Chapter 1298 Plasma Appears!

China Aerospace has developed all the way to this day, and Rogge thinks he has seen a lot.

However, when he heard the numbers reported by Sultan, his heart still beat hard.

Looking at Rogge who did not respond immediately, Sultan quickly gave a further explanation:

"10 billion U.S. dollars, including the 1.5 billion U.S. dollars invested in the satellite positioning system and natural disaster early warning satellite projects in the early stage, and the subsequent 7 billion U.S. dollars paid in batches according to the progress of the space station project. The latter involves The project should include the training of at least two batches of four astronauts, as well as all related expenses incurred by the first Saudi astronaut to enter orbit..."

"..."

As the saying goes, although big dog owners are cunning, they are not stupid.

It can even be said that they know much better than China in terms of "how to spend money".

10 billion, even for Saudi Arabia, is a large amount of money.

And cooperation in the aerospace field is a long-wheelbase matter, so it is impossible to just throw money over and be done.

Therefore, even though it is far from reaching the level of forming a written agreement, Sultan still quickly gave out his own conditions.

Of course, in his opinion, this is still a counter-offer.

But for Rogge, this amount was something he had never dreamed of before.

$7 billion.

Calculated according to the current exchange rate, it is 54.6 billion yuan.

It is equivalent to approximately 10% of the 2007 military budget.

It is enough to carry out the manned spaceflight project again, and then build the Wenchang Space Launch Site.

As for the other 3 billion US dollars, for the two projects that only need to launch satellites, it is definitely a support-level investment.

"So... Dr. Sultan, since you have shown such sincerity, then we in China should reciprocate the favor."

Rogge said the cliche while calmly taking several deep breaths in succession, and finally calmed down his mentality:

"The second-generation Beidou satellite positioning system is currently under construction. It is expected to cover the entire China and surrounding sea areas by next year, and provide preliminary services at the 20-meter level for civilian code and 5-meter level for military code..."

"Considering your needs, we will cover the Persian Gulf and the surrounding areas of the North Indian Ocean as soon as possible, and dispatch engineering units to build a ground master control station, four satellite signal monitoring stations and four uplink information injection stations within your territory. , after all construction is completed, it will be able to provide high-precision services at the 5-meter level for civilian codes and 1-meter level for military codes within the coverage of the ground control section..."

"Similarly, we will also adjust the construction priorities of natural disaster satellites and launch at least three of the latest natural series remote sensing satellites in the next two years, which can provide disaster monitoring tasks with an average monthly coverage of about one-third, but it is necessary We are reminded that natural disaster prediction is still a business that relies heavily on luck and probability, and it is impossible for anyone to guarantee accuracy 100%..."

"..."

Seeing his decisive look, Sultan knew that the price he quoted just now might be too high.

But for him, the core of everything is to achieve the goal, and how much money is spent is secondary.

So there was no feeling like "being cheated". Instead, he quickly picked up a pen and paper and began to record the key points that Rogge said in person.

As the head of Saudi Arabia's space program, much of his knowledge is purely theoretical.

In this case, any bit of information revealed by China may help him.

After a rather detailed explanation, Rogge looked at Sultan who was busy writing and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After the latter stopped writing, Zhou Pingjian, the chief designer of the manned spaceflight project who had been sitting next to him without speaking, suddenly spoke:

"There is one more thing I need to explain in advance."

Sultan, who was about to take off his glasses, suddenly stopped and signaled Zhou Pingjian to continue.

"Tiangong-1 and the future Tiangong Space Station belong to the same complete project, and China's actions... have always been relatively rapid. Therefore, although you need to reach the multi-cabin combined space station stage before you can officially participate in the construction, in order to ensure The cooperation is going smoothly. After the agreement is reached, technical personnel involved in the project and astronauts to be trained need to be sent to us as soon as possible..."

This sentence is quite euphemistic.

In other words, it means——

Your foundation in Saudi Arabia is really poor, so you need to make up for it as soon as possible.

In fact, at the beginning, Zhou Pingjian was not willing to let these bearded men participate in the ground research and development and preparation process of the space station.

Not that it's for secrecy.

China has a strict confidentiality level setting. Even if the other party sends people over, it is impossible to access the most core parts.

But I really don't want to help the poor students to work.

It was so torturous.

However, there is actually a flexible evaluation standard for this matter.

For the sake of 10 billion U.S. dollars, Zhou Pingjian’s attitude took a 180° turn at the speed of light——

No one knows manned spaceflight better than Saudi Arabia!

Done!

…

at the same time.

Shengjing.

After returning to his workplace from the capital, Liu Yongquan devoted himself to research and development work as quickly as possible.

Of course, as an aeronautical engineer, even if he heard the plan from Chang Haonan, he would not be able to directly bring the entire Shengfa Group's strength to the plan without blinking an eye.

We must first conduct a round of low-cost, short-cycle technical verification.

Fortunately, the principle of using high-energy jets combined with plasma tubes to release plasma is not complicated. If it is only verified on the ground, the entire transformation process will not take long at all.

In the test workshop of the 410 Factory of the Aerospace Power Group, a turbofan 10A engine that looks identical to the mass-produced model is undergoing working tests on the ground bench——

Check out the 16-9 book bar to see the correct version!

The turbofan 10G is still in the development stage, so these verification tasks must still be done with older models.

Under the slightly gloomy sky in northern winter, brilliant blue-purple flames surged out from the tail nozzle, lighting up the night sky hundreds of meters around.

Even the snow more than ten meters away on both sides of the flame path began to slowly melt due to the high temperature.

"Mr. Liu, can we really rely on the working conditions of the engine to directly generate plasma?"

The assistant next to him, Ma Xiaoyu, was wearing a full set of protective equipment and stared directly at the infrared heat map of the compound drug jet on the screen in front of him.

The initially chaotic flow field schlieren on the picture has stabilized at this time, indicating that the engine's operating parameters are gradually stabilizing.

"This depends on the measurement results of the electrostatic probe..."

Liu Yongquan replied without squinting.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that the compressor speed and turbine front temperature curve on the computer screen next to him had entered a horizontal state, so he changed the subject:

"Start the differential amplifier circuit and prepare to measure!"

In fact, after adding a plasma source to the combustion chamber, it is certain that the effective plasma density detected in the tail flame will increase.

There are two key issues.

One is whether the jet electron density can reach a usable level.

If it is only at the level of thousands or tens of thousands of electrons per cubic centimeter, the invisibility effect will basically be that of Tu Yile.

At least, it has to start at the level of 10^7 before it is possible to form a usable plasma sheath.

The second is the controllability of plasma.

If the plasma is simply sprayed out along with high-temperature and high-pressure gas, it will be basically useless for radar.

There needs to be some way to change the direction of the plasma that was originally moving backward, so as to at least complete the shielding of the core part of the tail.

Another engineer behind Ma Xiaoyu immediately responded:

"Start the differential amplifier circuit and prepare to measure!"

At the same time, he continuously flipped the six lever switches in front of him.

The three sets of indicator lights on the console turned from yellow to red one after another.

"The iridium needle enters the measurement area."

Ma Xiaoyu's voice came quickly.

The window in the center left of the computer screen then displays the readings.

The fluctuations at the beginning were very violent.

But it soon stabilized.

Although the numbers in the front are still changing so fast that they can’t be seen clearly, the exponents in scientific notation behind them have basically remained unchanged——

10^9 magnitude!