Chapter 381 Heavy Rocket
Just as Tiangong Technology was about to install the new production line, the inspection of Tiangong Technology's second 004 rocket was finally completed. At the same time, the second deep space exploration satellite has been built and is ready to launch the rocket for the second launch.
At the same time, according to the official mission, the second and third days after this launch, Wang Bin and his Tiangong Technology will also launch a rocket to send the official satellite into space.
In other words, in the next three days, Wang Bin and his Tiangong Technology will launch three rockets in a row and send seven satellites into space. Among them, except for Tiangong Technology's own, the remaining six are all official.
These six will also be launched with more than one star, using two rockets.
Wang Bin and Tiangong Technology's rocket launching departments also attach great importance to this. After all, whether it is launching rockets for several consecutive days or multiple satellites with one shot, it is a big challenge for Tiangong Technology. After all, before, the rockets launched by their Tiangong Technology had to be at least one week each time, but this time it was launched continuously, so all preparations must be made before launching.
The difficulty of shooting more than one star is even higher than the difficulty of launching before.
However, although it is a continuous launch or multiple satellites in one shot, it is a huge challenge for Tiangong Technology, and it is all within Tiangong Technology. It does not choose to retreat from the difficulties, but is full of confidence.
At the same time, the official also knows that this launch difficulty is still very high for Tiangong Technology. Therefore, in order to improve Tiangong Technology's confidence, an encouragement document was sent, and it also directly explained in the document that if Tiangong Technology completes these tasks successfully, the official will consider opening up some spacecraft and space station design and manufacturing technology to Tiangong Technology, and also allow Tiangong Technology to participate in the project of the new space station.
When the rocket department of Tiangong Technology received this official document, it caused a sensation in the entire rocket department, and I was also looking forward to participating in the construction of the space station.
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In the Tiangong Technology Rocket Design and Manufacturing Laboratory, Mr. Sun and others are designing their Tiangong Technology's latest rocket, namely the Tiangong-6 rocket.
"Old Sun! How is the design of our latest rocket, namely the Tiangong-6 rocket, and when will it be completed?" Wang Bin asked Mr. Sun in the design room.
Since the new rocket is a giant with a total weight of more than 1,500 tons, a low-orbit carrying capacity of 50 tons, and a geosynchronous orbit carrying capacity of 35 tons, Wang Bin cannot ignore it.
After all, if this rocket is developed, then their Tiangong Technology's ability to launch spacecraft can be improved a lot.
Moreover, with this rocket, their Tiangong Technology's Starlink plan can also launch some high-orbit satellites with moderate weight in the Starlink. At the same time, we can also discuss with the official whether we can start the construction of high-orbit communication space base stations and high-orbit space laboratories.
"Mr. Wang! The design of the Rockets, thanks to the information you provided by Mr. Wang, has been very smooth so far, and the preliminary design drawings of the Rockets have almost come out. Next, it is how to make this Rocket.
Since the size and weight of this rocket are the largest and heaviest rockets in our country, and the strongest carrying capacity, the difficulty in manufacturing is naturally the largest.
At the same time, compared with the rockets we made before, the manufacturing time of this rocket will be much longer. According to my estimate, even with our current rocket manufacturing capabilities of Tiangong Technology, it will take at least one or two months to build one. If it is replaced by other companies or teams, even if it is a foreign company, it will take at least half a year to build such a rocket. After all, our Tiangong Technology's rocket manufacturing equipment is the most advanced in the world.
In addition, the manufacturing cost of this rocket is also very high, dozens of times that of the No. 5 Rocket we designed before and has started to be manufactured.
Of course, when there is a production line for specializing in this rocket in the future, the manufacturing time, production cost and so on of this rocket will be greatly reduced," said Mr. Sun.
After hearing Mr. Sun's words, Wang Bin nodded, then asked about the situation of the Tiangong-5 rocket, and when he got the Type 5 rocket to be manufactured and ready to be launched, Wang Bin felt relieved.
You should know that for the first launch mission of the fifth rocket, Tiangong Technology has also determined that it will send a relay communication satellite weighing about five tons to the lunar orbit 380,000 kilometers away from the earth, and prepare for the country and Tiangong Technology itself to land in the future.
In addition, the Type 5 rocket will also be responsible for the task of transporting materials for space stations, in-orbit spacecraft and space laboratories, reducing the burden on this aspect to the official.
Of course, with the start of the manufacturing of the fifth rocket, Tiangong Technology's manned space project has also been raised. For this reason, their Tiangong Technology's aerospace department has also held many meetings.
Moreover, these meetings were not held by Tiangong Technology itself. Since these meetings were related to the overall official aerospace situation, official people such as Qin and others came to attend the meetings. Even other domestic aerospace companies have sent personnel to attend these meetings, such as Lanjian, China Eastern Airlines, etc.
After all, aerospace is not a company's business, but a matter related to the official aerospace layout.
As for Lanjian and China Eastern Airlines, due to their limited technical strength, they can only launch rockets with a maximum capacity of less than five tons, and even the success rate of rockets with a capacity of less than five tons is very limited. However, no matter what, they have entered the gate of aerospace, so they can also carry out official missions from time to time.
Of course, due to the rising trend of Tiangong Technology, the two aerospace companies hope to purchase some Tiangong Technology's technology. Of course, the technology they proposed is also the technology of rockets below five tons, especially one ton.
In response to this, after comprehensive consideration, Wang Bin decided to sell some of the technologies that they can manufacture. As for the parts and equipment that the other two companies cannot manufacture, Wang Bin did not transfer the technology. After all, even if they purchased these technologies, they could not manufacture them with their technical strength. Even if they could barely manufacture them, God knows whether the products they manufactured could be used.
Chapter completed!