Chapter 172 Class
"After the road to reusable rockets was opened up, many commercial aerospace companies and national aerospace agencies have launched projects and conducted research.

We should be considered as an organization that has gone further on this road besides SpaceX, and in many aspects we will do better than SpaceX.

Therefore, our R&D investment is very high, and this R&D investment is continuous. We will not stop investing just because reusable rockets or other technologies can meet current needs.

In terms of the vision of space mining, current technology still has a lot of room for improvement.

It is precisely because of space mining that we will focus on the intelligence and flexibility of the design of reusable rockets."

Chen Yuanguang knew all the design details of the Pioneer II by heart, and even introduced the design ideas without reservation.

These are contents that can be made public. As long as the parameters and manufacturing process are not disclosed, it is useless to have design ideas.

It is the same as SpaceX has released a large amount of information related to the Falcon 9, which the outside world is unable to reverse engineer.

You know, SpaceX has even announced the structure of its rocket.

At the same time, Chen Yuanguang said this to give confidence to the officials present and let them know the advantages of Pioneer II. It can be regarded as a top-level promotion meeting personally organized by Chen Yuanguang.

The only regret is that Chen Yuanguang himself was unable to be present at the event.

At present, commercial space agencies are becoming more active, and capital flowing into the space sector is becoming more and more numerous and widespread. However, the bulk of demand in the space sector still comes from government agencies rather than commercial space companies.

Whether it is remote sensing satellites, communication satellites, reconnaissance satellites, meteorological satellites, etc., these are national-level needs.

Guangjia Aerospace can get European orders, but that is only a very small part, and only a country like France, which is naturally not so on good terms with America, will cut a small piece of the cake and give it to you.

There are also various conditions, such as technology transfer. Don't even think about other developed countries. Rocket launch orders from places like Japan, Korea, and England are not even a chance for Guangjia Aerospace.

Therefore, orders outside developed countries are particularly important to them. It is one thing that these places are not as rich as developed countries, but it is another thing that they have a strong demand for rocket transportation.

If we can convince these countries in South America, then countries like Southeast Asia and Africa will be no problem as well.

Of course, you can't let go easily if someone comes to you.

After the introduction, Chen Yuanguang said: "If you have any questions, please feel free to discuss them."

"Mr. Chen, you have already introduced the technology in sufficient detail, including the multi-engine bundled power system, the vertical recovery navigation and guidance control system, how the recovery landing buffer is designed, and the ground integrated measurement and control system deployed in the sea launch ship, etc.

Technically, I believe there must be no problem with Guangjia Aerospace's technology, or I believe in Guangjia Aerospace's technological research and development capabilities and its ability to make continuous investments. I would like to ask some broad questions.

That is, how do you think about how countries like us, which are not strong in technology and investment, should balance their investment in the aerospace field? "

Chen Yuanguang was speechless for a moment. Not to mention the third world countries, even the developed countries would find it almost impossible to catch up with the two giants, America and China, in the field of aerospace.

Many times the value of their investment is limited, and it is more about maintaining a certain level of competitiveness, keeping these people around, and preventing them from falling behind.

"I think we should be more pragmatic and start with some basic needs to increase the degree of autonomy and control as much as possible, such as starting with remote sensing satellites, meteorological satellites, and communication satellites, which are more in line with actual needs.

For example, the independent design of remote sensing satellites.

We compare it to a technology tree. After picking the fruits from these branches, we can consider moving forward in this direction, try to pick higher fruits in the same direction, or explore fruits in other directions.

In addition, I think we can establish a regional alliance to conduct joint research and development and technology sharing.”

After Chen Yuanguang finished speaking, the official asked: "Mr. Chen, if we later establish a research and development alliance in the aerospace field, would Guangjia Aerospace be willing to cooperate with us?

We mainly hope that Guangjia Aerospace can serve as a technical consultant and help us with technical planning."

Javier glanced at the other person, who had always been committed to establishing a regional technology alliance.

Europe has the European Space Agency to coordinate the development of the entire European space industry. Even if England leaves the European Union, it will not leave the European Space Agency.

