Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 381 New Engine
With the announcement of the "Mass Projector Lend-Lease Act", the International Outer Space Conference finally came to an end.

Although Maxwell and others were very dissatisfied, they had to admit that the situation was stronger than others.

Obviously, the introduction of the Lend-Lease Act has given Mi Lijia and other countries a step down, but bidding qualifications is indeed a very troublesome matter.

Especially some of the terms, such as what is friendly to Dongtang-Galaxy Alliance, such as no disputes...

Those who have historical problems with Dongtang suddenly became bitter, and among them, Mao Xiong and Tianzhu felt the most difficult.

After all, Waixing'an, Vladivostok, Lake Baikal, Tangnu Ulianghai, and Sakhalin Island are the historical issues of Mao Xiong and Eastern Tang; while the southern side of the Himalayas are the historical issues of Tianzhu and Eastern Tang.

These issues used to be able to shelve disputes, but now that the Eastern Tang Dynasty is powerful, shelving disputes is no longer applicable. It is time to talk about our territory since ancient times.

Anyway, if these issues are not settled, Dongtang will not grant the bidding qualifications to Mao Xiong and Tianzhu.

Therefore, before the construction of the Wenchang Mass Projector is completed, it is an opportunity for various countries to contact and negotiate with the Dongtang-Galaxy Alliance in private. If you miss this opportunity, you may miss the great era of entering outer space.

Except for those guys who are just waiting to die, Tianzhu and Maoxiong are definitely not willing to give up the opportunity to enter outer space.

After the International Conference on Outer Space, the Space Development Committee successively issued a series of legal provisions, such as "Spaceship Technical Standards", "Space Station Technical Standards", "Space Navigation Management Regulations", "Space Industry Management Law", "Space Safety Law", etc. Wait.

Although these legal provisions are promulgated by the Space Development Commission itself, to a certain extent, these legal provisions have a very strong international law attribute.

If they want to rent a mass projector, they must abide by the legal provisions promulgated by the Universe Development Committee, unless they don't want to rent a mass projector.

the other side.

Hualien, East Island, Cosmic Power Corporation.

Cosmic Power Company is one of the subsidiaries of Yinhe Aerospace Industry Group, responsible for the production and development of special aerospace engines.

They produce a series of engines such as Xiongfeng series rocket engines, spacecraft engines, space station engines, and satellite engines.

At this time, in a production workshop of Universal Power Company, workers were working around a huge engine.

"Mr. Li, welcome to inspect the work." A middle-aged man in a Mediterranean plaid shirt said with a smile.

Li Jianhua glanced at the engine being assembled and asked, "National Day, is this engine a new product?"

"Yes, Mr. Li, this is a new-generation engine developed by our company recently, which is specially developed for 500-ton spacecraft." Lin Guoqing quickly introduced.

"A new generation of engines and spacecraft? Why haven't I heard that you have this plan?" Li Jianhua asked in surprise.

"Our engine project was approved in December, and the new generation of 12-ton spacecraft is a project that has just been established in the past few days. It is currently under internal discussion. I believe it will be submitted to the management committee for approval soon." Lin Guoqing hastily explained.

Li Jianhua turned on the holographic watch to check the situation, and found that Cosmos Power had indeed approved an engine project in December.

"Is it too anxious to develop a 500-ton spacecraft so soon?"

After pondering for a while, Lin Guoqing replied: "From a technical point of view, there is no problem with a 500-ton spacecraft. Our technology can achieve this level. Another 500-ton spacecraft can make full use of the launch resources of the mass projector. "

Although Lin Guoqing said it very plainly, Li Jianhua still didn't understand: "Why can the launch resources of the mass projector be fully utilized?"

"The Xuanwu class can transport 60 tons of cargo to low-Earth orbit at one time, while the 500-ton spaceship can transport 300 tons of cargo to low-Earth orbit at one time, but the time spent on the mass projector is the same for both." Lin Guoqing explained.

"I see, where is the progress of the new engine?" Li Jianhua asked.

Lin Guoqing pointed to the engine in front of him and replied: "We have reached the test run stage. This is the second prototype, and the first one is in the workshop next door."

Lin Guoqing took Li Jianhua to inspect the workshop for more than half an hour before Li Jianhua left here with his people.

The workers and researchers in the workshop continued to work.

"Dr. Kudo, there is something wrong with the electronic control system you are in charge of." Cai Xin, the chief engineer of the project, said with a supercomputer simulation result.

Dr. Kudo came from the space agency of the Sun Nation. In fact, in the Galaxy Aerospace Industry Group, there are not a few scientists from Gaoli and the Sun Nation.

As for the issue of leaking secrets, the internal review of the Galaxy Consortium is very strong, and those who have problems have long been excluded. After all, brain readers are unsolvable, and combined with the supervision of artificial intelligence, no one can infiltrate the Galaxy Consortium. .

"Cai Sang, what's the problem?" Dr. Kudo asked nervously.

Cai Xin handed a report to the other party: "This is the result of the supercomputing simulation, you can see for yourself."

After receiving it, Dr. Kudo quickly flipped through it, turning his head while looking at it, and after a while he suddenly realized: "The parameters here are too big."

After discovering the problem, Dr. Kudo quickly turned on the holographic computer and checked his design plan. After a while of investigation, he found that one of the parameters was wrong, and 24.7161 became 24.1161.

Mistakes in data are very common in the R&D process, especially for those very complex R&D projects, where the data can easily range from hundreds to thousands, and a wrong decimal point will make the results very different.

As the chief engineer, Cai Xin is also very busy.

"Mr. Cai, my nozzle design has been completed." A tall and thin young man said.

Cai Xin took the other party's information and studied it carefully for a while, then he raised his head and asked, "Guowen, is the wall thickness of the nozzle too thin?"

The tall and thin Wang Guowen shook his head and explained: "No, I used a mixed gel to coat the nozzle, and I used three layers, whether it is high temperature resistance or structural strength, it is stronger than the first generation engine. .”

"Hybrid gel is really a good thing." Cai Xin sighed.

"This hybrid gel is of course a good thing. After using this material in the combustion chamber and nozzle of our new generation engine, the power has been improved, but the weight has not increased too much." Wang Guowen said with a smile.

In fact, if you compare it, you will know the gap. It is also the hydrogen-oxygen engine used by the Xuanwu-class spacecraft. The first-generation main engine weighs 3.4 tons and can provide 135 tons of power; while the second-generation main engine (coated with mixed gel film ), the weight is 2.3 tons, and it can power 157 tons.

This so-called second-generation engine is only a minor modification. The engine that has been greatly improved is the third-generation engine, which is still the engine Cai Xin and the others are currently developing.

This engine, in their design plan, is expected to weigh about 6.5 tons, and the power provided will reach between 600 and 700 tons.

The main reason is that after adopting the hybrid gel coating process, a lot of materials have been cut out. Compared with the wall thickness of the combustion chamber, it is more than 60% thinner than the previous two generations, but the structural strength has increased by 46%.

The new material has brought a powerful boost effect to the further development of the engine, and even made the design simpler and rougher.

(End of this chapter)