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"Now our intelligence system shows that the first artificial satellite of the United States is likely to be launched at the end of this year, and everyone judges that it may be Christmas. The Soviet Union must send satellites into space earlier than the United States. If it fails in this respect, It cannot be tolerated that the Soviet Union lost the first engagement in the space race to the United States."
Korolev is also very distressed now.He is not an intelligence officer, and the aerospace and ballistic missile personnel of the United States and the Soviet Union have never communicated. To be honest, he really does not know how far the US satellite development has come.
"Due to the process of formulating the five-year plan..." Korolev said,
"Our time node is May 58, both the satellite and the rocket. Now, the satellite has not yet produced a practical product, and the rocket is also undergoing the final test flight."
Minister: "We don't need to have a fully functional satellite. We just need to send a man-made object that can be identified or detected into space, and we can declare victory. The rest is not important. Can you send a prototype of Project D? To space?"
Korolev: "As I said just now, not only the satellite is still in the development stage, but the rocket is also very immature. The first two rocket test launches were unsuccessful. The third test launch in August is the final battle. If the third test is still unsuccessful, then we could be in a much worse situation."
"You are the greatest Soviet rocket chief designer, please come up with a solution."
Korolev was suddenly speechless.After contemplating for a long time, he finally managed to come up with a plan:
"The biggest hidden danger of the R7 rocket is that there are too many engines. If the current fatal failure can be eliminated, the third and fourth test launches may not guarantee a 100% integrity rate of the rocket. There is a way to launch a satellite into space. We launch a small-mass object into space, which is not 1.4 tons, or even 0.7 tons, but about 100 kilograms. In this way, even if the R7 rocket has a The booster wasn't working at full power, and the rocket's remaining engine and fuel energy could still carry it to space."
Minister: "Very well, let's solve it according to this plan, let's do it."
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Beidaihe.
"I'll leave tomorrow alone, and you and Seoul will continue to stay in Beidaihe until August 8th." Tang Hua said to Zhou Xuan.
Zhou Xuan: "Actually, I kind of want to go back with you."
"The weather here is good, but Beijing is still very stuffy. Besides, Seoul really likes it here, playing like crazy on the beach and woods every day," Tang Hua pinched Zhou Xuan's nose, "Besides, there are many good friends here, Jiang Ying This is the first time the family has come here for vacation."
"Is it also a state secret this time?"
Tang Hua: "It's really not this time...Maybe next week, the newspapers will publicly say that China is preparing to launch aerospace engineering and develop artificial satellites. Hey, I have popularized science for you in the past few days about what artificial satellites are. You should understand now, right?"
"I know. It is to launch something into the sky with a big rocket, and then it will be like those stars, not falling down, but twinkling."
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He will return to Beijing the next day, but tonight, Tang Hua can still walk on the beach for a while in his slippers and big pants.
"The chief accountant came to me alone and poured out half an hour of bitterness. He is our chief accountant. However, he finally approved the budget."
The chairman sat on a rattan chair with his head resting on the back, just enough to look up at the night sky. The two small blast furnaces in Qinhuangdao would not affect the air in Beidaihe. Above their heads was the vast sea of stars, and the Milky Way crossed the sky like a faintly bright ribbon.
Tang Hua: "In the field of aerospace, we can't fall behind others, but we will also cautiously promote various projects and use the least money to do the most things. The development of aerospace technology is also a good stimulus for the defense industry and basic industries. In this way, the technical level of many industrial categories can be rapidly increased.”
The chairman shook his head: "Launching China's artificial satellite and going into space is not only a matter of national defense and industrial base, but also the height of our perspective."
Li Fuchun: "This project can broaden the horizons of the people of the whole country, and make them more motivated and exploratory in mastering science and technology."
Chairman: "In the past, I often said that we should look at the whole, take the overall picture, and see the world and deal with things from the perspective of the whole. The problem now is that we have to re-understand the world: what is the overall situation, and what is the overall situation Height....This project not only broadens the horizons of the people of the country, but also broadens our horizons."
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Tang Hua and Qian Xuesen boarded the train lightly. On the morning of July 7, China Aerospace took a decisive step.
"Tang Hua, what do you think the first artificial satellite designed by the United States and the Soviet Union would look like?" Qian Xuesen asked.
Tang Hua: "In the eyes of the United States and the Soviet Union, the first satellite is of great importance, and its political significance is greater than its practical use. Therefore, a conservative design should be adopted. As long as it is a man-made object that can operate in space, it can be found on the ground. , even if it succeeds.”
"So you hold back and start designing satellites early on, a large group of satellite families with different purposes and sizes." Qian Xuesen said.
"Sometimes I see farther, and I firmly believe that my judgment and direction are correct."
