Technology: Breaking the Global Monopoly

Chapter 2386 August

It is impossible for a company that does not have close cooperation with Jiuzhou Technology and does not have a good enough relationship with the Daxia government to have a factory area in Kunlun City.

As the company with the highest level of process technology and the largest scale of foundry for mid-to-high-end chips in Daxia's semiconductor industry, Xiaxin Technology has sufficiently important relationships both with Jiuzhou Technology and with Daxia officials. Therefore, it not only has a factory in Kunlun City, but also has reserved office space in the city center. Once the construction of Kunlun's inner city is completed, it can send its own engineers into the city to design and decorate the site.

During this period of time, a number of elite executives from top companies, institutions and universities can be said to have clearly experienced what a more socialized modern urban lifestyle is like.

Although the Xinke District in Rongcheng City is already extremely sci-fi, after all, you cannot stay in the Xinke District for a long time each time, and many areas are inaccessible to outsiders. Unlike here in Kunlun City, although there are not so many citizens, there are many more areas where you can stay than in the Xinke District.

After they left Kunlun City and returned to their companies and schools, they canceled all holiday plans and began an extremely intensive meeting schedule.

In the process, quite a few executives who were not familiar with technology were excluded. At the same time, Daxia Aerospace Group, Yanjing Research Institute and other Daxia official corporate organizations were also discussing how much resources to invest in it.

As for whether or not to join the Moon City project, there is no suspense at all.

At the first high-level meeting, the Daxia official made the final decision: "We must focus on developing our own technology. We must also focus on projects related to the ecological construction of extraterrestrial planets, including the construction of lunar cities."

Since Jiuzhou Technology is already a leader in this area, we should not be ashamed to ask questions, dare to learn, and take the initiative to learn!

And in the process of cooperation, our scientists can also learn and improve.

My idea is to do both things well!

Everyone should try to come up with a few better solutions. Don’t worry too much about how much resources to invest. The most important thing is to learn as much technology as possible and grow! ”

Now Daxia has the world's top high-end manufacturing industry, and the underdeveloped areas within the country also have low- and medium-end industries that have been transferred. The purchasing power of Xia yuan is stronger than the previous quarter, and the consumption data of local residents is also increasing year by year. They are truly "rich people" with enough confidence in their pockets, so they can speak so generously.

Unlike the United States, which now wants to print money through unlimited QE and force the sale of U.S. debt, there are no big buyers who can swallow this bitter fruit.

However, the United States has now realized its former wish. After the "strong decline" of the US dollar, some mid-range industries have indeed returned to the country.

However, after these mid-range industries returned to the United States, they basically received high subsidies and raised the prices of their products for sales.

The answer is that local costs are too high, there are no cluster industries to lower costs, and workers' wages are high, so they have to sell at high prices. Unfortunately, the US government cannot fine these manufacturing companies that eat both ends, but has to say that it will increase subsidies to lower costs for factories and is willing to subsidize product sales so that voters can use cost-effective local products.

With so much spending, the military budget that has been called for to increase every year has begun to shrink unknowingly.

Of course, the military-industrial complex is not in the habit of just sitting there and waiting for death. When it was known that the military budget could not satisfy their appetite in the short term, the American military-industrial complex began to build various factories in the country to receive subsidies.

Part of the products are sold domestically, and the majority are sold to overseas bases, with profits being made from both military and civilian uses.

Just when everyone thought that the global situation of the rise of the East and the decline of the West would change in such a peaceful and turbulent environment, the Daxia government and Jiuzhou Technology Company jointly issued a project launch announcement.

"On the construction of a lunar defense system..."

In this announcement, the arrangement of Daxia Enterprise Organization cooperating with Jiuzhou Technology to build the Moon City and handing it over to Jiuzhou Xinghai Company for operation was clearly written.

At the same time, when the time came, Jiuzhou Technology sent invitations to qualified financial institutions and companies with sufficient funds around the world, inviting them to "join in the celebration."

