Chapter 408, a thousand sails are racing
The Earth's outer space is full of various space industries, and a new space industry has recently emerged, the space port industry.
The so-called space port industry refers to the construction of space ports between spaces, which are specially used to berth spacecraft, load, unload, and transfer goods.
The function is similar to that of a port on Earth, except that one is in space and the other is on Earth.
A port on Earth needs a deep-water port area to build a good port, and building a space port in space requires a huge amount of money and an open area.
A few years ago, there was no space port specifically for spacecraft to berth, but as there were more and more spaceships in space, the business between the Earth and the Moon became busier and busier, so this kind of special space port gradually became available.
The Yangtze River Space Port is the largest of all the space ports, and it is also a space port built by the Chinese government to serve Chinese enterprises.
This huge space port can berth more than 100 anti-gravity spaceships at the same time, and even 10 Qinglong-class spaceships at the same time, with an extremely large transit capacity.
Almost all anti-gravity spacecraft going back and forth between the Earth and the Moon will pass through the Yangtze River Space Port, minerals from the Moon, supplies and tourists from the Earth, as well as food and vegetables from the space farm, atomic matrix batteries from the solar power station, etc., the entire Yangtze River Space Port is very busy.
The continuous subdivision of the space industry, the companies that do the space transportation industry in space have been divided into many types, divided into many routes, and have been very detailed.
There are special transportation companies that travel to and from the Earth, and the supplies and supplements that are transported to the moon are transported to the space port, and when they return, they bring rare earths and various minerals mined by the lunar mining company.
There are those who specialize in the earth's space routes, which take short distances, and their main business is to transport the materials of major companies on the earth to the space ports, and then transport them to the moon by other transportation companies.
When they return to Earth, they bring rare earths and various minerals mined by major lunar mining groups, or transport agricultural products from space farms.
There are many such companies, and even detailed subdivisions, and some companies' spaceships are specially modified to transport certain goods and materials, and specialize in transporting a kind of cargo, which can greatly improve efficiency.
In space, there are also some transportation companies that are specifically responsible for transporting materials from space farmland and space solar power stations, transporting materials from space ports to these space constructions, and then transporting the output of space construction to space ports, and then entrusting other companies to transport them to cargo owners.
At this time, the Yangtze River space port was very busy, and at a long dock, two rows of B-class spaceships were neatly arranged.
The Miron B-class spaceship is not large, compared to the anti-gravity spaceship, it is only one larger, two rows of spaceships, 10 in each row, a total of 20 Miron B-class spaceships.
Each spaceship is branded with a red flag and the logo of the company or unit to which it belongs, as well as the name of the spacecraft.
Gold Ingots, Wangcai, Jinshan, etc., all of which have very individual names, fully reflect the Chinese people's yearning for space wealth in this era.
The hatches of these spaceships are all open, and the mechanical arms on the dock are busy replenishing these spacecraft, which are about to go to the asteroid belt to mine asteroids.
You must know that these spaceships were only completed and delivered from the Dragon Nest Space Factory of Galaxy Technology Group yesterday, and the owners of the spacecraft have already been in no hurry, and all the preparations have been completed in advance, and as soon as the spacecraft arrives, they will immediately set off towards the asteroid belt non-stop.
The efficiency of the Yangtze River space port is very high, and the speed of material replenishment is very fast, and the spacecraft that have completed the material replenishment begin to slowly close their hatches and begin to prepare for departure to the asteroid belt.
On the Golden Ingot Milon-class spacecraft, Yu Minghui, who is just 22 years old this year, is a little nervous, he is a graduate of Galaxy University of Science and Technology majoring in cosmic astronomical science.
This time, he and several graduates of the same class of Galaxy University of Science and Technology found his principal Qin Yi, and with one mouth, he actually asked Qin Yi to buy a Miron-class spaceship on credit for them and set up an interstellar mining company.
Then Yu Minghui found the seniors and seniors who graduated from Galaxy University of Science and Technology to seek their investment, and everyone scraped together all the expenses for going to the asteroid belt to mine asteroids.
"It must be possible, it must be possible."
Yu Minghui muttered silently in his heart, saying that if he is not nervous, it must be fake, this spaceship is worth 80 billion, plus more than 1 billion yuan was spent on all kinds of materials, equipment, instruments, etc. purchased in order to go to the asteroid belt, if he can't successfully mine the asteroid and come back, it is estimated that it will not be enough to sell himself.
