Chapter 532: Cheers of M Iron Universe Exploration Company
Of course, this is just the takeoff distance of this Ark Skyplane. As the aerospace plane successfully leaves the ground, the rapid climbing speed is getting faster and faster. However, when the speed of the aerospace plane reaches about Mach 2, the efficiency of its engine begins to decrease rapidly, and as the aerospace plane becomes higher and higher, the climbing efficiency becomes slower and slower.
Fortunately, at this time the pulse detonation engine of the aerospace plane began to start, and the speed of the plane continued to increase, and did not decrease due to the decrease in efficiency of the turbofan engine.
However, the pulse-detonation engine they used was just an external version of Tagong Technology, so when the speed of this aerospace plane reached Simach, it no longer increased, but instead showed a downward trend.
Fortunately, when this aerospace plane had a flight altitude of 50,000 meters, due to the sharp drop in atmospheric resistance, the speed of this aerospace plane rose sharply again, and until this aerospace plane entered the Earth's near-Earth orbit.
But at this time, there was not much fuel left on this aerospace plane, and it was only enough to return to the ground for use.
When this aerospace plane entered the Earth's low-Earth orbit, both Wang Bin, official personnel and other space agencies in the world focused their attention on the display panel of the control center.
He noticed that the actual performance of this aerospace plane is different from the data promoted by M-Iron Space Exploration Company. Among the data they advertised, this aerospace plane has the largest, with a low-Earth orbit carrying capacity of nearly 100 tons. According to the current flight data, the aircraft's low-Earth orbit transportation capacity is soft and cannot achieve this data.
The actual carrying capacity data should only reach 2/3 of their publicity data, which means that the actual carrying capacity is only about fifty or sixty tons, which is just equivalent to a series of levels of Phoenix.
Therefore, if we look at the level of Wang Bin and his Tiangong technicians, such an aerospace plane is undoubtedly a product that has failed in research and development.
However, this is just compared to Wang Bin and his Tiangong Technology. For m-iron Space Exploration Company, such an aerospace plane is undoubtedly very successful in design. If their company can get the engine of Tiangong Technology for self-use version, even if it is Tiangong 11 and Tiangong Technology for self-use version, then the near-Earth orbit carrying capacity of this aerospace plane can reach at least 100 tons or above.
So even though it is normal, many people have already seen from these data that the actual low-Earth orbit transportation capacity of this aerospace plane has nothing to say.
Most importantly, both Wang Tong and others have noticed that on both sides of the wings of this aerospace plane, there is a large diameter on each lesson, where is the rocket nozzle, so its maximum near-Earth orbit transportation capacity will be improved, but it is still difficult to meet their publicity data standards.
At this time, the first cross-atmosphere flight of their Ark, the aerospace plane has not yet ended, because the Air Force plane still faces a major problem that needs to be broken through, that is, return to the atmosphere.
If it is unable to return to the atmosphere recently, it means that this aerospace plane is actually no different from a rocket, and even its carrying capacity is lower.
Entering the atmosphere is definitely a huge problem for an aerospace vehicle. After all, after the aerospace plane directly enters the atmosphere at such a high speed, the friction with the air will produce a severe high temperature, and it is also accompanied by high pressure, which has extremely high requirements for the aircraft strength and materials of the aerospace plane.
However, the owners of the m-Iron Universe Exploration Company, including their president, are not worried at all, because the materials they use for the skin of the aerospace planes are from Tiangong Technology. At the same time, the heat insulation coating on the outside of the skin of this aerospace plane also comes from Tiangong Technology, and it is also the heat insulation coating of Tiangong Technology's own version. So in fact, entering the atmosphere is the real test for their company whether the design of the aerospace plane is reasonable. If it is reasonable, then entering the atmosphere, as long as the angle does not deviate and the center of gravity of the aircraft's attitude is within the data allowable range, then returning to the atmosphere is definitely not a problem.
However, even so, everyone in the entire control center stared at the data on the screen, fearing that red words would appear.
After all, once red data appears, it means there is a problem with the space plane.
Fortunately, this plane did not disappoint everyone's expectations. When it returned to the atmosphere and reduced its speed to Mach 2 level, all the data of this aerospace plane was very normal. At this time, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Because at this time, the aerospace plane of their company can be said to have been successfully tested. After all, there will be no difficulty for the experienced bald eagle to fly in the atmosphere. Even if something really happens, the pilots on the plane can already parachute in time.
As expected, the aerospace plane then landed smoothly on the airport runway of m-iron space exploration company, and there were no accidents in the middle.
So when the Ark aerospace plane landed steadily at the m-iron universe exploration company, all the staff of the m-iron universe exploration company burst into warm applause and even included the official official of their bald eagle.
You should know that in the past, the entire earth's entire human civilization, only Tiangong Technology was the only company or space agency that could produce medium and large aerospace planes. Now their company has finally broken the monopoly of Tiangong Technology. With the landing of this aerospace plane, it marks the second company in human civilization, a company capable of producing medium and large aerospace planes, although many of this company's products use Tiangong Technology's products, including engines.
But they firmly believe that one day their company will be able to independently develop, design and produce its own aerospace planes, including all the components in the aerospace planes.
And their company is also moving in this direction. After all, as an aerospace plane research, development, design and production company, the engine, as the core heart of the aerospace plane, must be able to be produced independently so that it will not be controlled by others in the end, because they don’t want to suddenly not provide them with engines one day, which is absolutely fatal to their company.
As for the direction of their company's development of aerospace plane engines, it is different from the pulse detonation engine of Tiangong Technology and the variable cycle engine of x Aerospace.
Chapter completed!