Chapter 1609

"Waiting for the breakthrough of the project at the rocket branch? Everyone is waiting, but will we not do the work that can be done well? Only if we design enough plans, even if something unexpected happens, we can choose the best and most suitable launch plan according to the current situation and local conditions.

The idea of ​​being lazy is not good. We need to make enough accumulation for scientific exploration."

Li Jian, one of the chief engineers of Jiuzhou Science and Technology Aerospace Project, nodded at the engineer.

Although the other party is still his disciple from the perspective of master-disciple relationship.

However, there is no saying of intergenerational kinship in the field of scientific research. The field of scientific research has always been that the capable are promoted and the mediocre are demoted. If you think about being lazy in everything, even if you have some achievements, it will be easy to fail in the end.

Moreover, there are not only colleagues and executives of the company present, but also the founder. Li Jian will naturally take the initiative to knock on his juniors.

In a sense, this is also to protect the junior. After all, the elders have already knocked on him, so it is not easy for others to come in and say anything.

Although the scientific research environment within the company is very good, Li Jian had already known all of this when he worked at the Daxia Aerospace Group.

But Gu Qing really didn't care about these trivial things. If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't expose the existence of Xuanwu to these researchers, he would have wanted to tell these researchers that those who could enter this room would definitely have no problems with their identities.

In Jiuzhou Technology, as long as there is no problem with their identity and no problems with their work, Gu Qing would not kick them out.

Regarding the various orbital designs of the moon landing plan, after listening to the discussions of these engineers, Gu Qing chose to reveal a little about the direction that the rocket branch is optimizing.

He pointed at a few lunar landing design plans to attract the attention of others, and then said: "Look at this plan. When rendezvousing in low-Earth orbit, the lunar landing spacecraft will be assembled by docking. The various parts of the manned lunar landing spacecraft will be sent into low-Earth orbit by carrier rockets. After the rendezvous and assembly are completed in low-Earth orbit, ignition will be accelerated to enter the moon-running orbit. After reaching the vicinity of the moon, it will decelerate and enter the lunar orbit. The manned spacecraft will separate from the lunar landing spacecraft.

Wait until the manned lunar landing spacecraft descends to the lunar surface. After the work is completed, the lunar landing spacecraft will rise from the lunar surface and enter the lunar orbit, docking with the manned spacecraft in the lunar orbit. The astronauts Entering the manned spacecraft, the spacecraft relies on its own propulsion cabin power to return to the blue planet.

For the lunar landing spacecraft, it is necessary to rendezvous and dock in the near-Earth orbit and the lunar orbit at the same time, and complete the assembly to perform the flight mode of the lunar landing mission. This process mode, you all think it is complicated, and it will only be more complicated and troublesome in the actual advancement process.

As Luo Song just mentioned, the process is too complicated, and there are too many tasks involved in the equipment and instruments, which will inevitably lead to an increase in the failure rate.

Speaking of which, do you still remember the moon-chasing starship we had envisioned at the beginning? "

Hearing Gu Qing mention the moon-chasing starship, Li Jian and others' eyes lit up.

When the moon-chasing starship was designed, it was thought that it was too cumbersome to use rockets to travel back and forth from the blue planet to the moon again and again, and the spacecraft had to enter and exit the atmosphere every time, and the violent friction of the atmosphere caused the protective cover to be damaged, so it was thought that a spacecraft similar to a "shuttle bus" that traveled back and forth between the near-Earth orbit and the lunar orbit was developed and manufactured.

For high-frequency, repeated moon landings.

But the idea is an idea. When conducting actual research and development and manufacturing, everyone found that they were still thinking too simply.

Even with the strong support of the Titanium Star Department, some equipment provided by the Special Equipment R&D Center, and even some special design data provided by the Daxia Aerospace Group, the Moon-Chasing Starship has never had more than five successful round trips between the near-Earth orbit and the moon in the laboratory server of the Lingjing Ecology.

After nearly 10,000 virtual tests, the best result was to complete four round trips, and finally the spacecraft failed due to problems related to power energy.

Interactive docking of spacecraft in orbit is a relatively common thing in the current Blue Star aerospace field.

However, the analysis, evaluation and inspection and confirmation of the Moon-Chasing Starship from multiple aspects such as design requirements, technical status, design characteristics, product process control, product acceptance, single point failure links, software quality, and residual risks finally resulted in the conclusion that the Moon-Chasing Starship project cannot be implemented at this stage.

That is why so many elite engineers are gathering together to discuss the launch plan and the moon landing plan today.

Li Jian thought for a moment and said, "In fact, I was very optimistic about the Moon-Chasing Starship project at the beginning. That was when our space station had not yet been launched into orbit. As long as we can launch the Moon-Chasing Starship into low-Earth orbit, even without the help of the space station and without the docking of other cargo ships, the Moon-Chasing Starship can rely on its own energy and fuel to cause a change in the power output direction, leave the low-Earth orbit, and fly to the lunar orbit.

But in doing so, we cannot provide the energy consumption of such a huge starship to go back and forth, unless we can make a breakthrough in energy projects."

The Moon-Chasing Starship is not a new energy vehicle, and the mileage cannot be increased by increasing the battery energy density, increasing the voltage of the battery plate, etc. Every gram of payload of the Moon-Chasing Starship has its trade-offs.

An engineer who resigned from Daxia Aerospace Group and signed a lot of agreements before joining the aerospace department of Jiuzhou Technology also said at this time: "The No. 5 project a few years ago was to launch on the Blue Star and enter the 'Blue Star circular orbit' first, then accelerate three times at perigee to enter the 'Blue Star large elliptical orbit', and finally accelerate again before entering the lunar gravitational zone, and then decelerate to enter the lunar large elliptical orbit. When it decelerates to enter the circular orbit of the moon, the spacecraft will only have the orbital module and the lunar module, and the orbital module will remain in the circular orbit of the moon. The lunar module landed on the lunar surface.

After the lunar rover completed its mission, the lunar module took off from the lunar surface and entered the lunar circular orbit; only after successfully docking with the orbital module in the lunar circular orbit could it begin its journey back to the blue planet.

The idea of ​​the Moon Chaser Starship is very convenient, treating the distance between planets as bus stops, but the distance that the bus travels and the gravity and journey that the Moon Chaser Starship needs to overcome are completely incomparable. "

"Alas, if we can develop nuclear fusion technology, there may be new changes."

"Nuclear fusion? The Daxia official has only opened one door."