Homo sapiens.

Chapter 365 I Want It All
Ape-eating Eagle-1 is separated from the booster and the core stage near the Karman line 100 kilometers above the ground.

Seeing the tracking signal and flying out of the atmosphere steadily, everyone present was slightly relieved.

The most dangerous stage has passed, and the next voyage is relatively safe.

However, Jose, Antonio and others did not take it lightly. The danger of the atmosphere comes from the natural environment of the earth, but in low-Earth orbit, there is another thing that threatens spacecraft-space junk.

For example, the large number of communication satellites launched by the Space Exploration Corporation not only occupy a large amount of orbital resources in low-Earth orbit, but also form a large amount of space junk.

When Antonio was designing the ape-eating eagle-class launch vehicle, he made a special design for the second-level core (spaceship), using high-strength composite materials to manufacture a shell with extremely high defensive performance.

This special shell can resist the impact of space junk.

At the same time, the hull layout of the spaceship has also been specially designed. The exposed detectors, communication signal receivers and the like will be installed in the area behind the spaceship, and the front of the spaceship will be covered with hard armor.

As for the solar panels that are most likely to be hit by space debris, in addition to increasing the strength of the surface coating, a micro-modular design is also carried out. A solar panel is composed of hundreds of miniature photoelectric modules, each of which has a Can generate electricity independently.

The other is to deploy a space junk monitoring system. The Ministry of Space has deployed 16 special monitoring satellites in low-Earth orbit to monitor artificial satellites, spacecraft, space stations, space junk, and natural stars in low-Earth orbit.

In this regard, Homo sapiens is indeed rich and powerful, and it used the launch vehicle costing more than 600 million gold dollars for testing without any distress.

Ape-eating Eagle-1 is actually for testing, but the previous test did not reach the synchronous orbit and the moon, so the core mission of this launch is to collect flight data to the synchronous orbit and the moon.

When Li Qingye first approved these projects, he had already seen various professional evaluations, including the previously criticized space shuttle project.

Jose, who had just sat down, immediately reported: "Mr. Chairman, Ape-eating Eagle-1 has entered low-earth orbit and is currently orbiting. The next step is to go to geosynchronous orbit and then to the moon."

"There are currently five launch sites in the Port Ramon Space City. You must arrange the progress of each task to avoid affecting the progress of the Guigong project."

But Li Qingye still approved the space shuttle project.

Li Qingye thought for a while, and then ordered: "Jose, I discussed with Dr. Antonio in the morning that a space station will be built in low-earth orbit in the near future to test the operation of various biotechnologies in microgravity."

After all, contractors and management also want to make money.

Jose nodded: "I heard what the doctor said."

The Ramon Port Space City in Medan Island mainly takes the route of launch vehicles.

For the aerospace departments of other forces, every launch mission is carefully calculated.

At that time, even if several of the projects fail, as long as one of them succeeds, it means that Homo sapiens' aerospace strategy has succeeded.

As for why Hongshawadi or Ceylon's space city is not used, the reason is that the positioning is different.

On the other side of the Egyptian Space City, the space shuttle route is being developed. At present, the supporting facilities have not been completed, and the space shuttle is also being designed.

Among them, Madagascar Aerospace City is working on a mass projector. It plans to build a ring-shaped sub-vacuum pipeline with a length of 500 kilometers, plus a launch building with a height of 500 meters. Using electromagnetic acceleration, the spacecraft will be projected into outer space.

The Hugang Aerospace City in Hongshawadi mainly focuses on small and medium-sized solid rockets, and is more inclined to military, emergency, and concealed directions. It also manages the Longerang Cannon Project in the south of Hongshawadi.

"I will definitely arrange it."

Antonio added: "This kind of test is still necessary, after all, the company has too little data accumulation in the aerospace field."

The automatic navigation system operates the spacecraft and flies towards the synchronous orbit.

America’s failure in the space shuttle project was actually due to material problems. During the repeated use of the space shuttle, parts were aging, which led to an increasing failure rate and rising maintenance costs.

However, the material problem is not a problem for Homo sapiens companies at this stage.

Because this moment is that moment.

As a result, the space shuttle route has a second spring.

Even if it is NASA, the investment in the spacecraft is actually a lot of money. Many of the big projects they have invested a lot of money on the surface, but only a small part of the money is really spent on spacecraft and technology research and development. Less part.

The five aerospace cities are engaged in five technical routes respectively.

in the command center.

Even if the Homo sapiens company copied America's space shuttle according to the script, as long as it uses materials unique to Homo sapiens, especially biomaterials that can self-repair, the failure rate and maintenance cost of the space shuttle will also drop by an order of magnitude.

The Egyptian Space City and the Madagascar Space City have not yet been completed, and the technical routes of these two space cities are also different from other space cities.

Antonio looked at the computer data, turned his head and said to Jose: "Just arrange a team to watch over it, let's report the situation first!"

In addition, the spacecraft of Ape-eating Eagle 1 is also equipped with various monitoring equipment, which is more than enough to avoid some obvious space junk.

"It depends on the needs. If the supporting factories are operating at full capacity, they can produce 40 ape-eating eagle-class launch vehicles per month. Currently, they are about 2 to 4 per month." Jose immediately gave the answer.

"can."

Even Li Qingye is not sure about the future aerospace development route.

The two came to the VIP room.

Sanji Badaleal poured tea for the two.

Li Qingye waved his hand at this: "It doesn't matter, isn't it just a carrier rocket, by the way, what is the manufacturing speed of the carrier rocket now?"

After all, a space shuttle project back then made America complain a lot.

It includes six technologies of cannon launch, liquid launch vehicle, solid launch vehicle, metal hydrogen launch vehicle, space shuttle, and mass projection.

Although the cost of trial and error is huge, Homo sapiens has this strength to support it.

But Homo sapiens doesn't care. For the company, even if such a big project fails, it will not shake the foundation of the company.

Ceylon Aerospace City focuses on launch vehicles based on metal hydrogen fuel. At present, there has been no breakthrough in the passivation technology of metal hydrogen. Therefore, although several design plans for the launch vehicle have been proposed, they have not been officially put into operation.

What's more, Homo sapiens will carry out a comprehensive upgrade of the space shuttle.

Not even America would dare to play like that.

After all, America is already on the path of the space shuttle, and has been touched by the latecomers.

Since the foundation of the company will not be shaken, in order not to make mistakes in the technology tree, large-scale investment will be made in all possible technical directions.

Other forces are limited by economy and resources, so they can only choose one, but Homo sapiens said: I want them all.

Li Qingye talked with Antonio, Jose and others for more than an hour, and after assigning some tasks, he secretly took the subway back to the temporary residence.

He is currently working on a very critical topic.

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