When faced with this invitation letter, these financial institutions and enterprises had no resistance at all. Nine out of ten chose to reply immediately and agree, and the remaining one was already arranging travel plans for its senior executives to Kunlun City, Daxia.

In addition, the opening ceremony of the Global Mech Challenge has also been scheduled for August 28th.

August.

The world's focus is on Kunlun City in Daxia.

Although the team members of Xishu Rongcheng City were a little jealous, they paid much more attention than ever before to Jiuzhou Xinghai Company's "Mars Exploration Rover Launch Project."

Even several senior members of this team revealed to the senior management of Jiuzhou Xinghai Company after some important meetings that they could help to make connections and get Daxia Aerospace Group to cooperate again on the Mars exploration project.

However, this time, the technical executives of Jiuzhou Xinghai Company did not accept this extremely precious help, but ambiguously rejected the help.

Engineers Li Jian and Zhang Tianhao took time out of their busy schedules to personally participate in the entire launch process of the Mars Exploration Rover.

As he watched the rocket rise, a group of photographers in the media area of ​​the launch center were taking pictures, but Zhang Tianhao did not relax.

The orbital orbits of the Blue Star and Mars are different from those of the Moon, and there is a huge difference. The closest distance between the two planets is 5400 million kilometers. If the launch window is very bad, the distance can even be as far as hundreds of millions of kilometers.

Although Jiuzhou Technology is now uniquely strong in the field of aerospace, and has the most powerful energy technology and engine power technology, it still needs to shorten the distance as much as possible, save fuel and shorten the time when facing such a long distance. The best window for the launch of the Mars rover is an opportunity that has been waiting for 26 months. If it is missed this time, it will either have to wait another 26 months next time or face a greater test of the journey. Engineer Li Jian seemed to have noticed the anxiety in Zhang Tianhao's heart. This old man who has worked in Jiuzhou Technology Company for many years has a very open-minded mentality and strong psychological quality.

He said beside Zhang Tianhao: "Before we launched the Mars rover, the average flight speed of the international Mars probe was generally tens of thousands of kilometers per hour. Although it seems very fast, it is all due to the vast power of the universe and has little to do with our human technological capabilities.

In addition, differences in orbital correction and payload weight will also cause speed fluctuations. It took Daxia's Tianwen-1 half a year to barely reach Mars. In addition, Europe's Mars Express probe also took half a year to complete its interstellar voyage. So we don't need to be too stressed. This is the best launch window, but it is not always the best launch opportunity for Jiuzhou Xinghai Company. "

Zhang Tianhao nodded slightly when he heard the comfort from Li Jian, the "grandfather" who was already in his seventies.

He has read a lot of professional books over the years, and with the help of Taoyao and other special supplements, he has carried out intensive study and research. Naturally, he knows that if the Mars rover is launched in a non-ideal launch window, the flight time of the rover may be extended to several years because the orbit design becomes longer and more complicated.

But that is "other institutions", not Xinghai Company!

Since Jiuzhou Xinghai Company became independent, or even before it became independent, there has not been a single failed launch mission!

If the Mars rover mission fails, Jiuzhou Xinghai Company’s 100% achievement will be damaged!

Although everyone knows that there is no 100% perfect transcript in this world, Zhang Tianhao will not allow the first point deduction on this transcript to be a failure that occurred during the period he was in charge of!

So after listening to the consolation, he pondered for a moment, and finally took a deep breath, turned and walked towards a small room not far away.

Seeing this, Li Jian had no choice but to take a few core executives to quickly catch up with Zhang Tianhao's pace. Judging from his brisk pace, he didn't look like an old man in his seventies who should have retired. He was even more agile than some young people who sat in the office all year round.

When the few people entered the small room, Lin Jinli, the commander-in-chief of the launch mission, only glanced at his teacher's actions, then retracted his attention and said seriously: "From now on, conduct interval testing according to the plan..."