Of course, the more important thing is not to live up to everyone's trust, when the principal Qin Yi heard that Yu Minghui and the others wanted to buy spaceships on credit to mine asteroids, he agreed without much hesitation.
When the seniors of Galaxy University of Science and Technology heard that their juniors were sending money to mine asteroids, everyone also extended a helping hand, raising a huge amount of 2 billion yuan in less than 1 day, which shows everyone's trust in themselves.
You must know that he has never met most of the seniors, and everyone just chatted in the virtual world and invested the funds with confidence.
"It's time to go~"
Yu Minghui's side, Yu Minghui's friend and deputy captain of the Golden Ingot spacecraft, Yi Chen, who graduated from Galaxy University of Science and Technology with a major in interstellar flight, reminded softly.
"Everyone prepare, the Golden Ingot Spaceship is about to depart for the asteroid belt, please return to your seat."
Yu Minghui nodded, came to his space chair very smoothly, fastened his seat belt, and then sent a departure notice to everyone through the radio on the spacecraft.
"Haha, it's finally time to go, beautiful asteroid, I'm coming."
"Ullah~Ulala~"
"I'm coming~"
As Yu Minghui's words fell, bursts of cheers rang out from above the spacecraft.
The Golden Ingot spacecraft has a total of six members, all of whom are classmates of Yu Minghui and Yi Chen, and they are also graduates of Galaxy University of Science and Technology, and their majors are different.
Yu Minghui graduated from the cosmic astronomy major, and is also responsible for finding the asteroid that maximizes the value, and Yi Chen graduated from the interstellar flight major, he is responsible for piloting and controlling the spacecraft, and can also perform simple repairs on the spacecraft.
There is also Huang Suyu, a beautiful girl, graduated from the spaceship design and manufacturing major, she is the main spaceship engineer, and she also has a very good cooking skill, part-time spaceship cook.
Although there are only six people on the spacecraft, each of them has a different major, and at the same time, they have also taken other majors in Galaxy University of Science and Technology, and they can all be said to be all-rounders, and more importantly, as a student of Galaxy University of Science and Technology, everyone has obtained an astronaut certificate early, and has a certain amount of space work and learning experience, and can use the space environment.
"Yangtze River, Yangtze River, the Golden Ingot asks to leave."
After everyone was seated, Yi Chen also officially applied to the space port management here to leave the port.
"Permission to leave Hong Kong, have a good trip."
Soon, the application for the Golden Ingot spacecraft was approved, the mechanical arm that fixed the Golden Ingot spacecraft began to loosen one after another, the second-generation anti-gravity engine on the spacecraft had also been started, and the spacecraft began to slowly leave the Yangtze River space port and began to accelerate in the direction of the asteroid belt.
Not long after the departure of the Golden Ingot spacecraft, more than a dozen spaceships such as Wangcai and Jinshan, which had completed the supply of supplies, also began to leave the Yangtze River space port one after another and headed for the asteroid belt.
The 20 Miron B-class spaceships present a straight line in space, and when they are connected together, they are very spectacular, and there is a feeling of a thousand sails racing, like a school of small fish in the interstellar sea, soaring in the vast void.
As they got farther and farther away from Earth, the spacecraft became faster and faster, and after a few days, each of them began to adjust their angles and head in one direction, each spacecraft went to a different area, and it was impossible to say that all of them ran to one area to mine asteroids.
The spacecraft only need to choose a small angle at the beginning, and as time goes on, the distance between each other will become farther and farther away, and by the time they reach the asteroid belt, the distance between these spacecraft will be more than 108,000 miles.
"Speed 80 kilometers per second, turn off the engine, start inertial flight."
Two days later, the anti-gravity engine of the Golden Ingot spacecraft began to shut down, and relying on inertia, it made rapid progress towards the asteroid belt.
"Gold ingots, gold ingots, here is Wangcai, here is Wangcai, please answer if you receive it?"
On the Golden Ingot spaceship, everyone had just relaxed and was ready to rest, when a familiar voice came from the spacecraft's communication public signal.
"The gold ingots have been received, the gold ingots have been received, Wangcai, please tell me something?"
Yu Minghui listened to a familiar voice, the voice of his classmate Lin Yaohua, who was hired by an interstellar mining company to become the most critical cosmic astronomical scientist on the Wangcai spacecraft in search of asteroids.
Graduates of Galaxy University of Science and Technology have always been highly valued because of their outstanding abilities, and the classmates in Yu Minghui and Lin Yaohua's classes are very sought-after, all of whom are core and important members of various interstellar mining companies.