Chapter 202, the "Kowloon" spaceship
In the outer space of the earth, an overhead plane is constantly going back and forth between the ground and space, and a huge space farmland, space solar farm, etc. are quietly suspended in the void, and from time to time there are space planes like industrious little bees to contact each other.
Now in the outer sky of the earth, it is still very lively, every day between space and the ground between the number of space planes do not know how many, every day there are dozens of flights to the moon, transport supplies to the past, and at the same time transport the resources mined from the moon back to the earth.
In space, most of the space buildings are almost all marked with the logo of China, and only a few space buildings belong to other countries in the world, although the countries of the world are working very hard to catch up with the footsteps of China, but in the field of space, the gap between them is getting farther and farther.
In a void, a strange-looking spaceship is under intense construction, this spacecraft is more than 500 meters long, more than 30 meters high, more than 50 meters wide, and there are 9 rockets as long as itself.
The spacecraft as a whole looks a bit like a long spaceship, with 9 equally long launch vehicles installed on it, and some areas are deliberately protruding, such as adding huge solar panels to obtain electricity, etc., anyway, there is no need to consider air resistance and so on in space, the design is very arbitrary.
Around the spaceship, the space plane from the earth slowly opened its huge belly, which was full of goods, and the mechanical arm on the spacecraft was very flexible to carry out the goods inside, and some areas that had not yet been built were still busy.
In the control room of the spacecraft, Qiu Guangming of "Star Power" is busy with people at this time, since the last time led by Zhang Xianzu, many space technology companies in China have joined forces to prepare to develop a spacecraft powered by traditional rockets to go to the asteroid belt to mine asteroids.
As a top scientist in the field of space propulsion, Qiu Guangming became the chief engineer of the spacecraft at this time, leading scientists and engineers from various space technology companies to build spacecraft together.
Many space science and technology companies in China have joined forces, and their energy is huge, which can be seen from the speed of spaceship construction alone.
In just over a month, the spacecraft named "Kowloon" has come out of the design drawings and presented to the world, and it can be said that in the field of space science and technology, except for plasma engines, magnetic field batteries and black gold materials, no other technology can overcome them.
Together, they have their own space station, global positioning system, lunar positioning system, earth-moon communication system, hundreds of aerospace aircraft, and can easily mobilize trillions of dollars of huge funds.
The "Kowloon" spacecraft is named because of the nine powerful heavy launch vehicles, according to the design, these nine heavy launch vehicles can theoretically provide enough power for the spacecraft, and can even surpass the Dumbo spacecraft, theoretically can drag more than 20 million tons of asteroids in space.
It's just that compared with the Dumbo spacecraft, its volume is too large, because it uses the launch vehicle as the main power system, so it needs to have more space to load fuel, and the quality of the fuel further increases the overall mass of the spacecraft, and the requirements for thrust are higher.
This is a bit similar to the launch of a rocket on the earth, the mass that can be carried on the rocket is calculated, once the carrying mass is increased, the overall mass of the rocket must be greatly increased by geometric numbers.
At the same time, in the interior of the spacecraft, the design of the "Kowloon" spaceship is naturally not as extravagant as that of the Xiaofei spaceship, and every bit of space is used as much as possible to save more space for storing fuel.
Except for a few essential spaces such as a control room, gymnasium, lounge, and storage room, most of the space is designed to store fuel, and it is not as luxurious as Dumbo to have a large amount of space for building a plant area to relieve the astronauts' inner negative situation.
Using the power system of the carrier rocket, every space on the "Kowloon" spacecraft should be transported to the extreme, and 90 percent of the space is filled with rocket fuel, but the spacecraft can consume 20 percent of the fuel in the acceleration stage, and a large amount of space will be wasted at that time.
"Chief Engineer Qiu, it is estimated that the rest of our part will be completed in a few days, and the supply of fuel has not stopped, and according to the current progress, our spacecraft can take off on time."
Zhou Wenhong has also been following and assisting Qiu Guangming in building the spaceship, and when he saw the progress of the spaceship, he chatted with Qiu Guangming with a smile on his face.
"I'm not worried about whether the spacecraft can be completed on time, what I'm worried about is whether the spacecraft can take on the heavy responsibility, after all, it's a long journey of hundreds of millions of kilometers back and forth, and there are asteroids to drag later, so relatively speaking, I'm more concerned about the quality of the spacecraft."
