When the Space Shuttle Ra re-enters the atmosphere from low Earth orbit.

At this time, the management of the local association also entered the safe house and held a secret video conference.

The spokespersons of the four major forces, as well as Kong De, who is the president, have not very good faces.

"Judging by the conclusions of the analysis of the technical department, this space ......" Bill paused slightly: "Okay! Let's call it the Space Shuttle! Its volume is very large, and the mass is very likely to have reached 2~30,000 tons. ”

The four major forces all have the means of monitoring in outer space, and they have also obtained some data, so naturally they do not doubt the data that Bill said.

Duke, the spokesperson of the Europa Consortium, raised his glasses, and his face was full of solemnity:

"Judging from the shape of the space shuttle, the weight of the spacecraft on its back is about 40~45% of its total weight, that is, the load ratio of this space shuttle is 40~45%, which is terrible."

Very scary indeed.

Because the launch vehicle with the best load ratio is the latest improved version of the SpaceX Heavy Falcon, with a maximum take-off weight of 1,557 tons, a low-earth orbit payload of 71 tons, and a load ratio of 4.6%.

As soon as the two were compared, the gap immediately appeared.

The difference of almost 10 times is simply terrifying.

If it is a 2~3 times gap, then they will not be so afraid and powerless, but the gap is nearly 10 times, which is really involuntarily difficult to resist and catch up.

The man from the Fourth Force also spoke: "Logically speaking, ordinary fuel simply can't reach this payload ratio, but our detection satellites don't detect the Gamma rays produced by the nuclear explosion, so what kind of fuel did they use?" ”

"There are only two fuels that have an energy density of more than 10 times higher than current ordinary fuels." Duke glanced at everyone: "One is the all-nitrogen anion, and the other is metallic hydrogen." ”

"Zhang, I remember that one of your research institutes has not succeeded in developing the all-nitrogen anion?" Alexander asked.

The man shook his head: "It's successful, but the stability is very poor, there is no way to passivate it for the time being, and the production process is only at the laboratory level, and it has not yet reached the standard of industrialization." ”

"We need to work together!" Bill took the opportunity to suggest.

"Of course, there is no problem with cooperation, but I don't see your sincerity." The man was smiling and smiling.

Kong De hurriedly came out of the round: "Cooperation!" I heard that the recent space tower project on Jeju Island has built a 500-meter-high airbag, and the progress of this project will be accelerated! ”

When they heard about the Space Tower project, everyone agreed to accelerate.

After all, Homo sapiens has built a space tower-like project in the Nemanya region and is operating suborbital flights on a daily basis.

In the face of the increasingly powerful oppression of Homo sapiens in the aerospace field, Dilian also hopes to achieve the success of the space tower project at this time.

The Earth Alliance even regards the space tower project as one of the core means to catch up with Homo sapiens.

According to calculations, if the Space Tower project can be successful, the fuel consumption of launching from the regional Earth to low-earth orbit will be reduced by about 20%.

If the 1,557-ton Falcon Heavy is launched on a space tower platform, it means that its payload can be increased by 311.4 tons, and the total payload can reach 382.4 tons, and the payload ratio will reach 24.5%.

Although it is still not as good as Homo sapiens' super space shuttle, at least the gap is not too big.

Of course, the management of the Geolink is well aware that the load-bearing capacity of the space tower platform on Jeju Island is limited.

According to the design plan, the maximum carrying capacity of the launch platform of the Jeju Island Space Tower is about 860 tons, minus 600~700 tons of supporting facilities, and finally it can be used to carry the launch vehicle, which is only about 160~260 tons.

With this load-bearing capacity, there is no way to use a heavy Falcon, even if it is more than 800 tons of long five B, there is no way to go up, and you can only engage in some small launch vehicles.

It's not that the Ground Union doesn't want to do it, but as an experimental project, the first-generation prototype system will definitely not directly build a super-large space tower.

The Ground Union also doesn't have that much money.

If the project fails, it will be even more difficult for the Union to be stretched thin.

At this moment, the management of the Earth Alliance is really envious and jealous of the space division of Homo sapiens.

Look at the project you have made, you must be careful with your own calculations, and you must compromise and bargain internally.

And Homo sapiens can casually build a large space tower platform in the Nemanya region without even blinking an eye.

However, they also have a very complicated mind about Homo sapiens.

After all, without the emergence of Homo sapiens, the four major forces would not have come together at all to cooperate in the Association of the Ground Federation, let alone give the Ground Federation more than 200 billion US dollars a year.

The existence of Homo sapiens has indeed brought a huge impact to the entire earth.

This is not only in the field of astronautics, but also in other fields.

In order to win over those ordinary people and prevent these people from being sucked away by the Homo sapiens company, all parties are now doing their best, basically using both soft and hard, sticks and carrots.

The tax on the wealthy in North America has been raised to the extreme, and big families such as Morgan, Rockefeller, Mellon, and DuPont are gritting their teeth and pulling out some meat from their mouths for ordinary people.

If you don't give it now, if you continue to detain and search, all ordinary people would rather run to work for Homo sapiens than stay and breathe the free air of America.

At the same time, the four major forces also began to collude together, with money contributing money, mines producing mines, industries producing industries, and people coming out of people.

Anyway, it is to reduce the production cost of all links as much as possible, and to improve the living standards of ordinary people, so that all people can be retained.

This is not just a matter for North America and the Europa Commonwealth.

It's that the four major forces must achieve high welfare within themselves, otherwise they won't be able to compete with Homo sapiens.

You must know that in the second half of the first year of Galaxy, there were more than 47.36 million permanent migrant families in Asia who went to Homo sapiens, with more than 173 million people.

Combined with permanent migrant workers in Africa and Latin America, the number of Homo sapiens employees is rapidly approaching the 3 billion mark.

Even with a lot of obstacles, there is still no way to stop this trend.

Many people may think that the idea of the middle class or the little rich is that they wish that ordinary people would go to work in Homo sapiens, and it is better to never go back and compete with them.

In fact, the middle-class and the small-rich are now the most embarrassing group, and they really want the ordinary people to stay.

After all, the labor and consumer market of ordinary people are the cornerstone of the entire social system.

Suppose a city of 1 million people, 95% are ordinary people, 4% are middle class, and 1% are rich.

That's the problem.

When 95% of ordinary people disappear from the city, will the remaining 5% still be able to maintain their previous decent life?

The answer is that 95% of the 5% will fall back into ordinary people, 4% of the 5% will be able to maintain a worse but relatively decent life than before, and 1% of the 5% will continue to be their wealthy.

Ordinary people are the cornerstone of the existence of the middle class and the wealthy.

Without ordinary people, what do you do to maintain a high-quality and decent life?

There are no waiters in the restaurant.

There are no workers in the factory.

There are no farmers on the farm.

There are no migrant workers on the site.

There are no ordinary customers in the market.

Doesn't change? Directly sucked out of the population by the Homo sapiens company, and when the time comes, it will destroy itself without a fight.

Therefore, the four major forces have reached a situation where they have to change.