On the contrary, these South American countries are all doing their own things in the aerospace field.

The main reason is that they have different ideas. Some want to cooperate with America, some want to cooperate with China, and some want to cooperate with Europe and Russia. Very few want to go it alone.

Among them, Brazil is the biggest advocate of going it alone and establishing a regional alliance.

One is that Brazil's economic situation is relatively good, and the other is that they have made certain achievements in the aerospace field and have successfully developed and launched many types of satellites.

Chen Yuanguang was quite interested after listening to it. "We can consider it. This is also a very interesting attempt for us."

Being able to decide the technical route of the regional alliance to a certain extent means that the power given to him is quite great, which shows Chen Yuanguang's public opinion and reputation around the world.

Chen Yuanguang only gave them one morning.

Later, when a regional space alliance was established by some South American countries, the initiators specially thanked Chen Yuanguang at the establishment ceremony:

"It is Mr. Chen's strong support that gives us the confidence and courage to conduct independent research and development. In the future, we will maintain close cooperation with Guangjia Aerospace."

This is a reputation mission, which has limited economic benefits but can bring unexpected rewards.

"Do you really believe what the Chinese say, that their technology is more advanced than SpaceX's Falcon 9?" Raul asked during the lunch break that day.

The Argentine is also miserable. He has a position, but it can only be counted as half.

Because they may be laid off at any time.

Even if he is an official, he may still lose his job.

Previously, Argentina's space work was under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Now that this department has been abolished, they have naturally been merged into other departments.

As for whether Mile will go crazy in the future and kill all the people in the aerospace industry, no one knows.

Therefore, Raul has been depressed since last year, and the risk of unemployment may befall this old man at any time.

But Argentina's inflation is no joke, and pension insurance and savings cannot withstand the risk at all. He can only hope that his savings in the Bank of America will allow him to enjoy his old age.

With deposits in America, they naturally don't want to see China become too strong.

"Of course, why not believe it?" Harvey asked back, "The Chinese are developing very fast in aerospace technology, far beyond our previous knowledge."

"I believe their technology is developing very quickly, but is it better than SpaceX?" Raul still didn't believe it.

In their eyes, SpaceX is like a god, subverting their understanding of the aerospace field. "Of course, unlike the Americans who do things first and then talk about them, they always do things quietly and talk about what we have done after we have achieved results." As a Bolivian, Harvey has had many dealings with the Chinese, and they have always had extensive cooperation with China in the aerospace field.

"For example, the Mars rover launched by the Chinese a few years ago had a much better obstacle avoidance function than the American LVS lander vision system."

China spends much less money on the aerospace sector than NASA, so it is a miracle that it has achieved what it has today.

"Stronger than LVS?" Raul naturally knew what LVS was, he knew it very well.

Because the Indian aerospace industry had come to Argentina to deceive them, they tried to sell the Tejas fighter jets to Argentina in order to snatch the order for the JF-17 from China.

In order to demonstrate their technological research and development capabilities, India boasted about their Mangalyaan rocket probe.

As a result, not long after the Indians arrived, Mangalyaan crashed, while China's Tianwen not only successfully entered orbit, but also successfully landed on Mars, and the rover is running on Mars.

Mangalyaan is just in outer space orbit around Mars.

Raul was incredulous: "You know, China still needed to rely on our detection station in 11."

China's first Mars probe was Yinghuo-1. At that time, because China did not have its own deep space probe, it cooperated with Russia and carried Russia's Forbes Soil. However, it failed to change its orbit after launch and crashed.

It was also because of this that Mangalyaan was repeatedly mocked by the Indians for successfully entering orbit using American technology.

“You should have seen that the Mangalyaan using the LVS has crashed, and the Chinese probe is still in Mars orbit.

It should be noted that this success was based on the fact that China was unable to obtain data and experience on landing on Mars from America, and did not have key detailed data on Mars' atmosphere, terrain, gravity, etc. that affect landing.

The LVS lander vision system adjusts the landing position by comparing images of the Martian surface taken by the orbiter.

