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#289 - The big baby of the senior year, the 'Starship' rocket!

After all, according to their understanding, Gao Nian didn't seem to have any experience in rocket research and development.

But now Gao Nian is actually serving as the chief engineer of reusable rocket technology. Is this definitely not a joke?

Therefore, people felt quite astonished about Gao Nian's appointment as the chief engineer of reusable rocket technology.

Among them, some were pessimistic about this matter, believing that the five major satellite launch bases and the Xia Academy of Sciences were simply messing around.

Gao Nian clearly doesn't have the relevant technical strength, yet they let Gao Nian serve as the chief engineer. Isn't this using the people's tax money for fun?

However, amidst such negative public opinion, some people also supported Gao Nian. They called Gao Nian a super genius, which has been proven countless times in the past.

According to the known information, Gao Nian indeed doesn't have a resume of developing reusable rocket technology, or even any experience in developing rocket technology.

But Gao Nian's previous achievements were too powerful. Based on Gao Nian's intelligence and talent, they believed that Gao Nian dared to serve as the chief engineer, so he must have the confidence to do so.

So they believed in Gao Nian, believing that Gao Nian had the strength to lead the scientific researchers to develop reusable rocket technology,

believing that Gao Nian was not serving as the chief engineer to fish for fame.

However, no matter what their views were, it would not hinder the joint research and development of reusable rocket technology by the seven parties.

And this time, the joint research and development location of the seven parties was naturally placed at the headquarters of Geek Technology Company.

After all, Geek Technology Company is the funder, and also has many scientific research instruments and sites, only lacking top-notch research and development personnel.

Therefore, the research and development personnel from the other six parties also rushed to the headquarters of Geek Technology Company, preparing to conduct theoretical research at the headquarters of Geek Technology Company.

Of course, Geek Technology Company actually also lacks some instruments and equipment, but the others have them.

They can completely conduct multi-point synchronous research and development or synchronous production, only the core of reusable rocket technology research and development is at the headquarters of Geek Technology Company.

"Chief Gao, isn't the pace of this Starship rocket a bit too big?"

At this time, Long Hao, a well-known academician in the field of aerospace in China, frowned as he looked at the design draft in his hand. This design draft was quite crude, and the internal details were not clear, only vaguely showing the general structure and layout.

Among them, if there was a transmigrator here, he would complain that this isn't Musk's 'Starship'?!

In fact, this is indeed Musk's big baby "Starship", with roughly the same shape and size, but the interior is different.

After all, Gao Nian in his previous life also hadn't seen the internal structure of "Starship", nor had he seen detailed technical data, so the internal structure and layout of the two are naturally different.

As for why the appearance is similar to Musk's "Starship", the reason is naturally that Gao Nian wants to take a road that has already been proven feasible.

After all, Gao Nian knows that the "Starship" in his previous life took many detours, and finally became the "chopstick structure" shape as time passed.

Now that he wants to develop the first and second stage reusable rocket technology, he naturally directly plagiarizes the shape and structure of the Starship in his previous life, avoiding many detours.

"The pace is not too big, we'll know if it's feasible after simulating and testing it with the supercomputer later."

Gao Nian said his reply, but Academician Long Hao, who heard this reply, shook his head slightly and said:

"Computer simulation is computer simulation, reality is reality. We have too much failure experience in this regard."

As an expert in developing aerospace rockets, Academician Long Hao has suffered too many hardships and failures in order to develop aerospace rockets.

Many designs that have no problems in computer simulation often encounter unexpected problems when actually conducting practical experiments.

This is the gap between computer simulation and reality.

At this time, Academician Wang Ming, who is good at 3D metal printing technology and has made great contributions to the large-scale manufacturing of rockets, frowned as he looked at the document in his hand and said:

"This Starship adopts a hot-staging design, requiring the second-stage rocket to ignite directly while the first-stage rocket remains in a jetting state, thereby increasing the rocket's payload by 10%.

This hot-staging design is good, but the disadvantage is that it greatly increases the design difficulty and the probability of failure.

Most importantly, the requirements for materials are too high. After all, the flame ejected from the tail of the second stage is high-temperature and high-pressure.

This will cause the first-stage rocket, which is still in a 'non-separation' state, to withstand enormous pressure and flame temperature.

According to the current performance of metal materials, it simply cannot withstand such high temperature and high pressure."

Hearing Academician Wang Ming's words, the other academicians and dozens of well-known professors also nodded slightly.

Although they each have their own areas of expertise, they cannot avoid the important thing of "materials".

After all, no matter how good your design is, it must be supported by materials.

If the materials can't support it, then this design is just an empty thought, and there is no way to put it into practice, so they all understand the current material performance at home and abroad.

In response, looking at the academicians and professors who were shaking their heads, Gao Nian directly stated his solution:

"The problem of the top of the first-stage rocket having to withstand huge high-temperature and high-pressure loads is actually not impossible to solve. After all, don't forget our China's super material king, graphene."

Hearing graphene, Academician Wang Ming immediately shook his head and said, "Graphene? Graphene won't work, right.

Although graphene's thermal conductivity is the strongest in nature, it can quickly conduct heat to other places.

But graphene is ultimately a carbon element, a special arrangement structure among carbon elements.

And carbon elements are too easy to react with oxygen to form graphene oxide under high-temperature conditions.

So graphene is very suitable for medium and low-temperature application scenarios, but it is still not possible to apply it to high-temperature or even ultra-high temperature occasions."

Hearing Academician Wang Ming's words, the people present nodded slightly again to show their approval.

At this time, Academician Long Hao looked at Gao Nian and gave his suggestion:

"I think it's better to directly abandon the hot-staging technology. Separate after launching to the predetermined altitude.

Then, ignite the second-stage rocket after the separation is complete.

This hot-staging technology is certainly very good, and can increase the payload of our "Starship" rocket currently being designed by 10%.

But it is impossible for us to design it too perfectly all at once. The consequence of pursuing too much perfection is that the research and manufacturing difficulty will directly increase, eventually leading to the inability to implement the research for several years."