He is a scientist who loves to cry and laugh, and is full of emotions and anger. He is the father of China's aerospace industry and the king of rockets Qian Xuesen's hand-picked successor. He has many titles, including the father of two bombs and one star. , Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics, Chief Technical Person in Charge of Dongfanghong-1 Satellite, etc. In space, one-third of our country’s spacecraft are made by him. Some people have said that Mr. Sun’s life is a journey. Part of China’s aerospace history! As for him, fame, fortune and wealth are all fleeting. His favorite title is only "China Aerospace Person"!
In 2020, at the opening ceremony of Beidou , an old man with silver hair was pushed into the venue. The moment he appeared, everyone in the audience immediately stood up and paid him the highest respect.
In 2007, Chang'e-1 was successfully launched. All the staff shed tears of excitement. Mr. Sun, as the general person in charge of the project, should appear in the most solemn image, but he gave his deep blessing. Afterwards, he immediately turned around and covered his face with a handkerchief and cried. This scene was captured by the reporters present and spread to major media websites, instantly making people across the country burst into tears. Of course, it was tears of excitement.
In life, Mr. Sun is an old man who is approachable, loves to joke, and always smiles. In an interview with a reporter, he said that at that time, a Chinese satellite was launched, and the director of NASA came to visit. During the process, the other party said that there was There was a question that was puzzling. At this point, Mr. Sun of laughed loudly because the other party didn't understand how the Chinese did it in such an environment. It was simply a miracle. Behind Mr. Sun’s proud smile is the bitterness and sweat of so many Chinese astronauts.
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In this issue, we will take a rough look at China's aerospace history through Mr. Sun Jiadong, and see how much effort these unknown people in those unknown corners have made for the rise of China? How many hardships and ups and downs have you experienced in the process of ? In front of the video, do you support the vigorous development of China's aerospace industry? If you support it, you can put the words "I support" at the top of the screen to help China's aerospace technology reach a higher level. Friends who like the video can also press and hold to like and follow. Your support is the biggest motivation for my creation!
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Sun Jiadong’s growth experience
Mr. Sun Jiadong is from Liaoning, Northeast China. He was born in 1929. When he was young, he showed unusual learning talent. When he was six years old, he started to go to school formally, but because of He is left-handed, and the school in the village refused to accept him. thought this would have an impact on the school and forced him to drop out. Do you think this would damage the child's self-confidence and never recover? No, for future glory, this difficulty is not worth mentioning. is very fast. He taught himself to write with his right hand. After a year, he was able to use his right hand skillfully. After arriving at yingkou, he was able to alternate between his left and right hands and type. Table tennis, has to say, if he were engaged in the national table tennis industry, he would probably be the idol of the "big devil" Zhang Yining.
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In 1942, because of his excellent performance in every subject, 13-year-old Sun Jiadong successfully entered Harbin No. 1 Higher Education School, majoring in civil engineering. At that time, the motherland was in troubled times, and the people Life was miserable and the devastation of the war made everyone homeless. After witnessing everything, Sun Jiadong had the ideal in his heart to help his motherland build high-rise buildings, mansions and bridges. Six years later, Sun Jiadong graduated and was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology. It was here that he began his legendary path to the Air Force over a meal of braised pork .
At that time, he first studied Russian in a preparatory class, and then transferred to the automotive department. At that time, China and the Soviet Union signed a friendship treaty, and the other party promised to help New China provide various assistance, including the establishment of the air force. The selection of talents by leaders has begun in full swing. During the Lantern Festival in 1950, all the students went home for the reunion dinner. The street was full of bustle and bustle, and people’s faces were filled with smiles. However, the preparatory class of Harbin Institute of Technology arranged for students to have dinner at school. , and said that being able to eat braised pork, At that time, it was extremely difficult to be able to eat a bowl of braised pork. For the braised pork, most students chose to stay, and Sun Jiadong was no exception. He also planned to After dinner, we rushed to my sister’s house for a reunion.
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At dinner time, the leader came, and he announced a major news. In order to speed up the construction of the new Chinese Air Force , the troops came to the school to recruit students, and they would go to Beijing at eight o'clock that night. The enthusiasm of the students present was ignited. After all, at that age Most of Duan's students were baptized by war and understood the importance of a strong military. Therefore, there were a very large number of applicants, and Sun Jiadong was finally selected as an emergency Russian translator. The year after entered the Air Force, a great opportunity was right in front of him. In order to train senior technical personnel, a total of thirty people selected from Sun Jiadong and other places went to the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy of the Soviet Union to study abroad, majoring in aircraft manufacturing technology. And their batch of talents are the first batch of government-sponsored elites to study abroad after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
A group photo of international students
Going to study in the Soviet Union
After arriving in the Soviet Union, they were shocked by the huge gap in science and technology between China and foreign countries. According to Mr. Sun's recollection, a group of young men took the subway for the first time. After the train came, everyone showed humility to each other. You Let me go first, I let you go first, finally gave way for a while, the car drove away, and no one made it. Later I learned that this is called "automatic door" . This experience of also made Chinese students work hard and become the hardest working group of people in the school. And these people have only one common wish, to return to the country after completing their studies and to serve the motherland.
