my country's commercial aerospace company Blue Arrow Aerospace recently reached an agreement with Taobao to jointly develop large launch vehicles "Baojian" and "Xiaobaojian". As an e-commerce giant, Taobao's express delivery methods range from trucks, trains, and airplanes to speed up delivery step by step and expand delivery areas, which greatly facilitates people's lives. However, Taobao will not stop there. They pursue faster delivery. Speed, in order to achieve the goal of "global one-hour delivery", 's super rocket transportation solution came into being. Produced by
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Baojian can realize cross-continental transportation of express delivery at a speed up to thirty times that of airplanes
This mode of transportation will also subvert people's online shopping experience. According to relevant news, "Baojian" has a long-term contract 49 meters, with a diameter of 3.55 meters, it can be reused, with a transport capacity of up to 5 to 10 tons, and can also realize intercontinental transportation. After acceleration, the rocket can reach the first cosmic speed of , , which is equivalent to thirty times the speed of current aircraft. See Soon after arriving, the express delivery will really go to heaven. The "Baojian" is currently under construction, and it is expected that the "Dabaojian" will come out in 3 to 5 years. Although the "Xiaobaojian" is not as loaded as its "big brother", it can land on the rooftop with a load capacity of only 200 kilograms and can be used as a super express for intra-city transportation.
The key to express rocket transportation lies in the vertical recycling and reuse of rockets
So will rocket transportation really be possible for express delivery in the future? The basic requirement for rocket transportation is rocket recovery. The first company in the world to achieve rocket recovery was the American company SpaceX. The Falcon 9 developed by this private company successfully achieved a smooth landing of the first-stage rocket in 2016. The difficulty of this technology is that the rocket needs to land vertically and the landing must be smooth. This can ensure that the rocket can be reused after landing. So far, the American "Falcon 9" has achieved multiple sub-stage recovery. But so far, China's aerospace industry has not maturely mastered this technology. As a private aerospace company, is Blue Arrow capable of completing it?
Blue Arrow once tried to launch Suzaku-1 but failed to put the third stage into orbit
Blue Arrow, as a private commercial company, can be said to be the Chinese version of SpaceX. Currently, driven by the background of China's military-civilian technology integration, more than a dozen private companies Aerospace companies have emerged, among which Blue Arrow Company is the most prominent among these private aerospace companies. Although the launch of the Suzaku-1 developed by the company ended in failure due to an abnormality in the third-stage orbit in 2018, the 376.7 seconds of flight time before the ignition of the third-stage engine was a milestone for private aerospace. You must know that the first rocket "Falcon 1" launched by SpaceX was successfully launched only for the fourth time. The tonnage of Suzaku 1 was not lower than that of SpaceX, so one failure is not enough to qualify as a hero!
The independently developed 80-ton liquid oxygen Tianque engine will participate in the vertical landing experiment
At present, the 80-ton liquid oxygen methane Tianque engine independently developed by Blue Arrow Company has completed the test run, which will add new features to the Suzaku-2 that is preparing to be launched. Color, this type of engine is almost comparable to the 66-ton Merlin series engine currently in service by SpaceX in the United States, and its good performance is also the best engine for vertical landing and reuse. In recent years, China's commercial private aerospace has received strong support from the state and favored by capital. It is expected that by 2025, our country will form a space market second only to the United States, and the "soil" for the development of private aerospace will also be more nourished. In the future, " treasure arrows " After the development of " Earth Hour " logistics, it is no longer a dream.
