I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 821 - 719: The Aerospace Department’s Question

The project team that moved back to the Research Center is just a small part of the research department now headed by Chen Xin, accounting for about one-third of the current manpower of the research department. However, they are responsible for numerous projects, and most of them occupy significant space.

For example, there’s already a practical application of laser weapon research initiated by Chen Xin. This project team is exploring how to create powerful laser weapons that, as described by Chen Xin, can sweep through a front-line battlefield instead of the current method of precise targeting to eliminate the enemy.

Aside from this project team, other research projects requiring large experimental sites, such as Titan Mech improvement research, new model Power Armor development, and electromagnetic weapon research, are also part of this relocation team.

After all, compared to the office buildings on the side of the Dome New City, the specially constructed weapon testing venues at the Research Center are more suitable for these weapon projects.

The premises of the Research Center are originally much more spacious. Plus, after Chen Xin’s return, he conducted an upgrade here for reactivation, making the use of all facilities undoubtedly more comfortable, and each project team is naturally more willing to conduct research here.

While it’s not impossible to conduct research under somewhat worse conditions, it’s very evident that a good research environment greatly promotes the progress of projects.

A venue that allows for extensive testing provides not just an experimental site for these research teams but also enables them to better test what they have developed.

Take the Power Armor research team as a simple example. Originally, they had only a research room about the same size as a school teacher’s office, sufficient for routine theoretical research and prototype tests.

But when it came to prototype testing, they had to apply for additional experimental space, which was shared among several project teams, available to whoever needed it.

If no one else needed to test a project, it was fine, and they could quickly get space. But if, unfortunately, several project teams needed to test, they’d inevitably have to queue, which significantly affected research progress.

Back at the Research Center, the Power Armor project team now has a test site that’s completely sufficient for testers to run a 50-meter sprint wearing Power Armor, allowing them to experiment freely.

Thanks to this, all project teams have quickly revisited projects that had been shelved due to insufficient testing space, resulting in new project applications filling up Chen Xin’s desk.

Even Chen Xin himself began a new research project after moving back to the Research Center.

The new project Chen Xin launched doesn’t have much to do with the current battle against alien biological invasions, as he is now attempting to solve how to have Land Ships break through the atmosphere and develop smaller Land Ships.

Or perhaps they should be called Spaceships or Floating Ships.

The Land Ships initially developed by Chen Xin were primarily for land travel, only activating the Anti-gravity Device for floating travel when encountering insurmountable obstacles.

However, in actual usage, initially, everyone adhered to the operational norm, mainly using land travel, with floating mode only engaged when necessary.

But with the gradual phase-out of smaller Land Ships and Chen Xin’s upgrades and iterations, most Land Ships soon began choosing the floating mode as their primary means of movement, only landing on the ground when reaching their destination or for short trips.

Thus, Land Ships essentially became Floating Ships within the atmosphere, flying in the sky all day.

Therefore, it was only natural that the aerospace department approached Chen Xin to inquire whether it was possible for Land Ships to break through the atmosphere and enter outer space.

In recent years, the aerospace department of Flame Country has been quite low-key, even to the point of having a very thin presence.

This is mainly due to environmental constraints. The aerospace department inherently has little connection to ordinary life, compounded by the post-apocalyptic sky being shrouded in dust, leaving humanity disconnected from outer space and unable to launch spacecraft. Thus, aerospace activities became nearly extinct, and the aerospace department faded from public view.

However, by a stroke of luck, with the Weather Controller, Chen Xin reopened the sky, allowing the aerospace department to reconnect with spacecraft that had been adrift in space for years, bringing the aerospace department back into public vision. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

Still limited by the greater environment, Flame Country doesn’t have many resources to invest in aerospace endeavors these days, so the aerospace department inevitably faces a tight budget.

Even so, the people in the aerospace department have not given up on building and researching aerospace ventures.

With limited funding, they found ways to save money. Unable to conduct space activities, they focused their energies on researching existing topics...

Over the years, although the aerospace department hasn’t engaged in any space activities, it still produced considerable research outcomes.

Some of these research outcomes have been applied in the military field, such as Power Armors, Exoskeletons, and Protective Suits, which now use numerous technologies originally meant for Space Suits and are commonplace for the people of Flame Country.

In fact, even the Land Ship developed by Chen Xin employs many technologies originally intended for spacecraft construction.

Otherwise, even with Chen Xin’s system allowing it to be upgraded into a Land Ship, actually making it fly and realizing mass production would not be an easy feat.

Now, with domestic conflicts resolved and national policy adjustments, the aerospace department has finally received some funding, combined with the fact that the skies over Flame Country have been reopened. The originally dormant Jiuquan Launch Site can be used again, and previously shelved space activities are once more prioritized.

However, the aerospace department knows that the current times are different, as the country can no longer sustain large-scale space activities, and their obtained funding is tightly stretched, just enough to launch a medium-sized carrier rocket.

Under such circumstances, the aerospace department naturally wants to seek more economical ways to enter space, preferably methods that can be reused and recycled.

And naturally, the Land Ships developed by Chen Xin caught the aerospace department’s eye.

In their view, since the Land Ships can fly, could there be a possibility to convert them into Spaceships and send them into space?

This question from the aerospace department was placed on Chen Xin’s desk, and for Chen Xin, there’s naturally no "it’s impossible" answer.

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