Chapter 214: Sky City

Chen Xu's aerospace ideas are crazy and stubborn, he thinks that the moon has been landed by the United States imperialism first, so he must let the flower planter become the first country to land on Mars. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

There are not many planets in the solar system that can colonize and land on humans, the moon is too cold, Venus is too hot, Jupiter and Saturn are both gas planets, several moons of Jupiter can be logged in, but the distance is quite far, followed by Mercury has a name but is the closest to the sun, and the temperature difference between day and night is more than 600 degrees.

In the end, only Mars can be developed and settled by humans, this is not a dwarf general, many galaxies do not necessarily have planets like Mars, and habitable planets like Earth are ultra-rare treasures, so it is good to be able to find a Mars similar to it.

Does landing on Mars do anything good? I'm afraid that it won't be able to bring any economic benefits to the flower grower in fifty years, and the only role is to let human beings have a backup planet, in case the earth is damaged by humans, there is a place to preserve the civilization of the race. Because according to the signals sent back by the Mars probes in later generations, there is actually water on Mars, neither cold nor hot, and gravity is quite suitable, which is very suitable for human colonization.

In Chen Xu's plan, if the test flight test of the bombing spacecraft can be successful, then he will launch at least five nuclear-powered spacecraft into space.

In addition to one space station in low-Earth orbit, one should be placed in orbit near the Moon and Mars, and one or two ships should be placed between Earth and Mars as transit stations.

After all, it's too far! It may only take seven or eight days for humans to go to the moon, and it will take two or three days to get there. But it will take more than three months to fly to Mars,

Because the planet revolves around the sun, the distance between the Earth and Mars changes from time to time, from 55 million kilometers at the closest to 400 million kilometers at the farthest time, which is the most unsuitable time to go to Mars.

Therefore, these transfer stations designed by Chen Xu should automatically adjust their positions according to the changes in the distance between the Earth and Mars. Maybe there are fewer of the two transit stations, and you need to prepare a few more in case you need them.

In addition, relay communication satellites should be arranged along the way to keep the communication signal between the ground and fire always smooth and clear.

In fact, these nuclear-powered spacecraft, satellites and other hardware equipment are not expensive, and when you really calculate the accounts with the prices of the 80s, they are no more expensive than the nuclear power program promoted by Chen Xu and Westinghouse.

The unit price of a space shuttle in the United States, if you don't count maintenance, the final cost is about 2 billion US dollars, but if you don't fly once, you will need 100 million US dollars in hard use fees, which is very expensive.

But Chen Xu's nuclear-powered spacecraft is a one-time investment, and it will not come back when it flies into space, so maintenance and other expenses can be saved. And it uses a nuclear explosion as the power, so you don't have to worry too much about the weight of the hull, you can make it as strong and reliable as possible, and you can build a bigger one.

Not only can it better protect the safety of astronauts, but it is also more comfortable to live in the spacious cabin and stay longer.

Therefore, the total manufacturing cost of a large-scale bombing spacecraft will not exceed five billion dollars, and if several more can be built at one time, the cost can be greatly diluted.

It's a pity that the first large-scale space station is only experimental, and there must be a lot of equipment problems on it, and it must be particularly troublesome to use. Therefore, the first ship needs to inspect and find various design defects, and then upgrade and correct the second ship.

For example, the building block Mir space station, designed and built by the former Soviet Union, has suffered about 1,500 failures in 15 years of use, and at least more than 100 will never be repaired. With so many failures in a space station of only 123 tons, you can imagine how many failures a giant space station of tens of thousands of tons will have, and the number of failures will exceed five figures.

However, many faults are not a problem, just fix them, and only by constantly discovering problems and making improvements, can the large-scale explosion force spacecraft enter the mass production stage with mature design and stable performance. At that time, such large ships will be built on a large scale to dilute the cost.

Of course, these are just Chen Xu's most original ideas, and when it comes to the real design and construction stage, the spaceship designers have their own ideas. Maybe he will scoff at Chen Xu's layman's design and sweep it directly into the trash.

Chen Xu wants to set up his own aerospace manufacturing center and build a space city, but the imperial capital will definitely not support it, and politicians with a little brain know that this is a waste of money, and the huge investment will make very little profit.

However, Chen Xu knows that the cutting-edge technology of aerospace has a spillover effect, which will greatly raise the level of the country's science and technology manufacturing industry, and the large aerospace industry cannot be built in the short term, but in the long run, it is absolutely beneficial to the flower planter.

Speaking of which, the only countries in the world that can establish a space industry based on the premise of colonizing Mars are China and the alliance of Western countries, because the industrial chain required by this high-tech industry is long and extensive, and it not only needs strong scientific and technological and industrial strength, but also a huge population base to support.