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As for how to work hard? We can find out through learning results. At that time, this college in the Soviet Union had an incentive system. In the exam, students who got full marks in all subjects would have their photos on the school’s star list. In the first academic year, one photo If the two-inch photo can be maintained in the next few years, the photo will continue to enlarge and gradually move upward. is equivalent to a pyramid level, and the higher the number, the fewer people there are. And Sun Jiadong, with his belief in serving the motherland, has always been at the top of the star list. Until the end, because of his perfect scores for consecutive years, he directly became a "campus myth", and his large photos occupied the highest and most conspicuous position on the list. During this period of study, Sun Jiadong had a book he liked very much, "Engineering Cybernetics", which was of course in Russian, and the author of this book was Qian Xuesen who later influenced his life.
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The road to fame after returning to China begins
In 1958, Sun Jiadong returned to China after completing his studies. Before that, he won the All-Soviet Stalin Gold Medal. In theory, winners of this medal can get priority in job selection He had the right to take high-paying and well-paid positions, but he resolutely returned to his motherland where he was poor and his salary was less than 20 yuan. Later, was assigned to the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense, where the main research was It is an imitation and modification of the Soviet missile. At that time, Qian Xuesen was already a great scientist who shocked the world, and he was also their manager. Sun Jiadong, the dean of the institute, never expected that this great scientist would be his leader in entering the aerospace field in the future.
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During the period when he was engaged in missile research, Mr. Sun resolved his marriage. To put it into detail, it is also a legend. At that time, it was already past the age of parents' orders, and lovers were not conservative, but they were not like now. It is open, but Sun Jiadong and his wife are in the "flash marriage" family. They have known each other for only 108 days and only met twice before they got the certificate.In Mr. Sun's recollection, it is too difficult for young people who are engaged in astronauts to "leave singles" because they are too busy, working nearly 20 hours a day, and there are almost no holidays. It is difficult for them to find time to meet a partner, and they have no time to date. , in addition, most of their jobs are extremely confidential, and they have relatively high requirements for their lovers. Many girls cannot understand them and just think they don't care, and they soon become obscene.
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When talking about his experience of being single, Mr. Sun was very excited. He said that when he came back from the Soviet Union, he was already an older man. Later, during the Qingming Festival, he accidentally went to a friend's house to borrow a camera, and the other party took his wife's classmate Introduced to him, On May Day of the same year, he took advantage of a short holiday to go to Harbin to meet his wife Wei Suping. The two hit it off and they had the same views on home and country issues. With a wife like this, what more could a husband ask for? More than a hundred days later, Wei Suping came to Beijing alone with her household registration to complete the marriage. After marriage, it is normal to spend less time together and more separation, and the wife is in charge of all the affairs in the family.
However, due to work reasons, Wei Suping was still a little sad. According to her recollection, once her husband was on the phone in the outer room and saw the door open and his wife in the corridor. He kicked the door shut and isolated the two people. Wei Suping was very sad. Sad, you still avoid her on the phone? Later, as she gradually got used to it, she could vaguely guess her husband's job, but she was not really sure until three years later. I have to say that the families of scientific researchers are simply not comparable to ordinary people. If didn't have everyone in mind, how could we support this small family?
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In the memories of the couple, there is a name they are grateful for, Qian Xuesen. When mentioning Mr. Qian, the elderly Mr. Sun always sighs "My mentor!" During the time when he was working in the missile research group, Sun Jiadong was very motivated and quickly became the team leader. Mr. Qian gave him a lot of advice in the process. In the next ten years, Sun Jiadong participated in the development of China's first missile test explosion, followed by atomic bomb , hydrogen bomb , etc. Various breakthroughs meant that China had confidence in the world . In 1967, when the hydrogen bomb was successfully tested, Sun Jiadong also ushered in the beginning of his satellite career. The country decided to establish the China Academy of Space Technology, and Mr. Qian personally named him as the chief designer of the first artificial satellite.
