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Chapter 565 ESA's Manned Moon Landing Program

The European Space Agency, which is thousands of miles away, after this period of deliberation, finally released the European Space Agency's manned moon landing plan after NASA announced the manned moon landing plan in 2026 and the manned Mars landing plan in 2030 .

This time, the press conference of the European Space Agency's manned moon landing program was very grand, and major media in the world were invited, which basically guaranteed that the news could spread throughout the world and cover the earth.

"After our serious research and demonstration, we believe that it is a more appropriate time for the European Space Agency to hold a manned moon landing in 2030, and there are still five years to ensure that we have sufficient time to prepare and train excellent astronauts. "

"Artemis is the moon god in myths and legends, so we named the manned moon landing plan 'Artemis' plan, our manned moon landing spacecraft named 'Artemis', we I believe that Zeus will bless his daughter!" European Space Agency Director Werner attended the press conference in person and said confidently.

The European Space Agency, founded in 1975, is an intergovernmental organization dedicated to space exploration, with 22 member states and headquartered in Paris, the capital of France.Its missions since its inception have included launching and operating unmanned missions to other planets and the Moon; Earth observation, science and communications; designing launch vehicles; and maintaining the main spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana.

For a long time, the European Space Agency has belonged to the third oldest space agency in the world, second only to the United States and the Soviet Union or the United States and Russia. The Galileo satellite navigation project led by it once made China drool and waved money to buy tickets to enter , Unfortunately, the changing situation is always unexpected. After refusing Huaxia to join the Galileo satellite navigation plan, Huaxia developed an independent satellite navigation system. After entering the millennium, the European Space Agency was quickly squeezed out by the Huaxia Space Agency. The space agency became the fourth space agency in the world.

Now I can only look up, perfectly interpreting what is meant by 'today you ignore me, tomorrow I will make you unable to climb'!
The European Space Agency is also facing a lot of pressure this time. After all, the annual funding of the European Space Agency ranks second in the world for a long time. As a result, China now has a complete global satellite navigation system and the only space station in orbit in the world. , with the most advanced quantum communication satellites, and now it is even manned to the moon.

In contrast to the European Space Agency, there is nothing!

The Galileo satellite navigation project that once made Europeans proud has not yet completed the global network!How can this make the proud Europeans accept it.

In fact, the European Space Agency is also very helpless for the Galileo satellite navigation plan, because under the crazy "Starlink Project" of Musk, the helm of the damn "Space X", many good orbital resources have been abandoned by those junk satellites of the "Star Love Project" occupied.

Although Musk keeps saying that the "Starlink Project" is a great space exploration plan, a "Starlink" network composed of about 1.2 satellites will be built in space to provide Internet services, of which 1584 will be deployed 550 kilometers above the earth. low-Earth orbit at kilometers.According to what they said to the public, this is a purely commercial act, and it is to completely get rid of the base station for communication. The base station is too wasteful, causing a huge waste of resources, and it is impossible to achieve global coverage, while the "Starlink Project" can, It will make the earth truly a global village, and the Internet can be used in any corner of the world.

But it’s enough to deceive laymen with this kind of words. For insiders, they clearly know that this is the despicable behavior of Musk’s lunatic, who uses small satellites to seize high-quality space orbit resources and accept orbits from companies that want corresponding orbit positions. application fee.

After all, everyone knows that that small satellite can't do much at all, and it still only has a lifespan of 3 to 5 years, so it doesn't really want to do anything spectacular.

It's completely 'becoming a bitch and erecting a torii'!
In the past few years, there have been frequent dangerous collisions of satellites, which is caused by Space X, in order to force other countries and other companies to buy orbit fees from them.

And Space X is a U.S. company, and other countries dare not speak out. Not all countries have the ability to destroy satellites with lasers, and not everyone can be in space and have defense capabilities.

In the face of Space X's rogue behavior, you can only swallow this breath with your nose pinched.

The European Space Agency's Galileo satellite navigation system plan is also facing the same embarrassment. To complete the network, you have to buy orbital resources like Space X, unless they have very accurate satellite orbiting technology, which can perfectly avoid the "Starlink Project" Those small satellites, or they have advanced laser weapons, directly destroy Space X's small satellites.

After all, if it is destroyed, no matter how much Space X roars, it will be powerless to face the European Space Agency, because a private enterprise will never be able to confront a country.As for the reason for destroying the satellite, it is too simple, such as the laser experiment, they did not know that there was a satellite in the calculated orbit, and Space X did not announce the position of their satellite, and did not report to the European Space Agency.

