The success of Longguo's manned space flight has not only caused huge repercussions within the country.
It has also attracted the attention of many people in various countries.
For example, Ah San, who has always believed that he is the third most powerful country in the world.
Speaking of which, Asan's aerospace industry started much earlier than Longguo's.
When they were still part of the Empire, many scientists entered the scientific research department of the Empire and engaged in aerospace research.
Therefore, they have always believed that their aerospace capabilities are stronger than their neighbors to the north.
This caused the Asans to be unable to sit still after the Dragon Kingdom completed the achievement of manned spaceflight.
In fact, Ah San was the first person to go into space earlier than Long Guo.
In September 1982, Asans and Maozi began to have in-depth contacts in space cooperation, and Sharma, who was once an Air Force pilot, was selected.
The space travel was carried out as part of a joint space program between the two countries.
On April 2, 1984, Sharma took off from the ground and reached space on the Soyuz T-11 from the Baikonur Space Center, becoming the first Asan to enter space.
However, in the thirty years after Maozi disintegrated, no one in Ah San has ever entered space again.
There are many reasons for this. The superficial reason is that related industries are underdeveloped, but the underlying reason is actually a problem with the industrial chain.
As part of the empire where the sun never sets, the Ah Sans did not experience a bottom-up struggle and were directly freed from their original suzerainty.
Although some people believe that this saves more "national vitality", in the long run, it also makes them lose a lot of say in the industrial chain.
One week after the Dragon Kingdom's manned space flight was successfully completed, Asan and his crew hurriedly announced their manned space flight plan.
It is planned to launch the first manned rocket verification model within this year, and launch a manned spacecraft within two years.
When Zhang Xingyang just learned this information, to be honest, he was still a little surprised.
After all, in his mind, Asan's development in aerospace was not going well.
By the first half of the 20th century, it was possible to carry out manned moon landings.
However, compared with other countries in the world at that time, such technology was far behind.
You must know that the Dragon Kingdom, which currently does not seem to have much development gap with Asan and the others, had already established a permanent scientific research base at the south pole of the moon in the 1950s.
And there are six staff members in the scientific research base all year round.
Even twenty years after the completion of the permanent lunar scientific research base, due to the development of nuclear fusion technology, industrial mining of helium III on the moon officially began.
Huge automated mining equipment began to mine materials that humans could only imagine even in space operas in the craters on the moon's surface that had not changed for almost tens of millions of years.
And in this space development environment, the Asans who just pointed out the moon landing technology.
It was as if the people who had just developed flintlock technology were about to face the crushing force of the information-based army, and they had no strength to resist.
In fact, not long after Ah San pointed out the moon landing technology, their technology lost its effect.
Because a project that can be called a miracle of the space age has finally been completed after nearly two decades of construction.
That is the "Jianmu" floating space elevator known as the "Sacred Tree to the Sky"!
A floating platform with a displacement of up to 10 million tons is erected in the equatorial region and serves as the base of the space elevator.
The cost of traveling to space has finally been reduced to an unprecedented level. Even ordinary people have the opportunity to take such a space vehicle and travel to the mysterious space.
Under such circumstances, Asans, who are still struggling with rocket technology, have just developed a launch vehicle that can reach the moon directly, but it has lost its effect.
Even their domestic scientific research community has given up on this technical route and announced that in the future they will focus on interstellar spacecraft research.
But now, Ah San and the others still don't know what they will face in the future.
Moreover, the afterglow of completing manned spaceflight more than ten years ago has not completely dissipated.
Therefore, they are full of unconscious confidence in their ability to independently complete manned spaceflight.
Although they have nothing yet, Asan still has very strong confidence that they can independently complete manned spaceflight work.
As for the rockets, manned spacecraft, launch sites, huge ground monitoring networks, and communication satellites in space required for manned spaceflight, where will these things come from?
Currently, it is not in their plans.
However, compared to the Dragon Kingdom, which almost started from scratch and developed everything on its own, Ah San still has certain advantages.
Those are the things that they can buy from other countries as long as they have money.
Whether it is high-precision scientific research equipment or various monitoring networks and communication satellite services, they can borrow from the well-established systems in developed countries.
There is no need to do everything by oneself like Long Guo.
However, if the universal products purchased in this way are combined together, the performance of the entire system will be questioned?
Because if each of your systems is produced and developed by yourself, you will be able to understand the technical details of these devices, and system integration will be simpler.
Industrial products do not obtain the strongest performance by obtaining various components with the strongest performance.
Especially in aerospace engineering that pursues stable performance.
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Ah San's speed is faster than others imagined.
Maybe they have already thought about carrying out manned spaceflight.
Preparations in all aspects are already in progress.
At the end of December, it was only two months before Dragon Kingdom completed manned spaceflight.
Asan, at their Sriharikota launch site, conducted the first experimental launch of a manned rocket.
This rocket can be said to be the first of its kind in the world, that is, many of the equipment on the rocket basically come from non-resident countries.
High-precision attitude control equipment from Gaul, Yingjiang's navigation system, and Maozi's rocket engine.
It can be said that Asan simply integrated these systems and created a shell.
Therefore, their so-called independent manned spaceflight is worthy of careful consideration.
However, even so, the difficulty of manned rockets is still beyond their imagination.
138 seconds after the rocket took off, due to a malfunction in the navigation system, the rocket did not reach the scheduled height and the launch failed!
