The "Wentian" experimental cabin was successfully launched, and the three astronauts in the space station finally had a dedicated scientific experimental cabin, so they no longer had to do simple experiments in the "Tianhe" core cabin.

The name of the core cabin of "Tianhe" refers to the core of the Tiangong Space Station, which includes three parts: the node cabin, the life control cabin and the resource cabin.

It has a total of 3 pairs of interfaces and two berthing ports. The pairs of interfaces are used for manned spacecraft, cargo spacecraft and other aircraft to access the space station. The berthing port is used for assembling two experimental compartments and core compartments to form a space station assembly, and another hatch is available for astronauts to exit the compartment.

Its axial length is 16.6 meters, the diameter of the large column section is 4.2 meters, and the diameter of the small column section is 2.8 meters. It is mainly used for unified control and management of space stations, as well as the life of astronauts, and has long-term autonomous flight capabilities, can support astronauts to stay for a long time, and support the conduct of aerospace medicine and space science experiments.

It is not a space laboratory like Tiangong No. 1 or Tiangong No. 2. No. 1 and No. 2 are for testing, so the functions are complete and simple.

The core cabin is part of the overall space station, and the space station has a cabin dedicated to performing experiments, so it does not need to be so comprehensive. It has the ability to perform experiments, but it is just to avoid wasting space.

Now that the special "Ask the Sky" experimental cabin is coming, the space station can finally conduct higher-level experiments.

The axial length of the "Wentian" experimental cabin is about 15 meters, with a maximum diameter of 4.2 meters, which is more than 20 tons in the same heavyweight as the core cabin.

By the way, this "Wentian" experimental cabin is not a planetary exploration mission of the "Tianwen" series, nor is it a "Tianwen-1" Mars exploration mission, so don't mess it up.

After the successful launch, the Space Center immediately held a regular press conference. After summarizing the gains and losses of this mission, it began to release some plans to be implemented in the later stage.

For example, the launch time of the "Mengtian" experimental cabin, the construction of the second Long March 9, the situation of manned moon landing next year, etc.

These information has attracted considerable attention from the media, but what the media cares the most is the information about the "New Long March 9" super heavy launch vehicle that was mentioned last.

A rocket will definitely not be classified after it comes out. There will definitely be various revisions, with a suffix such as "ABCD".

Many reporters do their homework and know that the original Long March 9 also has two types: "A" and "B", which is to remove the corresponding number of boosters to achieve the effect of changing the carrying capacity.

For example, remove two boosters to reduce the carrying capacity to 100 tons.

Remove all boosters and reduce the carrying capacity to 50 tons.

In this way, the use of Long March 9 will be more flexible, because some goods are large enough, but not heavy. It is a waste to use the fully-body Long March 9, and the Long March 5 cannot be transported, so it is troublesome.

The "A" and "B" types of Long March 9 do this.

But this press conference is different. I didn’t talk about these two new models, but just talked about the “new Long March 9”, which is strange.

Immediately afterwards, another news was dumped. The Long March 5, which had been executed several times, also added the word "new", and its engine was also replaced with a new material engine.

The most important thing is that it actually needs to be recycled.

According to the reporters' understanding, this rocket never thought about recycling it at the beginning!

Moreover, its recycling is very exciting. The core level is recycled with four boosters. In order to achieve this goal, the length of the core level has to be adjusted.

The first level has been adjusted, and the second level has to be adjusted accordingly.

Therefore, in addition to the appearance of the recycled version of Long March 5, there is also an additional landing bracket at the bottom, and in fact, there are many new things inside.

Seeing the follow-up renovation plan for Long March 5, the reporters suddenly became related to the situation of Long March 9 ahead.

"Long March 9 also needs to be recycled?"

Thinking of this possibility, the reporters couldn't stop thinking and immediately started asking questions, but they didn't get accurate information, which made them feel worried.

However, they had already confirmed that Long March 9 would definitely be recycled.

But why do these super heavy rockets need to be recycled?

Currently, the only starship launch system of the space fork company in the international arena is that it only seems that the commercial spacecraft company's starship launch system is used in the space industry.

The purpose of recycling the Starship Launch System is to save launch costs.

If it cannot be recycled, the number of launches will be bankrupt.

This can be referred to the former Saturn V. It can be used to launch a single super heavy rocket and knock down an aircraft carrier. Even super powerful countries like Meriken can't stand it, let alone private companies.

After it can be recycled, the more launches the cheaper it is, which is very in line with the needs of the space fork companies, because they plan to use the starship launch system as an aircraft in the future, and you can imagine its launches.

By the way, some time ago, Meriken announced that he would not build another SLS rocket. The reason was that it was too expensive and he turned to fully support the private super heavy rocket, that is, the starship launch system.

The New Glen Rockets...barely, it's worth mentioning, plus, after all, the diameter is large enough and the height is high enough.

So that is to say, there will be a large number of launch missions in Tianxia, ​​which is so large that it cannot be enough to save costs?

Many reporters were excited, and it didn't matter if they didn't make it clear. They had already made up for a lot of imagination.

They even thought of the titles of many reports!

"There will be a large number of launch missions in the future, and the new space race has begun!"

"Tianxia and Meriken have developed recyclable super heavy rockets, and the new space race is inevitable!"

"International space launch missions surge, and recyclable rockets dominate the next era!"

"The space race begins again, where is the future of mankind?"

Regardless of whether what is said is right or not, you don’t explain it clearly anyway, so we can only make up randomly... Bah, how can news matters be called making up randomly? This is called reasonable guessing!

In fact, these were all within Tianxia's expectations, and they were waiting for Meriken to react first.

Generally speaking, Tianxia will plan and then act, occupy the moral commanding heights, and make itself famous for its development. But this time, the fishing hook was thrown out, and Merecon didn't even bite the hook.

After sending out all kinds of information, Meriken was silent.

It is not silent either. Meriken is still promoting the return to the moon, as well as the progress of the plan to return the Mars sampling and return, and the concept of manned landing on Mars later.

Then there are the business plans of private companies, such as commercial space stations, space travel, etc.

Although he has been exporting influence, he no longer targets Tianxia, ​​but simply promotes himself.

Even the private space travel plan has problems. The space fork's "manned dragon" and Poyin's "Interstellar passenger plane" have begun to take orders, but no one bought tickets at all.

The rich are all waiting for "Dart X".

This is strange.

When Tang Chao was having a secret meeting with the bosses of those aerospace companies, they told the news that Meriken would take action against Pioneer Company in the near future.

Tang Chao also asked them to take the initiative to attack after they went back, letting Merecon attack him, and then provoke a more intense space race.

But when I waited around, there was no movement in Meriken.

In order to deal with the possible "attack", the company has already tightened its nerves and is ready, but the nerves cannot be tightened all the time. Over time, it will become a neurotic.

Even if the pilot tests the "Dart X" every two days, as it is getting closer and closer to success, international wealthy people are looking at it more and more eagerly. No one buys tickets for space tourism that the Meriken Private Space Company has started to operate. They are as calm and have no reaction at all.

So after a period of time, he couldn't help but not relax. He could withstand it himself, but the entire company couldn't do that.

As the saying goes, "There are people who are thieves for thousands of days, but there are no ones who are guarding against them for thousands of days." This will definitely not work if it continues.

So Tang Chao thought about how to take the initiative to "pull out of the hole"...

Soon, the opportunity came.

"The 72nd International Aerospace Conference will be held in the capital of Sakura Country!"
Chapter completed!