At that time, surrounded by the United States and the Soviet Union, it was even more difficult for us to make a breakthrough. The important thing is that the motherland was already so far behind in this regard. Not only the United States and the Soviet Union, France also launched its own satellites, and Japan We are also making intensive preparations, . Therefore, China’s satellite must be amazing enough, and it must produce the best quality satellite in the shortest possible time.
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But this challenge is obviously too difficult, because there is no external technical support and no experience to draw on. Previously, their team was exposed to missiles and did not pay much attention to the satellite field, but everyone knows that if the motherland needs it, it must be used. No, you can learn.
In this way, the team began the difficult journey of finding the first star in China. And this retrograde team was later called the "Eighteen Space Warriors". In the journey to the first star, Mr. Sun played an indispensable role. In order to speed up the progress, he innovatively proposed the task of simplifying the satellite engineering, that is, manufacturing the satellite according to the needs. Subsequently, "can go up, catch, and see." "Visible and heard" has become the final design guideline of . It is these simple and down-to-earth ideas that can quickly develop and evolve in practice.
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Only three years , that is, one high school year, Mr. Sun's team succeeded. With the expectations of the people across the country, Dongfanghong No. 1 successfully ascended to heaven. There was cheering in the underground and in space. Our Dongfanghong song sounded, announcing that our country had officially broken through the Western technological blockade. In the following fifty years, Chinese satellites have been shining in space, launching more than 500 satellites and successfully establishing a foothold in the space field. Of course, China was still in the exploratory stage at this time. After Dongfanghong was launched, the first satellite in the sky was about to solve practical problems. Therefore, the remote sensing satellite was put on the agenda. Its responsibility was to take pictures and capture the vastness of the motherland. Territory, perfectly recorded, a new round of challenges begins.
But four years later, in November 1974, China's first returnable remote sensing satellite exploded 20 seconds after liftoff. The challenge failed. Mr. Sun, who was in the basement, felt it. There was a tremor above his head, and then he and his colleagues ran out and saw the entire desert engulfed in a sea of fire. Mr. Sun burst into tears. Even so, as a scientific researcher, the most important thing is to accept failure.
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A group of people searched in the desert for three days and three nights. The weather was cold and the dripping water turned into ice. But they determined to find the remains of the rocket inch by inch, even a small screw, thread, and piece of iron, and finally collected them , found the cause of the accident, a small piece of wire. Before the launch of , the skin of the wire was intact, but there were cracks in the copper wire inside. The staff did not notice it. When the rocket was launched, it would produce extremely violent vibrations. Everyone knows this. , causing the internal copper wire to directly disconnect, causing the entire launch mission to fail. This taught everyone a harsh lesson. A small crack determines the success or failure of the entire huge aerospace product.
In the end, Sun Jiadong took all the responsibility. After learning the lessons from this time, everyone began to pay attention to quality, and a strict control system in the aerospace field was launched. The following year, the returnable remote sensing satellite was successfully launched. is followed by a series of new products, from communications to remote sensing, non-recyclable to recyclable, domestically and abroad. According to statistics, is among the more than one hundred spacecraft independently developed and launched by China, led by Sun Lao There are about forty-five chief designers, more than one-third. Therefore, he is recognized by the industry as the "Father of Satellites".
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In 1985, China announced to the world that its domestic launch vehicle would be officially put into the international market . In fact, during this period, China's aerospace journey was extremely difficult, and the spring breeze of reform and opening up swept through every country in the country. Corner, but to a certain extent, it fully reveals some domestic shortcomings. For example, those who work for the country are far less remunerated than private companies. As Mr. Sun said, "those who make missiles are not as good as those who sell tea eggs." Aerospace Academy Income is low, foreign companies are pouring in, the mobile phone communications market is beginning to rise, and there are a lot of talents in the hospital. For the benefit of the company, and others have begun to poach people through various channels. The most exaggerated ones are Noyaki employees who drive big sports cars and advertise for recruitment. A sign with various generous salary packages written on it stood opposite the Aerospace Institute.
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Many young people were attracted to leave. When bidding farewell, they all told Mr. Sun that they loved the aerospace industry and had a sense of belief and patriotism, but they were really too poor and couldn't even afford to treat their partners to dinner. . Perhaps it was for the dream of strengthening the country, or perhaps it was to open up the external market and bring in foreign products. During this period, Mr. Sun played the role of a businessman. Negotiating with representatives from various countries again and again, in our impression, scientists who can achieve major achievements are generally not good at words, do not know how to argue with others, and focus on doing their own thing well. But Sun Jiadong is different. In the negotiation field, he The words are clear and sharp, and the rules are well-founded. There is a Secretary of State in the United States who has dealt with Mr. Sun. It is hard for him to believe that this is the scientist who developed China's first satellite, because in his opinion, Mr. Sun is not only familiar with How can it be possible to do tedious scientific work while having these things in mind while also being well versed in the policies of various countries and negotiating skills between major powers?
