Chapter 90 Perfect Success
The news of the successful test launch of Xingyun-1 only lasted a short time around the world before it was completely overshadowed by another piece of news.
Spieth's company announced that it will officially launch the "Mars Project" in the near future.
The planned investment in the first phase is 100 billion yuan, which will complete the construction of launch vehicles and spacecraft and accelerate the research and development of life support systems.
It will also carry out unmanned exploration, Mars communications, build a Mars synchronous orbit space station command center, and develop a Mars base site selection and construction planning plan.
The second phase of the project will invest 500 billion yuan and plans to launch a manned spacecraft to Mars for a long-term residence mission. At the same time, it will complete the initial construction of the Mars base and further evaluate the Martian environment to ensure that in the next three phases of the project, a large number of immigrants can be transferred to Mars to build a permanent settlement on Mars, a city belonging to humans on Mars.
This time, President Mark did not release news to attract investment as in the past. Instead, he took out real money and officially started the first phase of the "Mars Project".
It is for this reason that Spieth's company's stock price, which had been plummeting, is once again soaring.
As a result, the people in Daxia have many opinions about the lunar exploration project currently underway in Xinghai.
Compared to Spieth's company's ambitious "Mars Project", which mentions the plan to build a city on Mars in the future and to permanently house immigrants.
The Earth-Moon project currently being carried out by Xinghai seems too petty.
"Is there Chang'e on the moon? It's worth wasting so much manpower, material resources and financial resources on it."
While inappropriate comments about Xinghai were gradually fermenting on the Internet, the Xinghai Space Base, under the leadership of Fan Ren, was methodically carrying out the final preparations before Xingyun-1 officially carried out its launch mission.
He knew that the current public opinion environment was extremely unfavorable to Xinghai.
But to be honest, Fan Ren really doesn't care about these things. After all, Xinghai Technology is a non-listed company and there is no pressure from stock price fluctuations.
It's impossible for him to make the secret of Tritanium alloy public.
Xinghai, which holds many technical patents, is an absolute upstream enterprise in the industrial chain in many related fields, and has the source pricing power for several technologies that have gradually penetrated into human life.
Of course, Fanren will not arbitrarily raise prices to make a profit.
Therefore, Xinghai will continue to carry out the lunar mining plan unswervingly.
"Second brother, third brother, it's almost time, just go to the command hall and watch my performance."
Li Jian, wearing a heavy space suit, waved to Fan Ren and Liu Jun with a helmet in his arms, without any sign of nervousness on his face.
"Boss, I wish you all the best heroes."
"Come on, boss. We'll be waiting for you to come back for a drink."
Fan Ren's eyes twitched and he took Liu Jun away from the scene. Now was not the time to be sentimental.
When we arrived at the command hall, the young commander-in-chief was walking around the various workbenches, conducting a final, detailed inspection.
"Boss Fan, there's nothing wrong. I've checked it many times. We've already had this experience. It'll be easy this time."
He came in front of Fan Ren, a confident smile on his young face.
His name is Zhang Yuanda, and he is a top student from Daxia Aerospace College.
Fanren always believed in leaving professional matters to professionals, so apart from the general planning for the entire rocket base, he did not provide any specific guidance to laymen.
The same goes for conductors.
"I believe you. You are an expert in this area. Go ahead."
He nodded and walked towards the observation room.
"Second brother, this kid seems to be born with this confidence. He must have found a treasure."
Fan Ren nodded, there was nothing wrong with what Liu Jun said.
The other person is a real academic master who got here with all the top scores in the imperial examinations. If it weren't for Xinghai's several epoch-making technologies that attracted him, there would be no chance of getting this guy here.
"Only Ah Dai can compete with him." "Hey, you're right."
The two smiled at each other and then entered the observation room.
The Xingyun-1 rocket body was not repainted after the test launch, or it can be said that the Xingyun-1 rocket shell has never been painted at all.
At this moment, it no longer stood as tall as the giant silver sword it did when it first appeared.
The dark gray burn marks all over the body made this rocket, which was used only once, look a little weathered.
"Launch countdown, 10, 91, ignition."
Without the initial nervousness, the engineers followed the operating procedures and under the calm and composed command of Zhang Yuanda, the rocket slowly took off, gradually accelerated and finally disappeared into the sky.
"The first stage separates and the second stage ignites."
"Second stage separation, spacecraft ignition."
"Arrived in Asgard low earth orbit, expected to dock with Asgard Space Station in thirty minutes."
At this point, Fan Ren no longer has anything to worry about. When launching a rocket, the most dangerous part is the launch phase. Once it reaches the final stage of autonomous propulsion of the spacecraft, the degree of danger will be greatly reduced.
The Star Sea series of spacecraft use a large number of automated intelligent technologies. Generally speaking, tasks such as orbit maintenance, route selection, and even docking operations with the space station can all be completed autonomously by relying on the intelligent system designed by A-Dai.
Soon, the spacecraft arrived not far from the Asgard Space Station.
Although he had seen it several times through the real-time images of several launches by the Daxia Aerospace Department, Fan Ren was still shocked when he saw the Xiangong Space Station on the screen again.
Several huge round cabins are tightly connected together, and the solar panels shining all around are like banana fans. Their size is even larger than the space station itself.
However, Fanren believes that these solar panels will be replaced after the successful development of controlled nuclear fusion technology in the future.
Just as he was daydreaming, the spacecraft successfully docked with the space station.
"The launch mission was successfully completed."
Zhang Yuanda's voice rang out, and after he finished speaking, thunderous applause broke out in the hall.
This is the first manned launch mission that Xinghai Aerospace has completed independently in the true sense.
The launch is of great significance to the young engineers on site.
Fan Ren stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window with Liu Jun. Looking at the cheering engineers below with happy faces, he also laughed.
"Second brother, this is like a dream."
Liu Jun looked at this scene, and his mind emerged of the time when he was in the dormitory and Fan Ren was drawing alone in front of the computer, often going to bed late at night.
Now, he is the chairman of Xinghai Technology, which holds patents worth trillions of dollars.
Only four years.
The boy who used to sleep with him was now walking towards the space with steady steps, leaving his footprints behind.
Fan Ren nodded. He too was dreaming. Although he kept a calm look on his face, every time he looked at the huge progress of the company, he felt as if he were in another world.
"Asgard report, flight data is normal, over!"
Li Jian's steady voice was transmitted to the launch hall via the remote sensing satellite, interrupting the cheers of the crowd.
Under the command of Zhang Yuanda, young engineers returned to their jobs.
"Space City received. Congratulations. Over."
(End of this chapter)
