Chapter 116 A Small Shock in the New Era
Spieth Corporate Headquarters.
Mark was discussing with his secretary about accessing the Xinghai quantum communication satellite when the phone suddenly rang.
"Mark, when can the Hunter-9 rocket be launched into space at the earliest?"
The caller was Roy, who had just been rejected by Fan Ren, and his voice was full of anger.
Mark was a little confused by his question.
Since signing a series of launch services with Xinghai, Spieth's Hunter-9 rocket project has come to a complete standstill.
In the face of Xinghai's transportation capacity, the Hunter-9 rocket is like a toy and has no meaning at all.
"The Hunter-9 rocket hasn't been launched for half a year. Don't you know that?"
In the past, Spieth had to give some face to the head of Nasa, but now Spieth's company no longer needs to rely on him for any technical support, so he certainly won't indulge him.
"What? Damn it, why is this happening? Don't you know that it was us, Nasa, who provided you with the technology for the Hunter-9 rocket? Why did you stop? Tell me, Mark! When can it be launched into space at the earliest?"
On the phone, Roy's tone became increasingly irritable.
"If you want, the assembly can be completed in two weeks at the earliest. However, I have transferred the relevant engineers to the Mars Project Department. The launch vehicle department no longer has any meaning."
Mark directly stated Spieth's company's plans without any nostalgia for the launch vehicle.
Presumably, Roy didn't even know that Daxia had a nuclear fusion engine?
"Damn it, you're wasting our initial investment in technology."
"Okay, if you need it, send someone to take over the launch vehicle department. In order to thank Natha for his early technical investment, our Spieth Company will donate this rocket department to your space agency free of charge. Please communicate with my secretary about the rest of the acceptance work."
Mark hung up the phone directly. The Rockets department was now a burden to him, and its position was extremely embarrassing. It would be a very good choice to give it to Nathan at this time.
Inside the . space agency, Roy heard the busy tone on the phone and kicked the chair in front of him to the ground in anger.
When did the director of the . National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the top aerospace company on the planet, have the phone hung up on by the bosses of two private companies in succession?
This is simply unreasonable.
Standing in the office, Roy was angry for a while, and finally he picked up the chair and sat down on it.
After all, times have changed.
We can only blame the American chiefs in recent years, all of whom want Nasa to be independent and make a living on its own, and the aerospace budget has been cut again and again. Otherwise, Nasa would not have been able to share its world-leading launch vehicle technology with a civilian aerospace company.
But now when I want to use it, I am surprised to find that the damn Spieth company has actually stopped the project.
Doesn't he know the importance of launch vehicles to the entire American aerospace industry?
Thinking of this, his anger that had just been extinguished couldn't help but rise again.
But he finally fell silent. No matter what, Kunihui demanded that he complete the construction of the space station within one month, otherwise his position would be lost.
On the Earth-Mars route, a popular flying boat with a blue flame tail was flying backwards with its butt facing the direction of Mars.
If an astronaut saw this scene, they would think that this was because the spacecraft was performing a deceleration maneuver.
But at the same time another question will pop up in their minds.
With the Earth's current space capabilities, the amount of fuel carried in spacecraft is precisely calculated, and the use process must be particularly careful and cost-effective.
How come there is such a thing now, which unscrupulously uses fuel to accelerate in the first half of the voyage and then slows down in the second half, such a "luxury" operation.
But the fact is that it really happened.
This unmanned flying boat was the one Fanren had just developed for testing, equipped with a nuclear fusion engine. As the speed of the unmanned flying boat slowed down, it slowly turned around, and the flames at the tail gradually died down.
At this time, the spacecraft can maintain its navigation in Mars' synchronous orbit simply by relying on inertial speed.
Soon, the belly of the flying boat opened and a half-meter long and wide satellite was launched out.
This is part of Feizhou's mission, to launch a quantum communication satellite that relays between Earth and Mars.
With this satellite, the Earth can transmit information to the relay satellite without delay, and communicate with Spieth's space station in the synchronous orbit of Mars through the electromagnetic wave communication satellite carried by the satellite.
Not only that, the satellite is equipped with a small nuclear fusion reactor, has a designed lifespan of 100 years, and has the ability to self-adjust its orbit.
After completing this step, the flying boat did not stop.
The engine nozzle at its rear burst into plasma flames again, and its speed suddenly increased, and the boat plunged headfirst into Mars.
Earth Space Hub.
Fan Ren sat in an independent office space built specifically for him, staring at the display screen in front of him. There was a direction lever in front of him.
The images on the screen were exactly the Martian landscape transmitted in real time by a spacecraft located 2 million kilometers away.
This flying boat is a gadget designed by him.
At this moment, under his control, the flying boat was shuttling freely in the Martian atmosphere at a speed of up to 30 Mach.
Soon, data were transmitted back, showing that the atmospheric temperature on the sun-facing side of Mars was 30 degrees.
This is a very suitable temperature condition for human habitation.
Although Mars has its own atmosphere, carbon dioxide accounts for the vast majority of it, which humans cannot breathe at all, so they need to carry their own life support equipment.
The flying boat continued to move forward at a high speed under Fan Ren's control, and soon arrived over a vast plain area in the northern hemisphere known as the "Utopia" plain.
This has always been the main landing area for human Mars probes.
Of course, it is also the scheduled landing point for Spieth's "Mars Project".
Fan Ren operated the flying boat to fly back and forth on the plain, and the onboard radar of the flying boat continuously emitted radar waves in all directions.
Soon a dense signal was transmitted back through the radar.
He couldn't help but start to smile.
Let me give you a little shock of the new era.
Thinking of this, the flying boat quickly flew towards the signal location.
In the real-time images transmitted from the display screen, the surface of Mars was all orange-yellow wasteland, but Fan Ren was extremely absorbed in watching it. This was the first time that he felt the shock brought by the alien landscape so "personally" with his own hands.
Not long after, a Xingyun series launch vehicle appeared at the end of the surface, standing on the sand.
When he saw it, Fan Ren couldn't help but feel a sense of familiarity in his heart.
Looking down, several astronauts from Spieth's company have already completed the construction of the base.
The base is approximately 30 square meters and is wrapped in white-painted aluminum alloy.
A flagpole was erected outside, and the American flag was fluttering violently in the wind.
(End of this chapter)
