Because Wang Bin and their sky technology have made a new breakthrough in the field of pulse detonation engine recently, the pulse detonation rocket engine installed on this aircraft. Its thrust and other performance are much better than the previous Phoenix kt1, the above pulse detonation rocket engine.
So, when the plane took off, it quickly reached Mach 12 or more and was still accelerating.
The space plane driven by Zhao Feng broke through the atmosphere and reached the low earth orbit altitude in less than three minutes. However, at this time, the aircraft continues to accelerate. After all, although the aircraft has reached the low earth orbit altitude, it naturally needs an engine to provide power to push the aircraft into the space low earth orbit because it has not yet entered the orbit.
After successfully entering the earth''s low earth orbit, the phoenix-2kt aerospace plane did not fly to a higher orbit because there was no medium and high orbit test in the test subjects. Instead, it entered the atmosphere again after circling the earth for two times, that is, four hours, and returned to the desert industrial zone of Tiangong technology.
In the following days, Wang Bin and Tiangong technology conducted a test flight of medium and high orbit subjects for the aircraft, and all achieved complete success.
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The successful test flight of Phoenix II series, the first aerospace aircraft, is of great significance for their Aerospace Technology in exploring space in the future.
As mentioned earlier, with this space plane, the crape myrtle space station of sky technology will not have to rely entirely on rockets to launch various components and scientific research equipment in the next construction and assembly process. In the process of building the space station, except for those large compartments, They can use this space plane for transportation. After all, this space plane also has such a large carrying capacity.
Even in high orbit, this space plane also has a large carrying capacity, so in the future, launching high orbit satellites, such as geosynchronous satellites, will not use expensive rockets at all, but use cheaper space planes to launch.
Moreover, due to the carrying capacity of this space plane, they can also bring more satellites at one time.
Therefore, after their SkyPlane of Tiangong technology completely completed the test flight of low, medium and high orbit, Wang Bin''s SkyPlane immediately put into the tight transportation of various scientific research equipment and materials for the space station.
Although, due to the prototype of this aerospace aircraft, Wang Bin only produced two, and the follow-up is still under intense manufacturing, the mere addition of these two aerospace aircraft has accelerated the construction process of Tiangong technology in the space station with the naked eye.
After all, rockets can only be launched once a day at most, which is very powerful. Now no country in the world can do it. Even their Tiangong technology can''t launch a rocket every day in the past period of time.
You know, this is a heavy rocket with a weight of 3000 tons. Its assembly and construction are not easy, and a lot of preparations must be made before launching.
But the space plane is different. It can take off after simple maintenance and adding fuel after each flight.
Therefore, it is possible for an aerospace plane not to travel to and from space once a day, even two or three times.
At the same time, with this space plane, it is no longer a fantasy for them to assemble and produce a 100 ton real spacecraft in space. As long as they produce spacecraft modules on the ground, they can let this space plane send these modules to space and then assemble them.
In addition, this aircraft will play a great role in space tourism and the establishment of space factories in the future.
It can be said that today''s Tiangong technology has completely left its international peers far behind. Even the official can''t compare with Tiangong technology. Fortunately, Tiangong technology is also a regular army. Don''t be afraid of what the official thinks of Tiangong technology.
At the same time, with the development of Tiangong technology in aerospace, it has now walked out of the aerospace road that other countries in the world have not gone through. Although there are not many difficulties, there is no doubt that with the joint efforts of Tiangong technology and the government, these difficulties have been solved one by one by yitiangong technology.
At the same time, Tiangong technology or Huaxia has really mastered the deep space exploration technology, both technically and in other aspects.
Therefore, with the advancement of the construction of the space station, Wang Bin and their Tiangong technology have also started the next plan, that is, lunar exploration and manned lunar landing.
In addition, there are Mars and Venus exploration program, asteroid belt exploration program and so on.
Of course, these plans were made by Wang Bin and Tiangong technology together with the government, but Tiangong technology is still the main technology.
After all, no matter how powerful the development of Tiangong technology is, it is just an enterprise. Even Tiangong technology cannot complete such a huge plan alone. It must be coordinated by national forces, or even the kind dominated by national forces.
At the same time, with the successful flight test of this aerospace aircraft, the spacecraft R & D and Design Laboratory of Tiangong technology has also opened a larger aerospace aircraft R & D plan, which is the goal that Tiangong technology has been working hard before, that is, the R & D plan of super large aerospace aircraft with a takeoff weight of 700-800 tons.
Moreover, since Tiangong technology has completed the ignition and operation test of the experimental reactor of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor, it means that Tiangong technology has mastered the controllable nuclear fusion technology.
So it is theoretically feasible for the new super large aerospace aircraft to use nuclear fusion as power.
Therefore, the space laboratory uses controllable nuclear fusion as power on this super large space shuttle. In this way, this space shuttle has the ability to navigate within the solar system, and its speed in space can be higher.
Then the time to reach other planets will be greatly shortened, especially when flying to the two planets closest to the earth, namely Mars and Venus, can even arrive within a week. In this way, the era of real aerospace and interstellar colonization will come.
After all, with controllable nuclear fusion technology, their space plane doesn''t have to worry about fuel problems at all, and because the space plane is large enough, all kinds of supplies that can be carried inside can also provide astronauts with what they need for a long time to survive.