Chapter 139, Space Exploration Company

When Li Fu returned to his hometown in Meijiang County, it was already November 2019. In the blink of an eye, 2019 was about to pass. It can be said that it has been a busy year at the National Space Administration.

In the past few months, we had been carefully scrutinizing and demonstrating the details of the manned moon landing. After the manned moon landing was successfully completed in October, we still stayed here at the space center for more than a month. Almost everyone here in China Space planes fly back and forth between the earth and the moon for a week. Only when they are quite familiar with all aspects and the lunar base has a small scale can top scientists like Li Fu and Liu Shiying relax.

Longling Town is a township around Sanjiang Town. The terrain of Longling Town is relatively flat. Fuyun Space Exploration Company is located here in Longling Town.

Fuyun Space Exploration Company covers a very large area, and more than half of the entire Longling Town is included in it. After 19 years and nearly a year, more than a dozen large construction companies and nearly 100,000 construction workers have been working day and night. , at this time, the Space Exploration Company is already quite grand.

A very large airport, covering an area of ​​5 square kilometers. This is the company's plan to use it to travel to and from space in the future, and to experiment with the aerospace aircraft produced by the company. It also has a ground command center and a control center, which are standard. The equipment and equipment are completely based on the Jiuquan Space Satellite.

A huge astronaut training and living area. This area was built by Fuyun Group to train its own astronauts. It has various equipment and instruments for training astronauts, as well as a living area for astronauts and their families.

The company knows very well that these astronauts are treasures for any country. It is absolutely impossible for our company to poach them, so we must train them ourselves. Otherwise, we will only have advanced equipment and no personnel in the future. Driving is also not possible, and the company's plan is to establish a special astronaut training school in the future and open enrollment for training.

There is also a huge industrial park. The industrial park is naturally owned by Fuyun Group's own aerospace vehicle production company. It is close to the airport, and aerospace planes, spacecraft, etc. that will be produced in the future can also be tested and taken off nearby.

In the huge park, Fang Zheng, Chen Bin, and Yu Liang were driving a car while accompanying Li Fu to inspect the area. Throughout 19 years, Li Fu was almost absent from the company, and everything was done. Fang Zheng and others are in charge, as is the space center in Longling.

The total investment in the Longling Town Space Center exceeds 300 billion U.S. dollars. It can be said to be Fuyun Group's largest investment besides the research institute in Yuanling Town. It can be said that it has invested more than half of this year's virtual machine sales profits.

"The construction is pretty good. How are the preparations in other aspects?"

It took the car more than 2 hours to walk around the space center. Li Fu nodded with satisfaction. Although the investment was huge, it had to be invested. Li Fu wanted to be in space in the future. To make a difference, a space center of your own is absolutely indispensable.

"We have already started recruiting personnel. Since the second half of this year, we have recruited tens of thousands of fresh graduates from major universities across the country. We are currently training them. Many of them are quite good. In addition, we have also Recruit about 200 people from retired Air Force pilots and prepare to train them into astronauts.”

"It's just that there are still some problems with the aerospace aircraft that our company is researching, and we haven't solved them yet."

Chen Bin, a young man who had only graduated two years ago, was already the person in charge of the Fuyun Group's Space Exploration Company. He reported to Li Fu in detail the situation of the Space Exploration Company.

He, Yu Liang, Yang Yiping, and Cao Haitao all participated in the research of the "Shenjian" aerospace aircraft, and they all made major and outstanding contributions and won the title of Chinese Academician. However, it was really up to the four of them to lead a team to conduct independent research. When flying aerospace planes, we encountered many problems.

After almost a year, they still had not been able to take out the Fuyun Group's own aerospace plane. At this time, they seemed a little ashamed and did not dare to look directly at Li Fu.

"Aerospace aircraft is a very large system work. Let alone our small company, many countries may not be able to develop their own aircraft even if they gather their own strength, let alone an aerospace aircraft."

"Although we need funds and have a thorough understanding of the core plasma technology, we still have a partial understanding of many other aspects. It is normal that they have not come out yet. Now that I am back, if there are any problems later, we will Get up and discuss, there are always more solutions than problems.”

