Chapter 77, The Cheap Space Age
The inspection work of the 'Hou Yi' is very cumbersome, every small detail has to be checked repeatedly and carefully, and as for a small module, small parts and the like, it is necessary to constantly repeat the inspection, over and over again, tirelessly.
There is no way, this is the first anti-gravity spacecraft in China, or the spacecraft that will be used for manned lunar landing next year, if something goes wrong.
The money invested by the state is a trivial matter, and if there is no way to carry out a manned moon landing on time next year, then China will definitely become an international joke, and if you go abroad in the future, you must say that you are Japanese or Korean, otherwise you will be laughed to death.
Therefore, it is not allowed to be sloppy in this matter, and it is absolutely not allowed to have any problems, and it is only the most basic to check it repeatedly, and the whole has already been simulated with a supercomputer for I don't know how many times.
After many scientists and engineers conducted no less than 10 inspections, after repeated confirmation and demonstration, it was confirmed that there was no problem with the "Houyi", and the "Houyi" finally arrived at the time of test flight.
On this day, the sky over Tianfu was cloudy, and the sky was covered with thick clouds, and satellites in space could not shoot the activity on the ground through the thick clouds.
Today, it is just a test flight experiment, and it will not fly directly into space, so Huaxia does not want to expose the 'Houyi', and if you choose such weather, the satellites in space will naturally not be able to photograph the 'Houyi'.
Qin Yi and Yin Shouping had already gotten up from the room in the base city early, and the work that Qin Yi was involved in these days was to carry out the anti-gravity engine inspection, which was the core and most critical place of the 'Houyi', so this inspection work was also very cumbersome.
After checking over and over again, when it was finally time for the test flight, Qin Yi was also very excited.
The birth of anti-gravity spacecraft means that mankind has entered a new era in the field of interstellar space, and from then on, traditional rockets can be thrown into the dust of history.
Compared with anti-gravity spacecraft, relying on traditional rocket technology to enter space is not only costly, but the cost of each rocket is often tens of millions, and some even hundreds of millions.
Moreover, the transportation capacity of the launch vehicle is very limited, and even the American "Saturn 5" launch vehicle can only transport more than 100 tons of material into space.
The cost of a round trip to space is simply too high, and it costs about $3,000 to transport a kilogram of something into space.
Even if the rat is huge and the transportation capacity is small, the key is that the safety is not high, and there will always be accidents in the rockets launched every year in the world, you must know that every time a rocket is launched, scientists and engineers in various countries will conduct repeated inspections, but there are still accidents.
With an anti-gravity spacecraft, the transportation capacity is extremely powerful and terrifying, which can greatly reduce the cost of traveling to and from space, saving valuable funds, and the key is that what you want to send to space in the future has become an easy and easy thing.
The rocket seems to be huge, but in addition to its limited carrying capacity, the other is that the space is also very limited, the space of the transportation part is very small, and the things you want to transport are not only in terms of quality, but also have extremely strict requirements in terms of volume.
This also means that many large things cannot be transported into space, or can only be assembled in space through transportation again and again, and assembling things in space is more risky, and the workload of astronauts will be very huge.
The same cost would be high, requiring the astronauts to launch parts into space again and again, and then the astronauts would walk in outer space again and again to assemble them.
In order to replace a lens for the Hubble Space Telescope, the United States spent hundreds of millions of dollars to know that it is definitely not an easy task to assemble and replace parts in space.
It's different with an anti-gravity spaceship, it's big enough, it's powerful enough, it's big enough to be inside it, it's enough to assemble something like the Hubble Space Telescope on the ground and launch it into space in one go.
If something goes wrong and needs to be repaired or replaced, the device can be transported back to the ground for repair and upgrade, and then launched into space after the repair and upgrade.
Without anti-gravity spacecraft and relying on conventional rockets, even powerful countries such as the United States and the European Union would eventually have to abandon the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station, which cost so much money.
Because once the service life is up, the cost of continuing to repair is too high, even the United States and the European Union can not afford it, so they can only choose to tow these large space equipment to the earth, let it fall to the earth naturally, and rely on the friction fuel of the earth's atmosphere.
But is it true that these space devices are worthless?
No, even if it was launched decades ago, it is still very high-tech, the crystallization of human technology.
What's more, these things cost a lot of money, the Hubble Space Telescope cost billions of dollars, and the construction of the International Space Station cost 160 billion dollars, but they were all piled up with money.
You must know that these billions of dollars and 160 billion dollars are not the current dollars, but the dollars more than ten or twenty years ago, and the dollars of that era were still very valuable.
If it weren't for the fact that there was really no way, even Americans with deep pockets would be absolutely reluctant to scrap these things as a last resort.
If there is an anti-gravity spaceship, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, it can be brought back to the ground at one time, and the equipment in it can be updated and then relaunched into space.
Not only does it save a lot of costs, but it is also safe and very fast, and it is naturally easier to change things on the ground than in space.
Even a behemoth like the International Space Station is assembled through docking and disassembly, disassembled, and then transported back to the ground for upgrades and modifications, without having to endure heartache and scrap it.
Therefore, the emergence of anti-gravity spacecraft is definitely a milestone in the history of human spaceflight, and its significance is too great.
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