Chapter 593 Full of expectations, the countdown to manned rocket launch
Xinghai Group has fully built and started operating the space station, but it is still far from exploring the moon.
The next day, Mu Yang organized a project launch meeting for the lunar base.
The participants are the group’s technical senior management and key managers of the space exploration project team.
At the meeting, Mu Yang said with excitement: "Our overall goal is to achieve the first landing of the Xinghai Group on the moon before 2021, carry out lunar scientific surveys and related technology tests, and make breakthroughs in mastering manned round-trips to the moon and short-term lunar landings."
It will use key technologies such as retention and man-machine joint detection to complete multiple tasks such as "landing, patrolling, mining, research, return, and stationing" to form an independent manned lunar exploration capability, which will promote the development of manned space technology from near earth to deep space.
Develop by leaps and bounds to deepen mankind’s understanding of the origin and evolution of the moon and solar system.
In the early stage, we have a lot of work to do. I will give you a rough outline and we will discuss it together to improve and formulate a suitable plan..."
Mu Yang gave a broad overview of the draft he wrote yesterday for everyone to discuss, and then the relevant departments would formulate a plan, which was ultimately reviewed by Mu Yang.
The company's management knows that the company is preparing to launch manned satellites and also knows that it will implement the moon landing plan in the next few years.
But I didn't expect that the chairman's goal was so ambitious, not only landing on the moon, but also building a base on it.
From the current point of view, building a lunar base may not be of any use, but it can give Xinghai Group a step back and do whatever it wants to do on the moon in the future.
The moon has no atmosphere. Maybe Mu Yang can create one in the future. Then, the lunar environment will one day be as suitable for survival as the earth.
In other words, find a planet suitable for survival.
Mu Yang did not reveal his longer-term goals. If so, everyone would think that he was really delusional.
After Mu Yang finished describing the situation, everyone expressed their opinions.
Now that the chairman has decided to implement this plan, we no longer discuss whether it is worth pursuing, but how to carry out the work.
Everyone is used to the chairman's unrestrained thoughts that day. If he has already made up his mind, it will be difficult to change his determination. However, we hope that everyone will put forward their opinions and do not want to be too reckless.
After two hours, the meeting ended.
The project was headed by Vice President of Technology Han Li and a plan called "Star Ring Base" was established.
Years ago, Mu Yang considered the astronaut training situation and the preparations at the rocket base. The company had made various preparations for the launch of the manned rocket, and now the astronauts began to make the final sprint.
Before March next year, the three most suitable astronauts will be selected as the first batch of astronauts.
December 1, 2018.
Zhou Chen, president of Xinghai Group, publicly stated that the company plans to launch the Starring 1 rocket on May 30, 2019 to launch a manned satellite.
The Halo-1 rocket actually uses the Starry Sky-1 rocket, but the internal structure of the fairing needs to be modified so that it can put down a small manned spacecraft and transport three astronauts for the first time.
After the Halo-1 manned spacecraft enters orbit, it will use the autonomous rapid rendezvous and docking mode to dock at the radial port of the landing module of the Halo Space Station, and then the astronauts will enter the Halo Space Station.
During their stay in orbit, the astronaut crew carried out the mission as planned and stayed in space for 6 months. They planned to return to the rocket base in December of that year.
This is an important milestone, marking the Xinghai Group's aerospace industry moving towards a more high-end, complex and mature direction.
After the information was announced, it quickly aroused widespread discussion.
"The Xinghai Group went from launching rockets to manned launches too quickly. It only took three or four years. It seems that the moon landing is not far away."
"When I wake up in the morning, I feel like the world has changed."
"Come on Xinghai Group!"
More and more people outside are paying attention to the Xinghai Group's manned rocket launch. What they don't know is that the Xinghai Group is already preparing a moon plan.
A month passed in a hurry, as if it had just gone by in a blink of an eye.
New Year's Day 2019 is here, and there are only 25 days left until this year's Spring Festival holiday.
During this period, Mu Yang often went to the astronaut training base for training. The fifty astronauts knew that they were about to participate in the selection of the first batch of astronauts, so they were very active in training.
They received Mu Yang's promise that as long as they met the requirements, they could all go to the Star Ring Space Station. The difference was just earlier or later.
However, if it is the first batch, it means something different and will be recorded in the world.
Of course, the risks are also very high.
If an accident occurs, the consequences will be disastrous.
Before they participated in astronaut training, Xinghai Group sent people to discuss with their families. If they want to become astronauts, this is a life-safety risk. They must be mentally prepared. If they cannot accept it, they will not be able to become astronauts.
An astronaut from the Xinghai Group.
Of course, becoming an astronaut of the Xinghai Group will provide you with very good benefits and various guarantees.
More than twenty days have passed again,
Xinghai Group held its annual meeting as usual.
The participants in this annual meeting were only employees from the headquarters base, and there were tens of thousands of participants.
In the past 2018, the revenue of Xinghai Group headquarters reached 2 trillion yuan. If the 550 billion yuan of residential revenue of smart cities and the tens of billions of commercial revenue of smart cities are added, the revenue of Xinghai New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. is about 300 billion yuan.
With the revenue, Xinghai Group’s system revenue reached 30,000 yuan.
Xinghai Group has also become the second among the world's top 500 companies, but its revenue is still much lower than that of the supermarket giant.
