After a while, whispers of discussion spread from the conference room.
Director Sun didn't explain. He just glanced at the secretary standing next to him and nodded lightly.
After a pause, Director Sun concluded the debate with one sentence.
Although the words are not very long, the amount of information is extremely large, so that the minutes of the meeting have been distributed for a long time, and the meeting has started for a long time, but until now no one has spoken.
This is the topic of today's conference and also the title of a paper.
Thrust of KN magnitude…
"How to say?"
"I agree with Professor Yu's point of view. The U.S. NASP plan and West Germany's Sanger plan both regard reusable space shuttles as the focus of the development of future space-to-earth transportation systems. I believe that Americans have already eaten so many things on the space shuttle. Unfortunately, the understanding of pain should be more painful than ours, and to allow them to make such a choice, they must have gone through sufficient and careful consideration. Therefore, even if we do not pay attention to it, we must not ignore it!"
"If the output power of the power supply equipment can reach 100MW... theoretically it is not impossible to generate KN-level thrust."
About five minutes passed, and after I had finished reading the information, the sounds of exclamation spread from every corner of the conference room like a sweeping wave.
The secretary standing next to the multimedia desk immediately understood and put a CD into the notebook computer placed on the multimedia desk. Then he operated the mouse and quickly retrieved the original copy of the paper from the CD and released the inconvenient Publicly available data, as well as some information about fusion batteries.
"Approval of the project!"
In a certain conference room.
"I'd like to hear your thoughts on this paper... or the shuttle."
"You are experts in the aerospace field. In the past twenty years, our aerospace industry has made strides forward with your experience. Not only has it broken through the technological blockade, but it has also completed many things that other developing countries have even thought of. Things I dare not think about.”
Then the second one…
"Impossible. The person who wrote this report is Professor Lu. Is that guy short of funds?"
Although the content discussed is superficial, there is nothing we can do about it.
"Mr. Qian took the space shuttle route himself. If we change the route at this time... wouldn't it be a bad idea?"
The experts sitting at the table looked at each other, and many of them had a thoughtful expression in their eyes.
"The meeting is dismissed!"
Looking carefully at the data on the screen, the experts sitting at the conference table fell into deep thought.
Of course, some people were still confused and turned their questioning eyes to Director Sun, who was sitting at the head of the conference table.
"Director."
Gradually, a hand was raised.
"Quiet!"
After the words fell, there was still no sound in the conference room.
"I said this discussion... is it necessary to continue?"
In fact, a similar debate happened a long time ago, and even broke out in this conference room, but there were no such advanced multimedia equipment at that time, and the people sitting here had also changed.
The moment this information was displayed on the curtain, the conference room was as quiet as death, as if you could clearly hear a pin drop on the ground.
"What's wrong?"
The deputy director smiled and immediately shut up and stopped talking.
"Let's vote by a show of hands."
"Maybe he can do it?"
Sitting at the head of the conference table, Director Sun quietly listened to the discussions.
Seeing the noise and chaos in the conference room, Deputy Director Wang, who was sitting next to Director Sun, lowered his voice and whispered a reminder.
"Then you can't just talk nonsense!"
Those who support and those who oppose each hold their own opinions, standing on opposite sides, and no one can convince the other.
The debate gradually became heated.
"On the Feasibility of Application of Fusion Battery Technology and Electric Propulsion System in the Aerospace Field"
There was silence in the conference room for a long time.
"What kind of electric propulsion system is needed to achieve this level..."
"That's incredible! Even if the power can reach 100MW, what kind of electric thrust engine can provide such KN-level thrust?!"
As for this unreliable assumption, most people obviously will not take it into consideration.
I saw a simple title printed on the curtain hanging in front of the conference room.
After waiting in silence for a minute, Director Sun looked around the conference room and counted roughly.
Staring at the data displayed on the screen, the old professor wearing glasses couldn't help but say.
Slowly relaxing, looking at everyone in the conference room, Director Sun nodded, stood up slowly with his hands on the table, and stated the decision he had already made in a concise and concise manner.
Eleven out of twenty people raised their hands.
The conference room gradually became quiet.
It may be possible to do this with energy on the order of MW, but there is no electric propulsion system in the world that can harness this energy.
"Therefore, I trust your experience and I trust your judgment."
"... In order to ensure that the meeting can proceed more effectively, I will show you something that has not been made public yet. I hope you will confirm again that you are not carrying communication equipment with you, and promise to keep what you see today strictly confidential."
A loud voice interrupted the din in the conference room.
Regardless of how many abstained, at least the opposition did not constitute the majority.
He rolled up his sleeves and looked at his watch. Seeing that the time was almost up, Director Sun cleared his throat, raised his voice and spoke.
The third one…
Director Sun raised his eyebrows.
After looking around at the people sitting in the conference room, Director Sun closed his eyes and thought for a while, then slowly opened his eyes, broke the silence and spoke.
"Isn't this a scam for funds?"
At this point, Director Sun paused for a moment, and after confirming that no information was missing, he continued.
space agency.
Deputy Director Wang continued: "The above means that we should take Professor Lu's paper seriously. Isn't the meaning obvious enough?"
After all, Professor Lu's paper mentioned a lot of very sensitive things and was not suitable for public discussion, or even for this kind of closed-door expert meeting. Therefore, the information distributed to each participant was It has been modified to some extent. For example, the fusion battery is conjectured as an unfinished technology and described in a hypothetical way.
"What Mr. Qian said can last a lifetime? And his rejection of this route is just out of consideration of the conditions of the times. If you wanted to build a jet plane a hundred years ago, do you think some people would treat you as a normal person?"
Currently, the most powerful electric propulsion engine in the world is NASA's NEXT system, with a power of 6.9KW, but the thrust is only 0.236N.
After looking around at the experts in the conference room, the director was silent for a while and then spoke.
Pulling the corner of his mouth slightly, Director Sun said expressionlessly: "We still have to discuss it. If something goes wrong, will you be responsible?"
"100MW! This is impossible!"
"I am not a layman who can evaluate whether this project is reliable or not. After all, I have flown on many planes, but I have never flown on the space shuttle once."
"... This paper was written by Professor Lu and was completed about two days ago. After receiving this paper, the central government attached great importance to it, and my superior leader specially asked me to hold this meeting in the bureau. Let’s discuss it.”