Free Web NovelChapter 1278: Chapter 613: Chief Designer of the Spacecraft Research Group_3
Therefore, even after obtaining the authorization for anti-gravity technology, the shortest time required to truly complete the procedure and manufacture an anti-gravity spaceship is at least five years. The efficiency gap is just too immense.
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Soon, a month had passed.
The public opinion had somewhat settled down, while the Aerospace Bureau continued its experiment-related work.
Although the experiment had entirely concluded, there was still a great deal of follow-up work to do—compiling comprehensive reports on the experimental process, checking data, and evaluating device performance.
These reports would take around three months to half a year to complete. Throughout this period, some technologies would be distributed to specialized laboratories, institutions, and companies to accelerate the speed and safety of subsequent experiments and manufacturing.
And so on.
The follow-up tasks were quite crucial, but they were not much related to Zhao Yi and the theoretical group anymore.
A week after the experiment ended, Zhao Yi returned to the capital, but his schedule remained extremely busy, mostly attending meetings.
All these meetings were related to the space shuttle experiment.
The meetings were divided into two types: scientific and decision-making.
The scientific meetings were to discuss the direction of subsequent research and development, and with Zhao Yi in possession of cutting-edge theories, he naturally became the leader of these meetings.
The decision-making meetings, however, covered various aspects.
For instance, issues such as research funding, confidentiality, participation of institutional laboratories, and so forth.
Among the most important was the assessment of the "cosmic spaceship project".
Previously, many opposed the cosmic spaceship project, primarily because it sounded overly ambitious. Humanity had not yet managed to venture beyond Earth—mere visits by a few astronauts to the space station constituted our limit. Establishing a cosmic spaceship project seemed an enormous leap forward. freёweɓnovel.com
Even though Zhao Yi assured there were no technological barriers and that the core technologies had all been researched, it was still difficult to convince the disbelievers.
If it were a small project, it would hardly matter. But the cosmic spaceship project was simply too vast, involving astronomical amounts of funding.
Now, things were different.
When the meeting addressed the cosmic spaceship project, the focus was not on whether the project should commence but on how exactly it should be carried out.
Because it involved huge investments, even enough to shake the economic foundation, it definitely required careful assessment.
At the same time, the international impact of the project was under discussion.
The cosmic spaceship project, with its substantial investment, could not be kept entirely confidential; as soon as the project was established and funded for research and development, news would inevitably spread.
The project was massive and would take a long time.
These were all concerns.
At the meetings, Zhao Yi confirmed one point—the construction of a cosmic spaceship posed no insurmountable core technological problems.
He was unable to participate in other related discussions.
The meetings on the cosmic spaceship project were convened more than twenty times over the course of more than three months, ultimately establishing two key points—
One was to continue promoting the development of the nuclear fusion device.
This was the primary core technological issue that needed resolution.
The nuclear fusion device had been manufactured, and the current task was to perfect it; since it could no longer be considered experimental apparatus and was even slated for use in constructing the first spaceship to orbit Earth, it had to be made even more flawless.
Academician Chen Zeshu from the nuclear fusion device development group attended the meeting and confirmed that the device would be officially started in two months, raising the expectations of many.
The other was to initiate the assessment and design work for the cosmic spaceship project.
The assessment would be jointly conducted by the Aerospace Group, the High Energy Institute, the Nuclear Institute, and representatives from military organizations, among others.
The design was entrusted to a team to be assembled by Zhao Yi.
Zhao Yi, serving as the chief designer of the cosmic spaceship research group, would form a team to complete the design work for the cosmic spaceship.
