As the commander of the Mars Expeditionary Fleet, Luo Feng is floating in the shipyard area of New Jiuquan Satellite City with Wang Gangsheng and Fang Shengliang.

The continuous expansion has made the scale of the new Jiuquan Satellite City unprecedentedly huge.

A spacecraft is hauling a 30-meter-long, 5-meter-radius cylinder, a satellite city skeleton built using nanobots using previously captured asteroids as raw materials.

There are two types of satellite cities for new humans: asteroid-dependent satellite towns and gyro-frame satellite towns.

Among them, the L1 satellite city of the Lagrange point is an asteroid-dependent satellite city, and the remaining Xinxichang, Xinjiuquan and Xinwenchang are all gyroscope-type satellite cities.

The gyro-type satellite city is composed of three main bodies: the main keel axis, the central disk frame and the auxiliary disk frame, and the overall shape is a gyroscope.

Among them, the main keel shaft and the central disc frame are the core structures, which play a supporting and maintaining role in the entire satellite city; The attached panel is a functional structure, and the work, living and production areas are all on the attached panel.

The cylinder towed by the spacecraft is the assembled part of the main keel shaft, which is very strong, and is constructed of nanoalloy steel, which is almost semi-solid.

At present, the length of the main keel shaft of the new Jiuquan Satellite City has reached 2,520 meters, and it is assembled from 84 keel cylinders.

Without the existence of this main keel shaft, the strength of the satellite city is difficult to support and maintain, and the weight of the entire satellite city has exceeded 160,000 tons.

If there were no nanorobots from outer space, with the transportation power of new humans in Blue Star, there would be no way to complete such a huge satellite city in a short time.

The largest satellite city, the Lagrange point L1 satellite city, has an overall weight of about 2.6 billion tons, which can only be achieved by using asteroids as the main body.

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Luo Feng and the three of them, who were floating in the traffic pipe, chatted and looked around.

"Luo Feng, aren't you going back for the New Year?" Fang Shengliang held his head in his hands as if he was lying on the bed, and his body was pushed forward by the nanobot.

Luo Feng, who was in a swimming state, was stunned, and before he knew it, it would be the Lunar New Year in another month.

"I don't plan to go back for the time being, after all, the capacity is limited right now."

Fang Shengliang reminded: "By the way, the calendar will be revised in a few days, remember to update the time rules, don't make a mistake." ”

"Change the time?"

"You don't know?"

Luo Feng scratched his head in confusion: "I have been floating on the moon for more than a month, how can I have time to understand the affairs of Blue Star." ”

"It is to abolish the Gregorian calendar of the Common Era and use the lunar calendar instead." Fang Shengliang explained.

Luo Feng asked a question: "Huh...... So what's the time now?"

Because according to the original time, the day after tomorrow is January 1, the second year of the new era, but after changing to the lunar calendar, this period of time needs to have a name.

"The service committee has given a solution to add two months directly to the new era of the year."

"Two months more?13 months, 14 months?" Luo Feng was speechless for a moment, it was really simple and rude.

"Hahaha, I didn't expect that we are still human beings who have gone through 14 months and a year in the history of mankind." Wang Gangsheng laughed.

As Fang Shengliang, who is a member of the Young Zhuang faction, naturally agrees with the implementation of the calendar amendment:

"Long pain is better than short pain, the new era originally represents the revolution of the old and the new, the era of the Common Era has come to an end, we use two calendars, which is not conducive to internal unity."

Luo Feng also had no opinion: "That's right, God's time should be over." ”

The supreme will to implement the new lunar calendar is actually to further eliminate religious elements, and the Gregorian calendar of the Common Era itself has many religious elements, such as Christmas, Easter, Halloween, etc.

As a new human being founded on science, although religious beliefs are not prohibited, Western festivals and the like will no longer be preserved.

Ancestor worship is the royal way, God has brought ignorance to mankind, and our ancestors have overcome obstacles for us, and we should erect monuments and statues for our ancestors, rather than singing praises to the gods.

The calendar is also one of the strategies of the supreme will of cultural unification, after switching to the lunar calendar, even if those white new humans stick to the tradition, but time, the knife of killing pigs, can erase everything.

If the lunar calendar is completely abolished in China in the era of the Common Era, it is guaranteed that within 10 years, those traditional festivals and the like will be further weakened to the extreme.

The calendar often has a very important subtle function.

Many white new humans are actually opposed to the complete abolition of the Gregorian calendar and hope to implement a double calendar system, but the main body of the supreme will is the Chinese, so naturally they will not do what they want, and directly think that the new lunar calendar has been adopted by an overwhelming advantage.

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Chatting all the way, the three of them drifted to the dock of the Kunpeng-class transport ship.

This is a space carrier, a purpose-built professional transport ship.

Kunpeng-class space carrier: full load of 15,000 tons, payload of 8,000 tons, using second-generation nuclear fusion engine, maximum speed of 18 kilometers per second, cruising speed of 12 kilometers per second, maximum range of 2.5 billion ~ 3 billion kilometers under full working quality.

In the event of an emergency, the transported cargo can also be used as a working medium, increasing the maximum range to 20 billion kilometers.

The Kunpeng class is used in the inner solar system, which is more than enough, but the speed is a little slower.

"It's a bit slow." Wang Gangsheng flipped through the data.

Luo Feng didn't feel that the transport ship was slow: "This is a transport ship, not a battleship, if the speed is too fast, the payload will drop." ”

Glancing at the Kunpeng-level Fang Shengliang, he turned his head and asked, "Luo Feng, I heard that the moon is building a mass projector, and this kind of large spacecraft can also be projected?"

"Yes, I heard Chu Bai say that the mass projector of the new Moscow launch site can project up to 1.8 million tons at one time."

"So powerful?"

"With such an important means of transportation as the mass projector, there is naturally a margin in the design."

Fang Shengliang grinned: "It seems that we will go to Mars very quickly." ”

"Don't be too happy, the first phase of the project will accelerate the launch speed to 22~23 kilometers per second at most, don't want to eat a fat man in one bite." Luo Feng poured cold water directly.

"That's not bad, at least it saves a lot of work quality."

The Kunpeng-class transport vessel has been designed with the shape and facilities of a supporting mass projector.

Moreover, this Kunpeng-class is not actually a transport ship, or it belongs to a variant of the Kunpeng-class.

It is a spaceship with a large number of living materials and living compartments, mainly for the soldiers of the expeditionary fleet.

Once Luo Feng and the others enter Mars, then they will definitely need to live in outer space for a long time, Huo Qu's disease level and Xinxing provincial level are not suitable for long-term life spacecraft, and the small space is easy to cause depression and other mental illnesses.

Therefore, based on the Kunpeng-class, the Kunpeng-class living ship was designed, which was specially used by the Space Force to facilitate long-term space life.

It is equipped with a large number of deployable cabins, a full set of living facilities, entertainment facilities, and a green park cabin that simulates the natural environment.

Only the Kunpeng class can arrange these facilities so luxuriously, and the space is very limited and precious if the spaceship is not more than 10,000 tons fully loaded.

Huang Mingzhe suggested that the War Committee be equipped with this living spacecraft, because he understood that working and living in the harsh environment of outer space for a long time would be very stressful for astronauts.

Under the premise that the cost allows, equipping the space force with complete facilities can effectively improve morale and cohesion.