Hornsaw, California.

spacex assembly warehouse.

The night was already very late, and Musk was still standing in front of the 1:1 deuterium-tritium fusion model.

His brows were furrowed and his expression was serious. He had been staring at the engine for two full hours.

The engineers around me have already gone off work, and only the assistant is still around.

The assistant opened his mouth, then covered it with his hand to suppress a yawn, and then looked down at the notebook next to him.

When he saw the prompt for a new email popping up, the assistant was delighted: "Boss, the email is back."

When Musk heard this, he looked away from the engine model, strode back, and then sat back on the chair.

Looking at the suffix of Professor Huo Laien's email, his eyelids couldn't help but twitch again, but he still didn't say anything, but took a gentle breath and opened the email.

Faced with his question, Professor Huo Laien only answered one sentence.

"Why don't you ask Professor Ye Ming?"

Seeing this, Musk was startled, and his expression quickly turned weird.

Ask Ye Ming?

Let him discuss the design and landing plan of the spaceship with Ye Ming?

He sent an email to Professor Huo Laien, of course because the engine itself and the entire Mars project itself had Mr. Huo Lain's participation.

Now Huo Laien seems to be leaving decisively, but that also means that he has been treated unfairly - this treatment was not inflicted on him by Musk.

In fact, Musk believes that maintaining contact and maintaining a relationship with Professor Hollien will not do any harm to SpaceX, no matter what angle you approach.

Especially today, this "Mars" engine - Mars, Mars, God of War - has obviously fallen behind the Kuafu project team by one technical node.

It is more important to maintain the relationship with Huo Laien.

Therefore, in addition to being a little angry, confused and many other complicated emotions on the day he learned that the old man was leaving, Musk still maintained a certain degree of contact, especially after the other party published a paper with Ye Ming, he also sent an email to discuss

congratulate.

To put it bluntly, even in times of war, it's not a bad thing to keep in touch.

only……

The email he sent was to ask Professor Huo Laien if he knew about Kuafu’s spaceship plan!

As a result, Huo Laien asked himself to ask Ye Ming?

Is there anything funnier than this?

Professor Huo Laien's email came again: "I think you can really communicate with him in the aerospace field. You have to believe in Professor Ye Ming's personality and moral character."

Personality and moral character?

Seeing these two words, Musk's cheeks couldn't help but jump up.

…

capital.

Aerospace Design Center Conference Room.

A design meeting on the Type II controllable nuclear fusion spacecraft tentatively named "Xiantian" is being held.

Now that a new name has been given, it means that its design ideas are different from those of Yaoyuehao, at least it is not the kind that can be done just by tinkering with modifications.

"Based on the feedback on the 1:1 fully simulated cabin game in the past few days, we have gained a lot of valuable experience."

The person who presided over the design meeting was Director Zhang. His words were concise and to the point, without any official air: "Judging from the general response, Yaoyue is essentially a multi-functional spacecraft that is biased towards scientific research. It has various functions, but the corresponding

All functions are not outstanding.”

Everyone, including Ye Ming, also nodded.

Indeed, the first Yueyue is essentially a verification spacecraft, which must not only meet the needs of scientific research and exploration of the moon, but also meet the needs of transporting cargo and armed defense...

The sum of these many functions is quite different.

Since the country allows drawing, the subsequent design needs to clearly distinguish the functions and functions of various types of spacecraft - the engines can be temporarily moved in order to save costs and production lines.

"Based on the needs of the space program and the suggestions from currently participating astronauts, the current thinking is that we will design and build three types of ships with different functions."

"These three types are respectively used for material transportation, personnel transportation, and long-distance scientific research."

As he spoke, Director Zhang coughed and laughed: "It's nothing new, huh? It's just about ground and water transportation."

Everyone laughed.

With the controllable nuclear fusion engine and anti-gravity device taking off and landing, isn't this journey to the moon just a commute from the earth to the moon?

At present, in order to speed up the construction of lunar factories and orbital bases, a new spacecraft dedicated to material transportation is particularly important.

As for personnel transport, it will definitely be at the bottom of the queue - space sightseeing tickets must be sold, but not now.

