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Chapter 598 The Belated "Star"

Selling things requires publicity, and many people like to make a little exaggerated publicity when selling things, which is to sell more and make more money.

These are relatively normal operations, as long as you don't exaggerate too much, generally no one will make trouble.

Even sometimes there are competitors, so when promoting yourself, exaggerate your own advantages, and then exaggerate your opponent's shortcomings, this is a competitive process.

Whoever survives counts.

But this approach of the new International Space Station is a bit nonsense.

Although he is promoting his own advantages, many other people are also watching.

Generally speaking, if it is a modular structure, it is really conducive to replacement. This is also the current development trend. It is for convenience and quickness. Even if a place is damaged, just remove it and replace it with a new one. You don't even need to find a professional.

From this point of view, the new international space station has done a good job in this point, and has made full preparations for future development.

Although the Tiangong space station was not mentioned in the promotion of the new international space station, people with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that they have secretly compared many rounds.

Moreover, these contests were initiated by several partner countries of the new International Space Station, and the Arc Light Group simply ignored them, and did what they should do.

Because in the view of Arclight Group and Dong Chen, this is not comparable to the original, they have not even built the capital, even if there is competition, it will be after the completion of the new International Space Station.

However, the partner country of the new international space station is better than theirs. Some people also know some general conditions, that is, the model of the new international space station is a relatively intuitive modular design at this stage, and it is also the best that earth countries can come up with at this stage. Good build mode.

The Tiangong space station is another model. It is a design that is more inclined to the future. In other words, it is a space station that should appear in the next few decades or hundreds of years. Its overall stability is more stable and its protection ability is also better. powerful.

In contrast, the model of the new International Space Station is relatively easy, and it looks huge, but its internal space is definitely less than 70% of the smaller Tiangong Space Station, and its protection is not good. It is no different from an ordinary space station. When encountering a relatively large piece of space junk, you still have to start the engine to avoid it, or you will definitely follow in the footsteps of its predecessor space station.

Besides, it's not that there is no module structure in the Tiangong space station, but its module structure is not so obvious, at least it is not as obvious as the connection of one module by one module like the new international space station... so obvious.

It is the same as building blocks. Everyone knows that it belongs to the category of modularization, and it has a very simple meaning of modularization.

In a way, there is nothing wrong with the advantages advertised by several partner countries.

There is also the truck responsible for transporting the goods this time... Cargo Arrow, the latest "Space Launch System" of the United States, is a super-heavy launch vehicle evolved from the space shuttle, designed by the National Space Administration of the United States, and its main purpose is to Sustain the Constellation program and replace decommissioned space shuttles.

Its first phase is mainly based on the 70-ton to 110-ton constellation program manned mission, and then it will develop a 130-ton cargo compartment load mission.

Eventually its design carrying capacity will be upgraded to 143 tons, and may even reach 165 tons.

On the whole, the Space Launch System is very similar to the Saturn V. Both are super-heavy launch vehicles, both of which are surprisingly large, and perform the most difficult tasks.

However, after so many decades, it is much more advanced than the Saturn V, and its transport capacity once again surpassed that of the Long March [-] launch vehicle that Huaguo used to land on the moon last time. It can be said to be the strongest launch vehicle system in history so far. Not too much.

Coupled with the increasingly pure rocket recovery technology, it can be reused many times, so that its role is much greater than that of the previous space shuttle, and it is also much cheaper than the Saturn V.

This also achieved its development purpose, more reliable than the space shuttle, and cheaper than the Saturn V.

You must know that the technology of the rocket is much more mature than that of the space shuttle. For human beings, it is currently the most reliable space tool, and the cost of the Saturn V is unquestionable. At that time, the cost was equivalent to a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

Think about it, a Saturn V launch is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier flying in the sky, and it is a one-off, there is no very necessary major event, who would do it.

It doesn't matter if the Saturn V is directly called "Tuhao (number)" or "Tao", and only the local tyrants can play it, and it is still painful to play.

Let's talk about the reliability issue. It was because of the two disasters of the US space shuttle that the US space agency needed to develop a more reliable transportation system.

Because after their analysis, if the ordinary series-parallel hybrid rocket launch system is used, the two disasters can be avoided.

The first space shuttle disaster occurred when a booster was damaged during launch and crews were unable to escape.

Because once the booster of the space shuttle is activated, the astronauts cannot escape. There is no emergency escape capsule on it.

And if ordinary rockets were used at that time, then this kind of manned space mission would definitely be equipped with an escape tower, which is the "lightning rod" on the rocket.In case of an accident, the astronauts can activate the escape tower to escape.

The second space shuttle accident was because the wing was damaged, so it was destroyed during the descent, which in turn created a chain reaction and the final accident occurred.

If an ordinary spacecraft is used, that is, the manned return capsule of the rocket, a conical capsule with a smooth appearance, there is no possibility of damage to the wings of this thing, and it will come down directly. alright.

The United States has set high standards for the "Space Launch System", saying that it can transport astronauts to farther places and is the cornerstone of human space exploration.

Its appearance will open a new era of human exploration of space. At that time, the "Space Launch System" will send the "Orion" spacecraft carrying astronauts into space. The first destination is an asteroid, and the final destination is Mars. , can be said to be the farthest place manned spaceflight has traveled.

However, after the sudden emergence of Arc Aerospace, looking at the aerospace equipment developed by Arc Aerospace, the "cornerstone" and "new era" used on it are no longer very consistent.

No matter how they publicize this, not many people believe it. After all, there are aerospace planes with arc light space there, even if they say that this "Space Launch System" was born for the mission to Mars, and it will soon make the United States the first A country on Mars.

As for Dong Chen in Arc Island, he watched the news while eating, and commented on it while watching.

I have to say that the United States spent a lot of public relations and publicity fees this time. The news about the new international space station can be said to be overwhelming, mainly to promote its size and what is the building block modular design. The good thing is that there are some modeling drawings inside the space station, but they haven't mentioned how big the interior space is.

"You said that if the United States wants to launch, it will launch. What's the use of saying so much? Don't you know what it means to "talk less and do more"? Practical actions are the most convincing. And they are all talking about advantages, and there are no disadvantages." Say, it’s a good plan to mislead those who don’t know.” Dong Chen said to No. [-] sitting next to him while stuffing food into his mouth.

No. [-] looked at Dong Chen and said with a smile, "Sir, of course people have to think about themselves, and show their advantages instead of their disadvantages. Isn't this common to all creatures?"

(End of this chapter)