Qiu Guangming smiled and shook his head, he knew very well that although the "Kowloon" spaceship looked huge, it was too far away compared to the Dumbo spaceship, the Dumbo spaceship had a good heart, so it could save more space and location to improve the spacecraft's life support system, life system, safety, etc., even if it was to travel to and from the asteroid belt, there was no pressure.
However, the Dumbo spaceship, which can theoretically propel an asteroid of 20 million tons, seems to be much better than the Dumbo spacecraft, but in Qiu Guangming's view, there is still a great risk in conservatively dragging 10 million tons of asteroids.
"I have invited Chen Bin, the chief engineer of the Dumbo spacecraft of Fuyun Group, to come over and help check it, and it is estimated that it will be almost there later."
When it comes to the core issues, Zhou Wenhong has also become serious, in fact, he is also at a loss, so he invited Chen Bin to come over in advance to help check the checks, Chen Bin is now a top scientist in the field of space, and he is a giant in the talent-rich Fuyun Group, which can be seen as the chief engineer of the Dumbo spacecraft.
"Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive."
Zhou Wenhong's eyes habitually looked into space, and a small spaceship specially used to fly in various space complexes in space slowly approached the "Kowloon" spaceship, with the logo of Fuyun Group on it.
Soon, here in the control room, Chen Bin, who was wearing a spacesuit, floated in with a smile on his face.
"I'm sorry, there's something to do, and I've delayed a bit."
"I've heard of Chen Gong's name for a long time, and I'm lucky to see Sansheng today!"
Qiu Guangming went up to greet him enthusiastically, although he was born a scientist, but because he was the boss of a huge space technology company, Qiu Guangming has become more sleek now, of course, this is also his heartfelt words, Qiu Guangming is already in his 40s, and Chen Bin is not yet in his old age.
For Chen Bin who is already a giant in the scientific and technological world at such a young age, Qiu Guangming, as a scientist, naturally admires it from the bottom of his heart, and of course he needs Chen Bin's help now, so he is naturally very enthusiastic.
"Senior Qiu, you have won the award, I have admired you for a long time, but I heard my teacher talk about you, saying that you are Taishan in our Chinese aerospace power field."
Chen Bin also responded with a smile.
"Haha, you two hit it off at first sight, let's have a few drinks when we get back to the ground."
Zhou Wenhong also said with a smile.
Soon, after a few people got acquainted, they officially entered the topic, Zhou Wenhong and Qiu Guangming transmitted the detailed data information of the "Kowloon" spacecraft to Chen Bin in a virtual machine, and asked Chen Bin to help check it.
"Senior, please help check the gates, although we have built the spaceship, but to be honest, we don't have any bottom in our hearts."
Zhou Wenhong's eyes had a hint of admiration in his eyes, and at the same time, he felt nervous in his heart, whether this spaceship would work or not was a major matter related to whether everyone could go to the asteroid belt to make a fortune.
"Well, I'll take a closer look first."
Chen Bin nodded slightly, he and Chen Bin were from the same school and met at the alumni association.
In his mind, a large amount of information kept pouring into his mind, Chen Bin simply closed his eyes, carefully checked the detailed data and information of the "Kowloon" spacecraft, from the overall design of the spacecraft, the power distribution to the fuel and materials on the spacecraft, etc., Chen Bin looked very carefully.
"There are really a lot of eye-catching things about this design, and the distribution and layout of the nine running rockets are very reasonable, which can give full play to the thrust to the extreme."
Seeing a lot of very good designs, Chen Bin couldn't help but praise in his heart.
"Huh?"
Looking at it, watching, Chen Bin's brows furrowed, because he found a very deadly and critical place.
"Although the 9 heavy launch vehicles allow the spacecraft to have strong thrust, but the thrust is strong, the strength of the overall frame structure of the spacecraft is greatly improved, and the skeleton of their split welded structure is absolutely unable to withstand such a huge thrust, and if the 9 launch vehicles are started at the same time and pushed at full strength, the entire spacecraft will definitely fall apart."
When Chen Bin saw the design of the spaceship skeleton, the whole person immediately knew that the spaceship had fatal flaws, and the spaceship that flew in the universe and was used to mine asteroids was not a spaceship flying in the earth's orbit, and it must have a strong enough skeleton to support it, because the power was too strong!
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