A big country of aerospace with black technology

The success of Longguo's manned spaceflight has not only caused huge repercussions within the country.

In each country, it also attracted the attention of many people.

For example, Ah San, who always thought of herself as the third most powerful country in the world.

Speaking of which, the aerospace industry of Ah San started much earlier than that of Longguo.

When they were still part of the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets, many scientists entered the scientific research department of the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets, engaged in aerospace research.

Therefore, they have always believed that their spaceflight capabilities are stronger than those of their neighbors to the north.

This caused the Ah Sans to be unable to sit still after Longguo completed the achievement of manned spaceflight.

In fact, Ah San was the first person to go into space earlier than Long Guo.

In September 1982, the then Asan and Maozi started in-depth contact in terms of space cooperation, and Sharma, who was a former Air Force pilot, was selected.

Traveled in space as part of a joint project of the space program between the two countries.

On April 2, 1984, Sharma took the Soyuz T-11 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Center and took off from the ground to space, becoming the first Asan to enter space.

However, during the thirty years after Mao Zi disintegrated, no one from Ah San entered space again.

There are many reasons for this. The superficial reason is that the related industries are underdeveloped, but the deep reason is actually the problem of the industrial chain.

As part of the empire on which the sun never set, the Asan and the others did not experience any bottom-up struggle, and were directly freed from the original suzerain state.

Although some people think that this preserves more "national vigor", in the long run, it also makes them lose a lot of voice in the industrial chain.

A week after the successful completion of Longguo's manned spaceflight, the Ah Sans hastily announced their manned spaceflight plan.

It is planned to launch the first manned rocket verification model within this year, and to launch the manned spacecraft within two years.

When Zhang Xingyang first learned of this information, he was a little surprised to be honest.

After all, in his mind, the development of Asan's spaceflight is really not smooth.

By the first half of the 21st, although it has been possible to carry out manned moon landing activities.

However, compared with other countries in the world at that time, such technology was already far behind.

You must know that the Dragon Kingdom, which does not seem to be much different from the development of Asan, had already established a permanent scientific research base at the south pole of the moon in the 1950s.

And in the scientific research base, six staff members are maintained all year round.

Even 20 years after the completion of the permanent lunar scientific research base, due to the development of nuclear fusion technology, the industrial mining of lunar helium officially began.

Huge automated mining equipment began to mine materials that humans could only imagine even in space operas in the craters on the surface of the moon that have not changed for tens of millions of years.

And in such a space development environment, Asan who just pointed out the technology of landing on the moon.

It's as if people who have just developed flintlock technology are about to face the crushing of the information army, and they have no strength to parry.

In fact, shortly after Ah San and the others pointed out the moon landing technology, their technology lost its function.

Because a project that can be called a miracle of the space age has finally been completed after nearly two decades of construction.

That is the "Jianmu" floating space elevator known as the "Tiantian Shenmu"!

A floating platform with a displacement of tens of millions of tons is erected in the equatorial region and acts as the base of the space elevator.

The cost of going to space has finally been reduced to an unprecedented level. Even ordinary people have the opportunity to take such a space vehicle to travel to the mysterious space.

Under such circumstances, the thirds who are still struggling with rocket technology have just developed a launch vehicle that can go directly to the moon, and it is useless.

Even their domestic scientific research community has abandoned this technical route and announced that it will focus on interstellar spacecraft research in the future.

But right now, Ah San doesn't know what they will face in the future.

Moreover, the afterglow of the completion of manned spaceflight more than ten years ago has not completely dissipated.

Therefore, they are full of unconscious confidence that they can independently complete manned spaceflight.

Although they don't have anything now, they still have very strong confidence that they can independently complete the manned spaceflight work.

As for the rockets, manned spacecraft, launch sites, huge ground monitoring network, and communication satellites in space needed for manned spaceflight, where do these things come from?

Currently, it is not in their plans.

However, compared to the Dragon Kingdom, which is almost self-made and develops everything on its own, Ah San still has certain advantages.

That is these things, as long as they have money, they can buy them from other countries.

Whether it is high-precision scientific research equipment, or the services of various monitoring networks and communication satellites, they can all borrow from the well-established systems in developed countries.

There is no need to do everything by yourself like Long Guo.

However, if the IWC products purchased in this way are combined together, the performance of the entire system will be a question mark?

Because, if each of your systems is produced and developed by yourself, you will be able to understand the technical details of these devices, and system integration will be easier.

For industrial products, it is not possible to obtain the strongest performance by obtaining various components with the strongest performance.

Especially in this kind of aerospace engineering that pursues stable performance.

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Ah San's speed was faster than anyone else imagined.

Perhaps within them, they have long had the idea of ​​manned spaceflight.

Preparations in all aspects are already in progress.

At the end of December, it was only two months before Longguo completed manned spaceflight.

Ah San, at their Sri Harikota launch site, conducted the first test launch of a manned rocket.

This rocket can be said to be the first of its kind in the world, that is, many of the equipment on the rocket basically come from non-native countries.

Gaul's high-precision attitude control equipment, Yingjiang's navigation system, and Maozi's rocket engine.

It can be said that Ah San simply integrated these systems and built a shell.

Therefore, their so-called independent manned spaceflight is also worthy of careful consideration.

However, even so, the difficulty of manned rockets is still beyond their imagination.

138 seconds after the rocket took off, the rocket did not reach the predetermined altitude due to a malfunction in the navigation system, and the launch failed!

