It was when Zhao Feng and his team were traveling happily in space. At this time, in the aerospace plane assembly workshop of X aerospace company on the other side of the ocean, a huge aerospace plane had been assembled and was ready to go offline.
At this time, all the middle and senior executives and R & D personnel of their company have been present, and even their officials have sent senior officials to the offline ceremony.
After all, as the most powerful private aerospace company in their country, company X not only produced the first space shuttle except Huaxia, but also was the most powerful aerospace company in the world before the rise of Tiangong technology. Even some aerospace powers had a very big gap compared with this company.
Of course, since its establishment, the company has also officially discovered a large number of spacecraft for them, including satellites, lunar probes and Mars probes.
At the same time, the company is also the first company in the world to realize rocket recovery technology, which can be said to have strong technical strength.
Of course, if there is no Tiangong technology, according to the development of their company, their company will be the most powerful aerospace company in the world for a long time in the future. At the same time, it is likely to become the first feat to realize manned landing on Mars.
After all, their company has spent countless human, material and financial resources for this project.
At the same time, their company has also experienced countless failures for the Starship project. Up to now, the success rate of its starship landing is still very low. However, even so, before the emergence of sky technology, they were encouraged and continued to invest a lot of human and material resources in R & D.
However, the emergence of Tiangong technology has broken their dominance in aerospace. In just a few years, sky technology has developed rapidly from launching light rockets with a load of only a few hundred kilograms to medium and heavy rockets with a carrying capacity of several tons or even dozens of tons. Then, with the momentum of lightning, it has developed an aerospace plane that can fly in space.
But this is not the end. Then Tiangong technology developed medium-sized aerospace aircraft with a carrying capacity of dozens of tons and engines used by various aerospace vehicles, leaving their x aerospace company far behind.
In fact, no matter their x aerospace company, other private Aerospace Companies in their country, or other aerospace institutions in the world, they are very unwilling to do so, but so what? After all, aerospace technology is not other technologies, and can only be developed step by step. Even if the current technology of Tiangong science and technology is stagnant, let them catch up without a hundred and eighty years, They will never catch up.
Moreover, it is impossible for Tiangong technology to stagnate.
Therefore, in order to catch up with the technology of Tiangong technology as soon as possible, many of their top technologies are used on this aerospace plane.
Of course, the latest technology also means immature technology. After all, these technologies have not been directly tested by the market. After all, the technologies they developed are different from those of Tiangong technology. Tiangong technology, that is, the technologies Wang Bin purchased from the technology mall, are actually mature technologies that have been tested for a long time or even the test of war. Naturally, After the research and development, Wang Bin and their Tiangong technology are naturally very confident in this.
At this time, the space shuttle produced by X aerospace company is also the same as the first space shuttle produced by Tiangong technology. The whole aircraft is covered with red cloth without its appearance.
At the same time, the president, senior executives and their officials of X space company all stood on the podium next to the plane and spoke generously, while the elites of X space company and their Aerospace
Professionals are also very excited.
Because they know that once they successfully test fly the SkyPlane, it means that they will break the monopoly of Tiangong technology in many technical aspects of the field of SkyPlane, such as the engine of SkyPlane.
You know, before that, the only company in the world that can produce aerospace aircraft engines, that is, pulse detonation rocket engines, was Tiangong technology, and sky technology had only about 10 ton engines for unsold engines, and they did not sell more than 10 ton engines at all.
The engines equipped on their SkyPlane are completely developed by them, and they do not use the same technology from abroad, including materials.
Therefore, both the senior management of X aerospace company, their officials and many people in the whole western continent have great expectations for the overhead space shuttle and hope that the first flight will be successful.
Of course, in fact, many people on the whole scene are full of worry. Yes, these people are the R & D and design personnel of the aerial plane, because no one knows better than them that the aerial plane actually has many fatal defects in safety. Take the engine of the aerial plane for example, due to material problems, It is impossible for the engine to run for a long time, because the pulse detonation rocket engine is very different from the ordinary rocket engine. These materials may not have any problem on the ordinary rocket engine, but on the pulse detonation rocket engine. But it can''t run for a long time.
However, the problem comes again. The space plane is not a rocket. Generally speaking, the rocket engine does not need to run for a long time. As long as the spacecraft is put into orbit, the task of the rocket engine will be completed.
But the engine of the aircraft is different. The engine of the aerospace aircraft should not only be able to send the aerospace aircraft into the predetermined orbit, but also need the engine to be able to ignite for many times and run for a long time in space. At the same time, it also needs to be far lower than the rocket in terms of economy. Otherwise, it is better to use the rocket directly.
It is precisely because these R & D and designers are very aware of the defects of the overhead aircraft, so they are very worried about the problems of the overhead aircraft during the test flight. After all, the overhead aircraft is not an aircraft in the atmosphere.
Even for the aircraft in the atmosphere, if the engine has major problems during the test flight, or its design itself has fatal defects, then the aircraft is very dangerous to the pilot during the test flight, not to mention the aerospace aircraft.
For this, not only the R & D and design personnel of X aerospace company know this, but also the senior management of their company and the official enterprises who came to the offline ceremony know this clearly.
If we follow the normal procedures, we can be sure that the plane cannot test fly at this time. We must solve all these fatal problems before we can test fly. But now both the senior management of X aerospace company and their officials can''t wait, so they can only take it on their head, At the same time, pray for the success of the test flight.