Chapter 200 Accident

Weibo, the top searched term on July 7:

"Lin Ju's first night in space"

At noon on July 6, Lin Ju arrived at the Tiangong Space Station.

Although he had not been in space for many years and had never had docking experience, the countless repetitions of training were effective. Li Wei's manual docking was faster than automatic docking, and he docked steadily in one go.

Lin Ju, who had been floating in space for more than two hours, had adapted to gravity and followed Li Wei into the "Tianhe" core module.

The 0.9m docking port of the Yungong core module was occupied by Shenzhou 11 and Unity, so it could only be entered through the node module of the Tianhe core module.

System engineers Ke Yun and Deng Lei were waiting for him at the Yungong Space Station. When Lin Ju passed the wide 2.5-meter square docking port, they shouted in unison:

"Welcome home, boss!"

No problem, the manufacturer and ownership of XS-62 are both Xinyuan Company, so it is not wrong to say that it belongs to Lin Ju.

In other words...he has a property in space?

Although Lin Ju had entered the space station more than once on the ground, this was his first time in space.

What amazed him most was his sense of direction, especially the circular cabin.

The first thing he did was to walk around lightly on the cabin wall. Because there was no gravity, he did not feel uncomfortable at all.

The 6.8-meter circular cabin section was extremely huge for actual living. With Lin Ju's 1.8-meter figure, it was three and a half times taller than him!

So much so that when he was live-broadcasting again in the evening, Lin Ju subconsciously complained:

"I should have made it into a partition earlier, and both floors were spacious."

At that time, the online comment area was full of entries such as "It's worthy of being a big capitalist" and "Capital is going to enter space", but everyone really didn't think there was any problem. After all, the height of the floors of ordinary residential buildings is only about 2.8 to 3 meters.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the height of 6.8 meters is a villa, so until now, people have been complaining that the XS-62 is too luxurious and extravagant, and there is no partition.

But it was not that the engineers of Xinyuan at that time did not think of it. However, at that time, they believed that the circular cabin would greatly improve the comfort and give people the same feeling as a spaceship.

In fact, it was true. Lin Ju felt that the circular cabin was a complete future spaceship, with a grand space and beautiful layout, especially when sitting in the viewing cabin. If a circular operating table was added, it would be like sitting in the navigation cabin of the "Millennium Falcon". It was particularly impressive.

On the contrary, when he went back to visit the Tiangong-2 space laboratory, he instantly felt like he had entered a container, and his impression was extremely depressed.

He recalled the unintentional complaints of the engineers of the Fifth Academy when they were manufacturing the cooperative experimental cabin at the B-level base after the first batch of four astronauts of the Tiangong space station came down.

After experiencing the core cabin of the Yungong, the astronauts strongly suggested that the internal size of the future space station should not be less than 3X3 meters, and it would be best to reach 4X4 meters, because once you experience the spacious environment, you really can't go back.

Even with their adaptability, it will take a long time to change, and the advantages of a large cabin are really many.

Therefore, the Fifth Academy of the second batch of "Mengtian" and "Wentian" experimental modules still followed the "waste" spirit of Xinyuan, leaving enough space and not cramming equipment all at once.

For the first time to experience the space station, especially the space station built by itself, Lin Ju kept running around until he rested according to the schedule stipulated by the space station, and even picked a mature cabbage...

Part of this was recorded by the live camera of the space station and released to the public. For the first experience of celebrities in the space station, these videos have a very high number of views and many complaints.

After all, according to daily practice, celebrities should have some characteristics as the media said, but Lin Ju's performance seems to be no different from that of ordinary people. He will be surprised to see some magical phenomena in the weightless state, and will make many seemingly childish actions to experience the magic of weightlessness.

And these actions have also caused some unexpected effects:

Jeff Bezos announced within Blue Origin that he would develop the "New Shepard-2" rocket. Unlike the "New Shepard", the New Shepard-2 rocket will use a BE4 engine, and the goal is to be able to launch the reduced-weight space capsule into low-Earth orbit.

After all, the experience of weightlessness for a few minutes is compared to being on orbit... well, the latter is obviously more impressive.

Lao Ma has set his sights on the space station. SpecaX announced that it will jointly develop an inflatable module with Bigelow Aerospace, which will be launched to the ISS using the Falcon 9 rocket. After docking, it can be inflated and expanded to become a tourist module dedicated to external operations.

The area of ​​this inflatable module "Origin" after unfolding reaches 115 square meters, which is smaller than the XS-62, but not much smaller.

The advantage is that the volume and weight are well controlled. Bigelow accepted the assistance of NACA ten years ago, and the technology is relatively mature, but the reliability has always been worrying. However, now they have decided to make another effort to put the inflatable module into use in advance.

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"my country's new generation of manned spacecraft test ship completed its first test flight."

On July 8, when Lin Ju was still floating in the sky, the new generation of manned spacecraft completed its first test flight.

The launch rocket was the Long March 3B, a large poisonous launch with a LEO capacity of 11.2 tons.

The new generation of manned spacecraft weighing 21.6 tons and 8.6 meters in length cannot reach low-Earth orbit when launched by Long March 3B. However, it is only to test the performance of the spacecraft. It only needs to fly to high suborbital and let the spacecraft be burned by the atmosphere twice to see if there are any problems with the design.

Originally, the new Yuan 5A could just hit the low-Earth orbit, but the space agency felt that it was unnecessary, and there were a lot of Long March 2 and 3 series rocket bodies in stock, so they could fire one shot at no time.

However, the diameter of the new generation of manned spacecraft has reached 5 meters, while the maximum diameter of Long March 3B is only 3.35 meters, and the diameter of the reusable Long March 7 to be used in the future is also 3.35 meters.

There is no problem with a little excess diameter, but because the new generation of manned spacecraft adopts a fairing-free design, there is no transition at the connection between the bottom and the rocket.

This makes the head of the spacecraft look like... anyway, it is a bit meaningful.

Fortunately, the test of the spacecraft itself was very successful. The design of the new generation of manned spacecraft is very complete, and the reusability index is fully met. The impact caused by ablation is not great. There is no problem with simply cleaning it up and launching it again.

Many new technologies used in the spacecraft have also been verified, including the flexible cargo hold, the air cushion during landing, etc., and there have been no major problems, which means that the expensive Shenzhou era is about to pass, and the space agency will usher in the era of reusable and cheap space.

However, this news did not cause much waves in the aerospace industry or even the technology circle. The hot topic now is computers: ternary computers.