If Mars exploration wants to be safely sent from the blue planet to the moon, the launch is the beginning, the long journey in between is the journey, and finally arriving at Mars is the biggest test.

After half a year of navigation, all deceleration system devices must be ensured to be intact to ensure the safe arrival of the Mars rover on Mars.

If there is any mistake at the last moment, the launch mission will be a complete failure.

In order to be able to ensure that equipment problems can be avoided under special circumstances, the Mars rover and rocket have not only a multi-stage deceleration design, but also some small engineering robots inside. After obtaining abnormal data detected by the system, they can begin field exploration and maintenance work.

What Lin Jinli was thinking of was also what Zhang Tianhao was doing at the moment.

The core person in charge of the Titanium Star department is currently combining the latest system inspection data to re-conduct manual deductions and "fill in the gaps."

The young man was immersed in his work, his fingers were flying and his brain was working fast. Li Jian, an engineer beside him, explained to other engineers around him so that they could keep up.

"In order to be foolproof, our first Mars rover is equipped with a very powerful aerodynamic deceleration system. When entering the Martian atmosphere, the blunt-nosed heat shield with an aerodynamic shape will generate enough resistance to reduce the speed from about 20000 kilometers per hour to 1600 kilometers per hour. At the same time, there is an attitude control engine system to prevent violent rolling and loss of control.

Thanks to the help of new lunar materials, the heat shield can withstand temperatures above 2500°C. Under experimental conditions, it can last for 10 hours and ensure that the internal equipment is not damaged.

At the same time, we still haven't abandoned the parachute deceleration design, which is also a project that some of you are responsible for. I'll just say roughly that after the speed drops to subsonic, deploying the supersonic parachute can reduce the speed to 400 kilometers per hour, which is a success. So don't be proud and complacent. This can be said to be the link that should least go wrong.

There is one thing, the density of Mars’ atmosphere is only one percent of our planet’s, which poses a certain challenge to the stability of the parachute system. However, in the Spirit Realm Ecological Experiment Simulator, after nearly 10,000 simulations, no errors have occurred…”

When Li Jian said this, Zhang Tianhao checked the parameters on the projection in front of him again, and suddenly said: "If the parachute is jettisoned or fails to open successfully, the reverse thrust engine will be ignited, and the thrust and gravity balance will be used to achieve hovering, and the radar and optical sensors will be used to scan the surface, allowing the [Sinan] AI to autonomously select a flat landing point.

Although the radar and optical sensors we carry are already very good, these precision instruments are bound to experience some vibrations during the six months and the landing process. We have fixed facilities, but the backup plan also needs to be activated at all times.

We can't take everything for granted. Before the landing legs are able to absorb the impact, the final recoil engines must assist in the most perfect landing posture to ensure that the probe touches the ground smoothly, rather than relying on the material properties of the landing legs to resist the impact.

Therefore, the most important point here is that the AI ​​of our Mars rover must be extremely stable... So do you think that we need to upgrade this [Sinan] AI in real time during the past six months? After all, it has always performed extremely well in the Spirit Realm Ecological Test Server. "

Zhang Tianhao raised this question, which made the other core executives of Jiuzhou Xinghai Company, who were already frowning and trying to be "good students", feel a little embarrassed.

In aerospace, new is not necessarily better than old.

In this field, this situation has occurred more than once, that is, the newly upgraded equipment always makes mistakes, while the old ones can often perform well at critical moments.

But this is another problem that must be solved. Because the distance between Mars and Blue Planet is too far, the communication delay between other international organizations, including Daxia’s organizations, is between ten minutes and half an hour. The landing procedure cannot be controlled by the Blue Planet Command Center at all and can only rely entirely on the system’s autonomous calculation and execution.

If the upgrade causes problems in calculation and execution, all efforts will be wasted.

However, if the AI ​​defects are not resolved due to lack of upgrades and such problems happen to occur during landing, you will definitely regret it to the point of breaking your thigh.

(End of this chapter)