Chapter 591: General Adviser to the Moon Landing

There is urgency in Huaguo's need for energy, but not for aerospace.

Even if the success of the controllable fusion project saves the country far more than two trillion yuan in energy costs each year, it is impossible for this money to be put into aerospace projects.

Where each money is spent and what kind of effect it produces requires a set of strict procedures to make decisions.

Especially with the solution of rocket recovery technology, the cost of launch is not like before.

Taking the launch of a low-Earth orbit satellite as an example, according to international quotations, Space-X’s Falcon rocket can already achieve $1,141/kg, compared with $11,660/kg for the Delta 4 rocket designed by NASA in the 1990s In terms of cost, it has been cut nearly ten times.

The Kuaizhou-1A rocket, which Huaguo currently has the most commercial advantage in the world, has also reduced its launch cost from US$10,000 per kilogram to about US$5,000.

If the implementation of a manned moon landing program requires the delivery of a spacecraft with a mass of about 50 tons to low-earth orbit first, ignoring the fact that the spacecraft is not a satellite and cannot be sent to the sky in a dozen times, this part In theory, the launch cost can also be controlled within 250 million US dollars.

Therefore, there is no need to build a mass projector just to get on it.

But what Lu Zhou thought was not just to send people up to plant a flag, but to establish a semi-permanent or even permanent scientific research station on the moon, or even a resource mining base.

Considering this long-term goal, it is quite necessary to use a theoretically lower-cost launch method to project mass from the surface to low-Earth orbit outside the atmosphere.

If chemically powered rockets are used all the time, when the number of launches breaks through a thousand times, or even rises to the order of ten thousand times, space exploration will truly transform from a scientific research activity into an industry. That's enough of a headache.

You know, dinitrogen tetroxide and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine are poisonous.

Of course, Lu Zhou is also very clear in his heart that it is impossible to convince the elders' house with just one idea for such a trillion-level project, especially in aerospace projects that do not have urgent needs.

However, I believe that after he has produced enough results, what he said should be more convincing.

The meeting was divided into two parts. The intermission was announced at twelve o'clock in the morning. After everyone had a brief meeting meal in the middle, the meeting continued at 1:30 in the afternoon.

This part of the meeting in the afternoon is mainly home for researchers and engineers, and the discussions are mainly focused on the technical field.

At the meeting, representatives of major research units spoke enthusiastically and put forward their own views.

In addition to the Air Science Group showing a concept map of the Long March 9 rocket, many people also proposed very interesting technical ideas.

For example, Gao, a researcher at the Center for Space Science and Applied Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, showed a model of a plasma engine. Apart from the fact that the details of the acceleration technology are different from Lu Zhou's idea, it is also a very interesting idea.

In this meeting, Lu Zhou did not speak much, but simply talked about his idea of ​​the technical route of the Hall thruster.

Part of this is his own point of view, and the other part is some ideas generated when he chatted with researchers in the AF-MPD project team during his time as a consultant in the PPPL laboratory.

Originally, he thought that his views were avant-garde enough, but he didn't expect that there were people whose views were more sci-fi than his, and even threw out the view of non-propellant advancement at the meeting.

In fact, the advancement of no propellant is not completely regarded as science fiction. At least NASA has done research in this area, and you can even find related papers on Arixv.

After all, no one dares to say anything absolute about the future. Even the most outstanding scholars dare not make "absolutely impossible" assertions about the "future", even if those things seemed incredible at the time.

But no matter how you say it, propelling such a distant thing without propellant does not belong to the topic of this era.

Everyone just smiled after hearing it, and didn't take it too seriously.

There are no taboos in this kind of seminar itself, basically speaking freely, everyone can say anything, and there will be no such arrogance that only refutes but not argues.

As for which technical route to adopt in the end, of course it still depends on the results.

That is, there will be a bidding conference in the middle of the year to invite bids for the most critical heavy-duty spacecraft in the moon landing plan.

Whether it is a rocket or a space shuttle, whoever can deliver a load of at least 30 tons to the Earth-Moon transfer orbit and bring it back safely will win the bid.

From the current point of view, the Long March 9 is probably the most promising to take on this important task.

However, the first flight in 2028, even if it is not postponed, is still eight years away.

If the national lunar landing project intends to complete the manned lunar landing within five years to achieve the strategic goal of containing the United States, Europe and other countries, the Long March 9, which is still in the design stage, may miss this battle.

Against such a background, if other companies can come up with a launch plan with a lower cost and earlier time, they will also be competitive to a certain extent.

About whether to join in the fun...

In fact, Lu Zhou didn't think too much about it.

As for the electric propulsion engine, he is only in the research stage, not to mention whether the technology in the wreck can be reversed, and whether it can be used in the atmospheric environment after reverse engineering is still hard to say.

Maybe the spaceship of this advanced civilization was itself assembled on the space station or some space port? People don't need to consider such issues as breaking through the atmospheric environment and launching into orbit from the surface.

The possibility is entirely there.

In short, before he is absolutely sure, or has a clear expectation for the realization of the technology, what he said is just to express his own point of view. As for the bidding project at the end of the year, he probably will not participate in it...

After the meeting ended, Lu Zhou walked out of the venue.

At this moment, he suddenly found that there were more people around than when he first came in.

Judging from the long guns, short cannons and microphones on their bodies, there is no need to guess the identities of these people. There is no doubt that they are all reporters.

When the representatives of enterprises such as Penguin and Ali stepped out of the venue, the reporters immediately surrounded them like sharks smelling fishy.

Looking at the actions of these reporters, Lu Zhou couldn't help but twitch his eyebrows. However, before he had time to rejoice that he wasn't the one who was surrounded, a sharp-eyed reporter soon discovered that he was also here, and immediately surrounded him quickly. come up.

Even with Wang Peng standing in front of him, the microphones still sneaked in.

"Hello, Professor Lu, we are reporters from the Wangyi News Technology Channel. I heard that Huaguo restarted the manned moon landing plan. Was it your suggestion?"

"Hello, Professor Lu, we are reporters from the Penguin News Technology Channel. It is rumored on the Internet that China will soon realize space travel. What do you think?"

"...There are rumors that you will be the chief designer of the manned spaceflight program. Is this true?"

His scalp was numb from the ensuing questions. Seeing that it was impossible to break through, Lu Zhou immediately caught a reporter who was closest to him, and snapped back: "Fake."

Reporter: "Uh...then, then, may I ask—"

After taking control of the initiative, Lu Zhou took a deep breath and said in strict words: "The restart of the manned spaceflight program is not entirely due to my suggestion, but the country does have a strategic need in this regard. As for the overall design of the manned moon landing Teacher, I don’t know where you heard the news, but as far as I know, the relevant department just invited me to serve as a consultant.”

However, at this time, Secretary Xu, who walked beside him at some point, caught off guard and added with a smile: "It's the general counsel."

General Counsel!

These three short words completely detonated the atmosphere of the scene...

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Thanks to the leader of the book friend "The Feather of the Nether Light" for the reward~~~

I feel that I owe more and more debts, and I can't be salty this month... QAQ