Chapter 749: Lunar orbit construction committee

American BFR rocket launched!
Lu Zhou, who was eating, opened his mouth, silently put chopsticks on the lunch box, and held the phone with his right hand.
"Hat ... shot? When?"
"Just last night! NASA issued an announcement, and we also confirmed through satellite radar that the BFR rocket is leaving the near-Earth orbit boundary, and the news was also broadcast ... How long have you been out of the Internet?"
"Just yesterday ... I've been preparing for the conference almost all night, but I didn't pay attention to the news," Lu Zhou said, pinching his eyebrows, leaning on the chair for a moment, asking, "The launch was A human spaceship? Or just a cargo spaceship. "
"It's just a cargo ship. It carries a life support unit completed by a number of aerospace companies such as Space-x and Blue Origin!" Having said that, Director Li said with a little headache, "How is the Tinder plan going? Now in the end A little frowning? "
Lu Zhou: "It's still in its infancy ... what happened?"
At present, the Tinder Plan is mainly under the responsibility of several scientific research institutions such as the Huaguo Agricultural University and the Institute of Biotechnology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. There are not many projects in charge of Xingkong Technology.
Some time ago, Lu Zhou contacted the project leader, Professor Hu Yang. At present, the entire biosphere a has just completed construction, and no personnel or equipment has been moved in. The fastest way is to wait until the end of the month to get on track. Have to wait.
The other end of the phone was silent for a while.
About ten seconds later, Director Li lowered his voice and said.
"I said that if we were to grant you another two billion dollars, do you see if we can make a similar artificial biosphere and throw it on Mars?"
Although the tone of solicitation was used, there was obviously a hint of seriousness in the tone. Obviously, this was not only the proposal of Director Li himself, but also a bit of high-level central government.
After hearing Director Li's words, Lu Zhou was almost not drooling.
Two billion dollars?
Although he really wanted it, was it a problem that could be solved with money?
Also get one to Mars, do you treat me as Tinker Bell ...
Without any hesitation, Lu Zhou said immediately.
"Don't think about it, our technology has not yet developed to that step. Other Americans can reach this step, also relying on the accumulation of more than half a century, we can now send people to the moon is already good, step by step It ’s more important than everything. "
Although it said nothing to do with himself, after hearing the news, Lu Zhou felt a sense of urgency.
It seems that the successful landing of the Xiangrui on the moon did give Americans a lot of excitement.
Otherwise, let alone launch the life-sustaining unit so soon, I'm afraid that it would take a year and a half to get involved in Congress alone.
The other end of the phone was silent for a while, and finally a sigh came.
"Well, I also know it's not realistic ... How long will it take for our lunar orbital space station project to start?"
Lu Zhou thought for a moment and said, "As soon as the end of this month, we can send the" Yue Gong "core capsule first. If the core capsule is stable, the launch of the node capsule and work capsule will be on the schedule as soon as possible ... … For the specific launch plan, it depends on which step the aerospace group is preparing to take. "
The "Moon Palace" core capsule is the core component of the entire lunar orbiting space station. It can provide power, propulsion, navigation, communication, attitude control, temperature control, and microclimate environment with pressure and other functions. The two domestic aerospace giants completed the design and successfully tested it earlier this year.
In addition to the above basic functions, outside the core capsule, there are dockers for four spacecraft, which can be docked with other work, experiments, and node capsules.
The core cabin mainly relies on solar energy to provide energy, and the excess energy is stored by large lithium-sulfur batteries.
Although some people have proposed to use a small controllable fusion device as the core functional unit, considering various factors such as heat dissipation, cost, maintenance difficulty, and technical confidentiality, this solution was eventually abandoned, and traditional and cheap solar energy was still adopted. Power the entire space station.
Director Li was slightly surprised: "Is it okay at the end of the month?"
Lu Zhou said in a certain tone: "It can be done by the end of the month."
Although the new Earth-Moon Transfer Orbital Transport System is still being upgraded, this does not prevent Star Technology from using the original spacecraft first.
Director Li: "On that line, I will let the aviation science group complete the final test as soon as possible, and send the core module to Jinling Launch Center ... Yes, there is one more thing, I have to ask for your opinion."
Lu Zhou: "What's up?"
Director Li cleared his throat and said solemnly.
"... In order to facilitate the construction of the lunar orbital space station and the subsequent development of lunar resources, the central high-level officials decided after discussion to establish a lunar orbit construction committee to co-ordinate the management of various funds for lunar resource development projects, Supporting policies are formulated to make decisions. The organization is directly under central management, and the post of chairperson is assigned by the Presbyterian House, with the main department at the level. "
Lu Zhou: "Well ... then what?"
"In addition to the post of chairman, the lunar orbital construction committee also has a post of chief designer ..."
Having said that, Director Li paused for a moment and then continued: "The Central Committee has decided after a meeting discussion that you will be the chief designer!"
Lu Zhou: "...?"
Although he has no reason to oppose this arrangement ...
But is this also called for comment?
...
Xiangrui's next launch mission was scheduled at the end of the month. In order to demonstrate China's determination to win this space race, the central government attaches great importance to this launch plan, which is almost a green light in policy.
At the same time, with the establishment of the Lunar Orbital Construction Committee, nominally the entire lunar orbital space station plan is no longer oriented to the Space Agency or the Science and Technology Bureau, but directly to the Presbyterian Home.
This scene is as it was when the Controlled Fusion Experimental Reactor was planned.
All indications show that this time China is planning to move.
However, it is more interesting that although the news of the establishment of the Lunar Orbital Construction Committee caused a shock in the domestic aerospace industry, it did not attract the attention of foreign media. Even after the relevant news was announced, no splash was raised.
After all, the news that China was planning to build a space station in lunar orbit was spread long ago, and the international community generally holds negative views on this, thinking that this is an impossible project.
Even with the most advanced electric propulsion technology, from a cost perspective, if you want to put more than 500 tons of material into the moon orbit, it is also a matter of China ’s limited earth-moon transfer orbit carrying capacity. Heavenly things.
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Even if there is a monster like this, it ’s too difficult to do it!
It's not just the international community who thinks so, the views of the domestic aerospace industry are the same.
Promoting the manned moon landing project in one hand is indeed an amazing thing, but then began to prepare to build a space station on the lunar orbit, which is really a little bit high.
Even more radical activists believe that the promising future of the Chinese aerospace industry is being brought into the ditch by the inflated Professor Lu.
The original news of the establishment of the Lunar Orbital Construction Committee also excited many astronauts. However, after seeing the candidate of the chief designer on the committee list, at least one third of them seemed to have hit. The frosted eggplant fell down.
This is over ...
It was completely saved.
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