Heavenly Court and Heavenly Palace, in fact, are the same place, both of which are the places where the mythical Emperor of Heaven lives.

These two names are just another name for each other, which translates as matryoshka dolls.

But in fact, there are still some differences between Heavenly Court and Heavenly Palace.

If the entire immortal world is compared to a country, then the "Heavenly Palace" is the place where the emperor lives, it is a palace, and the "Heavenly Court" is the capital of the country, a city.

In this comparison, the two are not of the same magnitude.

This is also the reason why Tang Chao named this plan "Heavenly Court".

The Heavenly Court Space Station is to be bigger than the Heavenly Palace Space Station, and it is much bigger!

Tang Chao pointed to the renderings on the big screen and said: "I roughly divided the Tianting Space Station into three parts, the first part is the scientific research area, the middle part is the commercial area, and the back part is the industrial area. ”

"The three parts have separate spacecraft interfaces, of which the commercial area has the most spacecraft berthing ports, reaching 10, and both large and small ships can park."

"A spindle runs through the three zones, so the connection port of the three zones is also on the spindle, as long as the connection port is closed, the three zones can be independent of each other, at this time if you want to go to other areas, you can only go through the way of spacewalk, and it depends on whether there is a password."

"The scientific research area actually includes the initial Tiangong space station, the Tianhe core module, the Wentian experimental module and the Mengtian experimental module, which are still in their original state, and the node module can dock with the spacecraft, which can ensure the Tiangong space station's independent external communication capabilities."

"However, the Tiangong space station is too small, and it is not too convenient to do experiments, so I will include our company's Star Inn, as long as the commercial equipment is dismantled and scientific research equipment is installed, it can become a scientific research site."

Of course, it will definitely not be changed now, the Star Inn has been built almost according to the model of a commercial hotel, and seeing that it will be launched into orbit in a while, how can it be changed to a space laboratory halfway.

The entire Tianting space station project will take a long time, and there are not many units and companies in China that are qualified to take on the task, and people also have their own orders to complete, so it is impossible to make parts for the Tianting space station with all their might, so it will take at least two years to get together the parts.

During the two years of parts production, various companies capable of manufacturing rockets also had to work hard, in addition to some of their own scattered operations, but also for the recovery version of the "Long March 9" and the production of parts for the "Yuanhang".

When the task is over, they can get a percentage of the technical authorization.

The Long March 9 must be upgraded to a recyclable state, or use a disposable rocket to create a space spectacle, which is likely to be a "spectacle" in the future.

Only recyclable rockets can save costs, and the space wonders created can have effects such as "science and technology integration +5", "national faith +5", "space exploration +5" and so on.

Tang Chao is the technology of aerospace aircraft, but the cabin of the aircraft is really not suitable for doing this, usually the cabin with a diameter of 4 or 5 meters can be said to be a super-large cabin, and it is even more difficult to transform a cabin with a diameter of 8 meters to transport large-sized objects, and the difficulty of building a fairing of a rocket to a diameter of 10 meters is really not an order of magnitude.

Because the fairing is, to put it bluntly, a big shell.

Not even to mention the diameter of 10 meters, research and research, the upgraded Long March 9 top fairing with a diameter of more than ten meters is not a problem.

Even if the aerospace plane can easily transport things into space, it can only carry small parts and raw materials.

However, building a huge Tianting space station with small parts and raw materials is not as simple as building blocks, and astronauts must be allowed to do a lot of work in space.

When it comes to astronauts' operations in space, it takes even longer.

As far as the current human technology is concerned, the kind of space facility construction method that requires welding in science fiction movies can only be seen in science fiction movies.

So the best way is to build all kinds of large modules on the ground, and then use large rockets to transport them to space orbit to build blocks.

However, the kind of "science fiction" space construction technology also needs to be studied, and human beings must keep moving forward and constantly developing new technologies, so the Tianting space station has an industrial area.

If there's anything that can be made here, that's really none, and most of them are experiments.

Human beings have not yet had a big space station, and they are tied up for experiments, so Tang Chao has made a big one this time, and he can do some experiments in industrial manufacturing to lay the foundation for a real space manufacturing plant in the future.

What can really be made in the industrial area is some 3D printed small parts, which are supplied to the track maintenance factories on both sides.

The experimental project in industrial manufacturing is to lay the foundation for the future, so the track maintenance plant is a good thing that can be used in the real implementation.

