Rebirth: Fight For Life

   Chapter 714 Ying Longwang and Quantum Supercomputing Center

  He Ting was too surprised: "425 tons of take-off weight? How big is this Yinglong... how big is it?"

   "Wingspan 25 meters, length 55 meters."

   He Ting said in surprise: "Bigger than the space shuttle?"

   "It's bigger, but it can't be compared to that. A complete space shuttle should also include external fuel tanks and rocket boosters."

  Fei Jing corrected: "Including the fuel tank, Mr. Gu's Yinglong should be bigger. I really want to see the real guy soon."

Gu Song looked at He Ting and asked, "So, Big Brother Fei also came here, so wouldn't the matter here be divided into two parts? The astronauts on the test flight started training on the Yinglong. You need to understand the technical points here? What about technology? How about this piece?"

  He Ting shook his head: "This is not under my control."

   "Is this still possible? There is no charter, how can we communicate?"

  He Ting joked: "What are you lacking? Money, you just harvested another wave. People, look at you, the team is getting bigger and bigger. Your status, you are higher than me. What are you lacking?"

Gu Song replied sternly: "Don't try to trick me. Materials, people, and money are all lacking. This Yinglong Hao is very expensive to build. Moreover, if the Yinglong Hao is successful, the next step will be like taking my ideal one. The big guy should come out with the Dragon King."

   "Ying Dragon King?" He Ting was stunned when he heard the name.

  Gu Song said with a look of longing: "The length is 86 meters, the wingspan is 47 meters, the combination of scramjet and nuclear-powered rocket engines, the take-off weight can exceed 1,000 tons, and the payload is 200 tons, how about it?"

   Fei Jing, who had always been calm, suddenly gleamed in his eyes.

  He Ting was taken aback: "Nuclear-powered rocket engine?"

  Gu Song nodded, as if to tempt him: "How about it? I already have a design idea, but if I want to verify it, it's really short of money and materials!"

  He Ting was skeptical, and Fei Jing asked: "Nuclear rockets are not without design plans and experiments in history. Gu's ideas should be updated, right?"

Gu Song smiled and said: "Of course, the times have progressed, and materials, processing and manufacturing are different today. The reason why I want to do this is because although my Flint Space City plan has already begun, it is still in Earth orbit after all. On. If we want to develop to the moon and Mars in the future, we still need a better solution in terms of deep space aerospace capabilities. This solution may be tested by Yinglongwang first.”

   "Mr. Gu is going to try nuclear power propulsion?"

"Part of it." Gu Song was not ready to finish, but just looked at He Ting, "I understand a part first, and then see what I have to say later. Anyway, my attitude is positive, and of course I am willing to support the development of defense equipment. Participate in your side. Contributing wisdom to the project is one aspect, if you want to use a mature solution like this, just help me solve my difficulties.”

He looked a little seductive again: "Besides, if it comes out, think about it, nuclear power propulsion. The kind of nuclear power on ordinary satellites is definitely not enough, I have to study a whole set of high-efficiency nuclear power miniaturization solutions. ."

He Ting couldn't take it anymore: "Don't fool around, I said it, I don't care about it. I think I'll call the old man again, and ask him to come over if he has a good schedule. Anyway, you kid. If you want to make a request, go to the elders. In front of the elders, let’s see if your skin will be as thick as you are now.”

   Gu Song said sternly: "It's about the future, I still care about my skin? You wait for the elders to blame you for not being able to figure it out!"

  He Ting was speechless.

  …

  The astronauts have a special diet every day, and the lunch is very concise.

   Director Wu asked Zhao Hongtao to lead him to find He Ting and Gu Song. After Zhao Hongtao made a phone call, he said that they were talking about the secrets of defense research and development.

   Zhao Hongtao is polite, but Director Wu can't do anything about it.

   That phone call just now, he heard a few words. The person in front of him, with the casualness and familiarity of talking to Gu Song, is obviously already the most trusted person around Gu Song.

   Also, or else will the private jet be handed over to him to fly?

   So Director Wu could only follow Director Xiong and take the other astronauts around the Flint Aerospace headquarters with Zhao Hongtao.

   can only sigh with emotion, the site is really big.

   Right now, the construction of Changwen Aerospace City is accelerating. Not only the two major aerospace groups have increased supporting investment in the industrial chain here, but the newly established Huayu Heavy Industry is also making great efforts to carry out construction projects.

   And Flint Aerospace, which was the first to invest heavily here, is undoubtedly the most mature aerospace park here.

   R&D building, experimental building, testing and processing workshop... If it weren't for the traffic vehicles in the park, I'm afraid Director Wu would be a little bit overwhelmed.

   So this meal was a little fragrant, after all, I was a little tired.

   Even when we were eating, He Ting and Gu Song were still not in sight.

   After eating and resting for a while, everyone went to the main building.

  This time, everyone is here in order.

   The person in charge of explaining on the stage is Topol.

