Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 349 Visit by Director of Space Agency

Coming down from the Kunlun Mountain Pass, Zhong Cheng arranged for Lin Wei to organize personnel to start a detailed survey of the geological and climate conditions in this area, and asked Zhou Hu to arrange personnel to start relevant civil engineering preparations.

This huge, earth-changing project is not a big problem for Red Star today.

The Houtu-[-] engineering vehicle produced by Hongxing Heavy Machinery Manufacturing Company has been equipped with a small nuclear power engine, and the earthwork volume per unit time has been several times the level of more than ten years ago.

Zhou Hu estimated that it would take at most six months to complete the civil work, and then start the construction of the ladder.

10 month 18 day.

Zhong Cheng and his party came to the plateau base of the Red Star Ship Manufacturing Company in Gaoyuan City again, and Liu Yang and other company leaders received them.

Liu Yang will be 60 years old next year, but his physical condition is very good. He told Zhong Cheng that he will only retire after building a spaceship for the Red Star Company.

Since the completion of the construction of the five Qinglong aircraft carriers, he has not rebuilt ships or aircraft of more than 2 tons, and he feels that he has nowhere to use his energy.

Zhong Cheng reassured him, promising him that Red Star Company would start the construction of spaceships in at least the next year, with at least a class of 50 tons or more, and the number would never be less than 100.

Large spaceships will be the main means of transportation connecting the Earth to the outer planets.

Zhong Cheng came to the plateau base this time for the latest model Luanniao aerospace plane 305, which is the third generation Luanniao aerospace plane, which uses the latest technology on the basis of the previous two generations.

The most important technology is the use of Taiyi Alloy 305 for the first time on the Luanniao Aerospace Plane 401, which provides artificial gravity for the main places for people to rest on the plane, making manned deep space navigation possible.

Of course, it is also possible to use large centrifugal equipment to create artificial gravity on the spacecraft of Solar System Dynamics, but after all, the size of the aerospace plane cannot be compared with that of the spacecraft, and it cannot be equipped with a huge centrifugal rotating structure.

Moreover, centrifugal equipment is far behind Taiyi Alloy 401 in terms of convenience and applicability.

Red Star Company did not keep the technology of Taiyi Alloy 401 secret, but because of the production problem of Zhong-322, it did not sell it to the outside world.

If other companies have the ability to manufacture by themselves, it is their business, and the most is to pay the patent royalty to Red Star Company.

Zhong Cheng didn't want to hide anything about the key technology for human beings to enter space, because it would not be the big bosses of big companies who made sacrifices in the space adventure.

Whether it is an Easterner or a Westerner, Zhong Cheng still respects those humans who have the courage to take space adventures.

If it can reduce the damage to their health caused by the weightless environment, it is a small effort to do their part.

Liu Yang brought Zhong Cheng and his team to the assembly workshop of Luanniao Aerospace Aircraft Type 305, and introduced the progress.

The aerospace plane has a maximum take-off weight of 1 tons, a self-weight of 3000 tons, and can carry 100 tons of nuclear fusion raw materials, 350 tons of jet working fluid, and 3400 tons of cargo.

Counting the take-off and landing on the earth, it can maintain a navigation speed of 50 kilometers per second, and can travel up to 3 million kilometers in deep space.

When Mars is closest to the earth, it can reach Mars in 12 days, and there is enough fuel to return to the earth.

Such a large space plane is almost the limit of the aircraft going to and from the earth's atmosphere. Overcoming the gravity of the earth and the dense atmosphere will consume a huge amount of energy.

The more power materials it carries, the greater the weight and the greater the consumption, the bigger the aerospace plane, the more cost-effective it is.

Large-scale aerospace aircraft is also a great challenge to the structural design of aircraft.

The slender fuselage of the aerospace aircraft will be affected by the combined effects of the earth's gravity, centrifugal force, aircraft propulsion, and air resistance, resulting in extremely large and complex twisting forces, shearing forces, impact forces, etc., which are slightly careless in design cause the aircraft to disintegrate.

