Chapter 758 Sending Humans
——October 23, 7 days after Yinghuo 1 lost contact.
The whole world is still in the aftermath of the unexpected confrontation seven days ago, and the aerospace industry, which has always occupied the mainstream attention, has been temporarily suppressed.
The lightning night came quickly and went away faster. The key process lasted less than 10 hours, but the consequences were completely impossible to ignore.
The conflicting parties continued to have frictions over interests, and others could not be immune. The frequency of reception in Manhattan even went up several levels.
The outside media called this incident the most important turning point in the 21st century. However, the most core figures in the world did not care about it at all.
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"All the shooting records of MRO are here, and there is nothing to find in the photos."
Jim, with swollen eyes, wiped his face and sat down dully on the edge of the cart stacked with documents, like a listless assembly line worker who had just finished a night shift.
This was his third night at the China Aerospace Administration. In the past 48 hours, Jim had hardly rested for more than one hour.
Seven days ago, although the old director Robert was arrested after solving the Artemis crisis, the finishing work was not easy at all. Jim, who was in charge temporarily, took the pressure from all sides on behalf of NACA.
The commander of the Pacific Fleet now wanted to take a rocket to NACA to strangle every "asshole in a suit", and then take the M1911 to find John so that he could explain how this big mirror caused such a huge disaster.
Before Jim could deal with these troubles in a panic, the news of the loss of contact with Yinghuo 1 came.
The loss of contact with the probe was not so strange in NACA's eyes.
The first Chinese Mars landing probe was a very radical plan, so it was not difficult to understand that something unexpected happened.
However, the bad timing was bad. At this juncture, it hit aliens again, and the problem was quite serious.
The Aviation Development Commission was rarely "frank" to the outside world, and opened up a lot of design ideas and specific system components of Yinghuo 1, allowing NACA to participate in finding problems.
But the problem only became more serious as the research deepened: NACA not only read the data, but also studied the prototype ground vehicle of Yinghuo 1 in Beijing, which was excellent in both design and craftsmanship.
As the conclusion of the Aerospace Development Commission itself, even if the communication system is disconnected, the independently operating AI can find a way to draw an SOS sign on the ground, instead of being unresponsive like a dead machine.
The "Lihuo" probe continuously sent back a large number of satellite images and meteorological data around Yinghuo 1. There were no unexpected factors such as strong winds, and no traces of unidentified objects.
Even NACA did not hesitate to use the precious fuel of MRO, barely changed the orbit and took a high-angle picture of Yinghuo 1, and also found no abnormalities.
The latest progress of Mars is constantly reported to the top leaders of both sides, and the latter attaches great importance to it. John, who was impatient with the senator, had a blank expression on his face and was even planning whether to enter a wartime state.
This is not making a fuss, but an extremely serious crisis management.
The Aerospace Development Commission was also extremely busy. They had tried almost all means, but Firefly 1 still had no response. If it had not been on the satellite and remained in place, they would have thought it had disappeared.
Lin Ju glanced at Jim, who was a little lifeless. There were also many NACA executives here. The two super aerospace agencies had devoted all their energy unreservedly in the past 100 hours. If it were not for the cruel reality, it would still be somewhat inspiring.
More than 50 domestic and foreign elites, including him, were now unusually quiet, standing or sitting in the activity room that served as a temporary command room.
"We need to take the initiative."
Zhong Cheng seemed to be in better condition, but only relatively speaking. He smelled choking smoke as soon as he opened his mouth. God knows how many of the cigarette butts on the ground outside the corridor were caused by him.
His military background made him always rational, and he did not intend to continue waiting:
"Tianwen 2 and 3 landers are ready to land immediately, and Tianwen 4 and 5 are ready. Passive waiting will only make us more passive."
Lin Ju: "What if they lose contact too?"
"Then try to land in other areas. Several NACA probes are still able to work normally, which means that not all of Mars is affected.
If the probes can't be there-"
"Then let the humans go there."
Jim added Zhong Cheng's last sentence. He learned some Chinese, but this sentence was completely blurted out.
The accompanying assistant and translator just reacted and continued to translate Jim's words:
"I think we should train astronauts to land on Mars now, it's not too early."
Zhong Cheng nodded.
No matter what the results of Tianwen 2 and 3 are, landing on Mars is imminent.
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Star Ring Laboratory.
The convoy with the logo of the Space Agency stopped, and the head car handed the pass documents to the guard, who carefully checked each car before calling his teammates to move the barricades.
"Professor Ai, Professor Fu, welcome."
Cheng Nankai shook hands with the two key figures who came to visit, and after a brief greeting, he took them straight to today's destination.
The team of seven or eight people took the elevator down to the second underground floor. Fu Mingdong stared at the tall size of the elevator thoughtfully, and immediately understood after opening the door.
Who knows when Xinyuan dug such a deep basement. It is not crowded at all, and it even feels wider than the ground.
Cheng Nankai walked in front, turning back from time to time to briefly introduce:
"This place is still a little rough when it was just put into use, but the facilities are in place. You, no, all the information we need is here."
As he spoke, several hurried researchers walked past them. Unclassified documents and office supplies could be seen on both sides of the corridor. These had to be cleaned up by the staff here.
Although the environment revealed an unconcealable simplicity, Fu Mingdong almost immediately felt the unique mission here and said decisively:
"Director Cheng... Director Cheng, the environment here is very good, we can start working today."
"Oh, don't be so anxious, you can take a look at some of our research results first, and..."
Fu Mingdong knew what he wanted to say, but he didn't care now.
The urgent task that the institute just received: to develop a practical nuclear weapon with an equivalent of more than 100 million tons.
Is 100 million tons of equivalent difficult for a hydrogen bomb? Fortunately, the original design of the Tsar Bomb can do it. This is an engineering problem. It is no problem for researchers to find a way to replicate it.
But at the same time, there is another indicator: the mass of a single bomb cannot exceed one ton, preferably several hundred kilograms, and radiation is used as the main killing method.
The traditional three-phase bomb certainly cannot meet this indicator, or this task is proposed for the latest nuclear fusion results, requiring the use of the helium-3 and deuterium fusion scheme of the Yu Min-Fu Mingdong configuration to design a new fusion bomb.
There are also some additional information issued with the task, indicating that the main application prospects are in space, and the killing range needs to be increased as much as possible, and it must be very strong to cope with harsh environments.
The higher-ups are very urgent. Fu Mingdong understood it very well the moment he received the task. Not only did he draw the elites of the nuclear fusion team, but he even asked for a joint development with the Xinghuan Laboratory under Xinyuan for the first time.
After all, the data of several nuclear explosions must be from Xinyuan. Their genius scientists cannot be ignored, and it is said that they can also use extremely powerful computers for assistance.
"You may not have been notified, and we certainly haven't either... But I still want to say that we'd better complete the research and development within a year."
Cheng Nankai obviously knew more and tried his best to prove the seriousness of the matter:
"This is the time when the construction of the new gas diffusion plant will be completed and landed. This model will be produced in large quantities, and we have to find a way to do it before then."
"..."
Not a Yankee.
Fu Mingdong thought silently in his heart, feeling his shoulders become heavier.
"No problem, I think this period of time can also provide a lot of help to EAST."