Recently, a map of recruitment announcements released by Xiaopeng Motors was exposed on the Internet, which aroused widespread concern and discussion.
The information shows that Xiaopeng Automobile is recruiting "senior ballistic design engineers" and marked with the "urgent" logo, and the "senior ballistic design engineers" will be responsible for the overall program design of small rockets, numerical calculation of ballistic performance; responsible for small rocket landing area and safety analysis; cooperate with flight tests and test data analysis work, and put forward optimization suggestions.
The position requires a master's degree or above, a graduate of aircraft design and ballistic design related majors, proficient in flight mechanics, orbital mechanics, missile flight mechanics and other knowledge, with more than 3 years of work experience in related positions is preferred.
A new car company, involved in the field of private rockets, sounds quite cross-border.
However, Xiaopeng has previously launched a machine horse and a flying car, and this time to go to higher space, it seems that it can also be said in the past.
In fact, in the field of private rockets, there are already pioneers, the most well-known of which is Space X, founded by Tesla CEO Musk. Space X was first founded in 2002, when it developed the partially reusable Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 launch vehicles.
In 2008, it also obtained the opportunity to formally cooperate with NASA in the United States, and in 2012, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft sent cargo to the International Space Station, opening a new era of private spaceflight, and space X has developed well and has carried out launch missions to and from the International Space Station many times.
This time, Xiaopeng Automobile is also going to enter the private aviation field, and I don't know if it can bring more surprises like Space X.