Chapter 353 Simulating the lunar surface
The head of China Aerospace is obviously also a big shot in the Chinese system. Considering future development, his potential is obviously greater than other central enterprises in the financial sector of the same level.

However, he certainly would not have the illusion that he was a superior leader because of his rank, and that Guangjia Aerospace was an enterprise under the jurisdiction of China Aerospace.

In the past, there were rumors in Yanjing that Chen Yuanguang wanted to take over China Aerospace. Others thought it was just a rumor, but he knew very well that it was not a rumor. This was what the bigwigs at the time thought.

It’s just that Chen Yuanguang himself did not take the job.

He was very clear that he was a character that could be replaced at any time, and his status in the eyes of the big guys was nothing compared to Chen Yuanguang.

Not to mention that in the eyes of the big guys, even in America, no one would come to assassinate him, but they did target Chen Yuanguang.

"Okay, it's a deal." Hearing Chen Yuanguang agree, he followed up with this.

Chen Yuanguang hesitated: "For a company as large as the Aerospace Group, it might be a bit abrupt to make such a sharp turn.

It will take time for the entire management level to adapt to this.”

Chen Yuanguang saw that everyone was engaged in aerospace work and China Aerospace was going to build an international lunar research station on the moon this year. It was inevitable that drastic adjustments to the internal mechanisms at this critical time would affect the completion of their goals this year.

The deeper question is, if you do this in state-owned enterprises, what will happen next? If people find that it seems that artificial intelligence is good to manage humans, and implant such a concept in the public, this is a taboo among taboos.

It's not that this will become a reality, but when the other party implements the light armor aerospace management mechanism within China's aerospace industry, the party whose interests are damaged will inevitably use this as an excuse to eliminate the other party.

A very important point for the smooth implementation of Light Armor Aerospace is that its organizational structure is relatively simple, and those who hold power have not yet fully enjoyed the benefits of power, so there is relatively little resistance to depriving them of power.

For a company like China Aerospace, which has had a complex network of relationships for more than 20 years, the resistance it would cause would be unimaginable if you were to make such drastic changes.

The means of counterattack by those whose interests have been harmed will only be more brutal than Chen Yuanguang predicted.

Chen Yuanguang didn't believe that the other party would not think of this if he could climb to this position. He was afraid that the other party would come up with something weird and then publicize it as light armor aerospace experience.

This is just like after Huawei became popular, a group of private enterprise bosses in China only knew how to talk to their employees about dedication and the so-called wolf culture, but never mentioned the high salaries offered by Huawei.

Even when he hears employees complaining, he would criticize them for having no vision.

In the end, these exploited employees pointed the finger at Huawei, saying it was all Huawei's fault for its wolf culture, which made our boss go crazy like a lunatic every day.

Chen Yuanguang does not want the employees within China Aerospace to have such ideas, as this will be detrimental to Guangjia Aerospace's poaching of people from China Aerospace in the future.

When others hear this, I won’t jump from one fire pit to another.

"Don't worry, China Aerospace has 17 employees, and we will definitely not make any overall adjustments casually.

My current idea is to only make some attempts in a few core departments, such as institutions such as research institutes.

Yuanguang, we in China Aerospace have always envied you, especially our R&D personnel.

Whatever innovation we want to make, we have to write a thick feasibility report in the early stage, and repeatedly review it. Experts from all walks of life will come to meetings to help us review it.

To ensure that there will be results, it does not mean that you will definitely succeed, but that your project can create value even if it fails.

Our internal R&D personnel have criticized this a lot, feeling that although we are a company in name, in reality our management model is no different from when we were in the past and were in ministries.

In recent years, every time I talked with the school leaders of the first-tier domestic universities, their general response was that the best students had been poached by Guangjia Aerospace, and we could only recruit second-rate talents.

For example, at Yenching University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, we are not recruiting second-rate talents from Yenching University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, but second-rate talents from aerospace students across the country. After taking the number of college graduates across the country as the base, we are only recruiting the bottom-rate talents from Yenching University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

This will have limited impact on us in the short term, but in the long run, it will definitely affect the entire echelon construction, and problems will arise sooner or later in the future.”