As for long-distance scientific research, such as the star field beyond Mars, that is even later... because the requirements for both the engine and the internal conditions of the spacecraft are higher.

As for going to Mars...

Let's put it this way, the current invitation to the moon is to replace factory equipment and supplies with daily necessities. As long as there is enough fuel, you can go now.

Of course, what the aerospace industry is currently discussing is only civilian spacecraft.

As for the battleship, we have to wait until the weapon port is ready - the weapon port is hurriedly urging the design of a higher-power fusion engine to realize the "legendary" "super laser weapon", which is to shoot

The kind that is about to get pregnant.

"So, for material transportation, under the current situation where our equivalent take-off thrust is constant, the main considerations are space cost and self-weight."

"In terms of space, using a double-layer belly design, not considering artificial gravity, and reducing the number of ship personnel can free up a lot of load..."

Listening to Director Zhang reciting the design ideas, Ye Ming's eyes suddenly lit up: "Director Zhang, how about this, how about we design it to be driverless?"

"unmanned?"

Everyone immediately looked at Ye Ming.

Ye Ming nodded: "The material transport spacecraft can be designed to be unmanned, automatic and de-orbited. This technology can be accomplished by launch vehicles. There is no need for this material spacecraft to carry people."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Director Zhang’s eyes also lit up: “Yes! A special-purpose carrier spacecraft can really be made unmanned! And this kind of spacecraft can also realize the preliminary resources of Mars scientific research.

transport!"

"Theoretically there is no problem, but can a shipboard computer work?" One of the design engineers hesitated: "I always feel that Aita is more reliable."

Director Zhang then laughed: "Look, it's hard to go from luxury to frugality... Before ETA, didn't our rockets reach the sky? The Tiangong Space Station has been repaired!"

After hearing this, everyone laughed together. They were used to using Aita's advanced productivity, but they were really not used to not being able to use Aita.

"Then it's settled, the carrier spaceship is designed to be unmanned!" Director Zhang looked at everyone: "No objection?"

Everyone smiled and said nothing.

The two leaders, Ye Ming and Director Zhang, have already spoken. Do they have any other opinions?

"Okay, let's use our brains. Let's design the aerodynamic shape of this unmanned spacecraft today."

Ye Ming nodded and opened his notebook.

"Aerodynamic appearance, the double-layered belly that Zhang Bureau just mentioned is the guideline. After all, this is the most suitable appearance design for a carrier spacecraft. It can be modeled directly with a little design."

Ye Ming was talking while communicating with Aita.

"What needs to be considered now is that this unmanned carrier spacecraft, in addition to landing on the moon and Mars, should also be responsible for future landings at orbital bases and airports, as well as early stage space station docking and material transportation at the airport."

"Currently, for airport landing, my initial idea is to capture it directly in the dock with a gravity field. This does not require additional design and only consumes a little energy - but this is all in the later stage. In the early stage, it is really a bit troublesome."

"It would be enough to establish a standard docking interface to connect with the space station, but the space base needs to transport large quantities of steel, aluminum and other buildings and equipment. How should we do this?"

Ye Ming tapped the tip of his pen and kept shaking his head: "This first step of a journey of thousands of miles really gives me a headache."

Everyone laughed together - this kind of feat of building a space city brick by brick, if it were really simple, then it would be weird.

Even if it is a science fiction work, it does not talk about building a space base from scratch.

"Hmm... It seems that we still need to use a fully integrated factory to develop robotic arms and full intelligence." Ye Ming pursed his lips and muttered to himself.

At this time, a new email notification pops up in the lower right corner.

Looking at the sender's name, Ye Ming was slightly stunned, and then immediately clicked on it.

After a few glances, his expression became strange.

Director Zhang sat next to him and asked curiously: "What news did you see?"

"Musk sent me an email and asked me how the spacecraft was designed."

…

spacex assembly warehouse.

After Musk sent the email, he sat quietly next to him.

His mind came back to the meeting and exchange with Ye Ming a few years ago - at that time he also wanted to introduce Aita into Tesla's robots and driverless cars, as well as cooperate with Jizhi Technology on Starlink.
To be continued...