Li Fu seemed to have been mentally prepared for this, and did not mean to blame him at all. He participated in the research of the national aerospace plane. Li Fu knew very well what a huge thing the aerospace plane was.

This is definitely something that can only be researched by gathering the strength of a country, involving power, physics, mathematics, electronics, materials, and chemistry. Although our company is now very strong in machinery and other huge projects involving natural science content, it is really not that easy to manufacture such a huge project as an aerospace aircraft.

"If Brother Fu were here, we would definitely be able to come up with our own aerospace plane this year. In fact, it is not difficult to develop our own aerospace plane. What is difficult is how to produce it on a large scale and reduce the cost."

When Yu Liang heard that Li Fu was going to join the project team, his eyes immediately lit up. He knew how powerful Li Fu was, and there were almost no problems that Li Fu couldn't solve. When he first participated in the research on the "Arrow" aerospace aircraft, Many of the major problems encountered were almost all solved under the leadership of Li Fu.

Without Li Fu, China would never have had its own aerospace aircraft, let alone achieved the current manned landing on the moon and established a permanent base on the moon.

"Yu Liang is right. In fact, if we just follow the example, we can now create an aerospace plane. However, the cost will not be much cheaper than the national aerospace plane. It will cost at least more than 3 billion. We will use Chinese coins to build an aerospace plane, and this is because we can obtain black gold materials at cost price.”

"We are still too poor in terms of material processing and processing accuracy. We consume a lot of materials and the scrap rate is too high. This cost has never been reduced. Even if the black gold material is produced by ourselves and can be obtained at cost price, we The cost is still very high.”

Chen Bin also nodded. On the one hand, good materials are good. On the other hand, processing is also very important. The accuracy of processing is a crucial thing. In this regard, not to mention Fuyun Group, the whole of China is here. It is also a shortcoming.

Although Fuyun Group uses imported advanced processing equipment, although these processing equipment were purchased at a huge cost, they can only be regarded as second-rate. First-rate advanced equipment will not be sold to any country. Moreover, for many things, even if you are given equipment, you may not be able to achieve the same processing accuracy.

"It costs more than 3 billion. This black gold material is produced by our own material company. The scrap rate is too high."

When Li Fu heard this, he immediately frowned. Li Fu knew very well the cost price of black gold materials. Although it was sold to the country in grams, the manufacturing cost was actually very low because the materials used were rare. There are very few metals, they are all common things, and the price sold to the country is hundreds of times the cost price.

The cost of black gold materials is low, but Chen Bin even said that if he made his own aerospace plane, the cost would be more than 3 billion. It can be seen that in the field of material processing, the scrap rate of Fuyun Group is really terrible. This cost will directly increase in a straight line.

"The scrap rate is very high. We process dozens of parts and sometimes we may not be able to obtain a qualified product. Now this is also a headache for us. Batch after batch of materials are delivered, but our processing has always been unqualified. , We also spend a lot of money to find talents in this aspect, but there is still no big improvement.”

Yu Liang also nodded helplessly. Only when you are truly involved in the whole process will you know the difficulty of manufacturing an aircraft. There are many problems in almost every detail.

"Especially in the processing of blades, the curved surface processing involved in the blades is very complicated. The blades we processed by ourselves have reduced the thrust of our plasma engine by several levels. Obviously, there are many The problem is that there may be a slight flaw on one blade. After the entire assembly is completed, countless flaws will accumulate, and the power of our plasma engine will be greatly reduced. "

Chen Bin shook his head and said with some sigh, the plasma engine can be manufactured, but the processing accuracy is too far behind, and the thrust of the plasma engine is greatly reduced.

"Don't be afraid if there is a problem, just be afraid that there will be no problem. We will start from scratch. Whatever aspect we fail to pass, we will conquer that aspect. This time we are not just going to manufacture aerospace planes, we are going to integrate all aspects of aerospace." We have fully understood all the technologies related to the spacecraft, and it has just begun. If we encounter problems, it will not be a problem. If we are still helpless because the material processing accuracy is not up to standard, it will be really scary. "

While Li Fu listened, he kept pondering in his mind. After a long time, he slowly spoke, obviously making up his mind.

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