Chapter 659： [Build your own private launch center]

"NASA is very embarrassed now. It is estimated that they will never expect the birth of Star Arrow International and its rapid rise will make the pattern of the world's space community begin to undergo subtle changes." Luo Sheng said with a smile at the meeting.

At this moment's internal high-level meeting, Luo Sheng and the participating executives and the heads of major scientific research projects were discussing some core secret issues.

An executive at the meeting said: "The key lies in the North American military industrial system. Basically, companies that have supported NASA's decades of space development have participated. These companies are the core of North America's space status. NASA has to do well. No matter from the perspective of demand issues, promoting technological progress, and keeping the core military industry enterprises, although the position of the SLS project is very embarrassing, it is of great significance, and the probability of being cut is not estimated."

Luo Sheng nodded involuntarily, obviously approving this view.

The issue now being discussed is the discussion among the managers of Star Arrow International. The technical chief executives such as Yang Jian'an are basically unable to get in the way. This is not what they should consider, nor is it their strength.

The topic now should be the management post. Yang Jian'an and others are considered technical posts, but they are the core figures of Star Arrow International, so of course you should know some.

Luo Sheng said: "Although NASA is vigorously supporting the commercialization of the space industry, even if the support has been so great that other countries envy..."

It is indeed enviable. For example, SpaceX has received NASA's order support of up to 2.6 billion US dollars. It has been handed over to SpaceX from research and development to multiple missions. Star Arrow International has not yet seen the meaning of the order given by National Aerospace.

Because the order is given, it is very likely that the "national team" such as the Aerospace Science and Technology Group will not survive, because the market size is so large.

Fortunately, Luo Sheng has money, otherwise it may not be able to continue operations, but this attitude of the country obviously also saw Luo Sheng has money to transfuse Star Arrow International. From another perspective, it is not bad for Luo Sheng to give more blood. Luo Sheng knew this and knew it well.

Anyway, Star Arrow International has already decided on a super-large project-the space ladder.

With this project, I really eat a lifetime series, but the other list does not care a bit.

Luo Sheng then said: "... But the core of NASA is the traditional military giants. Boeing made $4.2 billion on the StarLiner manned spacecraft, and at least about $2 billion a year in projects such as SLS, Orion, X37B, etc. This all kills SpaceX. As for Lockheed Martin, North America’s first military giant, let alone."

An executive at the meeting went on to say, "Yes, from NASA's point of view, the commercial launch order for SpaceX is just to hit the black shops such as Boeing and Loma. Don't ask for prices, and it can save a lot of money for NASA. With this amount of money, SpaceX is only a small part of the reward for only 2.6 billion US dollars. At the same time, it also warns the other party not to make unreported high prices. NASA also raises SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Orbital Science to compete with you."

In any case, SpaceX is all NASA means. After all, people are winners from the last century and the bear race in the space race, of course, something.

Academics such as Academician Yang Jianan and other technical gurus heard a daze. There were so many corners in it, and they immediately felt involved in company management and competition and called the layman.

This kind of big game and intrigue is a big brain pain. It is better not to join in this area. You can honestly lead your team to do research and do it. Anyway, if you are short of funds, you can just ask Luo Sheng to reach out. He only has money. Be willing to spend money.

The meeting soon entered the next discussion topic, and one of the executives who attended the meeting immediately made a speech and reported: "The major plan being implemented by the company is to build our own private launch center. The current project has been started at the beginning of the year and it is expected to be around 2020. Officially put into use, the first test flight of the "Star Arrow 20S" super heavy rocket will use our own launch site."

The topics that interested scientists such as Yang Jian'an came, and when it comes to technical issues, it's different. The previous topics simply won't catch up.

"The launch site is located on a medium-sized isolated island in the Indian mud'Linjia County' on the equator line. We have leased the dredgers'Tian Kun' and'Tian Whale' to artificially expand the island, within a year The area of ​​the island will triple."

While reporting from the company's headquarters here, in the area of ​​Linjia County, near the equator line in the southern waters, two dredgers that made the entire Southeast Asian countries envious are carrying out reclamation and land expansion projects.

"Tian Kun" is equipped with four different types of reamer, general, clay, rock digging and heavy rock digging. Compared with the big brother "Tianjing", it can excavate rock with higher hardness on the seabed, which can be described as rock cutting like mud. It can be called an excavator.

This island-making artifact not only prohibits export, but is not rented out to foreigners. Southeast Asian countries can only be greedy and not to be used. With this island-building artifact, a large island that can build an airport can be built in one year, and Boeing can take off and land. The kind of 747 aircraft.

And countries in Southeast Asia have built a small island and started in ten or twenty years, can this gap be envied?

If Eagle Sauce came to this sea area for an autumn breeze, the rabbit directly shot a few islands on the spot to suppress it.