This is the truth.

As prosperous as Boeing was in the past, it is now in decline.

It’s because of the gap in talent training.

Boeing would not have collapsed so quickly, but the pandemic has accelerated its talent collapse.

As a top leader who rose through the ranks from grassroots employees in the aerospace sector, he knew very well that the employees recruited in recent years were not at the same level as before.

As they joke among themselves, the people they recruited before were for the moon landing program, but now they can only work on the space station.

There is also a gap between talents.

However, in the view of knowledgeable people within China Aerospace, as Guangjia Aerospace's business expands in the future, their talent gap will only get bigger and bigger, and it will become increasingly difficult for China Aerospace to recruit people.

In recent years, we have been able to recruit lower-tier doctoral and master's students from Yanhang, but in a few years, we may only be able to recruit lower-tier master's and doctoral students from Jinling.

This expectation is the fundamental reason why the other party wants to change.

And if Guangjia Aerospace had not taken the initiative to poach people from Huaguo Aerospace, at least half of Huaguo Aerospace's experienced engineers would have been poached. The remaining half were not poached because most of them had already established families and careers in Yanjing and did not want to move to Shenhai.

In the past five years, employees who left China Aerospace to join Guangjia Aerospace all submitted their resumes on their own, without specifically looking for headhunters to poach them. Even so, the number of employees leaving China Aerospace is still increasing year by year.

Ever since major new energy vehicle companies began to invest heavily in satellite networks and planned to build their own satellite networks, these new energy vehicle companies have also poached many people from China Aerospace.

Although many managers hold the idea that they will only work for a few years and no one will care what happens after they leave, even if China's aerospace industry becomes as lacking in talent as Boeing in the future, I am no longer employed here and the responsibility cannot be traced back to me.

But he is different. He has feelings for China Aerospace and he won't do anything that he thinks is difficult. If someone else is parachuted into China Aerospace in the future, he will definitely not do it.

So he still wanted to make some positive attempts, even if it might cost him a price.

This is a bit like how the Silicon Valley giants are treated too well, with all kinds of entertainment facilities available in their companies, and the cafeterias are extremely luxurious. This has forced domestic Internet companies to follow suit, with cafeterias, game rooms, billiard rooms, and basketball courts in their companies.

Top talents from the world's top universities can move around the world. If these domestic Internet companies still engage in illegal work, they will not be able to attract top talents at all.

The same is true for China Aerospace. The siphoning effect of Light Armor Aerospace on talents has forced them to make certain improvements to counter the attraction of Light Armor Aerospace. Chen Yuanguang felt like he was robbing someone else's things, but he didn't feel embarrassed. Instead, he felt a subtle sense of pride.

"Is Light Armor Aerospace already so attractive to talented people? It seems that the working environment I have built for everyone is not bad." This is roughly the mentality.

“I think this creates a contradiction in that if you target only a few individuals, the cost will be very high.

Because it involves transforming your internal management system, using the old OA system will definitely not work, and you may even have to rebuild the entire internal management system.

Then there must be dedicated people to be responsible for the creation of artificial intelligence for non-standard work, and this requires sufficiently professional people to handle it.

Let’s not talk about internal resistance, just talking about the cost, the cost is at least 50 million.

The more people participate in the new system, the more diluted the cost can be. We calculate based on a minimum of 17 million yuan. If 300 of you use it together, the cost per person will be less than yuan, which is no different from a company distributing stationery.

If it is only used for research, I am not sure how many employees there are in the internal research institute of China Aerospace. Let's assume there are 10,000 employees, and the cost of each person is 5,000 yuan.

More importantly, you will naturally cause a split within China Aerospace, and those employees who are still managed by others will feel that they are not human beings and cannot enjoy a more equal management system.
This is also a difficult balance.”

Chen Yuanguang has completely entered into the role of a manager and is able to think about the possible problems he may face from a realistic perspective.

If he had just graduated from college, he would definitely ask, "Of course it's a good idea." This management system sounds good, and it would be a good thing to promote it to a group of people first.