There are two orbital repair shops on the Tianting space station, which are installed on both sides of the compartments of the industrial area, and can be opened like the cargo compartment of the space shuttle, but they are larger, reaching 8 meters in diameter and 20 meters in length.

It has a lot of maintenance equipment inside, and the hatch can be pressurized when the hatch is closed, so you only need to wear a light cabin spacesuit to work.

In the early stage, its biggest role is to do maintenance and repair of satellites.

When the time comes, it will be equipped with two space boats, and if there are satellites that need to be repaired, you can send the boats to grab them, and then tow them back to the orbital maintenance plant, and then put them back in the same way after repairing.

Satellites are very valuable resources, sometimes they are only knocked out by tiny meteorites and space junk, and they may only be damaged by a small part, which they were unable to repair before, and they will be fine after the Tianting space station is built.

In addition to maintenance, satellites can also be upgraded.

After all, the development of science and technology on the earth is changing with each passing day, and some satellites have a long lifespan, but the equipment cannot keep up with the demand.

When the time comes, the outdated satellites will be upgraded, and if they do maintenance, they will be able to become pretty boys again and continue to revolve around the earth.

As for where the fuel for the space boat comes from, even some satellites need to be refueled, which is the lunar base plan.

In order to make the Heavenly Court space station operate completely and cheaply, the cooperation of the lunar base is indispensable.

It is much easier to transport fuel from the moon to Earth orbit than from the Earth to space orbit, and once it is there, it can be stored in a spherical fuel storage tank at the back of the factory, which is a refueling station.

Of course, this is premised on the fact that those lunar rovers can find a large number of "ice cubes" on the moon.

As for the commercial area in the middle, needless to say, in recent years, people have been bombarded by the concept of commercial space stations every day, and they have long had a roughly the same basic concept of commercial space stations.

Eating, drinking, and having fun is nothing more than more space and more projects.

These are all experts in the aerospace field, whether they are experts in technology or operation management, but they all focus on the renderings of the business district.

Among them, Liu Wenwu, the boss of the Blue Sword, who had met Tang Chao several times, couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Tang, the rotating gravity cabin marked on it ...... Is it the kind I want? ”

Tang Chao smiled when he heard this, he thought how long these people could hold back, but he didn't expect to ask now.

"Of course, that's what you think."

It's really the kind of rotating gravity capsule they imagined, used to simulate gravity.

Hearing Tang Chao admit this, the experts and managers of the aerospace port all exclaimed.

"Really?"

"Impossible, right?"

"it!"

"Technical ......"

Tang Chao didn't let them continue to exclaim, and if they exclaimed again, they should gasp, and said directly: "The technical aspect is not a problem, even all the technologies involved in the Heavenly Court Space Station, we navigators have them!" ”

He looked at the people below and said solemnly: "We, the navigators, never do things that we are not sure of!" ”

"Look over here," he zoomed in on the model of the space station behind him, and fixed the picture behind the Tiangong space station and the Starry Sky Inn, where there was a rotating gravity module.

This rotating pod is attached to the back of the Star Inn, round, but not the through-type kind, but four separate curved cabins, connected by four cylindrical passages on the central hinge, and then connected by various curved and straight steel bars to make it stronger.

Behind it is the place where it is connected to the business district.

There is a door there, and the authority is so high that ordinary people can't open it at all.

As long as it is locked, the scientific research area is a relatively independent small environment, and this rotating cabin is the living cabin of the scientific research area.

The diameter of the rotating cabin is only 30 meters, and it can only provide 0.5G of simulated gravity at a safe rotation speed, and people are prone to dizziness when walking in it, so it is better to stop and not move.

Because its diameter is too small.

But for astronauts, it's already okay, at least they can eat, sleep, wash, and go to the toilet a little normally, and the efficiency of exercising will be higher.

In addition to this small rotating gravity module, there is also a large rotating gravity module on the Heavenly Court space station.

Of course, this large is compared to "small".

The large gravity chamber has a diameter of 70 meters and can provide a maximum of 0.76G of simulated gravity at a safe rotational speed.

The gravity here is closer to the earth, which will not only make life more convenient, but also greatly improve comfort.

Even in the kitchen with a special and separate filter, you can even enjoy stir-frying!

All of this is for customers, and the price is naturally the standard for space customers.

