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Instead, he looked meaningfully at the New Yuan No. 3 rocket on the launch tower and said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Traditional rocket engines are just oxidizers and fuel exploding to produce thrust, their structures are largely similar, and their limits have been predetermined a long time ago. The future of space cannot always rely on them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Weitian immediately thought of many things, including aero-space planes and nuclear thermal engines, which from the outset are far superior to traditional rockets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his age had already doomed him to walk the traditional path to the end, including in the physical sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, the future belongs to the younger generation, but I still have more than ten years of heat to contribute,\" he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Weitian was not sad; each generation has its own mission. If the next generation’s aerospace power still depended on him, it would only indicate that the development of aerospace was abnormal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>America, Texas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like 2 million YouTube viewers, Ma Yilong was glued to the four-hour live broadcast of the launch on his computer screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the morning of June 24th, a little past 7 o’clock, and though it was still the middle of the night in America, the number of people watching the live stream on the internet was not insignificant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the most powerful rocket in human history, not the CBC. Just a single core stage was providing a whopping 7,500 tons of thrust, more than double that of Saturn V!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The enormous New Yuan No. 3 stood on the mobile launch platform, and the fog of liquid oxygen rising in the sunlight was not so noticeable, or perhaps it appeared less obvious against the backdrop of the huge rocket body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How tall was New Yuan No. 3? 147 meters!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a comparative chart of the series of heavy-lift rockets like Saturn V, SLS, CZ-9, and New Yuan No. 3, New Yuan No. 3 towered above the rest, looking a size larger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The final assembly building was modified two months in advance to accommodate this rocket, with half-open-air assembly operations, and the roof was built up higher like an illegal construction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This exaggerated rocket, even more shocking than New Yuan-2A, stood there as if the surrounding environment had shrunk in proportion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma Yilong went through the rocket specifications scrolling on the live broadcast screen, the more he saw, the more envious he became.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The K380V-type full-flow liquid oxygen kerosene engine, with a specific impulse of 331 seconds, a sea-level thrust of 399 tons, and a maximum nozzle diameter of just 2 meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With such high-performance metrics, it completely outclassed the Russian RD180\u002F181 series kerosene engines once procured by NACA, and it also took the throne as the world’s number one kerosene engine with a single combustion chamber thrust of 400 tons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The K380V was also extremely reliable; as the main engine of the Core Stage One for the New Yuan No. 5 series, it had conducted more than twenty consecutive launches without a single issue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reliability concerns of arranging 19 engines on Core Stage One were dispelled by the already operational K380, with only a few people still doubting whether the concentrated arrangement had too severe an impact on airflow channels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The CCAV presenter also raised this issue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, launching rockets was a big deal, and CCAV broadcasted large aerospace craft or manned launch missions live. But in the past two years, there were so many launches that even the presenters now had some basic knowledge of rockets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the launch of the New Yuan No. 3 rocket, it was still a joint studio effort between the television station, the aerospace bureau, and Xinyuan Company.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The presenter asked,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...We see that the New Yuan No. 3 massive rocket adopted a design that has 19 engines in the core stage for reusability. So, Academician Zhao, could you tell us the difficulty in this design?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Academician Zhao: \"For multiple engines in parallel on the core stage, let’s take the N1 rocket’s engines as an example. First, the control system must stabilize the output thrust of the 19 engines in all directions, and second, the reliability of the engines. We all know that the more engines there are, the higher the probability that one of them will have problems. If an accident happens and it becomes unusable, it could likely result in launch failure.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The host turns to the engineer from Xinyuan: \"Then Mr. Wang, the Chief Designer, can you tell us how New Yuan No. 3 addresses these two issues?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The engines of New Yuan No. 3 are very reliable, and in the event of an accident, it would at most shut down and not start. However, the design of New Yuan No. 2 allows it to still send the upper stage into orbit intact if four engines fail, at most consuming more fuel than anticipated and possibly being unable to be recovered.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The host: \"Even with four engines failing, it could still be a success? That’s more than 1,000 tons of thrust.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chief Designer Wang: \"In the worst-case scenario, 15 engines can operate at 112% power to ensure a thrust of around 7,200 tons. Just fly a little longer and it will be fine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The host: \"But the positions of the failed engines may be randomly distributed. Wouldn’t that cause imbalance in thrust and deviate the rocket?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chief Designer Wang: \"In terms of intelligent control and attitude adjustment, Xinyuan has full confidence.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma Yilong strongly agreed with the last statement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Xin’an XC4’s XW151 intelligent driving system had dropped a bomb in the automotive industry. Tesla had contacted Google, and both had a consistent opinion about XW151: this is a product of the future, isn’t it?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gap was astonishing. To reach the level of XW151’s driving technology, one had to rely on a terrifyingly vast amount of data learning or develop a highly capable artificial intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both believed that the success of XW151 came from the former, but they could not understand how Xinyuan had managed to collect so much data.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tesla’s laboratory told Ma that it would be three years before reaching the level of XW151, but by that time Xin’an would have long moved beyond XW151, already onto XW191!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this was the case in cars, one could hardly imagine how advanced the intelligent control systems used in aerospace must be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention anything else, just the Explorer robots were enough to make a whole batch of robotics companies tremble, with even Boston Dynamics, which considered itself ahead in the field, swallowing hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is it difficult to just control the attitudes of some engines?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma didn’t think it was difficult, and there was much potential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at his assistant:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Scott, we need to remain confident in Starship. The more engines, the more reliable it actually is, as long as the control system is up to par.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first generation of Starship had already taken shape, similar to its successors—a Starship Spacecraft with a booster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the first generation Raptor Engine, which was expected to be tested and ignited the next month, had a maximum thrust of only 185 tons, it was estimated that 29 Raptor engines would be needed to achieve a thrust of 5,400 tons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Starship Spacecraft’s own weight had also been reduced to 65 tons, 20 tons less than the one that sent Lin Ju to his fate, with a payload of 120 tons, 60 tons less, and equipped with six Raptor vacuum engines, arranged in two rings, providing around 1,100 tons of thrust. It would require three engines to work together for landing and recovery braking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though Ma, as the chief engineer, had the decision-making power, the design of 33 engines on the core stage still scared the other engineers even though there was the precedent of 27-engined Heavy Falcon. However, since the latter was CBC, it wasn’t exactly comparable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now Ma was somewhat looking forward to the successful launch of New Yuan No. 3. Though it had only 19 engines, it could still demonstrate that the feasibility of multiple engines in parallel wasn’t low, which would be good for advancing the Starship program as planned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Lin Ju knew that his competitor was hoping for his success, he would probably laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>",1390,"2026-06-05T18:20:54.444Z",1,"novelbin.me","ae91ab4b2b6f7020a0e9bb8e81649122d2bbf7fc9966250e7bb74e27f4da200e","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-181","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-179",804,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyou-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-cover.jpg"]