At the same time, H City will continue to lead the list of national cities in GDP.
People across the country know that Xinghai Group makes a lot of money, but it also spends a lot. The East-West Water Diversion Project alone will spend 200 billion yuan in the first year.
The on-site survey work for the East-to-West Water Diversion Project was completed in September 2018, and land acquisition and construction are currently underway.
The project is divided into multiple stages and is being carried out simultaneously. The current progress is: 5%!
Construction of Danshui chemical base in Jincheng, current progress: 20%
After several months of testing, review, and acceptance, the high-end high-speed rail is scheduled to start trial operation this year. The number of operations will be two, which is a trial operation.
More and more owners are moving into smart cities, and the opening of the subway also represents the full launch of the smart city urban system.
Businesses have basically settled in and opened for business, attracting domestic and foreign tourists to visit and shop in H City.
Citizens who have purchased L4 self-driving cars have already experienced the joy and convenience brought by smart cities. They can automatically find parking spaces and hail a taxi with one click. However, outside smart cities, it is difficult to achieve this because there is no smart city transportation system.
It has the function of automatically finding a parking space with one click, but calling a car with one click is not a problem.
However, L4 self-driving cars are not cheap. It will cost tens of thousands more to add these supporting facilities, or even more money to upgrade and renovate old cars.
The annual meeting is over and the Spring Festival is coming soon.
Mu Yang and his family spent a happy Spring Festival in Mu Mansion, H City.
Winter turns to spring, and two or three months pass. The earth gradually wakes up, the grass and trees gradually sprout, and the breath of spring becomes stronger and stronger.
The rocket base has taken on a new look. After the Chinese New Year, the rocket base conducted a rocket test launch, launching the manned rocket to the Halo Space Station, completing the docking mission, and then dismantling and moving it back to the Halo-1 rocket, which was successfully recovered.
Such tests need to be held many times, and experience must be accumulated during the test process to ensure that the real manned launch is a perfect success.
In March, the first batch of astronauts was selected. The astronaut crew consisted of Wu Haiyang, Zhu Yiming, and Luo Xiang, with Wu Haiyang serving as the commander.
These three astronauts were selected from company employees for training. Wu Haiyang was originally a senior aerospace engineer and was also familiar with load engineering. However, they were not the newly recruited trainers. They were still a little immature and could not take on important responsibilities.
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In addition to these three astronauts, there are also backup personnel.
They are already familiar with some equipment applications of the Star Ring Space Station, but they do not understand everything. The above equipment has corresponding operation manuals. If a fault occurs in the future, they need to connect to the ground command system and perform maintenance under the guidance of technicians.
Every time Mu Yang returns home, his two children will ask him curiously: "Dad, can we watch the manned rocket launch? Will it be successful?"
The child always asked him about the manned rocket, which made Mu Yang a little nervous.
Ever since the company announced that it would launch the Halo-1 manned rocket on May 30 this year, the atmosphere in the headquarters base has been different. What employees and their families have discussed most is the launch of the company's manned rocket, and everyone hopes it will be successful.
This is not only a goal for employees, but also a goal for all employees’ families.
Nowadays, everyone lives in the family park of Xinghai Group, and their children attend the company’s school. The company’s glory is also everyone’s glory. It can be said that we are a collective, and everyone is prosperous and everyone suffers.
On April 1, the launch mission of the Halo-1 manned spacecraft organized the first joint training for the entire region.
On April 20, the second joint training session for the entire district was organized.
On May 10th, the third joint training session.
At present, each system of the launch mission has completed relevant functional checks and made various preparations before launch.
Since the Halo-1 ship-rocket assembly was transferred to the launch area on the 22nd, it has completed the function inspection and matching inspection of the spacecraft and rocket, and organized a full-system launch drill. The facilities and equipment in the launch site area are currently in good condition, and the rocket will be carried out in accordance with the procedures.
Propellant filling and launch operations.
After the three official astronauts and the three reserve astronauts all arrived at the launch site, they carried out appropriate physical activities, psychological relaxation and adjustment in the astronaut apartment, learned flight documents and launch preparations, and successfully completed the full-system launch.
Exercise tasks.
As the planned launch time gets closer, the world's focus is on the Xinghai Group rocket base.
Time flies by and May 29th soon arrives.
At 11 o'clock in the morning, Xinghai Group held a media conference at the rocket base. The three astronauts met collectively with media reporters at the rocket base.
They wear Xinghai Group's astronaut costumes and represent Xinghai Group.
Compared with astronauts from various countries, they are relatively young, with an average age of only 35 years old. However, their technology is not "young".
Wu Haiyang is a space pilot and a senior space flight engineer with a doctoral degree. He is mainly responsible for directly operating and managing spacecraft and conducting related technical experiments.
Zhu Yiming was originally a payload researcher of Xinghai Group with a postgraduate degree. He was mainly responsible for the on-orbit operation of space science experimental payloads. He had professional training in scientific aerospace engineering and other fields and had rich operational experience.
Luo Xiang is a senior space flight engineer of Xinghai Group with a postgraduate degree and is mainly responsible for equipment maintenance of the space station.
After more than a year of hard training, they have completed the prescribed training content, passed the flight qualification assessment, and all have the ability and conditions to perform flight missions.
Of course, although they are too young, they have also been questioned by the outside world.
The simple meeting will end soon.
Chapter completed!