And now he can find the problems there.

For China Aerospace, a cost of 50 million is nothing. The key is to let opponents use it as an excuse to oppose and take the opportunity to defeat the opponent.

Determination is what matters at this time, Chen Yuanguang thought. He felt that he had already given all the reminders he needed.

"Yuan Guang, thank you very much. I will think about it carefully."

While touring the lunar simulation environment currently under construction, the two did not talk about the matter anymore as there were other people around.

"We built a ground-based space environment simulation device in Harbin a few years ago, which mainly simulates the environment of the space station.

There is also a simulation of the lunar surface, but it mainly simulates the extreme environments such as temperature difference, high vacuum, multiple radiation, and charged lunar dust. In addition, ultraviolet rays, cosmic rays, electron radiation, etc. will also be simulated, and even a little lunar dust will be included.

For example, the project was built by us and Harbin Institute of Technology. Its lunar dust chamber is a vacuum chamber, and an electron accelerator is connected to the left side of the chamber wall to charge the lunar dust negatively. The X-ray source on the right and the deuterium lamps in the front and back are used as ultraviolet radiation sources to charge the lunar dust positively. The roof of the chamber is equipped with a lunar dust shower mechanism to simulate the dust falling phenomenon on the lunar surface. "An engineer from China Aerospace walked in front to introduce.

This time, they located their simulated lunar base in Yudu because the terrain of the mountain city of Yudu is most suitable for building a simulated lunar base.

The entire venue is underground, and even under the lights, it still seems a little dim.

"A big part of the reason for simulating lunar dust is to design new space suits. Charged lunar dust has a strong static charge on its surface, which can easily adhere to the space suit and the probe surface, thus damaging the space suit.

Our version of the space suit was taken to the lunar dust chamber for full testing before it was finalized to ensure its durability." Another engineer added.

“The lunar simulation base we built this time was mainly based on NASA’s opinions.

NASA has converted a giant 620 million gallon neutral buoyancy laboratory to the lunar surface for astronaut training.

When we communicated with NASA, they built a pool that was 40 feet deep, 202 feet long, and 102 feet wide, and then tried to simulate the feeling of the moon surface as much as possible under the water.”

Both China and America want to send astronauts to the moon.

China's timetable is 2030, while America's lunar landing project, called the Artemis program, plans to send people to the moon in 2024.

So they built a lunar simulation laboratory for astronaut training as early as 22 years ago.

Astronauts have been replaced one after another for underwater training, but five years have passed and America has not yet gone up.

As time kept pushing back, American astronauts treated their underwater training as a vacation, since there was no way they could go to the moon anyway.

"And our underwater simulation will be more complete than what NASA does."

"Let me correct you. This underwater laboratory was not built by NASA. NASA contracted it to a company called V2X."

"We will not only simulate the feeling of lunar soil, but also the gravity on the moon, including the temperature difference on the lunar surface and cosmic rays, etc. We will simulate them as much as possible. The biggest difficulty now is how to simulate the lunar dust with a little bit of water."

After listening to the engineers’ introduction, Chen Yuanguang said, “Sorry, let me interrupt you. The most important thing about the underwater environment is to train the HBM robot.

Therefore, the purpose of building the lunar simulation training base this time is not only to make the conditions on the lunar surface as close as possible, but also to make all parameters as realistic as possible.

Rather, we just need to design the factors that may affect the operation of the robot.

Some things that have no impact on the robot do not need to be simulated.

Moon dust is one of those factors that doesn’t have much of an impact, so we don’t need to consider it.”

Chen Yuanguang's logic is very simple. The most important purpose of building this is to train robots so that HBM robots can go directly to the moon to work in the future.

We want to train robots here.

It doesn't mean that we actually have to build a base with an environment exactly the same as the moon's surface.

"So we only need to consider factors such as soil, gravity, temperature differences, and cosmic rays that may affect the robot's work?"

"Correct."

"If that's the case, then it's easy to handle. The data collected by the exploration robots we sent to the moon in the past are enough to tell us which factors the robots are sensitive to."

(End of this chapter)