A ticket for an orbital shuttle costs millions of dollars, so spending in such a bullish place naturally has to be equal.

“…… The three parts can eventually be assembled into a huge space station that is more than 300 meters long, more than 180 meters wide, and 70 meters high. ”

"It has a mass of 2,470 tonnes and an astonishing 9,720 cubic metres of internal pressurized space."

"At present, the largest space facility in the world is the International Space Station, which is only about 100 meters wide, 73 meters long, 20 meters high, with a mass of 419 tons and an internal pressurized space of 916 cubic meters."

"Three times the size, six times the mass, ten times the pressurized space, and more functionality."

"In fact, half of the weight of the International Space Station is on trusses and solar panels, the weight of the pressurized cabin is only about 200 tons, and even the first phase of the Tiangong space station, plus things like manned spacecraft and cargo spacecraft, is almost 100 tons."

"So this is our spectacle, our Heavenly Court Space Station!"

After Tang Chao finished saying the last word, the pin drop could be heard in the conference room, and there was a quiet batch, until it was quiet for a few seconds, and there was warm applause in the conference room.

"Whoa, whoa—"

This plan is simply amazing!

300 meters on Earth is the length of an aircraft carrier, and the mass of 2470 tons is the level of most of a 054 frigate or a fully loaded Type 20380 frigate, but it is in space orbit, so the significance is too important.

Commercial companies are looking at commercial areas, while officials are looking at pilot zones and industrial zones, and both sides can find their favorites.

On top of that, all the technology navigator companies on the entire space station are there.

Thinking of the things that the Navigator Company has done since its establishment more than a year ago, they easily believed Tang Chao's words.

Because he does what he says.

Then the only thing to think about is how to send it into space.

It's almost 2,500 tons, how many times will it be transported?

If the whole country is mobilized, it will take two years to build qualified parts and assemble them together, so how long will it take to launch them all?

And some of the equipment was not lucky, and it had to be assembled by astronauts when it was shipped.

Doing a lot of welding work in the sky is free, but auxiliary docking and fixing work are their jobs.

For example, the small rotating gravity cabin, which has a diameter of 30 meters, and although the fairing can be made larger, it cannot be so large.

When someone raised this question, Tang Chao said with a smile: "Do you know about the Kanxing space program?" ”

A few of the younger technical professionals and managers in the room nodded.

Seeing someone nodding, Tang Chao pointed to the small rotating gravity cabin and continued: "Its prototype is the rotating gravity cabin on the spaceship in "The Martian", and then it was made into a mod in the Kanxing game. ”

"As before, we have restored the folding technology of Kanxing, which is similar to the technology of the inflatable space station, but it is different."

"So don't look at the 30 meters in diameter when it is unfolded, when it is shrunk, it is only 14 meters in diameter."

"Just make a slightly larger fairing, and use a super-heavy rocket to launch this 85-ton big guy into space orbit in one go, and then let it unfold."

"After unfolding, the arc-shaped steel bar will stretch out between the cabin and the cabin to automatically connect, but the straight bar steel bar connecting the central shaft and the cabin needs to be fixed by the astronauts, which is also the first time the astronauts have come into contact with space assembly operations, and by the way, it is also for themselves, because after the assembly is completed, they can live in it."

"The three-compartment structure of the Tiangong space station, our company's star inn and small rotating gravity cabin, this is the first phase of the Tianting space station."

"However, this first phase of the project will not be carried out for at least a year, let's let our Star Inn run commercially for a year, and now our company is about to be blocked by the rich people of various countries, and if we don't let them go to the sky, we may have to go to space to work."

After hearing what Tang Chao said, everyone else laughed.

These are all domestic companies, and there is not the slightest business conflict with the Navigator company, because they are too weak to do commercial space tourism at all.

However, he participated in the Tianting space station project, and after the project is completed, whether it is technology, strength or power, there will definitely be a fly-like development.

This kind of super big project is the most important for the company.

With Tang Chao's guarantee technology, then the rest is to discuss the distribution of production, and those who can come to the meeting are the top units and companies in the aerospace field, but they alone are not enough, and other heavy machinery companies need to join.

That would need to be decided at a more detailed meeting later.

Now, it's time to eat.

After eating, it was time to have a meeting to discuss the publicity of this big project.

Public opinion is a very important battlefield!

It can't be ignored any longer. (Recommended reading: Reading Files 2013)