Chapter 284 Tripartite Trade

The encounter between Glory and Dream Chaser in the sky diluted the competitive atmosphere for the two trans-Pacific countries and contributed a few days of civilian joy.

After all, for Aramco, the Artemis program has been very successful so far. The Orion spacecraft has entered the lunar orbit and everything is normal. In addition, the Kerch equation of "1*SLS=2*CZ-10" has been circulated to a small extent, and the manned flight of Dream Chaser has eased the tension before.

Especially if the first manned flight of Dream Chaser is successful, then the six astronauts of the two Soyuz launch missions canceled this year and the next batch of three astronauts will fill the Dream Chaser to replace most of the crew of the international space, roughly in January next year.

The Aerospace Development Commission is about to celebrate the New Year, and everyone naturally relaxes a little. There is also good news: the four boosters and core stage of the Long March 10 Yao 2 rocket have been completed.

At this time, only four months have passed since the launch of the Long March 10 Yao 1 rocket.

The Long March 10 rocket uses the body of the Long March 5 rocket, so the technology is relatively mature. Before the Long March 10 project was established, the Long March 5 prototypes were actually tested on the vibration table, and the manufacturing was very fast.

When manufacturing the Long March 10 Yao-1 rocket, the Jingu Rocket Manufacturing Base started to manufacture 8 boosters and core stage (universal) 5-meter diameter bodies at one time. 5 were used to assemble the rocket, 1 was used for testing, and 2 were left. Three more were manufactured during this period.

The YF130 engine used in the first stage is relatively reliable and has been installed on the body. The only thing missing is the upper stage of the YF77.

Three months ago, the engine engineers of Xinyuan participated in the improvement of the YF77. The degree of improvement was very exaggerated. After solving the design defects and hidden diseases of the YF77, the thrust increased by 10% and the weight was reduced by 500 kg. The performance has reached the first-class level.

The Sixth Academy was extremely envious of the engine engineers sent by Xinyuan. They tried to poach them with huge sums of money and promises of a promising future, but failed. So they shamelessly extended the stay of several engineers to February to help improve the YF77 mass production line.

The first batch of improved YF77 is called YF77 modified (i.e. YF77G). Its reliability and performance have been greatly improved. It is expected to be delivered to the Long March 10 Yao 2 rocket at the end of January, so that the latter can complete the launch mission in February.

So the interval between the Long March 10 Yao 2 and Yao 1 rockets is 6 months. Although the manufacturing capacity of SLS is accelerating, the Jingu Rocket Manufacturing Plant is even crazier...

Both companies are now in a state of "the advantage is mine", so their attitudes are also unusually harmonious.

But for the world, it has already reached the point where it is impossible to understand the fight between gods.

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Shintoku.

JAXA, IRSO, and RKA gathered here to jointly participate in the moon landing plan.

A week ago, Kishimoto Tsutomu received the lunar landing plan evaluation report from the "Asia Star Project Preparatory Committee (composed of JAXA and IRSO)", which proved through thousands of pages of lengthy articles that the Asia Star Project can ensure the completion of manned lunar landing around 2020, no later than 2022.

So the two countries began detailed consultations, and finally, after consideration, decided to develop the Asia Star Project "limitedly" to Russia to speed up the project.

The Russian experts who had already guided the construction and improvement of the Gaganyan spacecraft in India gathered together and held a tripartite demonstration meeting for the Asia Star Project.

Perhaps knowing that their aerospace technology was still slightly behind that of Russia, JAXA and IRSO did not hide it and handed over all the technology they could provide to Russian experts for evaluation.

Alexander Nadyradze was the chief designer who was ordered to help India's Gaganyan Project. The order he received before departure was: try to use the "ascent series" technology to guide the Gaganyan spacecraft.

What is the "Vostok" series of spacecraft? It was developed by the Soyuz in the 1960s. It was upgraded from the "Vostok" spacecraft that Gagarin took to complete the extravehicular walking mission...

Nadiradze began to think that selling these technologies for $500 million was a big rip-off for India, but after coming to guide the work of IRSO, his thoughts changed:

With India's level, it may not be reliable to build the Vostok spacecraft for them!

