to come back.

At this moment, the door at the back opened, and Max walked in excitedly: "No problem, we are fully prepared."

"Really? What preparations have you made?"

"We have given them enough insurance."