Under Jiang Chen's instructions, Future People Heavy Industry integrated its twenty industrial space stations in Star Ring City, and gathered the technical team involved in the design of the Seagull, established a subsidiary named Xinguo No. 1 Shipyard, and started the production of the second Seagull. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The second transport ship is still ordered by the Ministry of Aerospace of Transwarp Trade, but the new transport ship will not be designed with a cabin, but a relatively low-tech cargo version. At present, Guanghan City cannot accommodate too many passengers, and expanding the frequency of flights will only lead to indigestion.

The ship's mission will be primarily engaged in the transportation of rare earth ores. The rare earth-rich lunar soil is sent to the Star Ring City for processing, and then the processed finished ore is sent to the earth by Future Mining for the international market.

When this new 500,000-ton transport ship is "launched", the "small boats" originally used to transport rare earth ores can be withdrawn, and the capacity of five electric rays C-1 to run back and forth twice is not as fast as the Seagull to transport one trip, and it will not be able to fly much faster.

The C-1 of these electric rays removed from the route will be sent back to the shipyard in Star Ring City, where the transportation module will be unloaded and replaced with a mining module, which will be disposed of at a low price for future mining and join the "mighty" asteroid mining army.

Speaking of this new factory transport ship, there is also a small episode.

After comprehending Jiang Chen's unskilled naming level, Kerrwin said that he would not ask Jiang Chen to name the new ship. It is better to say that he simply didn't mention this matter to Jiang Chen, discussed it with the technical team, and simply asked people to print the three big characters "Sea Dragon" on the hull, and then wrote it into the report and sent it to Jiang Chen's desk.

It doesn't really matter what the name is, it's good that Kerwin doesn't mention it, but Jiang Chen will feel troublesome if he mentions it, anyway, he doesn't plan to leave his name on the transport ship. If he can match his name, no matter how he says, it must be an aircraft carrier-level interstellar giant ship of more than 10 million tons, and he would rather give his name to future generations to name it than just be a general on a transport ship.

It's just that after learning the name of this transport ship, Jiang Chen couldn't laugh or cry.

History is always strikingly similar, the prototype of the Red River engine is the Shuttle 07 engine of the Pan-Asian cooperation, and the Shuttle 07 that the Beluga Expedition Station fished up from the sea was dropped from the Sea Dragon of the Pan-Asian cooperation in the future.

Now the new ship not only inherits the engine of the Pan-Asian cooperation, but also inherits the name of the ship that has crashed in the future.

Even Jiang Chen, who had never believed in ghosts and gods, couldn't help but sigh.

Perhaps, this is also a kind of providence.

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Soon after the flight from Star Ring City to Guanghan City opened, the American Apollo X1 was designed by SpaceX and other aerospace companies, and after being dismantled into dozens of containers, it was transported to the port of Anga Island by sea, and after several rounds, it arrived at the warehouse leased by SpaceX in Star Ring City, and the final assembly was completed after simple processing.

According to the cooperation agreement signed between SpaceX and Transwarp Trade, the reborn Apollo will participate in the transportation route between Transwarp City and Guanghan City after passing the security qualification check. Rare earths will be transported from Guanghan City to Star Ring City, and then the earth's crops and daily necessities will be brought to Guanghan City.

I don't know if it's a tribute to a certain movie, the main structure of this Apollo X1 is designed in a semicircle. Compared with the long strip-shaped design of the Russian Grand Duke Oleg, this design has the advantage of more flexible steering and a higher safety factor, while the disadvantages are mainly reflected in the maintenance cost of the engines distributed in parallel at the tail end, as well as the manufacturing cost of the spacecraft itself.

In addition to the Apollo X1, also involved in the transportation project is the Russian Grand Duke Oleg that Jiang Chen saw in Moscow. The 200,000-ton design is a full lap larger than the Apollo X1, and the capacity is also a cut higher. However, compared with the 500,000-ton Seagull, both are a bit small in scale.

Whether it is the United States or Russia, these two traditional space powers do not have the ability to produce 500,000-ton spacecraft for the time being. The design of the ship is easy to say, but the two major technical difficulties of the engine and the power source are hurdles that they cannot bypass in any way.

Perhaps they are more experienced in the space industry, but this is no longer something that can be solved by experience.

In addition to the two traditional aerospace powers, the Changchun independently developed by Huaguo Aerospace Science and Technology Group also participated in the route from Star Ring City to Guanghan City. Except for the RM-320 engine purchased from the future people heavy industry at a high price, the other parts of this cargo spaceship named after the city were independently designed by academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In terms of appearance, this transport ship is also very Chinese.

The mining speed of iron, aluminum, titanium ore and rare earth resources in Guanghan City has far exceeded the transportation capacity between Guanghan City and Star Ring City, for Jiang Chen, the more people involved in the space transportation industry, the better, otherwise it is useless if things are mined and cannot be sold.

According to Jiang Chen's estimates, the route from Star Ring City to Guanghan City would have to fill in 50 transport ships of more than 100,000 tons.

However, this kind of thing is not in a hurry, and in addition to Xinguo, there are only three countries that have the capacity to produce large transport ships of more than 100,000 tons.

Although Japan, which ranks fourth in space technology, has participated in the design of the Apollo X1 observation system and navigation system, it does not yet have the ability to independently produce 100,000-ton spacecraft. India, which ranks fifth, is ambitiously preparing to design a 500,000-ton "space giant" comparable to the Seagull, but they have not yet figured out how to make it move.

Fast forward to mid-May, and Transwarp Trade held the first Transwarp Space Science and Technology Expo in Transwarp City.

If it weren't for Xia Shiyu's reminder, Jiang Chen would have almost forgotten. In the future, there are 12 products of PII that will appear in the air show, of which seven are export products, and five are only for the covetousness of other aerospace companies, and in principle, they will not be sold to the outside world.

For example, the electric ray X-1 series of aircraft that has astonished countless foreign friends was exhibited at the air show with the P-1 mining type and the C-1 transport type that has been eliminated.

Such an event has been held annually since 19 years. The significance of holding this kind of event is mainly to support other aerospace companies and find buyers for their products. If something good is found that can be used, Transwarp Trade will also purchase some at the air show.

Seriously, Jiang Chen did see a lot of interesting things at the air show, but he didn't interfere in the procurement, and left it to the people from the Ministry of Space, only they knew what they really needed in space.

Xia Shiyu accompanied Jiang Chen to attend the air show, and as soon as the two appeared in front of the public, they became the focus of the air show. From the beginning of the air show, it was surrounded by a large group of people asking questions, and the business cards in his pocket were sent out after a while, and there were a bunch of business cards with universal characters in his hand.

What made Jiang Chen laugh and cry the most was that he found that he found that this big living person actually stole the limelight of the electric ray X-1.

It's putting the cart before the horse.

(To be continued.) )