There are many problems with the Gaganyan spacecraft, including but not limited to:

The shell material of the spacecraft does not meet the requirements, but the Indian in charge of the project told him that it would not be so good for ground testing and would not pass through the atmosphere, and he was proud of saving a sum of money;

The assembly workshop cannot be said to be dust-free. How did those workers in slippers get in? ! The assembly accuracy is comparable to that of Lucia's light industry;

The structural design is obviously unreasonable. The structural designer is a former employee of NACA. There is actually nothing wrong with his design of the original drawings, but the leaders of the Ministry of Science put forward quite a lot of unrealistic requirements, so it became like this;

Excrement was found in the workshop;

The data of the escape tower ignition system was falsified and below the safety standard.

Lucia has always been known for its roughness, but Nadiradze only realized what real roughness is when he came here. If he hadn't been there, the Gaganyan spacecraft might not even have ashes left for the astronauts...

Fortunately, as an RKA expert, his words are still very effective. Through hard work, he is changing these things little by little, at least he can make sure that no one dies on the Gaganyan spacecraft.

After going through so many things, Nadiradze's mentality when attending the Asian Star preparatory meeting can be imagined.

But he didn't show it, and the more unreliable these two countries are, the better. If they are all as serious and hardworking as the student in the East, there will be no business.

He read the information provided by JAXA and felt that it was much better than IRSO - if there was no false labeling, but at least their industrial standards were much better, and the island country's precision machinery was supposed to be good, so it should be okay, right?

However, judging from the comprehensive level of rockets in the past of the two countries, they might not be able to rely on themselves.

"I think there is no problem with the basic design of the H-X rocket."

Nadiradze's first sentence made the meeting full of smiles, as if the Asian Star Project had been successful.

"The core stage of the rocket is manufactured by the island country and the booster is undertaken by India, but the division of the lunar spacecraft mission needs to be improved."

"Please give your opinions, thank you!"

Shinichiro Sakai, the proposer of H-X, was very humble after listening to the translation, because they really had no foundation in this area.

Nadiradze: "I suggest that the lunar spacecraft be improved based on the Gaganyan spacecraft, which can save a lot of time, and JAXA is responsible for the design and construction of the service module. You have manufactured cargo spacecraft, so there should be no problem in this regard, right?"

Shinichiro Sakai hesitated for a moment, but Shiven Samarkand on the opposite side said that there was no problem first, so he had to nod first.

Nadiradze: "In addition, for the lander, I suggest that we make a three-party joint manufacturing."

Shinichiro Sakai: "What is a three-party joint manufacturing?"

"The meaning of three-party joint manufacturing is that we propose a solution with a high degree of feasibility, distribute the manufacturing of parts, and finally assemble them in India or an island country."

Shiven Samarkand: "What do you mean?"

Nadiradze beat around the bush and repeated it seven or eight times before JAXA and IRSO finally understood.

Lucia's own manned lunar landing plan has been determined with the establishment of the Energia 2 rocket. The initial decision is to use the "Eagle" spacecraft and the traditional lander, which will be launched twice by the Energia 2 rocket, assembled in low-Earth orbit, and fly to the moon together.

The Eagle spacecraft is not difficult for Lucia, but the landing and ascent return lander is different. It was not done during the Alliance period.

However, there is no problem in the technical principle. The Alliance has done unmanned lunar sampling and return missions. The process and specific data are available, and the only thing missing is money.

In order to save time and money, RKA decided to "borrow chickens to lay eggs" and insert the development of the lander into the Asian Star program, using the money of these two countries to pay for the research and development costs, and can also use it when landing on the moon.

This is Lucia's tried and tested routine, throwing a valuable project out for foreign cooperation, and then constantly attracting investment to achieve the goal of using other people's money to support their own children.

However, Shiven Samarkand is not from the Ministry of Defense, and has not realized that there is any problem. In his opinion, it is a matter of course for the three countries to manufacture together, and he subconsciously wants to nod.

Only JAXA smelled the scent of conspiracy and calmly asked:

"So, in which country is the main body of the lander manufactured?"

Nadiradze: "Haha... these are all small problems, just small problems. Mr. Sakai, everything Lucia did was for you.

My friend, Lucia just wants to get a little reward while helping emerging countries realize their dreams. We Lucia are the most sincere in international cooperation."