The Space Administration and Xingyao Space Technology Company officially reached a cooperation project "Commercial Spacecraft Research", namely aerospace planes.

The Space Administration provides people and technology, while the Starry Company pays for money.

The general manager of the task is naturally the link between the two parties. Du Xingyu, who also serves as the chief designer.

Deputy Chief Designer Zhang Yan is an expert from the Fourth Academy of Spacecraft Research of the Space Administration. Under his leadership, their team has developed the Shenlong spacecraft. In the previous secret experiment, he spent two days in space and successfully recovered it.

"General Engineer Du, I have long admired Daming!" Although this was the first time Zhang Yan faced with Du Xingyu, he had heard Du Xingyu's Daming name many times in the research institute.

"Professor Zhang is joking, we will be colleagues in the future. Xingyao's team is still very immature. I hope Professor Zhang can give them more advice." Du Xingyu shook hands with him.

"This is natural!" Before coming, Zhang Yan had already received instructions from his leader. This time he said it was cooperation, but in fact it was more of aiding to improve Xingyao's aerospace research level.

In addition to them, many of the people in the team are old faces. Most of the experts recruited by Xingyao Space Technology are talents from various research institutes under the Aerospace Administration and top universities. After a little introduction, they all got to know each other.

"How many big guys!" In the corner of the team, Xingyao's interns Wang Wei and Lu Liang looked and talked.

Both of them are Du Xingyu's classmates and have been preparing for a job recently. A few days ago, Du Xingyu suggested that they go to Xingyao Space Technology for an interview.

Having experienced launching a rocket with Du Xingyu, they entered Xingyao without surprise.

Du Xingyu's other roommate, Zhao Qingquan, went to a famous American university to study for a graduate student, but did not go with him.

"According to my visual observation, we are the only two of us here, and we have the least qualifications!" Lu Liang raised his glasses and said.

"Are you talking nonsense? It's good that we can do odd jobs with such an important project. Maybe Du Xingyu has the face." Wang Wei whispered.

"Shh!" Lu Liang whispered, "We both should not be Du Xingyu's classmates in the research group, otherwise everyone would definitely think we were going through the back door! We have too little experience and are not as capable as him, so we can't bear their expectations."

"Yes." Wang Wei deeply agreed.

The research project has officially begun, called the "Reusable Spacecraft Research Project Team". The main task is to develop their own "space plane", temporarily named "Starship".

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"The material of the fuselage is selected as carbon fiber composite material, plus silicon carbide coating, which is light in weight and has good high temperature resistance. In addition, our titanium alloy is not strong enough, so we need to find a way to add silicon carbide fiber to aerospace titanium alloy to make it into composite material for making the fuselage!"

In the conference room, Du Xingyu was explaining to everyone his ideas on various designs of aerospace planes.

"Engines are the top priority. The experience of the 'Shenlong' can be referenced, but cannot be copied. At present, I recommend using the integrated design of three types of engines."

Existing aerospace planes often take off with rockets, but Du Xingyu believes that this not only wastes resources, but also cannot reflect the multi-space operation function of aerospace planes.

"Aerospace planes need to fly in the atmosphere and space, experiencing aerobic and anaerobic space. Turbojet engines allow the aerospace plane to take off on the ground and enter the stratosphere."

"But once the speed of the aerospace plane exceeds 6 times the speed of sound, the air resistance will increase significantly. At this time, you need to use a ramjet to let it rush out of the atmosphere. After leaving the atmosphere and entering space, rocket thrusters are used to allow it to keep flying in space..."

"The integrated design of three types of engine units is very difficult, which is an important problem that we must overcome."

The development of multi-cycle working combination engine units is the top priority of the R&D team.

For this reason, Du Xingyu did not hesitate to spend millions of energy points into the technology simulator. The failures again and again allowed him to gain a lot of precious knowledge and experience, avoiding the R&D team taking detours.

This will also reduce the waste of R&D funds.

Xingyao seems to have invested a lot of money, but the research and development of aerospace technology costs faster than burning money, and a project can burn more than one billion yuan. Otherwise, there would not be only a few major powers in the world who master spacecraft technology.

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During the research and development of the Starship aerospace plane, countries around the world were not idle, and information was heard every week.

For example, Russia restarts the "nuclear-powered rocket" R&D plan; Germany will build new spacecraft; the French parliament approved a proposal on the research and development of aerospace science and technology, and the details are temporarily kept confidential; the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and other countries have followed suit.

Although the islanders around China have not made any statements, they have conducted frequent rocket launch tests in recent months.

The Indian Space Administration directly announced that it would surpass China within three years and become the world's second largest space power!

They announced several major space programs and began implementation.

Canada and Australia also have their own projects, the most eye-catching of which is the United States, which is known as the world's largest power, both in military, commercial and technological!

The US Space Administration has redeployed its space program. In addition to returning to the moon, they have even begun to prepare to land on Mars.

Space Exploration Technology, the leader in commercial space in the United States, has also announced a latest plan to launch the latest Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle in two months.

At that time, they will try to efficiently recover the rockets, and this time they will cooperate with the US Commercial Space Station to launch the independently developed "Manned Dragon" spacecraft into space.

This time, two astronauts will be boarding their spacecraft into the International Space Station, and two astronauts will be boarding their spacecraft back to the ground from the International Space Station!

As soon as SpaceX's plan was announced, it immediately attracted world-class attention.

Rocket recycling, manned spacecraft, and picking up astronauts from space to return to Earth. No matter which point it is, it is a space technology that countries are eagerly experiencing!

And when these three points are concentrated on a launch mission, a huge advertising effect is formed!

Mainstream media such as the US Washington Post and the New York Times have reported this incident and wrote in the news: "SpaceX is undoubtedly one of the most commercially valuable space exploration technology companies of this century!"

"Their feat of launch this time will change the future of commercial space. There has been news that the Space Service Company intends to cooperate with SpaceX and plans to launch a space tourism program within one year to send at least four passengers into space!"

This incident was reported not only in the United States, but also in China, which caused a violent response.
Chapter completed!