After three days of bargaining, the four major forces still reluctantly reached a cooperation agreement.

According to the Munich Space Cooperation Agreement, the four major forces will establish a project called: United Earth and Space Development Association, referred to as the Earth Federation Association or Earth Federation.

The Commonwealth of Lands is composed of four major forces, including the Commonwealth of Liberty, the Commonwealth of Europa, and Lucia, and some other members, including Persia, the Kingdom of the Saudis, the Republic of Pampas, and the Republic of Santiago, have also joined the Commonwealth.

Of course, the Ground Alliance is just a loose cooperation organization in the space field.

After all, the four core forces of the Earth Federation all have their own ghosts, and they can form a reluctant loose organization, and it is already the pressure of the Homo sapiens company that makes them make some compromises.

Without the existence of Homo sapiens, they would simply not have been able to cooperate.

Considering the issue of balance, the Federation itself does not have many mandatory provisions, but is a number of discussions and cooperation, emergency contact, information sharing, theoretical cooperation, and so on.

As for the funds, the local federation only received 50 million yuan of office funds per year, and there were no other expenses at all.

Musk, who participated in the negotiation of this cooperation, looked at this homely local association, and only left a speechless and dry smile on his face.

And then Comte, who was elected as the first president of the Association of Ground Alliances? Feng? Marcus also knew that if this continued, the Earth Union would be almost an ornament, so he hurriedly came up with a proposal.

"Ladies and gentlemen, since the Earth Federation has been established, for the sake of the future of mankind and the development of the universe, I think the top priority now is to find an efficient way to enter outer space."

None of the participants present spoke immediately about Conde's words.

After all, the mouth cannon PPT scheme is very simple, but it is not easy to really land the scheme.

Otherwise, among the major forces on the earth at present, they will not be playing with launch vehicles all the time.

And now the emergence of the Earth Union is to compete with the advantages of Homo sapiens in the aerospace field and avoid being locked on the earth by Homo sapiens.

This is also one of the reasons why the four major forces can put down some mustard and join forces to establish the Association of Ground Federations.

Once Homo sapiens can enter outer space on a large scale and live in outer space for a long time, the uniqueness of the Earth will become less unique.

And once the earth's environment can no longer bind Homo sapiens, the consequences will be very serious, because it means that Homo sapiens can abandon the earth at any time, and it also means that Homo sapiens can do whatever they want on the earth.

The major powers have apparently thought of this as well.

In order to avoid being held hostage by others, they had to cooperate.

Musk stood up and said, "Gentlemen! SpaceX's recyclable launch vehicles are the best option for us. ”

Although Bill agrees with SpaceX's technology, he hopes that other companies or research institutes can come up with some new solutions.

After all, SpaceX's heavy-duty Falcon launch vehicle has a low-earth orbit payload of only fifty or sixty tons, which has no way to compete with Homo sapiens.

After hearing Musk's words, other companies with ideas also hurried to stand up and speak for their own companies and technologies.

It's just that the presidents or technical executives of more than a dozen companies have not come up with constructive solutions.

Comte, Bill, and others were a little frustrated and disappointed.

Right now.

From Toth Corporation, a space company from the Maple Leaf Country, its president and CEO, Toth Corporation? Caroline? Roberts stepped up to the podium.

She projected her company's PPT on the big screen behind her:

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Roberts, the president of the Toth Corporation, and our company has brought a very possible solution, please look at the big screen behind my body......"

Everyone looked at the PPT picture on the big screen.

"Our company has been granted a patent for the construction of an America-like structure that extends 20,000 meters from the earth's surface into the air, and this space tower is 20 times the height of the Burj Khalifa (the current structure in the world)."

She continued, "Our design is different from other space elevators, which are more complex, for example, other designs require the use of graphene and carbon nanotube materials, while our solution does not. ”

"Ms. Roberts, how are you going to build a 20,000-meter building?" Musk asked with a smile.

Roberts was prepared for this, and she confidently explains: "Our company designed the space tower using an expansion material and a flywheel, which provides dynamic stability because the entire space tower is inflated. ”

"Inflatable?"

"Airship airbags?"

Immediately, everyone present reacted.

After all, using an airship to build a hose is a successful solution for Homo sapiens.

Roberts continued, "At present, our design of space elevators can effectively avoid the complex effects of geostationary orbit by limiting the maximum height to 20,000 meters, but our approach is different from that of Homo sapiens......"

After listening to Roberts' explanation.

Bill, Comte and others finally understood some of the circumstances of this plan.

The specific operation mode of this space elevator designed by Toth is as follows: astronauts will rise to 20,000 meters through the space elevator, and on the launch platform at the top of the space tower, the space plane will be launched into space orbit in a single stage, and then return to the platform at the top of the space tower to refuel and fly again.

According to this space elevator was designed by Brandon? According to Dr. Quinn, the system could save a lot of fuel and reduce the cost of launching a rocket into space by about 30 percent.

And the space tower also contains automatic landing rocket technology.

Roberts was blunt about this, saying that it was borrowed from the powerful landing system developed by SpaceX, and the barge landing on the sea was a good example.

But she also boasted about her landing system: "...... Landing 20,000 meters above sea level will make space flight more akin to jetliners, and in the future, space elevators can also be used as an important part of space tourism, while it can also generate wind energy and enable space communications. ”

Musk frowned: "Isn't this the Homo sapiens company's space carrier launch technology?" ”

"Uh......" Roberts was a little embarrassed.

Fortunately, Bill was in time: "Toth's patent was launched in 2015, and it must have been the evil Homo sapiens that copied Toth's inspiration." ”

The others didn't say anything.

After all, there are no patents in the aerospace field, and everyone is copying each other's answers.

After relieving the embarrassment, Roberts hurriedly struck while the iron was hot: "Everyone, our company's plan only needs an investment of about 5 billion US dollars, which is very cost-effective." ”

However, none of the people in the field are not human spirits, and they will not be deceived by the so-called $5 billion investment.

After all, when many companies attract investment, they often like to lower the amount of investment, and at the same time increase the effect, which makes people look very cost-effective.

It's just that in many cases, there is a situation where you are halfway through the project and then ask for additional investment.

Musk, who was very unhappy in his heart, found fault again: "Your air bag should be filled with helium, right?" Helium isn't cheap now! ”

Hearing the helium, Bill also frowned.

The retail price of liquid helium now reaches $70 per litre.

According to Totte's design plan, there are certainly not a few airbags that need to be used, which is not a small amount.

As for the idea of using hydrogen instead of helium, unless they want to see the space tower turn into a flame tower.

After all, this is a platform that often launches launch launch vehicles or aerospace planes, and if the flame accidentally ignites the hydrogen, it will really be the end of the calf.