still remembers the sentence "too advanced and inconvenient to display" a year ago, and now it has finally unveiled the mystery. It seems inappropriate to describe it as " space shuttle " or "suborbital bomber", because it is actually an carrier that is transported in suborbital at a very fast speed. However, just a few days ago, the WeChat public account of " China Launch Vehicle Technology Research Institute " officially announced that the "Suborbital Long-range Aerospace Transportation System Overall Design and Control Technology" project, led by the Research and Development Department of the Rocket Institute, has been successfully reviewed and has obtained project approval support.
This project is the first key aerospace project established in the history of the discipline of transportation and transportation engineering of the Ministry of Engineering and Materials Science of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and is of great significance. It is worth noting that at the 7th China International Commercial Space Summit Forum, the latest progress of the " Tengyun Project " was announced: there will be no stop during the flight, take off, fly around the earth through the Antarctic for a week, and successfully return to the base. Last month, it was reported that the reused flight test of this lift suborbital carrier was a complete success, which has effectively promoted the leapfrog development of my country's aerospace transportation technology from one-time use to reused use. It was not until September that the project was officially announced and then the project was done first and then said, which was very consistent with our usual pragmatic style. The atmosphere of
is all set here, and it would be impolite not to talk about this super-speed suborbital carrier. Let’s first look at the project leader, which is the introduction of the chief designer of the Long March 8 launch vehicle of the Rocket Dean, , Song Zhengyu, . He said that long-range and fast delivery has become a new hot spot in the field of aerospace. The US Air Force has invested US$200 million in global rapid strategic delivery of research materials, and major aerospace countries such as Germany and Italy are also carrying out related technical research. Another example is that SpaceX, the United States, invested billions of dollars in developing the "Super Heavy-Starship" carrier to study how to use it to provide one-hour global fast transportation services.
Overall, in order to achieve long-range and extreme speed transportation of suborbital long-range aerospace transportation system, it is necessary to comprehensively utilize the ultra-micro resistance characteristics of space altitude, lift takeoff and gliding landing in the atmosphere. It also has many characteristics, such as multi-domain crossing, wide and fast, long range, large carrying capacity, and many reuses and high reliability requirements. However, the most worth mentioning is that after the system is officially put into use, it will have hour-level intercontinental arrival capabilities. To put it bluntly, this means that this aircraft can reach all over the world in one hour.
is no wonder. When some netizens heard this news, they said that -20 is not as good as it instantly. You might as well think about it. If you can go to all parts of the world within an hour, does it mean that it can fly directly over the Antarctic and then go north quickly? Does it mean that it can perfectly avoid the northern hemisphere covered with air defense system when fighting at long distances? It should be noted that some netizens also said that China has realized the ideal of the United States in advance. After all, when China just announced the aerospace plane project, U.S. experts bluntly stated that the flying design violated physical laws, but now the project has passed the review, which is enough to prove that the system is extremely likely to move from paper to reality.
Of course, the US side does not need to be anxious to get angry. Our chief engineer also said that this system will give birth to new industries such as global rapid transportation and popular space tourism, promote the development of my country's strategic emerging industries, and vigorously drive the development of science and technology, the innovation of aerospace technology and the transformation of human transportation models. Therefore, the possibility of civil use of the system in the future is also very high. At that time, those who have more abundant hands and pursue a quality of life will take a "world-day tour" from time to time to create a "one-hour global life circle".
So here we show that the new generation of domestic stealth bombers is still good, after all, the usage method and usage scenario are different. But then again, the project of our super-speed suborbital aerospace transportation system is enough to prove one thing: we do not lag behind the United States in this field, and there is even a possibility of catching up.
