I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

On August 11, Antoine, a person in charge of the ISS, flew to China to award special commemorative medals and a bonus of US$1 million to the three astronauts.

Then the three astronauts decided to use all the money to form a fund and join the charity lunch program in impoverished mountainous areas in the Midwest.

Then Antoine came to Lin Ju to discuss the mission of sending astronauts to the International Space Station in September.

According to the plan, the three people who will go up in September are from Lucia, Kazakhstan and Danmark, and will soon start bidding for the Soyuz spacecraft, Dragon spacecraft and Unity.

In fact, the ISS member states can't stand Lucia anymore. The price of Alliance spacecraft tickets has increased every year from 20 million U.S. dollars in 2007, and the single price in 2015 has reached as high as 60 million U.S. dollars...

Although the US dollar has been flooded, you Lucia can't be so black, right?

Therefore, NACA signed a manned transportation agreement with the Dragon spacecraft in 2011, but it has always been afraid that the stability will not be officially applied until 2020.

Now, except for the Chinese Space Administration, which is still marginalized, ISS has finally opened a small opening for Xinyuan.

In fact, NACA also wants to save money. Ma Yilong's price for the 7-seater version of the Dragon spacecraft is US$25.5 million per person, but the price for the H1 commercial launch is only US$50 million for the entire aircraft, and it can send 5 people, which is really cheap. too much.

The economies of European countries have been stagnant for many years. A lot can be done with a little savings here...

Lin Ju told Antoine that Xinyuan will participate in the bidding, but the price of US$50 million for the launch of Xinyuan 5 will have to wait until October. The price for the launch of Xinyuan 2 is US$130 million (the cost is RMB). And there are only five seats except for the commander, but the unit price is still as low as US$26 million, which is also very good.

But whether it is US$10 million or US$26 million, this figure is very cost-effective.

Therefore, Lin Ju is not worried about his competitiveness at all. The Dragon spacecraft is not mature enough yet, and manned flights may not be successful.

Antoine did not get any promises of benefits from Xinyuan, but just because he was a European, he would definitely be inclined to lure Xinyuan into trouble.

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On August 19, the Xinyuan-6 solid launch vehicle successfully made its first flight carrying a 420-kilogram agricultural remote sensing satellite designed by the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, with a single launch price of 25 million yuan.

This satellite is the first space launch mission approved within the Aerospace Development Commission, and its formal significance is still very important. Xinyuan 6 was launched from the launch site of the B-level base, and it took less than three hours from delivery to ignition.

However, what is impressive is that although Xinyuan 6 has a mass of less than 100 tons, because it is a solid rocket, the smoke plume generated is exaggerated and much stronger than that of Xinyuan 2. After launch, it looks like a plume hanging from the sky. The rope can be clearly seen from several kilometers away.

During the launch, the first batch of heat-insulating tiles ordered by the military had just been shipped away. A scientist from the Digital Research Institute who was traveling with him took a look at Xinyuan-6 and said out of professional habit:

"This missile should be able to throw 3 tons of six missile warheads to 10,000 kilometers."

Well, the characteristics of small solid launch vehicles are indeed a bit different, and the higher authorities pay more attention to this than giant rockets.

Fortunately, Xinyuan 6 is also used as a solid rocket technology reserve, and recyclable rockets are not much cheaper than this.

At this time, it has been more than a month since the construction of the B-level base was completed, but there are currently less than 700 people in place. However, the production capacity that has been activated exceeds the original C-level base, and some things have begun to be produced instead.

Ten kilometers away from the Class B base, Xinyuan allocated a piece of land facing the river from here. Huaguo Power Investment and Huaguang Nuclear Power jointly undertook the construction task of the nuclear base.

The base is not expected to be completed until this time next year. Now Cheng Nankai's nuclear propulsion team has begun preliminary design and customized some equipment and components from manufacturers. Xinyuan's own production capacity is also very strong, and many key equipment can be solved by itself.

At the same time, Huaguo Power Investment has adjusted its production plan and will produce 500 kilograms of fuel within 8 months to meet the needs of the experimental reactor.

Also on this day, the packaging and testing of 4,200 14nm X32035 chips manufactured in the first production cycle of fully automated silicon carbide chips was completed. The average daily output was 120 pieces, with a yield rate of 99.6%. Only 22 pieces were eliminated due to substandard performance.

Holding X32035, which still had traces of organic liquid after rinsing, in his hand, Lin Ju carefully looked at this chip from another world.

The cost of this chip is not low. Excluding the money for purchasing raw materials, thousands of tons of pure water are consumed every day during operation. Therefore, there is a large area underground in the B-level base that is a water plant, responsible for purifying river water...

It is similar to an ordinary chip. The front of the PCB is a dark black chip about the size of two fingernails, with more than ten exposed pins distributed around it. The back is 2187 contacts, which need to be soldered and installed on the motherboard.

However, the internal structure is quite different. It also has cores in a general sense, but the number is very high, up to 243, and the operating frequency fluctuates between 1.7Ghz and 2.4Ghz.

However, because the structural principles are different, it cannot be directly compared with current mainstream CPUs. That is meaningless. We can only say what advantages it has in a certain aspect.

In front of Lin Ju, the engineer installed the 8 X32035 chips on the motherboard that had been prepared. This was also customized through the channel supplier and was only suitable for ternary chips.

The original SC09 intelligent spacecraft control system purchased from the system mall was read through the onboard storage particles, and a bunch of dense small letters and red exclamation marks popped up after the animation.

The engineer took his time and used a wiring harness to connect it to the modified H1 simulator. After some debugging, SC09 took over the virtual H1, entered a simple page, and a chat box popped up:

"Please enter the command via text or voice (only Chinese and Mandarin are supported by default, please add other language packs manually)"

Lin Ju suddenly felt like he had seen the ChatGPT chatbot.

The engineer introduced to Lin Ju:

"When we sorted out and absorbed the SC09 code and ternary compilation, we found that it has built-in support for native Chinese and has achieved a high degree of learning and intelligence. At that time, we judged that it has very powerful AI capabilities. Boss, you can try it. Now it is not connected to the Internet and in a simulated state, and this is the first time we have come into contact with the real SC09.”

Lin Ju nodded and spoke into the microphone on the motherboard in authentic Trump style:

“Please introduce yourself and tell me what services you can offer.”

SC09 answered in text and neutral voice at the same time, with almost no delay: "I am the SC09 universal aircraft control system, which has strong AI and logic processing capabilities. You can give me any instructions for this aircraft, and I will evaluate it." Given a solution, you can choose whether to execute it, or you can grade the instructions so that I can execute certain instructions directly without asking for instructions.

Note: I have detected some abnormalities in the data input of the aircraft. It may be a simulation device. You can help me confirm whether it is a real aircraft or a simulator, or you can ignore this message. "

Lin Ju:! ! !

Obviously all its data is input directly through the motherboard, which theoretically replaces the sensors and buses on the real machine. How does it identify the simulated machine?

He looked at the engineer, who was also a little surprised, but after thinking for a while, he gave the answer:

"SC09 may have built-in judgment standards and pre-stored information, and as a simulator, the information sent out is indeed less, but in any case, this does show that its judgment ability is very powerful."

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