Chapter 309: Mining the Asteroid Belt
After more than two months of training, the Little Five-Fourth brothers finally obtained the qualification to pilot the space mining ship issued by the Space Management Center of the Ming Empire.
Although it was very hard during the training, especially the fourth with a relatively low level of education, but fortunately, they successfully graduated from the Ming Empire Aerospace Driving Academy, although their grades were not very good, but to be able to successfully graduate was beyond their own estimates, after all, they have never been exposed to high-tech products such as spaceships.
They are just ordinary farmers, and now all four of them have successfully graduated from the spaceship piloting academy, which is already very lucky, you must know that there are more than 5,000 trainees trained by the spaceship piloting academy this time, but only more than 1,000 students can successfully graduate from the piloting academy.
And although many of the more than 1,000 people have not yet purchased their own space mining ships, but among the more than 1,000 people who do not have their own mining ships, they have been recruited by all those who have purchased spaceships before they leave school, and the annual salary is also very high, and most of these pilots have about 2% to 5% of the salary in addition to their salaries.
Of course, one or two pilots in a Cosmic City mine are enough, and the rest of the crew only needs to do proper adaptation training.
Therefore, Xiao Wu is a brother, they are very lucky, all four of them passed the pilot test, it can be said that they have this craft, even if they don't have their own spaceship, they can live very chic, not to mention that they have already purchased their own space mining ship.
"This is the Five Brothers space-mining ship, request to take off, request to take off." As the captain of this spaceship, the second child was holding the communicator in his hand at this time and applying to the Space Port Management Center of the Ming Empire to take off.
"Permission to take off, good luck to you!" Soon the ship's stereo was heard with a reply from the port management center.
"Everyone, get ready to take off to the target asteroid field!"
With his words, a rather ugly spaceship slowly flew out of the Ming Empire's spaceport, this spaceship is like a crab flying in the universe, with an oval hull and eight mechanical legs, which looks like a crab from a distance, but it is only magnified countless times.
However, although this spaceship looks very ugly, very similar to a crab flying in the universe, the function of this spaceship is quite powerful, and these eight manipulators are the main tools of this spaceship mining.
The power of these eight manipulators is very powerful, not only can they fix the spaceship on an asteroid, but the eight mechanical legs are also equipped with various tools to dismantle those huge asteroids, after all, this kind of space mining ship has a volume of less than 500 tons, and the maximum pulling force is only 480,000 tons, so if you encounter those slightly larger asteroids that cannot be dragged away, then you can use the tools on these mechanical legs to divide the asteroids.
However, this can only divide asteroids that are not very large, and once the asteroids are too large, even if the mining ship has cutting equipment, it will not be able to divide those super-large asteroids. After all, it's just a small space mining ship.
The speed of the space mining ship is very fast, they arrived at the asteroid belt in less than two days, the asteroid at this time is not very lively, after all, the small mining ship sold by Yongan Group is only more than 300, and the next batch of sales will wait until a month later, but the next batch of quantities is much more than the first batch, according to the official website of Yongan Group, the next batch of small space mining ships will have more than 700 for sale.
However, at this time, they passed through the spacecraft's radar system in the asteroid belt, and they knew that there were only two space mining ships within one astronomical unit away from them, and all the space mining ships in the entire asteroid belt combined were now only about 20.
However, the four brothers on the five brothers space mining ship they know that in a few days, the asteroid belt will definitely be very lively, after all, when they came, they saw that there were many spaceships like mining ships like them parked in the space port, but they haven't started yet, after all, space mining does not mean that you can come and go as you want, and you have to make a lot of preparations, especially for energy preparations.
"Second brother, we have now arrived in the asteroid belt, whether we are looking for an asteroid in the periphery of the asteroid to be mined, or going to the interior of the asteroid belt to find it." When he was about to reach the asteroid belt, Xiao Wu, who was the pilot of the spacecraft, said.
"Let's go inside, after all, outside the asteroid belt in a few days, there will definitely be many people to mine all kinds of ores, and those of us who are the first to eat crabs will definitely find a more valuable asteroid to drag back, so it will be cost-effective!" The second child, who is the captain, said.
"Okay second brother!" After finishing speaking, Xiao Wu, who was the pilot, continued to drive the space mining ship to the interior of the asteroid belt.
"Bump!" As the spacecraft continued to descend deeper into the asteroid belt, the spacecraft became slower and slower, after all, they were here to mine in the asteroid belt, not directly through the asteroid belt, so shortly after entering the asteroid belt, their spacecraft slowed down and began to analyze nearby asteroids to determine the elemental composition of the asteroids. Just as they were analyzing the spectrum of an asteroid not far ahead, the entire spacecraft suddenly shook.
However, the four brothers in the spaceship did not panic, because they knew that they had encountered a small meteorite around them, because such a situation had happened many times after they entered the asteroid belt, but such an impact was nothing for the space mining ship, because the armored division that finally cast the ore deposit was very heavy, even compared to the warships in the army.
You must know that the armor of these spacemining ships has reached the level of brazen half a meter thick, which is absolutely unattainable for ordinary spaceships, and you must know that the thickest armor of ordinary civilian spaceships is only ten centimeters, even if it is such a thick armor, many people are too thick for civilian spaceships, after all, the thicker the armor, the more energy consumed, and the lower the load capacity of the spacecraft.
And generally military spaceships of about the same size as them, the armor is only twenty or thirty centimeters in the end, even if it is a 100,000-ton military spaceship, the armor is only 50 centimeters, so the armor of these space mining ships is very thick.
But this is also understandable, after all, as a small space mining ship, these are very bad often shuttle in the asteroid belt, if there is no heavy armor, then the safety of the spacecraft can be said to be basically unguaranteed, so as a mining ship must have the ability to resist the impact of small cosmic meteorites.