Chapter 361: Heading into Deep Space
February 9th.
Li Qingye rarely appears on the public channel of Zhiren Company.
He appeared at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Puerto Ramon Space City in Medan Island and delivered a speech entitled "Based on Earth, Going into Deep Space" via a televised broadcast.
Port Ramon is located on the eastern coast of Medan Island, facing the vast Pacific Ocean. Its latitude is about 8.5 degrees north latitude, very close to the equator, making it a very suitable area for a space launch site.
Moreover, since Medan Island is located near the equatorial doldrums, the typhoons that often occur in Southeast Asia rarely make landfall in Medan Island, which is conducive to space launches.
After appearing on TV, Li Qingye did not leave immediately. Although his position was top secret, there was no need to worry too much at this stage.
After all, all the major powers understood that if they attacked Li Qingye, the consequence would be mutual destruction.
According to the defense quarterly report released by Sapiens, Sapiens is currently equipped with a total of 725 thermonuclear warheads and 224 atomic bombs previously stored in stock.
When the Sapiens Company officially debuted, there were only 206 thermonuclear warheads and 224 atomic bombs.
The outside world is very worried about this. Sapiens is frantically expanding the size of its nuclear arsenal at a rate of producing 200 thermonuclear warheads per quarter.
Faced with the madness of Sapiens, America has recently restarted part of its heavy water refining plants and is also preparing to expand its nuclear arsenal.
Some elderly people who lived through the last century once again recalled those fearful days.
Therefore, Li Qingye is relatively safe now. As long as they are not determined to die together, the powers will never dare to use drastic measures to deal with him.
Of course, it is actually very difficult for the outside world to locate the elusive Li Qingye.
After all, the subway network of Sapiens Company is dense, and there are various underground cities. It is very difficult to locate the location of the management of Sapiens Company.
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The Space City is located 8.6 kilometers south of Puerto Ramon.
After the staff of Manila TV and Zhiren News Corporation finished recording the content, they were arranged to interview other places in the base.
Li Qingye, accompanied by Jose Garcia, head of the space city, and Antonio, chief engineer, visited the final assembly workshop of the Puerto Ramon Space City.
Antonio introduced to him: "Mr. Chairman, since the passivation technology of metal hydrogen propellant has not been practical, we have temporarily adopted the methane liquid oxygen engine."
"I've read your report before. Have you found the reasons for the failed launches?"
Antonio nodded. "It has been checked out. It was mainly due to the unreasonable layout of several sensors, which led to the computer system of the launch vehicle making a wrong judgment. It has been adjusted now."
Li Qingye turned his head and said, "Jose, go and take care of the launch mission at noon. Dr. Antonio will be here."
"Yes, Mr. Chairman."
Jose left the investigation team to work on the launch mission this afternoon.
Under the leadership of Antonio, Li Qingye entered the final assembly workshop.
A large carrier rocket with a height of 113 meters was lying on its side in the workshop, and hundreds of technicians were busy working with great concentration.
Of course, this is not the launch vehicle that will be launched today.
If it was a carrier rocket that was about to be launched, Antonio and Jose would not have brought Li Qingye to visit.
Although the explosion is not as strong as that of metallic hydrogen, once an explosion occurs, the power is still considerable.
The carrier rocket to be launched has been filled with methane and liquid oxygen, which poses certain risks.
Although this risk is very small, Jose and Antonio did not take it lightly. After all, the Russians had once experienced an accident in which a carrier rocket exploded at the launch site, blowing several senior officials who were on the scene to pieces.
A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall.
Li Qingye’s safety is related to the stability of Zhiren Company, and it cannot be overemphasized.
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Antonio explained to him in a low voice: "We have determined the data of the monkey-eating eagle in the first six test launches."
This large launch vehicle in front of us has a special name within the Sapiens company, the "Archaic Eagle-class launch vehicle."
This naming method is used to distinguish it from the launch vehicles of other forces.
Generally speaking, the America and Europa unions are mainly based on mythological terms, while Lucia is mainly based on scientific terms.
The Homo Sapiens Company mainly uses representative birds from the locations of each branch.
For example, the monkey-eating eagle in the Luzon branch, the fire-backed pheasant in the Siam branch, the green peacock in the Hongsawadi branch, the Malay hornbill in the Malaysian branch, the magpie robin in the Dongba branch, the nine-colored bird in the Nepal branch, and the black-tailed jungle fowl in the Ceylon branch.
As a large carrier rocket, it was named "Gall Eagle Class".
Li Qingye asked: "How much payload can be achieved near the Earth, synchronously and on the Moon?"
"The near-Earth load is 150 tons, the synchronous load is 100 tons, and the lunar load is 63 tons."
"Not bad! Almost as good as SpaceX's Space Launch System rocket."
Antonio smiled and shrugged. “Part of our technology is borrowed from SpaceX.”
Antonio did not feel ashamed of this. Patents in the aerospace field were useless. Major forces kept their aerospace technology tightly under wraps and would not allow other forces to interfere.
After deciding to develop aerospace technology, Li Qingye asked Chen Jianxiong to set up a technology collection office in the field business department, which was specifically responsible for "borrowing" aerospace technology from other forces.
Anyway, all the major aerospace bases and aerospace companies in the world have been harassed by the field business departments.
There are not many targets that can be used as reference for heavy-lift launch vehicles and super-heavy-lift launch vehicles.
For example, Antonio was a launch vehicle designer for the Lucia Space Group, and his teacher also participated in the design of the Proton launch vehicle.
Lucia's aerospace technology can only be described as "technology relying on archaeology."
In addition, America has the technology for heavy and super-heavy launch vehicles.
For example, the Saturn V developed in the 1960s, and the Falcon Heavy and Space Launch System developed by SpaceX in recent years.
When it comes to space launch systems, many people may feel very unfamiliar.
However, many people are probably very familiar with the project that uses the Space Launch System launch vehicle, which is NASA's ace project - the Artemis project.
The launch vehicle used by the Artemis project is the space launch system "developed" by Space Exploration Corporation.
This launch vehicle is actually pieced together by utilizing waste. Its engine is inherited from NASA's space shuttle inventory spare engine. After technical integration, the Space Launch System super-heavy launch vehicle was "developed".
NASA was at a loss, but fortunately America had a solid foundation in aerospace technology, otherwise the technology would have been discontinued long ago.
Some time ago, Artemis 1 was finally successfully launched after much hesitation.
Although Li Qingye joked that the Artemis project was a refurbished machine, he still recognized its technology.
The early model of the Space Launch System is designed to serve the Constellation program's manned mission, so its near-Earth payload is about 70 tons, and it has a thrust of 3,810 tons during launch.
As for the second-stage cargo model, SpaceX is currently integrating it. It is designed to have a near-Earth payload of about 130 tons and a launch thrust of approximately 4,173 tons. The height and total weight will be 117 meters and 2,948 tons respectively.
There are plans to develop a model with a near-Earth payload of 165 tons in the future.
So Sapiens borrowed the technology from the Space Launch System launch vehicle and then added its own.
