The rise of nanometers

After heating the cooking bags, the three of them tore open the packaging bags. These cooking bags were similar to those from the China Space Administration, and they were all in small portions.

After just two bites, David picked up the drink bottle.

drop……

Um? He quickly put down the drink bottle and took out his tablet. There was an unread message in the email address on it.

Click on it.

[Attention, Lunar Expeditionary Force, the headquarters has decided to launch a spacecraft next month to land on the Mare plain between Kepler crater and Copernicus crater. You must be ready to respond when the time comes - Houston Headquarters]

[receive. ] David directly edited the message and replied to Blue Star headquarters.

Phillips asked, "What's wrong?"

"The new mission from the headquarters requires us to pick up a spacecraft next month and land in the lunar sea between the Kepler crater and the Copernicus crater." David replied with a shrug.

"Between Kepler crater and Copernicus crater?" Phillips was a little confused, and then asked: "How many capsules does that spacecraft have?"

"Let me take a look at the attachment." David opened the attachment and looked at it for a few minutes: "Including the power cabin, there are three in total. They were developed by Boeing."

"Developed by Boeing? Are they still alive?" Phillips asked sinisterly.

The reason why he asked this was mainly because Boeing's civil aircraft market has been squeezed by Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China since the second half of last year.

Even if COMAC's large aircraft cannot be exported outside Greater China for the time being, the local market in Greater China alone is enough to severely damage Boeing.

Boeing has basically lost the market in Greater China, and Airbus is also competing with Boeing.

In addition, Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) is also accelerating the development of its regular-powered large aircraft. It is estimated that in one or two years, Boeing's other markets will also be affected.

In fact, it is a sure thing that Boeing will lose the Greater China market. The main reason is that the safety of Boeing aircraft cannot meet the requirements of Greater China.

Boeing cannot meet the accident survival rate requirement alone.

It's not that it can't be built, but that once it is built, the cost will be too high. Airlines are not fools, so it is naturally impossible to purchase such an expensive and safe aircraft.

COMAC can play this way because COMAC’s spare parts supply costs are only about 20 to 30% of those of Boeing and Airbus.

Coupled with the high energy and low cost of N30 high-energy fuel and the high thermal efficiency of the detonation rocket engine, the overall operating cost has been reduced.

In other words, even if COMAC raises the price of its aircraft to be similar to that of Boeing and Airbus, it will still have a net profit of about 53 to 62%.

What do Boeing and Airbus use to compete?

Capitalists are not the ones running charity houses. They will definitely not do it knowing that they will lose all their money.

Even if Boeing and Airbus are willing to sell at cost price, airlines will not purchase them. You must know that among the various airlines in Greater China, flights using take-off passenger aircraft are basically full.

Ordinary Boeing and Airbus passenger planes must either be converted into cargo transport aircraft, or they can only fly on remote branch routes.

Every time a passenger aircraft is put into service, it means that an Airbus or Boeing passenger aircraft will be retired.

Boeing's stock has been falling since last year.

That's why Phillips asked why Boeing didn't die (go bankrupt).

David reminded in a low voice: "Don't forget what happened at the end of last year. Silicon Valley and many technology companies had problems. Boeing and Lockheed Martin teamed up to carve up Musk's space exploration company."

end of last year? Phillips and Balu reacted immediately.

Although the internal strife within the Noah Association was limited to a certain range, no one in the middle or lower classes knew the specifics.

But in less than a month, a large number of technology companies have changed their banners, and many people have been eliminated. There is definitely no way to completely block the news.

Especially David and others in the North American space system, Space Exploration Company, Blue Origin, and Virgin International, which work closely with NASA, all have big problems. If they can't detect the anomaly, then their sensitivity is really too high. Low.

Boeing, which carved up a lot of technology companies, not only acquired a lot of technology, but also a lot of new resources and channels. It used these timely rains to barely stop the bleeding.

Especially after losing a lot of orders in the aviation field, Boeing invested a lot of manpower and material resources into the aerospace field.

The lunar spacecraft that will take place in July is a new result of technological integration and upgrade after Boeing absorbed the Space Exploration Company.

Even the Super Falcon launch vehicle that Musk has vigorously developed has been acquired by Boeing. It is estimated that the first experimental model will be completed around April next year.

David and others did not continue to discuss the Noah meeting. After all, this matter was somewhat sensitive, and their conversations in the Outpost 2 base would be recorded.

And they actually have some guesses about NASA's mission next month.

This may be stimulated by the China Space Administration, which intends to seize a place first.

In fact, the guesses of David and others only guessed one of NASA's intentions, and the other purpose of temporarily changing the mission of the lunar spacecraft this time was for testing.

NASA understands the strength of the China Space Administration.

After all, 11 strongholds were set up in 11 days, plus they had learned about the so-called 50-kilometer radius security protection range.

If the other side really wants to occupy the front side of the moon, NASA really has no choice but to launch a few more lunar spacecrafts and build a few more temporary bases.

Of course, Noah, who is behind NASA, will definitely jump over the wall in a hurry.

After all, NASA's Mars spacecraft has already reached Mars orbit, and recently launched two probes - Columbus and Magellan - to the surface of Mars.

Among them, Columbus landed in the southern part of the Amazon Planitia on Mars; Magellan landed in Simud Canyon at the junction of Crisis Planitia and Mariner Canyon.

Their mission is to find samples of fluorescent fungi.

Once the location of the fluorescent fungus is determined, NASA will launch two Mars spacecraft to Mars to sample and then return to the Blue Star.

According to the agreement between Noah's Society and Greater China, the glowing fungi were not allowed to return directly to Blue Star.

Therefore, if NASA successfully obtains samples of fluorescent fungi, the most suitable research area can only be the moon.

If he cannot occupy a suitable area on the moon, Noah will never give up. He may even take risks and smuggle the glow fungus back to Blue Star.

Next month's landing mission between the Kepler and Copernicus craters will be a test.

They want to see Greater China's reaction.

His eyes returned to Yao Guoxian's team.

After completing the construction of the base in the northeastern region of the Sea of ​​Clouds, they returned to Guanghan Palace City to rest for a week, and then brought freshly produced space capsule parts with them.

In the Yuhai District, near the surrounding areas of Guanghan Palace City, temporary strongholds began to be arranged.

This kind of work is very boring, but the lunar area is short of manpower, so Yao Guoxian's team can only be responsible for it. However, after seizing the northeastern part of the sea of ​​​​clouds, the lunar area is not in a hurry.

In various areas of the moon, you only need to arrange a few strongholds on various important places. There is no need to be as dense as the sea of ​​clouds.

On the other hand, the Imbrium District needs to be strengthened and expanded. After all, it is currently the capital of the Lunar Zone and the only local industrial zone.

As long as the local industrial production capacity of the moon continues to expand, whether it is building a base or building a spaceship like dumplings, it will not be a problem.

The local industrial base and scale of the moon are the core competitiveness that determines the future of the moon.

If we want to maintain a normal life on the moon with a population of 100,000, the industrial production capacity of Guanghan Palace City is obviously not enough.

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