[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil":3,"chapter-you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-282":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","You were told to build a tractor, but you're building a rocket?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1306089,1735,"Chapter 282 - 275 Hurricane_1","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-282",282,"\u003Cp>Xie Liaofu’s concerns were answered 10 minutes later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Pioneer spacecraft still needed to glide for a while before igniting again to achieve orbit, but the belatedly arriving enhanced Core Stage One finally penetrated the atmosphere, beginning to adjust its attitude to enter the recovery program.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The situation Xie Liaofu worried about did not occur, as the signals sent back by the rocket indicated everything was normal, meaning it at least wasn’t burnt up by the atmosphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the core stage, having decelerated several times, appeared magnified on the ground camera’s screen, the launch center still got a shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surface of the enhanced Core Stage Two, on its maiden flight, looked as if it had been used at least 10 times or more due to the longer duration and higher velocity of scorching; the charred body completely obscured any prints on the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The launch center was particularly afraid that the delicate grid fins had been damaged. Fortunately, although they appeared completely blackened, there were no malfunctions, and the enhanced core stage was still clamped by the recovery tower amidst the throbbing hearts of the team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xie Liaofu wiped the cold sweat from his brow and said with some retrospective fear,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Perhaps the thermal insulation of Core Stage One should be handled like the recovered second stage. Although it was a success this time, I still feel it was somewhat risky; the wear on the body from one recovery is nearly three times that of a regular launch.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ju: \"I think as long as the launch tower isn’t blown up, it’s a success, or at least as long as fewer trees are burnt.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, smoke could already be seen billowing from the forest next to the launch facility; presumably, Director Huang was there, directing the firefighting operations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xie Liaofu: \"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had never encountered this problem in the Union; after all, it’s not easy to ignite a fire amid the icy tundra of the north, and Baikonur was in the grasslands and deserts of Kazakhstan, which were indeed blind spots in his knowledge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Capital, State Guest House.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Yuri and his entourage flew back to Beijing after the Pioneer launch to prepare for the negotiations on the construction of the Lunar Research Station.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, since they arrived in the afternoon, they had dinner with the Aerospace Development Committee in the evening, after which Director Yuri was asked a crucial question by the committee’s experts:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Russia is planning to increase cooperation projects and launch plans for the Lunar Scientific Investigation Station, which rocket will it use?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuri naturally answered that it would be the Yenisei series of super-heavy rockets currently planned by RKA. The Aerospace Development Committee did not question the technical prowess of the Yenisei rocket but instead tactfully inquired whether Russia could afford the cost of launching such an expendable rocket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although China’s CZ-10 was also an expendable rocket, the space agency there could build and afford it with ease; no matter how many were needed, they had the production speed and funding, and there was also New Yuan’s reusable rocket available for use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In contrast, it was uncertain if Russia could guarantee even one Yenisei rocket launch per year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was indeed a sharp and unavoidable issue, so Director Yuri could only fumble his way through it, deliberately not drinking much alcohol, and later that night called the two accompanying designers together to pull an all-nighter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rachuk and Miklin weren’t sleepy either, listening to Director Yuri’s complaints:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They showed me the Pioneer spacecraft just to tell me that Russia has fallen behind in space, to coerce us into compromising and conceding!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In their eyes, Russia no longer has the strength for lunar exploration and is an expendable player; they are more interested in obtaining things in other areas! Yet, twenty years ago, they acquired the RD120 data from us to manufacture the YF100. They were so far behind at that time, and now they have surpassed us in space technology.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Miklin could only maintain silence. It had been twenty-five years, and it was already difficult for Russia to stop its decline. Now, a bit of a revival was precious, but one could only say that the neighbors were developing too fast, too furiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rachuk: \"But Russia still has advantages, such as the high-thrust hydrogen-oxygen engines, nuclear propulsion, and space nuclear reactors, and our production costs should also be lower.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuri shook his head: \"To catch up with the Moon return mission, we must take a ride with the Chinese. Cooperation is certain. We need to show our strength. Manned landing is too complex for now, we can’t do it, so we start with equipment and transport capacity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We need a super-heavy rocket that can enter service on schedule and ensure a high number of launches; otherwise, how are we different from America with empty hands? Do we have to spend 10 billion dollars like those people with grid patterns on their heads to buy a boat ticket?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Miklin: \"Yenisei rocket dumps 6 RD171MV engines and one RD180 each time. It’s indeed hard to produce, and very expensive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to develop reusable rockets like America and China, we don’t have enough time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuri: \"If it really comes to it, we’ll buy control systems from New Yuan. They even sell to the European Space Agency; we can buy them too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rachuk and Miklin exchanged a glance, not expecting Yuri to seriously consider this idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Miklin had witnessed the glory days of Union space exploration, and it was tough for him to accept that Russian aerospace, which once vied for supremacy with America, was now in a position where it had to rely on others for space technology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After exchanging meaningful looks with Rachuk, he finally made up his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yuri, we actually do have a reusable super-heavy rocket, and it’s very big.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On December 2, the RKA delegation led by Yuri left Beijing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The plan for Russia’s part of the Lunar Scientific Investigation Station was still not agreed upon, but a little pressure from the Aerospace Development Committee yielded results:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuri stated that Russia’s future reusable super-heavy rocket would be determined soon, and they would come back for discussions on the Lunar Scientific Investigation Station construction plan once the project was officially initiated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The internal code name for this reusable super-heavy rocket had already been decided: 11K30, Hurricane, or Energy 2 Rocket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Energy 2 (also known as Hurricane) Rocket is the two-and-a-half-stage super-heavy rocket that launched the Union Blizzard Spacecraft, with a liftoff mass of 2200 tons, a low Earth orbit payload capacity of over 100 tons, capable of delivering 32 tons to the Moon, and 27 tons to Mars or Venus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Core Stage One has a diameter of 8 meters, using 4 RD0120 hydrogen-oxygen engines of 190 tons of thrust each (in a vacuum), and four boosters with a diameter of 3.9 meters, each equipped with an RD170 engine providing 800 tons of thrust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the late 1980s, the Union decided that the Energy Rocket was too expensive and resolved to develop reusable technology, leading to the design of Energy 2.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Energy 2 would equip each booster with folding wings, landing gear, and turbofan engines so that after separation, they could land at an airport like airplanes for recovery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Core Stage One would be transformed into a space shuttle design, with added tail fins and controllable rudders, modified from two stages into a single integrated stage, carrying the payload to orbit before gliding back into the atmosphere for recovery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This proposal was highly feasible; the technology was much simpler than vertical recovery. However, the problem was the glide recovery system’s dead weight was too large, which could lead to a significant drop in payload capacity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, Core Stage One as a single, integrated stage affected the payload factor significantly. To preserve as much payload capacity as possible required extremely high design capability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vertical recovery clearly had less dead weight and was more convenient, but Russia no longer had a choice.\u003C\u002Fp>",1339,"2026-06-05T18:20:54.444Z",1,"novelbin.me","7cfc8fe98558fe6695b9dc26f25374d61b33870283a0754140d7fd51c70d25a6","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-283","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-281",804,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyou-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-cover.jpg"]