Technological Supremacy Chapter 450: Get hot.
After the meeting of the brainstorming group, Luo Jia and Li Moran returned from the conference center together.
"I need more engineers." Li Moran said anxiously: "This mission is too hard-core, rocket simulation calculation, geosynchronous orbit cruise, space elevator engineering mechanics and bionic calculation, just look at it , are all the most difficult areas to deal with.”
"Perhaps we can call back Bai Xianyong from the industrial software branch. After all, the branch is already very stable. We mainly do some product extension and maintenance. It looks relatively leisurely."
Luo Jia nodded, "Yes, let's transfer people from the Industrial Software branch. The software required for the space program is not only highly complex, but also requires a lot of experience. Next, you must not only poach global experts, but also be brave Bigger, don’t be afraid if you haven’t written space-related software before, just try boldly.”
Many people don't know that behind the world's outstanding hardware companies, there are often extremely powerful software departments. Why is Dassault's computational fluid dynamics software so powerful? The main reason is that Dassault makes fighter jets. If the fluid mechanics is not strong, the Rafale fighter jets will lie down.
Not only is Dassault's software department very strong, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Siemens, Airbus, and even financial companies such as Standard Chartered Bank and Allianz Insurance also have powerful software departments behind them.
This time the space program is unparalleled and huge, not only is it a challenge for the hardware department in charge of Enron, the software department in charge of Li Moran, and the human resources department in charge of Di Wuchang are also under tremendous pressure.
Of course, the financial department that Lu Tao is in charge of is the most stressful department. As soon as he turns on the computer every day, there are all emails from various departments asking him for funds.
The stalls are really too big. Just for the production of graphene and super-strength carbon fiber needed for space elevators, more than 30 new factories have been planned in the north and south of the river.
The length of the 36,000-kilometer space elevator far exceeds the total mileage of the Huaxia High-speed Railway. Even if the cost per kilometer is 100 million U.S. dollars, it will cost 3.6 trillion U.S. dollars to build the space elevator itself.
As for other ancillary costs, auxiliary consumption costs, and the cost of a 10,000-ton space station, Lu Tao couldn't even imagine it. The huge numbers almost suffocated him.
If you are not in charge of the family, you don’t know the price of firewood and rice. Mr. Lu’s eyes are red every day, thinking about making money every day, thinking about increasing income and reducing expenditure, like a powder keg that is about to explode. Even Luo Jia dare not provoke him, for fear Make him mad.
"Come on, but don't tire yourself out." When they broke up, Luo Jia patted Li Moran on the shoulder and said.
"You should take more care of yourself. I heard from the young man in our department that the lights in your office were on all night last night." Li Moran said.
"Haha, you actually discovered it, but it won't happen from today on." Luo Jia said.
"Are you going to get rid of the problem of staying up late?" Li Moran asked curiously: "Impossible, you have always had the habit of working at night, and it has been like this for many years."
Luo Jia shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "I mean, I won't be discovered by you even if I stay up late in the future, because I plan to move directly to the Rocket Lab to work."
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Since the finalization of rocket research and development is the most important task of the entire company at present, Luo Jia intends to personally take charge, let An Ran develop the machinery he is good at, and devote himself to the rocket project.
The newly established rocket laboratory is located across the river in Qidong, not far from the subsidiary Xingchen Chemical. There is a large-scale dangerous goods test base of the Ministry of Chemistry, and it can also conduct rocket booster fuel tests.
"Suddenly there is a feeling of following an idol and following the road he has walked before." After entering the Rocket Lab, Luo Jia put down the cardboard box in his arms, looked around and said with emotion.
This unassuming boss insisted on bringing the office supplies here by himself, which moved the colleagues in the logistics department and the administration department.
"Teacher's idol?" Shen Lang, who was following behind Luo Jia, tilted his head and asked.
"Oh, Mr. Qian Xuesen, he is one of the founders of the rocket team, which is now the famous Jet Propulsion Laboratory." Luo Jia said: "Today, our Star Technology also has its own rocket laboratory , It’s really touching.”
Shen Lang frowned, and muttered in a low voice: "I'm going, Mr. Qian's rocket team is very cruel. A teaching building in Caltech was almost blown up by them. Teacher, you should take it easy."
"What did you say?" Luo Jia couldn't hear Shen Lang's muttering clearly, so he asked.
Shen Lang said that he didn't say anything, and then looked eagerly at the empty desk on the left side of Luo Jia's office.
"What? You want to move here too?" Luo Jia saw through the apprentice's mind and asked casually.
"Yeah!" Shen Lang nodded heavily, his eyes shining brightly, after all, he is a boy, and Shen Lang is full of interest in researching rockets.
"Not yet." Luo Jia shook his head and refused, and Shen Lang was a little downcast.
Luo Jia threw his coat to him, and pulled him out, "You have to start and finish things. Star Entertainment needs you more than Rocket Lab. You have to stay in the subsidiary and make suggestions for the cultural front. After all, the space project After starting, I have no time to pay attention to entertainment, and cultural hegemony is extremely important.”
Luo Jia explained to Shen Lang that the Rocket Lab sounded very prestigious, but in fact the work was quite boring. By constantly modifying the model and parameters, the design and process of the Xingchen launch vehicle were determined, basically 90% of them were research work.
