Chapter 283: Space Research Ship
"That's fine! Let's take a look at the scientific research spacecraft that had completed construction at that time, although human beings have built a lot of spaceships in the past ten years, including civilian and military, but in fact, these spaceships only have the initial ability to sail, and even a strong solar wind can destroy all the electronic equipment on these spacecraft.
The scientific research spacecraft manufactured this time is different, the scientific research spacecraft manufactured this time is actually a standard spacecraft that can sail far away, this spacecraft can already fly anywhere in the solar system, and the nuclear energy stored on it can already be used for this spacecraft to fly continuously for more than ten years without replacing the nuclear fuel on the spacecraft. It can be said that this is a qualitative leap. Zhu Lei said.
After saying that, the two of them chatted as they walked towards the spaceship manufacturing factory.
The very manufacturing plant is very close to the laboratory, after all, in the same base, the entire spacecraft development center is separated from other lunar bases, but despite this, the spacecraft development center and other lunar bases are also connected to each other through the moon's subway.
The entire spacecraft development center is in a crater on the moon, and there is water resources at the bottom of this crater, although this crater is not very large, but it is enough for the spacecraft development center at this stage.
Su Lei and they soon came to the spaceship manufacturing plant, the spaceship manufacturing plant that manufactures scientific research spaceships is a separate space from the spaceship experiment area, this area is about 1 kilometer long, about 500 meters wide, there are a total of five shipbuilding platforms in this area, at this time each shipbuilding platform is parked with spaceships under construction, and one of them seems to have been completed, and the workers are changing the spacecraft to do the final inspection to ensure that the spacecraft can leave the factory without any problems.
These five spaceships parked on the shipbuilding platform have different appearances, but despite this, four of them still have some similarities, in fact, Zhu Lei knows that it is a spaceship, in fact, it is a combat spaceship made for the military of the Ming Empire, after all, those spaceships built before, the resistance to the solar wind is too weak and can even be said to be no, if such a spaceship happens to encounter a strong solar wind in battle, then the fate that awaits them can be imagined.
And the one that is very different from the other four spaceships is Zhu Lei's purpose of coming here this time, this is the space research ship, and it is also the forerunner of this human exploration of Mars and Venus, and the data he collects on Mars and Venus in the future will directly affect the Ming Empire's policy on transforming Mars and Venus.
The appearance of this space research ship is very similar to the plane of the earth during the period of the nations, but it is like an aircraft that is magnified dozens of times, but it is different from the airplane, after all, this is a spaceship, not an aircraft that can only fly on the earth.
The bow of this spaceship is slightly downward, the body is very slender, the very fuselage wings are fused together, and the layout of this spaceship is a canard layout, and since this is a spaceship, it does not have tail rudders on it like an airplane.
The ship's engines are mounted on both sides of the wings, and the ship has a total of eight large plasma thrusters, which can provide powerful power for the entire spacecraft.
In addition, although this spacecraft is a space research ship, its force is also quite powerful, not only has the most powerful weapon ever made by mankind, 1 billion tons of nuclear weapons, but also electromagnetic railguns, giant laser weapons, and individual rows of space missiles and space torpedoes, all of which are installed in the wings of the spacecraft.
The length of the ship is approximately 480 meters, and the width of the spacecraft's wings is approximately 150 meters wide.
The ship's color is dark gray, and the entire ship looks very sci-fi, even better than the spaceships that appeared in those sci-fi movies.
Seeing this kind of spaceship Zhu Lei is very satisfied, after all, this is just a space research ship, to this extent Zhu Lei is not satisfied, you must know that it has only been more than 20 years for human beings to enter space, just a little bit of time human beings have come to this point, it can be said that the spaceship in front of him, compared with the spaceships under construction next to it, the various scientific and technological content in it, and the performance of the spacecraft are much higher, It can be said that this spacecraft combines the best of today's human space technology.
Although this space research ship is not the largest spaceship made by human beings, after all, the largest spaceship made by human beings in the past ten years has reached the level of more than 1,000 meters, but this spaceship has everything in it, and even the equipment that other spaceships do not have on it.
And this is very much more comfortable than other spaceships, after all, this is a space research ship, and the most important thing for the staff living in it is to be dominated by various scientists, and scientists, as one of the most valuable assets of human beings, of course, give the best thing to their material conditions.
Therefore, on this spaceship, there are not only various entertainment facilities, but even a small agricultural area for experiments on this spaceship, after all, although our Ming Empire has made some achievements in space agriculture, but this is far from enough and planting various crops in the spaceship has never been carried out, so the agricultural area on this spaceship is the rest area for researchers, and it is also to study the growth of crops in the spaceship, and prepare for the next step of space agriculture.
Although this is such a large spaceship, in fact, because this is a scientific research ship, of course, there are not as many members on board as passenger spacecraft or military spacecraft, the standard passenger capacity of this spacecraft is 500 people, of which 100 are spacecraft operators, and the other 400 people are researchers on the spacecraft, that is, scientists.
"Take me up and have a look!" Zhu Lei is still more curious about this spaceship, although he participated in the design of this spaceship, but in the process of manufacturing, because the spaceship manufacturing factory is on the moon, so he has not seen the inside of the spaceship, not to mention that this spaceship has made many modifications in the manufacturing process, and now it is completely different from when it was originally designed, so he wanted to go up and see it in person.
Learn about the specific situation of this spaceship, after all, this spaceship is going to Mars for a long time, and the people inside are also elite scientists of the Ming Empire, and the importance to the Ming Empire is self-evident, so he must personally understand the situation of this spaceship.
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