A senior executive who attended the meeting distributed the prepared paper documents to Yang Jianan and others who attended the meeting and said, "This is the basic layout plan of the launch base."

The name has long been determined, and it is called "Xinggang Launch Center". Not far from the launch base is the "Xinggang Ring Orbit Transshipment Center". The world's largest intelligent unmanned cargo terminal is currently under construction. among.

The island has now been leased from Inkpad by Star Arrow International for 75 years, and has the priority to renew the contract. It has been discussed for several months that the agreement reached during the lease, Star Arrow International has a high degree of autonomy on the island during the lease. Hire a security company to protect legal assets. In other words, Star Arrow International can establish its own regional denial/anti-intervention force to protect its legal assets.

This is a must. In the future, rocket assembly, production, storage, and R&D centers will be arranged here. There are many high-tech things, all overseas, if there is no stick in hand, Star Arrow International will also Dare to enter, the risk is too great.

With this right, it is different.

Inkpad also saw the island expansion and economic benefits, and finally signed the contract, the matter is actually very simple, just collect the tax rent, the rent is paid in 15 years and delivered in installments.

The tax rate created by the output value on the island has also been agreed upon in the negotiations between the two parties, and everything is handled according to the contract, and the other party cannot blindly change the tax rate.

"Entering the launch site area, all kinds of leaders are very tropical under the shade of the coconut grove. Two roads in the launch site are connected in series with a takeoff control command center, a rocket vertical assembly test plant, a launch tower, and a measurement and control center. The roads in the factory area are ordinary three. Class highway, but has certain requirements for turning radius to meet special transportation needs."

At this time, Luo Sheng was silently looking at the copy of the planning book in his hand.

The two rocket vertical assembly plants are the highest and core part of the launch site. The test plant has a total height of 165.5 meters, 22 floors above ground, and a total construction area of ​​55,120 square meters. It has created many "world's most": the world's largest steel gate , The world's highest single-storey factory building, the world's highest truss installation, etc.

For this project, foreign companies cannot accept this project list because it is too difficult. Only China’s infrastructure companies can take over this job. Even if foreign companies have the strength to take orders, Star Arrow International will not hand over the project to them. Some things involve confidential issues.

If you want to take over this list, you have to eat a lot of "hard bones", such as: ultra-high formwork construction technology, ultra-high gate steel truss frame installation technology, ultra-high span steel roof installation technology, ultra-large-scale steel structure Kyoto control technology for embedded parts, special non-standard crane beams and track super-high installation technology, etc.

In addition, many majors such as aerospace-level power supply, fire protection, electrical engineering, and automatic control must be coordinated with each other.

There is no doubt that only the national team's infrastructure group can take on this project.

Due to the environmental factors of geographical location, the construction of the launch site also faces the "three high" and "three strong" factors, namely: high temperature, high humidity, high salt and strong typhoon, heavy rainfall, and strong thunderstorm. Under the difficult environment.

If you are in an empty rocket vertical assembly test plant, people are extremely small here. A building with a height of more than 100 meters is equipped with a 22-story mobile working platform, and there must be a track for the transfer of rocket transportation on the ground.

The building uses an average of 395 kg of steel per square meter. This is something that the project contractor has not encountered in his life. The dense steel bars and beam-column cross-nodes must not only meet the requirements of the frame beam-column, but also not weaken the strength of the steel structure. The construction team must The tiresome correction.

The launch tower is about 3 kilometers away from the rocket vertical assembly test manufacturer and is connected by orbit.

In addition, six fixed rocket recovery landing platforms will be established, four of which will be used as routine and two will be used as emergency backup.

Luo Sheng nodded with satisfaction after reading the planning materials, put down the materials and said: "Also, the company will recruit people as soon as possible to build a sea-based floating recycling port as soon as possible."

"understand."

Luo Sheng: "Is the company budget enough?"

"There is another 138.4 billion yuan It must be enough to burn this year."

Luo Sheng: "Then you will inject capital at the end of the year."

The sea-based floating recycling port is an important part of the offshore recycling platform. The barge is still too small and not very stable. The future Star Arrow 20S super heavy rocket cannot meet the demand.

The newly recruited engineers will be responsible for the construction of a floating recycling port on the sea, which will be deployed to the high seas according to the plan.

70% of the earth’s area is the ocean, and at least 70% of the ocean’s area is the high seas, so half of the earth’s surface should be on the high seas.

Star Arrow International plans to build 20 sea-based floating recycling ports in the future. The branch is on the high seas of the world. The launch frequency of the future construction of the space ladder must be quite high frequency. If you don’t prepare much, you will definitely be unable to recover in the future.

The space ladder itself is time-consuming. If it affects the progress of the project, the construction time of the ladder will continue to extend, which is unacceptable to Luo Sheng.

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