Simply put, LVS is like a high-precision map taken in advance, which is then compared with the real-time terrain conditions taken by the airborne system to avoid obstacles.

Semi-intelligent at best, it is unable to stray from its pre-planned route.

China's technology relies directly on real-time detection of optical images to screen out safe landing points.

So we have great confidence in China's technology, and we have even greater confidence in Wright. Wright is Wright, and he is not China's Musk. "Javier concluded.

Since the establishment of Guangjia Aerospace, the outside world likes to describe Chen Yuanguang as China's Musk, and the Chinese media also liked to make this analogy at the beginning.

Ever since Chen Yuanguang successfully developed room-temperature superconductors, Chinese media gradually stopped calling it that because they felt Musk was not qualified. After topological semimetals, this term completely disappeared from the Chinese Internet.

On the contrary, in foreign media, they initially did not like to use the Chinese Musk to describe Chen Yuanguang, but now they insist on calling him that.

This also reflects the changing status of both sides and the struggles of the American media.

At first, people thought Chen Yuanningguang was not qualified, but later they wanted to create the illusion to the outside world that Chen Yuanguang was not as good as Musk.

"Well, maybe you're right," Raul said.

When they witnessed the successful launch of the huge rocket, Raul murmured to himself, "If we had a rocket like this, we wouldn't have to worry about being laid off, right?"

Javier was standing next to him. He sighed after hearing this and said, "If that happens, you probably have to worry about your president selling you and your technology to American Corporation."

The successful launch of Pioneer 2 did not cause much splash in China, because failure is news, but success is not.

Only space enthusiasts posted a few Weibo posts to celebrate.

Thanks to this show, a total of $3.2 million in orders were signed from these South American countries, spread over three years.

But it’s better to have it than not to have it. No matter how small a mosquito leg is, it’s still meat.

At this time, public opinion in China was focused on Chen Yuanguang's election as an academician.

"He's already an academician at the age of 20, but I have to take the postgraduate entrance examination twice."

“The gap between people is bigger than that between people and dogs”

"If the Nobel Prize is not given to the God of Light, we will give the honor to ourselves. Who else deserves it more than the God of Light?"

Related terms were pushed to the top of the trending searches on Weibo. If you searched for the terms, the most popular Weibo post would still be about pulling down the word:

"What's going on? Didn't the gz always say that they had to toast Hawking when he came? Guang Shen was elected as an academician of the two academies this time, who did he toast to?
We, the light chasers, will be the first ones not to let him go!
Also, was the Nobel Prize not awarded because the God of Light did not go to Sweden to toast?

If the God of Light had gone to Sweden to toast, I'm afraid last year's Nobel Prize selection would not have ended like this."

The number of comments on this Weibo post quickly exceeded 100, and netizens joked:

"Then I'm afraid he'll have to drink himself to death, and then he'll be honored posthumously."

"You know what. If the God of Light is killed, even if the rules are broken, America will force Sweden to give you a Nobel Prize. It's finally you who gets the prize. If you don't get it, we'll all get it."

“What’s going on, I thought last year was the year of boomerangs, but it feels like there are so many boomerangs this year too.

The boomerang of more respect for scientists abroad has come back. Is there any bigger job to do?"

"Come on, if Oppenheimer's fate alone is not enough to prove that there is no difference between foreign countries and China, then can't the fact that nerds in American TV series all occupy the bottom ecological niche in the campus ecological chain prove everything?

There is no other country that respects scientists as much as China.”

"Can we find a chief academician? I want to see Guang Shen become the chief academician."

Chen Yuanguang flew to Yanjing on a special plane arranged by the Chinese side to attend the certificate awarding ceremony for academicians.

After getting off the plane, Director Zhao came to pick up Chen Yuanguang in person, "Yuanguang, in addition to the certificate awarding ceremony, there is another very important task for you this time."

Chen Yuanguang knew that it was normal for him to want to see him.

"You say."

"For the class, the big guys have specially set aside an entire morning and hope that you will teach them. The content of the class is up to you to decide. You can express yourself freely. It is not a composition with a given topic."

(End of this chapter)