As for Shen Lang, he is a born commander. It would be a waste of money to let a commander do research work. The culture and entertainment front is fighting fiercely with the western entertainment industry.
Disney, Marvel, DC, Universal, Warner, Columbia, Sony, Lionsgate, Netflix, HBO, all Western entertainment organizations that can be named take turns to fight. .
Not only movies and TV dramas are up for grabs, but documentaries, animation, talk shows, reality shows, and all entertainment industries are up for grabs.
In addition to this, there are cultures, the competition between Star Journals and Western academic journals, the establishment of science awards and the Nobel Prize for scientific research supremacy, which also requires capable people to decide.
Although Xingchen Technology is huge, it mainly takes the R&D route. Culture and Entertainment is one of the few subsidiaries that directly stand on the front line and fight fiercely with the West. His command and decision-making ability.
Seeing that Luo Jia has made up his mind, Shen Lang didn't say much. He likes the feeling of making suggestions in Star Entertainment, but the etched sea of stars represented by Rocket Lab, it's hard for any man to resist the depth of the universe. Tempt it.
When they came to the parking lot, Luo Jia and Shen Lang got into the car. The task of moving things has been completed. This weekend, Luo Jia will go home for dinner as usual. Starting tomorrow, he will officially preside over the work at the Rocket Lab.
"Let's go, I'll take you to eat cumin lamb chops." Luo Jia said, then drove away from the Rocket Lab and headed home.
Shen Lang nodded repeatedly, it was his privilege to freely come and go to the teacher's house, even Chen Qingyue and Gu Beiyin were very envious of it.
As soon as the car arrived halfway, the Luo family was drooling with hunger, and their stomach was growling.
It's strange to say that after trying so many dishes from top celebrity chefs, Luo Jia's favorite is actually the home-cooked dishes made by his mother.
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At home, I ate the dinner made by my mother, and chatted with my father about international forms and family affairs. Luo Jia drove back the next morning.
Because the new office location is farther away than the Baoshan headquarters, Luo Jia got on the elevated highway before dawn, and the sun just rose when it came to start.
From Rocket Lab to the east is the space communication laboratory jointly established with Huawei, which focuses on ultra-long-range signal transmission and satellite communication networks covering the world, etc. To the south is the space observation laboratory, and to the north is the space mining industry Laboratory...
All the laboratories are of different sizes, but the designs are all carved out of a mold, and they belong to the reserved buildings of Xingchen Technology.
The so-called reserved building is to build the laboratory first without knowing the company's plan. Once the company decides to start a new project, there will be enough space for use immediately, without the need to temporarily buy land to start construction. The savings are too much, which is in line with the tradition of Xingchen Technology to go fast.
Because it is a newly established laboratory, the researchers also come from all over the world. The main force is the Chemistry Department, the Automation Machinery Department, and the Materials Department, but there are also experts in unpopular fields such as the Theoretical Mathematics Group and the Graviton Physics Group.
In addition, there is also the global poaching by the Human Resources Department. They not only poach experts from the European Space Agency, but also major institutes under the Ministry of Space Affairs. Wuchang will act.
In short, there are new people joining the Rocket Lab every day, and everyone has long been familiar with it. If you want to say that the freshest thing is that the boss personally took the lead. The office next door to the person in charge, Qi Lilai, was simply cleaned up. Jia brought a few cardboard boxes over, and it was considered a permanent residence.
At first, everyone was a little uncomfortable, but after realizing that Luo Jia didn't have any airs and was very professional in the research of rockets, the atmosphere gradually relaxed.
On the first day of Luo Jia's arrival, a huge whiteboard was erected in the center of the laboratory, and such a complicated name was written on the whiteboard: liquid oxygen methane full-flow afterburning staged combustion cycle engine.
This kind of engine with an extremely complicated name is the goal that Luo Jia set for the laboratory. For rockets, the engine is at least 50% important. As long as the engine problem can be solved, everything else will be difficult As for the solution, maybe it can help the national team and improve intercontinental missile technology.
The first step in the development of a rocket engine is to design and build a digital model. Luo Jia soon hung up a second whiteboard, which reads:
The combustion chamber pressure is 37MPa.
The maximum thrust of a single machine~IndoMTL.com~Oxidizer main pump flow rate 742.72KG/S…
After the whiteboard was hung up, the researchers immediately surrounded it with surprise on their faces.
"The preset parameters are a bit high. The combustion chamber pressure of Musk's new generation Raptor engine is only 28MPa."
"The theoretical jet velocity of the methane engine is 3600m/s, while the jet velocity of liquid hydrogen is 4400m/s. It seems that the boss intends to maximize the performance of the methane engine."
"An engine with a single thrust of 550 tons? Mr. Luo really has a wild heart."
"Obviously, Mr. Luo is not aiming at the 100-ton rocket, but to do something bigger."
"I did a simple calculation just now. The Long March 9 is 140 tons, Musk's large Falcon is 150 tons, and the Super Falcon is 220 tons. If we build this one, it will be at least 300 tons!"
As soon as Luo Jia's preset parameters came out, everyone quickly discussed them.