The 305-meter-long fuselage of Luanniao Aerospace Plane 500 can no longer be longer. It is already a giant among aerospace planes, more than double the load capacity of the current largest aerospace plane.

This is manufactured by Red Star Company and is specially used for the preliminary exploration and development of Mars, Venus, and Mercury, as well as for the construction of space elevators.

If the spacecraft and the ladder system are put into use, the functions of Luanniao Aerospace Plane 305 will be replaced, so Zhong Cheng decided to only produce a maximum of 5 aerospace planes of this type.

What I saw today is the prototype of the Luanniao Aerospace Plane 305. It has been built since last year, and now it is almost time to roll off the assembly line for the first flight.

Liu Yang assured Zhong Cheng that the aerospace plane would definitely go to the sky on December 12, and it would never affect the progress of the Nantianmen project.

Zhong Cheng and his team then inspected Red Star Nano Building Materials Company, Red Star Chemical Products Company and other related branches to check the production preparations.

11 month 10 day.

Zhong Cheng received a notification from Shi Hanxing that Wu Tie, director of the Federal Space Affairs Administration, and his party will come to Beishan tomorrow to review the space development plan of Red Star Company.

The Federal Space Administration, also known as the Space Agency and the Space Agency, is one of the eight major agencies of the Asian Federation and is fully responsible for the space development of the Asian Federation.

It is their job to inspect and review the space development plans of federal companies.

If they think there are violations, they can punish the audited object, ranging from rectification to suspension or cancellation of the company's space development rights.

Of course, it is impossible to suspend or cancel the space development right of Red Star Company, but Zhong Cheng still dare not neglect, and rushed back to Beishan overnight with Zhou Hu and others.

It is normal for the space agency to review Red Star's space development plan, and it is a necessary procedure, but it is not normal for the director to personally lead a team to review.

What kind of thoughts Wu Tie has, Zhong Cheng doesn't know, he can only see his tricks.

Early the next morning, Zhong Cheng took all the senior management of the company to the Beishan Aviation Service Building to welcome Wu Tie and his party.

Zhong Cheng had met Wu Tie in Haicheng in July. Wu Tie had just turned 7 this year and was in the prime of life.

Zhong Cheng took Wu Tie and others to the VIP meeting room on the first floor of the headquarters building of Red Star Company.

Wu Tie asked the review team he brought to conduct relevant review work with Zhou Hu and others, but he did not participate.

But Wu Tie asked Zhong Cheng to take him to visit Red Star Company, saying that he wanted to see with his own eyes the production workshop of the long-known world's largest company.

Wu Tie used to be engaged in rocket engines, mainly engaged in the overall design of launch vehicles and artificial earth satellites, as well as the control systems of rockets and satellites, and later transferred to administrative management, which can be regarded as a technical official.

Seriously, he is still a student of Zhong Cheng's father-in-law Ye Hongwen, and he has a close relationship with Zhong Cheng.

Zhong Cheng and Yang Xi took Wu Tie and his assistants on a commercial electric speed car and first visited the nuclear fusion generator company closest to the headquarters building.

After getting in the car, Wu Tie said affectionately: "Mr. Zhong, I'll ask you to call Junior Brother Zhong. Dean Ye talked about you a lot when he was in the capital. It's not convenient to talk about it in detail when we met last time. Today we two brothers can talk about you." Let's have a good talk!"

Although Zhong Cheng was not used to being so intimate with strangers, he still replied: "Hehe, Director Wu, then I won't see you anymore, so I'll call you Senior Brother Wu, and I need your advice today!"

Wu Tie said with a smile: "How dare I teach in front of you, an expert, wouldn't that be like a classmate? I'm here to learn today!"

Wu Tieyue was more polite, and Zhong Cheng muttered more and more, what on earth did this guy want to do, and it seemed like he was begging him to do something!
(End of this chapter)