Ape-eating Eagle 1 separated from its booster and core first stage near the Karman line, 100 kilometers above the ground.
Seeing the tracking signal and flying out of the atmosphere steadily, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief.
The most dangerous stage has passed, and the safety of the next voyage is relatively high.
However, Jose, Antonio and others did not take it lightly. The danger of the atmosphere comes from the natural environment of the earth, but in low-Earth orbit, there is another thing that threatens spacecraft - space junk.
For example, the large number of communication satellites launched by the Space Exploration Company not only occupy a large amount of orbital resources in low-Earth orbit, but also create a large amount of space junk.
When Antonio designed the Ape-eating Eagle-class launch vehicle, he made a special design for the core second stage (spacecraft), using high-strength composite materials to create a shell with extremely high defensive performance.
This special shell can resist the impact of space debris.
At the same time, the hull layout of the spacecraft has also been specially designed. Detectors, communication signal receivers, etc. that need to be exposed are placed in the area behind the spacecraft. The front of the spacecraft is covered with hard armor.
For solar panels that are most likely to be hit by space debris, in addition to surface coating to increase strength, a micro-modular design is also carried out. A solar panel is composed of hundreds of micro photovoltaic modules, and each micro photovoltaic module is
Can generate electricity independently.
The other is to deploy a space debris monitoring system. The Ministry of Space has deployed 16 specialized monitoring satellites in low-Earth orbit to monitor artificial satellites, spacecrafts, space stations, space debris, and natural stars in low-Earth orbit.
In response, Li Qingye waved his hand: "It doesn't matter, it's just a launch vehicle. By the way, what is the manufacturing speed of launch vehicles now?"
Antonio added: "This kind of testing is still necessary, after all, the company has accumulated too little data in the aerospace field."
The five aerospace cities each engage in five technical routes.
America's failure in the space shuttle project was actually due to material problems. During the process of repeated use of the space shuttle, parts deteriorated, causing the failure rate to continue to rise and maintenance costs to rise.
After all, contractors and management also want to make money.
"It depends on the needs. If the supporting factories operate at full capacity, they can produce 40 Ape-eating Eagle-class launch vehicles per month. Currently, the number is about 2 to 4 per month." Jose immediately gave the answer.
"I will definitely make arrangements."
Ceylon Space City focuses on launch vehicles based on metallic hydrogen fuel. Currently, there has been no breakthrough in metallic hydrogen passivation technology. Therefore, although there have been several designs for launch vehicles, they have not been officially put into operation.
Because this time and that time.
Even America wouldn't dare to play like this.
What's more, the Homo sapiens company will conduct a comprehensive upgrade and transformation of the space shuttle.
The Port Ramon Space City in Medan mainly takes the launch vehicle route.
As a result, the space shuttle route has a second spring.
Jose nodded: "I heard what the doctor said."
Even Li Qingye is not sure about the future aerospace development route.
The Hugang Space City in Hongsawady mainly focuses on small and medium-sized solid rockets, which are more inclined to military, emergency, and concealment directions. It also manages the Longgrand Cannon Project in the southern part of Hongsawady.
Among them, the Madagascar Space City is working on a mass projector. It plans to build a 500-kilometer-long annular sub-vacuum pipeline, plus a 500-meter-high launch building, to use electromagnetic acceleration to project spacecraft into outer space.
The automatic navigation system operates the spacecraft and flies towards the synchronous orbit.
After all, America has already paved the way for latecomers on the space shuttle journey.
It includes six technologies: giant gun launch, liquid launch vehicle, solid launch vehicle, metal hydrogen launch vehicle, space shuttle, and mass projection.
At the Egyptian Space City, a space shuttle route is being developed. At present, the supporting facilities have not been completed, and the space shuttle is also being designed.
Antonio looked at the computer data, turned to Jose and said: "Next, just arrange for a team to keep an eye on it. Let's go report the situation first!"
Jose, who had just sat down, immediately reported: "Mr. Chairman, the Ape-eating Eagle 1 has entered low-Earth orbit and is currently orbiting. The next step is to go to geosynchronous orbit and then to the moon."
After all, the space shuttle project caused America to complain endlessly.
Even if the Homo sapiens company reproduces America's space shuttle according to the script, as long as it uses materials unique to Homo sapiens, especially biological materials that can self-repair, the failure rate and maintenance cost of the space shuttle will be reduced by an order of magnitude.
In this regard, the Homo sapiens company is indeed very wealthy. It will use the launch vehicle costing more than 6 million gold yuan for testing without any concern.
But the material issue is not a problem for the Homo sapiens company at this stage.
In addition, the Ape-eating Eagle 1 spacecraft is also equipped with various monitoring equipment, which is more than enough to avoid some obvious space junk.
"There are currently five launch sites in Puerto Ramon Space City. You must arrange the progress of each mission to avoid affecting the advancement of the Guigong plan."
But Homo Sapien Company doesn't care. For the company, even if such a large project fails, it will not shake the company's foundation.
At that time, even if several of the projects fail, as long as one succeeds, it will be equivalent to the success of Homo sapiens company's aerospace strategy.
"Can."
Although the cost of this kind of trial and error is very huge, Homo sapiens has this strength to support it.
The two came to the VIP room.
The aerospace departments of other forces plan every launch mission carefully.
Since the foundation of the company will not be shaken, in order not to click on the wrong technology tree, we will make large-scale investments in all possible technical directions.
Li Qingye thought for a while and then ordered: "Jose, I discussed with Dr. Antonio this morning that a space station will be built in low-Earth orbit in the near future to test the operation of various biotechnologies in microgravity."
But Li Qingye still approved the space shuttle project.
As for why the space city in Hongsawady or Ceylon was not used, the reason is that the positioning is different.
Inside the command center.
The Egyptian Space City and the Madagascar Space City have not yet been built, and the technical routes of these two space cities are also different from other space cities.
The Ape-eating Eagle 1 was actually used for testing, but the previous test did not reach the synchronous orbit and the moon. Therefore, the core mission of this launch is to collect flight data to the synchronous orbit and the moon.
Even NASA's investment in spacecraft is actually very low. They have invested a lot of money in many big projects, but only a small amount of the money is actually used in spacecraft and technology research and development.
Less part.
When Li Qingye originally approved these projects, he had already seen various professional evaluations, including the previously criticized space shuttle project.
Sanchi Badalayar poured tea for the two of them.
Other forces are limited by economy and resources and can only choose one, but Homo sapiens company said: I want them all.
Li Qingye talked with Antonio, Jose and others for more than an hour, and after assigning some tasks, he secretly took the subway back to his temporary residence.
He has been studying a very critical topic recently.
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