Chapter 1249： ESA

In later generations, when it comes to the world's aerospace technology, of course, the United States and Russia are the first. This is the first echelon. Aerospace technology is far away from other countries. The second echelon is Huaxia and ESA.

The advantage of Huaxia is that its personnel are hard-working and hard-working. Although there is not much funding, it has produced results. It has successively developed the Beidou navigation system, manned spaceflight technology and space station. However, the carrying capacity is not outstanding. China's largest carrier rocket, the Long March 5, has a low-Earth orbit carrying capacity of only 25 tons. It has been November 2016 before the first launch.

Moreover, the most important engine above is the high-pressure supplementary fuel liquid oxygen kerosene engine that was introduced from the former Soviet Union in 1990 for principle research, and then developed. Even so, the technology in the Soviet Union is still a big difference. cut.

While ESA was conducting research in China, the Ariane 5 rocket had already started commercial launch in the 1990s. The near-earth carrying capacity of this rocket is also 20 tons.

It can be seen that China's launch vehicle technology is still backward. However, ESA also has a big disadvantage.

This is an international organization, so it is normal to argue with each other.

After the Second World War, aerospace technology began to develop rapidly. At the same time, the prosperity of the 1950s enabled Western European countries to invest in research in the field of space. As a result, they found that a single country in Europe was impossible and two superpowers. Great power competition. If Europe wants to develop independently, it has to unite!

With this purpose, two organizations soon emerged, namely eldo (European Launch Development Organization), and the predecessor of the European Space Agency, esro (European Space Research Organization). In 1975, the two organizations merged to form what is now the European Space Agency.

After years of development, ESA has 19 official member states, and has set up its headquarters in Paris, a launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, the European Space Research Technology Center in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, and Darmsch, Germany. Tate has the European Space Operations Centre, which is responsible for all satellite operations and the corresponding ground facilities and communications network, and the European Space Centre in Cologne, which coordinates the activities of all European astronauts. There is also the European Space Research Institute in Frascati, Italy, whose main task is the utilization of Earth observation data and information services.

However, France is still dominant, which can be seen from the proportion of French people. At the same time, France is also an important developer of Ariane rockets.

It can be said that the exploration of space is only a technological act, and it does not generate much economic value. , there will be a phenomenon of wrangling each other. This can be seen from the European Galileo navigation system. The Europeans have been wrangling for more than ten years and missed a good opportunity for development. As a result, the frequency band is occupied by Beidou, and the network is far away. .

At the same time, the focus of ESA is different from that of the United States and the Soviet Union. ESA does not pay much attention to manned spaceflight. They pay more attention to deep space exploration. ESA has successively launched various Mars, comet and other probes. It was not until later generations that ESA turned its focus to manned spaceflight, began to cooperate with the United States, participated in the construction of the International Space Station, and so on.

And now, ESA, has also come to a juncture.

Outer space is already owned by the Soviets!

There are not many satellites of the ESA. The outer space is owned by the Soviet Union and the United States. Now, outer space has been completely militarized. The Soviet space laser cannons are constantly killing American spacecraft. It can be said that, America has been expelled from outer space!

In this process, ESA has always been cautious, for fear of angering the monster of the Soviet Union. You must know that European countries have managed to accumulate some funds to launch such a few satellites. The United States and the Soviet Union set off fireworks like they didn't want money.

Of course, ESA has also been recruited. Several ESA reconnaissance satellites and communication satellites have failed in space for no reason. They have endured all this!

They know that if they stand up and shout, they will only lose more. The Soviets are looking for opportunities!

They waited and waited, and now, they finally saw the result that made them desperate, the United States, there is no chance of winning!

At this time, what should Europe do? Without the Western world dominated by the United States, it is impossible to survive at all, and it will definitely be gradually eroded by the Soviet Union!

Therefore, in this case, Mitterrand's visit is very important, which represents the wind direction in Europe, and now, after Mitterrand's arrival, the first thing mentioned is to explore the moon!

At the beginning, in that mighty global colonization process, whoever has enough ships can conquer the world! But now, the situation is different, whoever has powerful space technology can colonize the moon!

What's the use of colonizing the moon? Are there enough benefits? These are not important anymore, the important thing is that the Soviet Union has now begun to colonize the moon in a planned way!

The mighty lunar exploration project has passed, and the Soviet Union must have smelled something when it returned to the moon. If this is the case, then Europe will follow, and it must not be wrong!

Therefore, the European countries decided to invite France as the representative to make a request to the Soviet Union to jointly develop the moon! Didn't the Soviet Union say so? The moon is for all mankind!

Nothing was said about the garrison of troops on the border, nothing about ideology, after the arrival of the French President, the first thing to say about space!

Of course, if you look at it from another angle, it would be better to start from space. After all, in the distant space, everything is unknown, and the controversy is not big. If you start from the situation in Europe, the Soviets may order the expulsion of passengers. .

Andre knew in his heart that with the help of the moon base, this was to test the attitude of the Soviets! After conquering Germany and sanctioning Britain, what was the Soviet Union's attitude towards the rest of Europe?

Will the Soviets nibble bit by bit, destroy from within and deter from outside, as they did with the US? In that case, Europe can only continue to unite and make the final counterattack!

Now, what is the attitude of the Soviet Union?

Andre, although young, has a mature and sophisticated age that is different from his age. Andre said with a smile: "Of course you are willing to participate in our plan to explore the moon! Europe's technology is also very much looking forward to. Europe has rich experience in deep space exploration, especially space telescopes, and it is even more experienced."