Looking at the dozens of satellites destroyed by the "Starlink Project" over the years, the reasons for the two national space agencies are almost the same, almost perfect and impeccable, making Space X roar incompetently, but helpless.

It's a pity that Europe doesn't have the technology to destroy satellites with lasers, so it can only stare blankly.And the European Space Agency is unwilling to be taken advantage of and pay high space orbit fees to let Space X vacate the orbit.Because the price list offered by Space X is too damn expensive, the European Space Agency will have to pay 20 billion euros to complete the global navigation network of Galileo satellites.

So, I'm still wrangling in private.

"Director Warner, can European rocket technology support the sending of spacecraft to the moon?" A blond beauty asked very sharply.

Werner was secretly angry in his heart. This damn woman, who doesn't mention which pot, just picks and criticizes. Doesn't she know that the European Space Agency's "Artemis" project needs more encouragement and praise?
However, the team had anticipated this problem before, so Werner took a deep breath, quickly adjusted his mood, and said with a smile: "I think this problem is not difficult to solve. Develop a super-heavy launch vehicle."

"Everyone knows that in 2005, we signed an agreement with the Russian Space Agency on the development of rockets. After so many years, we have mastered the technology of super-heavy launch vehicles. We will build on the basis of the 'Soyuz-CT' rocket. , to develop a super-heavy launch vehicle that can meet manned landing on the moon." Woerner said confidently.

These reporters did not mention the issue of the rocket after seeing this. They are reporters, not aerospace experts, and they don't know such professional things.

In fact, only people in the industry know that the so-called 'Alliance-CT' new rocket is a medium-sized rocket that is transformed on the basis of the Russian 'Alliance' rocket.Now this 'Alliance-CT' new rocket is mainly engaged in commercial launch business at the Kourou Space Center.

However, medium-sized shelves and heavy-duty rockets are two concepts, let alone super-heavy rockets, which are completely different things, and the technical differences in them are worlds apart.

"Director Warner, how are the astronauts selected for the 'Artemis' program? Will it be selected globally like NASA does?" A reporter asked this question about the astronauts who landed on the moon.

NASA's return to the moon, like the previous one, is going through a global selection process to select astronauts who are interested in space.

Werner secretly despises these reporters. They really have no professional knowledge, and they are going through the global public selection. Who doesn't know that it is a show by NASA. Manned spaceflight has very high requirements for astronauts. Not just in terms of physical fitness, but also in terms of knowledge.

Looking at China's astronaut construction team, the first batch of astronauts, the second batch of astronauts, the third batch of astronauts, and the fourth batch of astronauts showed very obvious differences. The selection among the Air Force is very obvious in terms of hard work and hard work, but there is no doubt that professional knowledge is somewhat insufficient.The third batch of astronauts were selected in universities and scientific research institutes, with stronger knowledge and ability, and a greater change in the perspective of thinking about problems.When it comes to the fourth batch of astronauts, they are either born in the 90s or even born in the 00s. Their personalities are more obvious, they are more receptive to new things, and they have stronger knowledge and ability.

"Our European astronauts will train their own astronauts. As we all know, astronauts need to have extremely high quality. We will use the next five years to train a group of experienced astronauts!" Woerner said with a smile: "For example , we are discussing a possibility, which is to sign a cooperation agreement with the China Space Administration, so that our astronauts can enter the 'Tiangong' space station!"

When the reporters heard the news, they were immediately a little excited. Since the International Space Station ended its mission, turned into a mass of cremation and plunged into the Pacific Ocean, and sank to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, there is only one space station in the entire space, and that is China's Tiangong No. 'Space Station.

Faced with such a situation, some experts suggested that various countries raise funds again to build another international space station together, and it will be more advanced than the previous international space station.Just to build such an international space station, the construction cost will be as high as 4000 billion US dollars.As soon as this fee came out, most countries were discouraged.

It's too deceitful. You must know China's "Double Ring Space Station" project. The construction cost of such a huge space station is only 5000 trillion yuan, which is equivalent to about [-] billion U.S. dollars.

Of course, in addition to jointly building the International Space Station, there is another option, and that is to cooperate with the Huaxia Space Administration, and the Huaxia Space Administration has always emphasized since the construction of the "Tiangong" space station that China is an open country and welcomes all friendly countries to work together. Take part in space exploration.

(End of this chapter)