In the end, he had no choice but to control the rocket and landed in Point Nemo in the South Pacific, successfully adding a touch of curry to the wreckage of the spacecraft.

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Just when the eyes of the whole world were focused on the Asan manned rocket that had just crashed into the South Pacific.

In a relatively low-key unit in Beidu, a meeting that is not so important in today's view, but has a great influence on future generations began.

"Dear Zhang, nice to see you again!"

Francis, came up and gave Zhang Xingyang a cheeky gift.

Even Zhang Xingyang, who claimed to have seen strong winds and waves, was still at a loss when he encountered such a situation.

After all, in his original world, due to the geographical span, the original continental level has jumped to the interstellar level.

The speed of information transmission has not exceeded the limit of the speed of light, so people on different planets are basically connected through the interstellar network.

Between different planets, due to the problem of network speed, there is basically no instant communication.

So Zhang Xingyang hadn't had much contact with other people except the Earth-Moon people, so he was surprised by their meeting ceremony.

Note: In the second half of the 22nd, the mainstream people of the Earth-Moon system were from the Dragon Kingdom, accounting for more than 98% of the Earth-Moon system.

This is also because the two had actually met before, but Francis didn't know Zhang Xingyang's main identity at the time, so they were not familiar with each other at the time.

But now, Francis is asking for Zhang Xingyang, so he showed incomparable enthusiasm.

The other participants on the side also reminded Francis a little at this time:

"Mr. Francis, your etiquette is a bit abrupt to us."

Although Zhang Xingyang himself was startled at first, he calmed down again after a while, and said with a smile:

"It's nothing, but I feel the enthusiasm of Mr. Francis!"

The two sides did not dwell too much on this issue.

After all, these are small things compared to the cooperation projects they will discuss next.

When Dragon Kingdom had just completed its manned space mission, and when others were still questioning, Gaul, who had known about Dragon Kingdom's situation for a long time, had already started to secretly contact Dragon Kingdom.

Prepare to work together on a space exploration program.

The ultimate goal of this plan is very ambitious, to explore the entire solar system.

Inside Gaul, the code name for this project is the Habitat for Humanity Exploration Project.

The solar system is the cradle of mankind and the home we depend on for survival. A small change in this home may lead to the extinction of mankind.

And we are still just a baby crawling in the cradle, a slight sneeze from the sun, or a large-diameter star in space, may cause the baby's death.

The goal of this project is to help us see clearly the dark thorns hidden under the cradle, so that civilization can thrive.

Therefore, this plan is also called "Wen Tian" in China!

However, although the ultimate goal is very ambitious, in the process of achieving it, both parties still need to pay a lot of price.

In today's meeting, neither side had much hope for any substantive content to be reached.

Just wanted to be able to pinpoint things a little bit.

Among them, the first thing to be determined is the order of planetary exploration!

At this time, Pluto, which is the shame of the planets in the solar system, has not been kicked out of the ranks of planets.

So on the first batch of exploration lists, you can still see his name.

"We believe that the first thing that should be detected will be Mars!"

As the spokesperson for the Dragon Kingdom, Geng Bo has contributed a lot in the manned space launch mission.

"As a planet that once had a water and atmospheric environment similar to Earth."

"Exploring Mars can give us a better understanding of our origin."

The Mars exploration program, whether it is now or in the future, is a relatively popular object for planetary exploration in the solar system.

Even in the era of human interstellar development, Mars is the first extraterrestrial planet where human beings have completed base construction.

Therefore, the two sides have no objection to the first detection target.

The big differences between the two sides came after this.

The Gallic side tends to explore the outer solar system, the planets beyond the asteroid belt, from Jupiter to Pluto.

Their reason is also very sufficient, that is, here, there are many small celestial bodies that may pose a threat to the safety of the earth.

So exploring this part of the planet first can help us understand the situation we are currently facing.

Although their reasons seemed sufficient, Longguo still felt that they were talking nonsense.

Because according to their thinking, the most important thing to start is actually the asteroid belt exploration program!

Therefore, Longguo still insists on its own ideas, and carry out the solar exploration plan while exploring Mars!

The sun, as the most important source of energy in this star system, is of self-evident importance.

Even a 1% change in light, corresponding to the earth, will be a strong fluctuation in temperature.

It will bring a major blow to the homeland of mankind.

Not to mention the impact of solar electromagnetic storms with obvious periodicity on more and more electronic devices on the earth.

In 2012, the sun once completed a strong eruption. At that time, millions of tons of material on the sun were ejected from the corona and erupted with extremely powerful energy.

Fortunately, at that time, the earth was not in the path of its energy storm transmission.

But good luck doesn't always take care of the planet.

In fact, in Zhang Xingyang's memory, such an electromagnetic storm once broke out at the end of the 21st century.

Although the people at that time tried every means to eliminate the influence of the electromagnetic storm.

But the long-term development has made everyone inseparable from more and more advanced electronic equipment.

As a result, most of the electronic equipment on the earth was burned, and except for some key protected industrial areas and core industrial areas, the electronic equipment in other places was basically not preserved.

However, at that time, the construction of Longguo's industrial base on the moon had already been completed, and in less than a year, all the losses were recovered.

"We firmly believe that after completing the Mars exploration plan, we should continue to the inner solar system!"

As the spokesperson, Geng Bo said to the Gauls opposite him almost without giving an inch.

In the eight-hour meeting, in the end, the two sides only reached an agreement on the first Mars exploration plan.

But even if it is a plan, there are nearly twenty years in the planning timetable! (end of this chapter)