In the end, he had no choice but to control the rocket, and it fell into Point Nemo in the South Pacific, successfully adding a hint of curry flavor to the spacecraft wreckage.
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Just when the eyes of the whole world were focused on the Asan manned rocket that had just crashed into the South Pacific.
In a relatively low-key unit in Beidu, a meeting that may not seem that important now, but will have a great impact on future generations, began.
"Dear Zhang, nice to see you again!"
Francis came up and gave Zhang Xingyang a cheeky gift.
Even Zhang Xingyang, who boasts that he has seen strong winds and waves, is still a little at a loss when encountering such a situation.
After all, in his original world, due to the geographical span, it jumped from the original continent level to the interstellar level.
The speed of information transmission has not yet exceeded the speed of light limit, so people on different planets basically communicate through interstellar networks.
Between different planets, due to network speed issues, there is basically no instant communication.
Therefore, Zhang Xingyang had not had much contact with other people except the people from the Earth and Moon system, so he was surprised by their meeting gift.
Note: In the second half of the 22nd century, the mainstream people of the Earth-Moon system were people from the Dragon Kingdom, accounting for more than 98% of the Earth-Moon system.
This is also because the two people had actually contacted each other before, but Francis did not know Zhang Xingyang's main identity at the time, so the two were not familiar with each other at the time.
But now, Francis wanted Zhang Xingyang, so he showed great enthusiasm.
Other participants on the side also reminded Francis a little at this time:
"Mr. Francis, your etiquette is a bit abrupt for us."
Although Zhang Xingyang himself was shocked at first, he calmed down after a while and said with a smile:
"It's nothing, I feel Mr. Francis' enthusiasm!"
The two sides did not dwell too much on this issue.
After all, these are small things compared to the collaborative project they are going to discuss next.
When Dragon Kingdom had just completed its manned space mission and others were still questioning it, Gaul, who had known about Dragon Kingdom's situation for a long time, had already secretly contacted Dragon Kingdom.
Prepare to jointly carry out space exploration programs.
The ultimate goal of this plan is very ambitious, to explore the entire solar system.
Within Gaul, the code name for this plan is the Human Home Exploration Plan.
The solar system is the cradle of mankind and the home we rely on for survival. Any small change in this home may lead to the destruction of mankind.
And we are still just a baby crawling in the cradle. A slight sneeze from the sun or a large-diameter star in space may lead to the death of this baby.
The goal of this project is to help us see clearly the hidden thorns hidden under the cradle so that civilization can thrive.
Therefore, this plan is also known as "Wentian" in China!
However, although the ultimate goal is very ambitious, both parties still need to pay a lot of costs in the process of achieving it.
In today's meeting, neither party has high hopes of achieving anything substantive.
Just hoping to confirm something a little bit.
Among them, the first thing to determine is the order of planet detection!
At this time, Pluto, the shame of the planets in the solar system, had not yet been kicked out of the ranks of planets.
So you can still see his name on the first batch of exploration lists.
"We believe that Mars should be detected first!"
As the spokesperson of the Dragon Kingdom, Geng Bo has contributed a lot to the manned space launch mission.
"As a planet that once had a similar water and atmospheric environment to Earth."
"Exploring Mars can help us better understand our origins."
The Mars exploration program, whether now or in the future, is a relatively popular target for planetary exploration in the solar system.
Even in the era of human interstellar development, Mars was the first extraterrestrial planet where humans completed the construction of a base.
Therefore, both parties had no objections to the first detection target.
It was after this that the two sides had major differences.
The Gallic side favored exploration of the outer solar system, the planets beyond the asteroid belt, from Jupiter to Pluto.
Their reason is also very good, that is, there are many small celestial bodies here that may threaten the safety of the earth.
Therefore, exploring this part of the planet first can help us understand the situation we are currently facing.
Although their reasons seemed to be sufficient, the Dragon Kingdom still felt that they were talking nonsense.
Because according to their thinking, what should be launched first is actually the asteroid belt exploration plan!
Therefore, Longguo still insists on its own ideas and carries out the solar exploration plan while exploring Mars!
The sun, as the most important source of energy in this star system, is of self-evident importance.
Even a 1% change in illumination will cause strong fluctuations in temperature on the earth.
It will bring a major blow to the homeland of mankind.
Not to mention the obvious periodic impact of solar electromagnetic storms on more and more electronic devices on the earth.
In 2012, the sun completed a powerful explosion. At that time, millions of tons of material on the sun were thrown out of the corona and exploded with extremely powerful energy.
Fortunately, the earth was not in the path of its energy storm at that time.
But good luck doesn't always take care of the planet.
In fact, in Zhang Xingyang's memory, such an electromagnetic storm once broke out at the end of the 21st century.
Although people at that time tried every means to eliminate the impact of electromagnetic storms.
However, long-term development has made everyone inseparable from more and more advanced electronic equipment.
The consequence is that most of the electronic equipment on the planet has been burned. Except for some key protected industrial areas and core industrial areas, electronic equipment in other places has basically not been preserved.
However, at that time, Longguo's industrial base on the moon had completed construction work, and in less than a year, all the losses were recovered.
"We firmly believe that after completing the Mars exploration plan, we should continue to move towards the inner solar system!"
As the spokesman, Geng Bo said to the Gauls opposite him almost without giving an inch.
After an eight-hour meeting, in the end the two sides only agreed on the first Mars exploration plan.
But even if it is a plan, the plan timetable still has nearly twenty years! (End of chapter)