In the world, in addition to the flower planters, there is only the Western State Space Alliance, and the United States, Europe, and Japan, these Western countries have joined forces to engage in it, and in order to divide the interests, there will definitely be more internal fighting, and a Galileo satellite navigation system and the International Space Station are the most obvious examples, otherwise the International Space Station would not have taken 20 years to build.

It doesn't matter if the emperor doesn't support it, anyway, Chen Xu has his own financial system, and all he uses is the money he earned after paying taxes. Even if he spends money to send a car to each person in the country, the imperial capital has no right to make irresponsible remarks, and the imperial capital's hand cannot reach into the military science and technology group founded by Chen Xu.

This is the advantage of the bureaucratic centralized system, and national affairs can be decided by the will of the leader!

Of course, Chen Xu belongs to the kind of official who is smart and pays attention to scientific methods, and the decisions he makes are naturally beneficial to the country.

There are also leaders like the kind of leaders who lead the country crookedly without brains, such as Khrushchev in the Soviet Union, who promoted corn cultivation throughout the Soviet Union regardless of the climate and environment, and finally because the Soviet Union was located in the north, the corn did not bear the cob at all, and finally the corn movement could only be declared a failure. It is also because Khrushchev favored ballistic missiles that it was as easy as squeezing them like intestines. Therefore, the stubborn belief that the aircraft carrier is a living coffin at sea is not to agree to build an aircraft carrier for the Soviet Navy, resulting in the development of the Soviet Navy lagging far behind the United States and always being suppressed by the US military.

Of course, there is an example of Hebald in the past, and Chen Xu does not dare to guarantee that the decisions he made are all correct, his big bombing spaceship itself is a reckless plan, and the probability of failure is more than seventy percent.

Knowing that the possibility of failure is extremely high, Chen Xu can still willfully push his space program into the actual operation stage. The reason is that the national economy of the flower family has its own imperial capital to worry about, while Chen Xu's finances are independent of the national financial system and do not interfere with each other.

Even if he loses all his company's money, it will not affect the development of the country.

Unlike the space shuttle programs in the United States and the Soviet Union, which cost government grants, it is a heavy burden on the government, crowding out funds for education, infrastructure, and health care projects.

On the contrary, if Chen Xu spends money on aerospace engineering, he will not mention it if he succeeds, even if he fails, he will develop a lot of aerospace-related science and technology and train a large number of aerospace science and technology talents, and these things will eventually be returned to the country.

It is he who suffers, and the country guarantees the harvest in drought and flood.

"Did you break your brain while skydiving! I absolutely disagree with this plan. At the group's month-end summary meeting, Chen Weiguo was so angry that he didn't care about Chen Xu's face, and directly threw the plan for building the aerospace city that Chen Xu had designed in a week to the wall.

The atmosphere in the conference room was suffocating, and all the people didn't dare to be born, just quietly looked at the thick one-step plan written by Chen Xu.

"Now the United States and the Soviet Union are engaged in space programs, the Soviet Union's orbital space stations have entered the construction stage, and the Americans have already landed on the moon in the sixties. Chen Xu tapped his fingers on the table, trying his best to explain his thoughts. He doesn't have to care about the thoughts of the imperial capital, but the opinions within the group still need to be unified.

"Just because the Americans landed on the moon, you have to set foot on Mars to be satisfied, right? Your plan is really crazy, the China National Space Administration started in 56 years, and now it has been almost 20 years, and it can only launch a few hundred pounds of satellites. But you want to send a 50,000-ton spacecraft to low-earth orbit within 10 years, why don't you install a few heavy guns on the spacecraft to build a space battleship! What's the difference between your plan and the Fat Pig Elephant Race? Chen Weiguo snatched the folder of the secretary of the Party Committee of the Panda Group next to him, reviewed Chen Xu's plan again, and said angrily while reading it.

"You don't know anything about aerospace, and this kind of professional thing can't be confused for a while. In short, I have built this space city, and if anyone dares to oppose it, let me go to the African jungle to be an arms salesman! From the time the plan was sent to the present, he has seen that neither the leadership team of Southern Heavy Industry Group nor Panda Group supports Chen Xu's idea.

"You dare to make a threat, don't you? This is the company's meeting room, not your personal hall! "Big brother is Chen Xu, now only Chen Weiguo in the company dares to talk to him like this, and it is difficult for others to change Chen Xu's decision.

The party secretaries of the two groups are both veteran cadres sent by the imperial capital, and the two old men glanced at each other and saw the deep helplessness on each other's faces.

They know Chen Xu's personality too well, this guy always announces his decision verbally every time he has a meeting, and he doesn't give his subordinates a chance to make a decision at all if he wants to do something. This time he actually made a plan so seriously, it can be seen that Chen Xu attaches great importance to this matter, once this guy makes up his mind, no one can stop the construction of the space city. (To be continued.) )