Cao Chuan sent the drawings to the spacecraft team, and after seeing the drawings, the employees of the spacecraft team carefully studied them and wanted to understand the design concept, on the other hand, the second-generation spacecraft entered the research and development stage.

The R&D stage is not yet the mass production stage, even so, the cost is equally amazing, if according to the estimate given by Cao Chuan, the current GDP of East Galaxy supports at most 4 Changyang-class or half of the Yuanyang-class.

This is still in the second year or two of Jupiter's development, the early investment in the initial through the establishment of the asteroid belt trade route, with the help of seafood and energy exports just returned to the cost, as for the "separation" thing, because of the internal contradictions, Cao Chuan did not dare to make too much trouble, in fact, there is not much benefit.

Their economy is still in a period of savings, and it stands to reason that they should not have invested so much energy into completing the second generation of spaceships, as a space-based force, coupled with the strong support of all employees, to be exact, regular employees, the two prototype ships are in the difficult construction.

Half a year later, in April 2033, the first Changyang-class spacecraft was completed, and Cao Chuan, with the employees of the combat department and several ministers of the company, entered the huge ship like a city fortress, and entered the captain's cabin through the long corridor.

Bai Lian had just become familiar with the operation of the spaceship, showing everyone the control of the new spaceship, including the trade department, the exploration department, and the combat department, and the three major departments were watching with amazement, thinking about when they would have a way to get their own second-generation spaceship.

According to the estimation of the trade department, after the popularization of the second generation of spaceships, the cost of transportation in space will plummet by 50%, and the load of one of their spaceships is equivalent to the load of 10 ordinary large spaceships, which means that the East Galaxy Company can easily rely on technology to crush the enemy in terms of trade, and quickly annex the sphere of influence such as GSAG.

As for the exploration department, the things they calculated were relatively simple, first of all, after getting the spaceship, they had to go to Uranus, Neptune, the Kuiper Belt and even Pluto to explore, each time it was half a year, because the design speed of the Changyang class reached 12,000 km/s, and the journey was actually very short.

They were able to happily spend months on in-depth investigations, launching a large number of satellites, and even setting up multiple makeshift camps and even satellite missions to these planets.

What makes them entangled is that what to do with the Aort Cloud in the future, it is a little far away, even if they can accept the journey of several years, more than ten years, and even the support of human freezing technology, it is a troublesome thing no matter how you look at it.

Why are Oort clouds so far away! They depressed to think that the Earth to Pluto is only 35 astronomical units, but the shortest Earth to Oort cloud is 50,000 astronomical units... Of course, Cao Chuan has considered these problems, and it is indeed a troublesome problem, but it is a step they must take on the road to conquering the stars and the sea!

"Mr. Advisor, it will take a lot of time to build the Yuanyang-class, so let's experience the speed and convenience of getting to Pluto!" The leader of the spacecraft group in charge of supervising the construction of Shimadzu gave a warm introduction.

The spacecraft is launched, because there are still old prototype ships and prototype ships on the Jupiter Atmosphere Laboratory, there is no need to worry that the research work cannot be carried out, and besides, how can it be proved that the spacecraft technology is mature without actual sailing?

Even if their physical fitness is strengthened, the acceleration limit that humans can withstand does not change much, and it still remains at 10G, and the acceleration lasts for nearly 20 hours before the speed is increased to 6,000 km/s.

"Ladies and gentlemen, at this speed, the spaceship's voyage is already quite stable!" Team leader Shimazu boasted proudly, "Come to think of it, this initial speed alone is 6 times that of Queen Nana, and it only takes half a month to go to Pluto." ”

"I remember that the limit speed of the Changyang class was 12,000 km/s, so why not increase the speed to the limit?" Qiao Canal asked curiously.

"This... For safety reasons, in case of an accident with the spacecraft, it will take several months for other spacecraft to come to the rescue, and I think it is enough to maintain a speed of 6000 km/s. ”

"Hmm." Wang Xian, who was calm and calm, accepted his explanation and walked around the spaceship.

Qiao Canal was not very satisfied, Nunu mouth, thinking about experiencing the feeling of going to Pluto in the next week, but when he saw a group of people around him looking at him as if they were facing a great enemy, only Xiao Guanhai looked at him with encouraging eyes, and he gave up.

The leader of Shimazu breathed a sigh of relief: "Below, there is still half a month before our destination Pluto, and you can move freely!" After saying that, the remaining employees dispersed in a hurry, leaving the leader of Shimazu to walk up to Cao Chuan, "Mr. Consultant, are you still satisfied with the new spaceship?" ”

Cao Chuan praised, "The new spacecraft looks very successful, but the project is not yet over, and I want you to do everything you can to complete the construction of the prototype of the second Yuanyang-class spacecraft before we can put it into mass production and design more improved models." ”

"The research department's ship team is guaranteed to complete the mission!" Team Leader Shimazu patted his chest and assured that the reason for his confidence was that almost 50% of the remaining hard bones had been wiped out, and so far, the completion rate of the Changyang-class spacecraft they were riding was more than 80%, and with more force, they could reach the goal.

"Very good! The board will see your outstanding performance, I wonder if you have any other requirements? Please don't hesitate, I'll consider it. ”

Team leader Shimazu thought that if their spacecraft team finished conquering the second-generation spacecraft, the next project to be carried out would undoubtedly be the research on reactor miniaturization, and they would work together with the basic science team, and when the time came, the moon-by-month spacecraft would be put on a fusion energy reactor, and another series of sun-class spacecraft would be derived, so there was no need to ask Mr. Consultant for help.

What else? Team Leader Shimazu is a typical mad scientist, who does not consider personal interests at all, and yearns for unknown knowledge, "Mr. Advisor, what do you think the third-generation spacecraft should look like?" ”

"Third generation?" Cao Chuan was stunned, in fact, he had no rules in his heart to simulate, at most he was talking nonsense, "The third-generation spacecraft is not a field that we should touch, including fully mature molecular materials, completely solving the acceleration problem, light-year-level detection technology, reaching the scale of a 1-kilometer spacecraft, the most important thing is that I think you should have seen the most difficult step in the space voyage so far." ”

"Is it a cross-star problem?" Team leader Shimazu realized what Cao Chuan was talking about and asked in a low voice.

"That's right! The distance between galaxies is usually between 0.5 and 10 light-years, and at the speed of the second-generation spacecraft, it can be said that it is very easy to cross planets, and if you want to cross stars, you still have to calculate in years, so if the third-generation spacecraft comes out, it is bound to completely solve this problem. ”

"There are several solutions, the first is to continue to follow the path of increasing speed, so that the speed of the spacecraft can be increased to sub-light speed which is 100,000 to 250,000 km/s; Another attempt to find Einstein-Rosen Bridge, of course, the entire Milky Way galaxy probably does not have more than three digits of this spatial structure, and it may not be near us; Also, I'm afraid I'll have to go in the direction of basic physics and try to find a transition technology. ”

Cao Chuan was, but to Shimazu's team leader, this was simply a delineation of their work goals for the next 100 years, and they could achieve their final goals by following this path.