This guy gave lectures in Zhimi future when he was a freshman, but now Typhoon is very mature, he said with a smile: "I'm very excited to see so many aerospace heroes. Now I want to teach everyone a class, I feel very empty. If you have any questions, feel free to mention them, if I can’t answer them, Gu Song and my advisor, Academician Guo, are here.”

   Director Wu saw that he was calling Gu Song by his first name, and he was guessing what his identity was.

Bai Yang finished the scene, and then said: "The driving of the Yinglong is actually not complicated. If you don't pursue the limit, the avionics system can actually solve most of the problems. Compared with ordinary aircraft, it mainly has more The engine state switching and the working state of the space environment and so on.”

   He pointed to the big screen: "This is the Yinglong."

   In the eyes of all the astronauts, there was a look of wonder and yearning.

   For these true astronauts, space is truly a place of passion.

Think about it, as a senior pilot, you already have a solid job, income, and family, and then you start to spend less time with your family, going through several years of hard and unbearable training, just to fight for the possibility of not having it, even if you have it. Just a chance or two to go to space, what kind of love is that?

   You must know that in the field of aerospace, it is very likely that you will give your life for this dream.

   No matter how good a person is, after boarding a spaceship, he will entrust his life to the launch system, to every factory and even worker that manufactures spaceships and rockets, ready to accept possible "sacrifices" at any time.

   And now, in front of them, there is a first aerospace plane in history that they are very likely to sit in and drive to the sky.

   Just looking at the photos made their usual calm minds ripple.

  This plane gives them a feeling of elegance and maturity.

   I can't tell, it's an intuition based on the dozens of courses each of them has taken, and the decades of interest in aerospace.

   The direction and arc of the lines, the ratio of the wing to the fuselage, the aerodynamic layout of the configuration, the air intakes and nozzles of the engine…

   Bai Yang is even more emotional, although people are not looking at him, but after all, the eyes that space heroes yearn for are looking at him.

He said excitedly: "Let's talk directly with the data. Although there has not been an actual test flight yet, in the model constructed by the quantum computer, the artificial intelligence program has completed a sufficient number of simulated tests and simulated flights. We can first Learn about its basic data."

  Some data that He Ting and Fei Jing have heard are explained in more detail here.

   Director Wu manages the space agency and is no stranger to this field now, so he is very aware of the impact of every data on the screen if it is taken out.

  Li Wei, the astronauts who have been in the sky, more intuitively understand the performance represented by these data, and at the same time he felt unbelievable, and at the same time he felt that it was worthy of being a flint aerospace.

   Bai Yang said: "We are quite confident about these test data. I was the first to study quantum computing prototypes with my mentor and Gu Song. These tests... um, Gu Song, can you tell me?"

  Gu Song looked at the people in the room, especially He Ting, and nodded with a smile.

Bai Yang said with some restraint: "It can be said that this test data should have more problems than the previous hundreds of actual flights collected. These tests were modeled using the Quantum Supercomputing Center with a special architecture of Flint Aerospace. This quantum supercomputing center draws on the design concept of supercomputers. Although a single quantum computing core is still only a thousand levels, it has a total of more than one million qubits, a super-high-speed network, and a large-capacity, extremely fast quantum Memory. At the same time, the artificial intelligence for spacecraft testing has been evolving from 2007 to the present. Therefore, we are very confident in the test flight of the aerospace plane!"

  He Ting was about to jump, Fei Jing turned his head a little bit hard to look at Gu Song.

Gu Song grinned and said: "Amazing, right? Engines, and various technologies, all require money. When the elders come, you have the cheek to cry, I think the defense system should definitely want me to help customize it. I built one. I have limited my purchases for two years, just to save up quantum computing cores. Think about it, I sold a Shenwei Infinite 2 for $59.18 million, mainly because of the quantum computing core. A Shenwei Infinite 2 has only 1024 qubits , a quantum supercomputing center at the level of millions of qubits has to customize a complete set of systems to optimize and facilitate daily management. How much do you think a quantum supercomputing center like this is worth? Not to mention multiplying by 1000 times, Do you think a discount is appropriate?"

  He was dumbfounded, can the account be calculated like this? At your price, who does not know that foreign IQ tax is charged.

  $59.18 million, how much is 1000 times? $59.18 billion?

  If this is the case, wouldn’t it be necessary to spend a large chunk of the total defense expenditure for a year?

   Even if it’s only a 10% discount, that’s an exaggeration!

  To talk about the core of quantum computing, in addition to Xinhuo Technology, the one dedicated to it here can only do more than 200 qubits, and the production capacity is very limited.

   But a specially customized million-qubit supercomputing center, it should be really practical, right? That's so fragrant!

  This thing, if you want to get it started, how do you bid appropriately?

   Director Wu's face was sluggish. It turns out that Commander He and Gu Song have been chatting about a big business of tens of billions of dollars. No wonder they had to see it. He couldn't help thinking, who am I, where am I, and what am I doing?

   (end of this chapter)