Chapter 672 [The aerospace industry is excited about it]

Whether it is the "Mirror of the Sky" project that is in full swing, or the "Sky Survey Space Telescope" project, or the more ambitious "Daily Project" project, as well as the "Nine Heavens" series of extraterrestrial planets approved by Fang Hong Deep Space Exploration Program.

The implementation of this series of large-scale cutting-edge engineering projects can drive the technological upgrading and development of cutting-edge fields. Once such a large-scale space exploration project is established, it needs multi-faceted cooperation. There are dozens of enterprises or scientific research units involved. homes or even hundreds of homes.

Only when those companies have orders can they make profits to engage in research and development and technology upgrades, and to cultivate and produce more relevant technical talents. Qunxing Capital has invested in so many high-tech companies over the years, and some of the related companies must also get The corresponding list is responsible for one of the technical modules.

The idea is actually similar to that of the country's large-scale infrastructure projects.

As for the country not doing it, it is because there is not enough money. This kind of cutting-edge project has limited transformation of technological achievements in the short term, so the appropriation in the field of space exploration is very limited, and even the annual budget appropriation for the entire aerospace field is not as good as a "sky mirror" plan. budget, let alone the "Sky Survey Space Telescope" project with a budget of hundreds of billions.

In addition, another reason for not doing it is that the effect is slow and the cycle is long.

A Saturn exploration plan is expected to take eight years, and a Mars exploration plan is expected to take nine years. Where can the relevant leaders in their positions wait for such a long time? They can't wait to be promoted and transferred in a year or so. It must be a house. The faster the growth, the faster the economy, and the faster the GDP, the faster the rise will be.

And this kind of cutting-edge project with slow results, long cycle and huge investment may have to bear the responsibility. If it is done well, it will also benefit the people behind, so the leaders basically don't catch a cold.

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The next day, the weekend of June 30.

"Old Ye, there's a message from the Natural Science Foundation of China." A young man rushed into a room excitedly, and Academician Ye in the room immediately asked, "So fast? What's the matter?"

The Academician Ye in the room is a leading figure in major national aerospace projects, known as the "Dinghai Shenzhen" of the "Chang'e" series development team. Just after the failure of the first domestic Mars probe "Yinghuo-1", he proposed Introduced the independent Mars exploration plan, and proposed to launch the Mars probe by itself in 2013, that is, there is a launch window this year. If you miss it, you can only wait until around 2016.

When Academician Ye was working on "Chang'e-1", astronauts wanted to explore Mars, but the conditions were not enough at that time, but now he believes that he has the ability to explore Mars, and the launch window of the Mars probe is 26 months. It's the window period, and if you miss it, you will have to wait for more than two years.

And he also said that at least the current unmanned Mars exploration, the implementation conditions are definitely better than the manned moon landing, as long as you make up your mind to achieve a breakthrough in Mars exploration zero in three to five years.

But his proposal failed for various reasons, and there is no Mars exploration plan so far.

The proposal failed, and Academician Ye was actually very uncomfortable.

What's the use of going to Mars when hundreds of scientists have rigorously demonstrated scientifically? How much GDP can be created? Can you guarantee success?

Academician Ye was stunned by these questions, and he couldn't answer them, especially the question of the success rate, no matter how rigorous the scientific demonstration was, it could not guarantee absolute success.

But at this moment, the young man who came to report excitedly said: "Passed, the Natural Science Foundation not only approved the Mars deep space exploration project, but also approved the Saturn deep space exploration project at the same time, and gave full financial support, and We are required to launch the project as soon as possible and advance at the same time.”

"Good! Good! Good!" Academician Ye was very excited when he heard this, and couldn't help but applaud repeatedly. Immediately afterwards, Academician Ye put down the work at hand and called a team meeting.

The news that the Natural Science Foundation approved the two deep space exploration projects was like wings, and soon spread in the domestic aerospace industry. Countless astronauts, especially the team members who participated in the formulation of the two deep space exploration projects Excited to cheer and cheer.

As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning. Space exploration projects are all big budgets. The most difficult thing at the beginning is not the technical problem, but the budget problem.

Of course, it's not just difficult at first.

The middle is also difficult, and the ending is also difficult.

It is because it is too difficult and the threshold is too high. In the field of space exploration, there are not many players who can play on the surface of the earth, and there are only three players who can completely independently carry out space exploration activities in the world.

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Three days later, on Wednesday afternoon, July 3.

Seven units, including the Natural Science Foundation of China and the Space Center of the National Academy of Sciences, jointly held a press conference to announce a major news, namely, the establishment of the "Nine-day Stars" deep space exploration project.

At around 14:20 in the afternoon, more than 300 media organizations came to the press conference.

Academician Ye, who attended the press conference, said to the reporter: "As a whole concept, the planetary exploration project uses 'Nine Stars' as the graphic logo of the project. The eight planets in the solar system are arranged in sequence, expressing the colorfulness of the universe and presenting the richness and variety of scientific discoveries. The open elliptical orbit is inclined upwards as a whole, showing the image of the unique letter 'C', which represents my country's planetary exploration-China, and the name and graphic logo of this group of meanings and origins will carry the dream of the Chinese nation's aerospace power..."

Many media organizations have looked sideways. This "Landing for Nine Heavens" planetary exploration project seems to be a series of projects, and it is a general project for the exploration of the eight major planets.

Immediately afterwards, it was announced at the press conference that the "Tianwen" planetary exploration project officially launched the "Tianwen" series of specific exploration plans, and at the same time established two space exploration projects, namely "Tianwen: Saturn Exploration Project" and "Tianwen : Mars Exploration Project".

The two projects are expected to be jointly participated by more than 200 related enterprises and institutions, and related technology companies under Qunxing Capital, including Kyushu Blue Arrow, will also participate.

When the reporters present heard that the budget of the two major planetary exploration projects reached 57 billion yuan, it was quite a sensation, but it was not to the extent of being dumbfounded, because there was a "Sky Survey Space Telescope" in front of it, which was estimated to cost 100 billion yuan. First of all, comparing these two space exploration projects, it only costs 22 billion and 35 billion respectively, which seems not too much.

No matter how excessive it is, everyone feels that it is not as excessive as the budget of the "Space Survey Telescope" project.

But this is also relatively speaking, and in fact it is still quite an exaggerated budget size.

Since the emergence of the Natural Science Foundation of China, domestic basic scientific research has ushered in a great improvement, especially the ultra-large-scale projects in the field of astronomy and aerospace. Currently, there are space laser gravitational wave detection "sky mirror" projects; infrared detection The "Space Survey Space Telescope" project; and the planetary exploration project "Lanxing Nine Sky" officially established today.

In addition, there is also the "Daily Project" program of the space power station directly promoted by Qunxing Capital.

These large-scale space-focused projects often have budgets of tens of billions or hundreds of billions, which is really the envy of scholars in other basic scientific research fields.

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