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But this is the consciousness of a communist. As long as the motherland needs it, every line must be done and capable! In 1988, Mr. Sun signed a satellite-related agreement with Laos and the United States on behalf of the country.In 1990, the Asia-1 satellite was successfully launched. Among similar satellites launched by Laos and the United States, its orbital accuracy was the highest.
In a Gulf War of the same year, China and the world were completely alert. In this modern war led by the United States, everyone felt the importance of navigation satellites. Soon after, related satellites The positioning system documents were issued, Beidou-1 was officially launched, and Mr. Sun was appointed as the chief designer of the project again. Although was already in his sixties, he took over the tasks entrusted to him by his motherland without any hesitation, and a new journey began.
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By 2003, with the third navigation and positioning satellite sent into space, the Beidou-1 satellite positioning system was officially established, providing users with an all-weather, regional positioning system. The system was later It played a very important role in the Wenchuan earthquake. In 2004, the lunar exploration project was launched, and the motherland once again entrusted it with important tasks, appointing Mr. Sun as the chief architect of the project. Life is not sweet, but for Mr. Sun, decades of hard work are worth it for that moment of success. When he recalls it, the past is all sweet. In the process of communicating with others, Sun Jiadong likes to laugh very much. , his smile gave people a feeling of being ignorant of the world, pure and sincere, warm and comfortable, but in a conference, he cried like a child.
In late October 2007, Chang'e-1 successfully launched into space. Every day after that, Sun Jiadong stood in front of the center stage extremely nervously, observing the satellite's orbit. It was not until nearly a month later that it successfully entered the moon. track, and finally breathed a sigh of relief . Everyone at the scene cheered, hugged, and shed tears of excitement. Sun Jiadong secretly turned his head at the venue and took out a handkerchief to wipe his tears. This scene was captured by the camera. Enter In front of hundreds of millions of viewers, everyone in was touched by it. In 2009, Beidou system was once again a complete success, with Sun Jiadong's achievements bearing the brunt.
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After that, he successively won the National Science and Technology Progress Special Award, Two Bombs and One Satellite Meritorious Service Award, Touching China Person of the Year and other awards. In 2012, in view of Sun Jiadong's great contribution to China's aerospace industry, the international The Astronomical Federation decided to name planet 148081 "Sun Jiadong Star" .
In 2014, Mr. Sun retired from his position as chief designer. He felt that he should give fresh blood a chance to show their talents. Now the country’s salary level for the aerospace institute is also rising. After seeing the power of the motherland, , and no longer miss the excellent foreign resources, but focus on the country. This is something that everyone likes to hear, and I have to make room for them. also means that I no longer care about the things in the sky, and I want to delve into the things on the ground. When it comes to , for example, shared bicycles use satellites in the sky to navigate them. At that time, many companies in Beijing had already used the Beidou system. Of course, , every time Mr. Sun sees another group of people using the American GPS, he will mutter, "Beidou is better!" He is humorous and cute, just like an old kid.
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In 1919, Mr. Sun was awarded the country’s highest honor, Medal of the Republic. The ninety-year-old man was sitting in a wheelchair and was pushed to participate in the medal ceremony. He has dedicated sixty years to the country and devoted himself to the people. If you don’t seek retribution, if you put your home and country at ease, the people will hold you high! What you sincerely pay for is destined to be remembered forever by the people. The following year, the opening ceremony of Beidou-3 satellite was held. As the chief designer of the first two satellites, Mr. Sun was invited to attend to witness this sacred moment.
Before that, according to a colleague's recollection, an old man over fifty years old could not forget his aerospace career and would often come to the aerospace institute to visit. People asked him if he could still do it? Mr. Sun smiled shyly and said "The computer works well, but the actuator does not work well like ", which means that no matter when, his brain will always strive for China's aerospace industry, but his body will not obey the command. .Heroes grow old, but their deeds last forever. In that era of poverty and poverty, there were too many young people like Sun Jiadong. They did not despise the poverty of the motherland and worked hard for the motherland all their lives. There is a word that means conscientiousness towards work. When we were young, we learned Love what you do, but how many people can do this? There are too many ups and downs, temptations, and roadblocks on the road to building the dream of a powerful nation. Only by truly firming up the beliefs in one's heart can it be worth passing on forever!
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