"Academician Sun Ze, the deputy chief designer of our previous lunar exploration project."
Academician Yang Hong recommended a name and continued: "He was appointed as the deputy chief designer of our Chang'e-1 satellite development team in 2004, assisting in charge of measurement and control, data transmission, antenna, mechanism and structure, thermal control, data
He is responsible for the overall technical management of the six sub-systems of power supply and distribution. I believe his rich experience can help you a lot."
"And in the field of electric propulsion, Academician Sun Ze has also done quite a lot of research."
After a pause, he continued: "Originally, I wanted to recommend Academician Ye Jianpei, the chief architect of the lunar exploration project, but Academician Ye is now over eighty years old and has already retired to live in retirement."
Xu Chuan nodded and said, "Thank you, I'll find out more about it when I get back."
Yang Hong smiled and said: "In addition, Academician Xu, I have a heartfelt request. If this new aerospace engine is successfully developed, can you tell me?"
"After all, some of its ideas and concepts are of great help to me in studying electric propulsion."
Hearing this, Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Hey, what did I think it was? This is totally fine."
After thinking for a while, he continued: "How about this, Academician Yang, how about you take an honorary consultant position at Xinghai Research Institute?"
Yang Hong thought for a moment, nodded with a smile and said: "That's okay. If you encounter any problems in the electric propulsion direction, you can also contact me by phone or email to see if I can help."
Xu Chuan smiled and said, "That's it."
...
In Jiuquan Space Base, Xu Chuan and Yang Hong chatted for a long time and consulted on many issues regarding the direction of electric propulsion engines.
With the answer, he returned to Jinling.
Sitting in his office, Xu Chuan turned on his computer and recorded some of the information he had sorted in his mind, but then began to rearrange the importance of his work.
After leaving the trip to Beijing to find Academician Sun Ze, the deputy chief designer of the lunar exploration project, the next most important task is undoubtedly to study the mechanism of the KL-66 material.
To be honest, before going to Jiuquan Space Base, Xu Chuan really did not expect that the importance of his previous discoveries in KL-66 materials would be further enhanced.
Originally, I went to study the KL-66 material just for the rigorous identification that a scientific researcher should do, to verify whether the KL-66 material is a room temperature superconducting material.
The new mechanism discovered later is just an attempt to study to see if it can be used to enhance the critical magnetic field of other superconducting materials.
Now it seems that whether it is miniaturized controllable nuclear fusion or aerospace engines, they are all linked to this technology.
Just as Xu Chuan was thinking about arranging his work, there was a knock on the door of the office. He casually said "Please come in" and it was Wen Yuanhang who walked in.
"Academician Xu, the approval document for the manned spaceflight project and the lunar exploration project has been approved." Holding a document bag in his hand, Wen Yuanhang walked over quickly, with some excitement in his tone.
"Huh? Let me take a look."
Xu Chuan raised his head, put down the pen in his hand and took the document bag from the other party's hand.
The establishment of the manned spaceflight project and the lunar exploration project is also a matter worthy of celebration and joy for him.
Opening the document bag, there is a formal red-headed document inside.
"Project Instructions for China's Manned Spaceflight and Lunar Exploration Project in 2021"
After flipping through the documents, to Xu Chuan's surprise, what he originally thought would be two projects were unified into one.
Moreover, the project that was originally thought to be placed under the name of Xinghai Research Institute is now not placed under the name of Xinghai Research Institute. Instead, it is directly placed under the name of the National Academy of Sciences, just like the previous Jinling Controlled Nuclear Fusion Project.
Not only that, as he was previously responsible for the nuclear fusion engineer, the overall person in charge of the project has not been finalized in the document.
Putting down the document, Xu Chuan looked at Wen Yuanhang with a hint of doubt. Director Wen, who maintained communication between Xinghai Research Institute and senior management, must know the reason.
Noticing Xu Chuan's gaze, Wen Yuanhang smiled and said: "That's it, Academician Xu, regarding this manned spaceflight project and lunar exploration project. After discussion, the senior leaders decided to unify them into one project and asked me to
Let me explain it to you carefully."
"The main reason for this is because the core of our country's current strategy is still in the field of controllable nuclear fusion. Whether it is building cross-regional power grids with other neighboring countries or popularizing the construction of domestic controllable fusion power stations, this is currently important.
thing."
"After all, for now, it is more important for us to keep our feet on the ground and focus on the current national development. However, after senior leaders held meetings and discussions, they believed that your opinions are equally important, and exploring outer space is also our future. So we compromised.
The manned spaceflight project and the manned lunar landing project were merged."
"As for the general person in charge, I originally selected you according to the previous plan, but after senior leaders held a meeting to discuss it, we decided to ask for your opinion."
"The main reason is that this project will involve some international competition in the future, and there may be some problems such as bad public opinion."
Hearing this, Xu Chuan immediately became acutely aware of something and asked, "Are they preparing to start the race track for manned spaceflight and manned lunar exploration projects?"
Wen Yuanhang smiled, flattered a little and said: "Academician Xu is still very good, I guessed it right."
After a slight pause, he continued: "As you guessed, after senior leaders held a meeting to discuss, we plan to use aerospace strategy to contain those Western countries."
"Controllable nuclear fusion technology has been around for a month and a half, almost two months. We are preparing to officially connect to the grid to generate electricity at dawn, and it is impossible for other countries to not take any action in this regard."
"According to our intelligence understanding, whether it is the United States, Tsarist Russia, the European Union, Sakura Country, South Korea and other countries, it can be said that as long as they have the ability to independently carry out controllable nuclear fusion projects, they have begun to promote their own controllable fusion demonstration reactor projects.
.”
"We are currently collecting the progress of various countries, and it is not yet possible to know exactly what step they have reached. But as Academician Xu said before, on the basis that it has been clear that the composite tokamak route is feasible, other countries can only make great efforts to
By investing R&D funds, manpower and material resources, they will one day develop their own fusion technology."
"Although they don't have your presence, they still have rich experience in the controllable nuclear fusion technology route. As long as they make a decision, they can always catch up in the future."
“So while fully grasping the advantages we currently have and expanding our international influence, it is necessary to open up another competitive route, draw our opponents in, and do our best to delay their development and research.
"
"So the importance of manned spaceflight and manned lunar landing projects has been elevated to a higher level and has entered the national key strategic engineering projects."
"In this project, we will definitely release and disclose some goals and words that are 'deceptive' in the future."
"Plans such as manned moon landings and fire landings, including establishing permanent residential bases on the moon and Mars, mining minerals and other goals, will encourage opponents to invest more money and energy in manned spaceflight."
"When these goals are set and not achieved, it will definitely cause some damage to the reputation and prestige of the general manager. Therefore, after discussion with the senior management, they decided not to appoint the general manager for the time being. Let me ask you.
Views."
"After all, your excellent academic reputation and reputation are very valuable assets, honor and pride, both for you personally and for the motherland."
Hearing this, Xu Chuan suddenly understood why things like aerospace engineering were returned to the National Academy of Sciences to be directly responsible, and why the general person in charge was blank.
Do you want him to be the chief architect and deceive other countries on behalf of the country?