"In addition to the conservative design and simple function, their first satellite may have another feature," Qian Xuesen followed Tang Hua's analysis, "to leave a margin for the rocket. What if the nozzle thrust of the engine is lower than the standard value? What if the engine shuts down unexpectedly early? So they may design a satellite with a lower mass to add insurance to the rocket."
Tang Hua laughed and said, "So we are the same. You designed a rocket with a carrying capacity of 61 kilograms in low-Earth orbit, and asked me to design a satellite with a weight of 55-58 kilograms. This is how confident you are in your own rocket."
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New York, United Nations Headquarters.
The U.S. representative sponsored a motion at the UN General Assembly and lobbied the representatives of the UN General Assembly to pass the resolution.
The core spirit of this bill is simple: the desovereignization of outer space.
Taking the currently internationally recognized altitude of 100 kilometers as the dividing line of the atmosphere, below 100 kilometers is the airspace of land countries corresponding to the projection; above 100 kilometers is space, and space should not belong to the sovereignty of any country, just as oceans have high seas Like the territorial sea, outer space is like the high seas, which should be shared by all mankind, and any country has the right to allow its aircraft to sail freely in space.
Space should be a non-sovereign space shared by human beings. This seems to be such a rationale, and there is nothing wrong with it.The United States further proposed that the United Nations launch a joint signing activity for the Outer Space Treaty. Many countries said that "this topic is very interesting."
The allies and younger brothers of the United States quickly voted for it, and all the countries that eat melons voted for it, and the Soviet Union also voted for it.
The representative of China also voted in favour.
Washington.
"The news that the president announced that the United States will launch a satellite is said to have seriously stimulated the Russians, and now Russia is also frantically investing in the attempt to launch a satellite. This may not be good news."
Charles Cabell, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General and Deputy Director of the CIA, was slightly dissatisfied with Eisenhower's words.
Dulles rolled his eyes: "In any case, the United States has won at least one victory in the field of propaganda warfare. After all, the title of the first country to declare that it will march into space has historical significance."
Kabell: "What we know about the intelligence behind the Iron Curtain may not be accurate. What the CIA is most worried about now is that the Soviet Union launched satellites into space before the United States."
Dulles: "The United States has invested far more in aerospace and ballistic missiles than the Soviet Union. Unless there is an accident, the Soviet Union will not lead the United States."
Cabell: "Mr. Secretary, this is exactly what I want to complain about. Now there are three military branches in the United States that are developing launch vehicles and satellites: Our Air Force insists on using the Atlas ICBM as a vehicle to launch large satellites, but the President thinks It is too late to launch satellites like this, and recently they have frequently supported the U.S. Navy’s Viking sounding rocket program. In addition, the group of farmers in the U.S. Army actually developed ballistic missiles by themselves, and then used them for suborbital flight test launches. Two out of three launches failed, no suspense."
Dulles: "Each branch of the military is directly responsible to the president, so each branch of the military can obtain some resources. This is the national condition of the United States. Although it is unreasonable, we must get used to it."
Cabel was speechless, got up and left.At this time, I seemed to suddenly think of something: "Oh, I read the news in the newspaper at breakfast today: The Chinese have also announced their participation in the space race."
"With the racial characteristics of the Chinese, they must not be trying to launch satellites, but trying to shoot down our satellites." Dulles shook his head casually, "However, I am afraid that by then our first satellite will already be in space." It's too old."
Chapter 157, I seem to have lost something
"Starting today, the satellite factory has officially started. You are the development team of China's first artificial satellite."
The layout of the Tianjin Satellite Factory is very similar to that of the Tianjin Rocket Factory, in the style of a dilapidated rural primary school.The gate and the Tianjin Rocket Factory were carved out of the same mold. A wooden board with white paint as the base, and the five characters "Tianjin Satellite Factory" written in black paint, were nailed to the wall of the reception room, and the work was done.
Not only is the gate very low-key, but the building inside the Tianjin satellite factory is even more dilapidated—it’s just a circle of land now, the factory building is still a piece of grass, and the test workshop is a white field just shoveled the turf—the turf was announced by the satellite factory three days ago. After the construction, the results of the labor of the engineers and soldiers of the army in the past two days.
The factory building will be empty for at least half a year. The first batch of satellites will be produced in the workshop of the Tianjin Rocket Factory. Later, the factory building will be built and special machine tools will be added. Now the two test workshops are stepping up construction.
Tang Hua announced the establishment of the satellite factory and satellite development team in a small chapel, the only available building in the satellite factory.
"Lu Xifeng, you are the measurement team. You are responsible for following up and counting parameters such as total mass and center of gravity for every adjustment and change made during the satellite design stage."
"Yang Jiaxi, you bring the frame set."
"Zhu Guangya, Professor Zhu," Tang Hua glanced at the later real, the first president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, "The Radiation Group provides radiation protection solutions for satellites in space."