You say you have an iron will, are you serious?

Chapter 604: Spacecraft Construction Begins

Getting rid of the earth's gravity, using chemical fuels to burn, and launching rockets one by one to engage in space travel is time-consuming, labor-intensive and costly.

These problems pose huge challenges to any country.

There are more than 200 countries and regions on the earth. In addition to America and us, there is also Russia. These problems are even more insurmountable gaps.

The cost alone is enough to hold them back and make them unable to afford it.

Even as strong as the Russians are, they are still Wang Xiaoer's New Year, getting worse every year and can hardly afford to have fun anymore.

As for the European Space Agency, which Zhao Mo had heard the media boast about many times when he was a child, it gradually disappeared from sight after the 2008 Olympics and no one mentioned it anymore. Reader Yi Lin's booster shots were useless because it was completely ruined.

For us, launching once a day, or several times a day, seems so easy that it would break the defense of any other country in the world and make them completely numb.

But in fact, the cost is also huge, which puts a lot of burden and pressure on us.

Energy is now almost unlimited and very cheap. The prices of all industrial products and even daily necessities have been brought down to almost the lowest prices.

However, the price of cabbage is still a price, and when accumulated, it is still a huge fiscal expenditure.

Especially at this moment when we are building a lunar base on a large scale and the next step is to carry out large-scale mining on the moon and bring back minerals from other planets, we are gritting our teeth to make this expenditure.

A payload capacity of one or two hundred tons is fine for launching satellites, space stations, and manned lunar landings, but it is not enough to transport materials to the moon on a large scale or to bring back minerals from the moon and other planets on a large scale. Now, to build a lunar base, we need to launch once or several times a day. This frequency is fine for one or two years, or even three or four years, but how can we sustain it all the time?
Therefore, it is inevitable to develop new and more efficient modes of transportation.

The engine in front of us, which has a stable output of 7000 tons of thrust, will be our new and more efficient mode of transportation in the next stage.

With just one engine like this, we can build a spacecraft that can transport thousands of tons of cargo.

What does thousands of tons mean?
Flying to the moon once is equivalent to launching the Long March 5S rocket nearly ten times!

The cost is just a little damage and helium-3. Compared with the cost of ten Long March 5S rockets and a series of costs during the launch process, it is ridiculously cheap.

Optimize the design, add a few more engines, and build a spacecraft with a larger carrying capacity. A super-large spacecraft that can transport thousands or even tens of thousands of tons of supplies at a time, and we can build several lunar bases!

Looking at the data of 7000 tons of thrust displayed on the big screen, Ruan Min, who is about to retire from aerospace, and Tang Yao, who is about to retire from technology, were stunned where they were, staring at it intently, without any reaction for a long time.

Until Academician Jiang said with tears in his eyes: "I never thought that I would be able to see something like this in my lifetime. I am so lucky~"

Ruan Min and Tang Yao finally came to their senses and laughed excitedly, unable to control themselves.

Even though their combined ages were nearly 130 years old, even though they held high positions, and even though they were among the first people to know the design of the "nuclear fusion engine," they were simply unable to control their emotions at this moment, because the thrust data before them was beyond their cognition!
too strong!
It’s so strong that it’s unbelievable!
"With this kind of thrust, our rockets are completely unnecessary~"

When calm was restored, Ruan Min suddenly said something, with an indescribable expression on his face, which showed excitement, expectation, loss and sadness.

He knew that from today on, aerospace would enter a new era!

He had thought of this when he first designed the engine. After all, everyone knew that after the advent of the "space shuttle", space rockets would definitely be eliminated. But this day had come, and it had come so quickly that he was still a little upset.

Think about how hard it was for them to work in aerospace.
As an old man in the aerospace field, he has experienced the entire aerospace era. He was taught from a young age that our aerospace industry was backward, but when he grew up and worked in aerospace himself, he realized how backward we were, and then it was an arduous and arduous struggle.

When he was shining in the aerospace industry, we were just starting to get better, but suddenly entered the darkest hour. There were several explosions, and international rocket orders were lost. The future was uncertain. But he and others did not back down, but worked harder than ever before, trying their best to build our aerospace industry.

Finally, after 2008, our space industry began to take off.

Finally, our space industry welcomed Zhao Mo, an unprecedented talent, who solved the thrust problem and opened our great space era and lunar era.

Finally, our space program has completed manned lunar landing, becoming the world's first. We are also about to complete the construction of a lunar base and enter the era of space exploration...

At this moment, as our space rocket program from weak to strong, from backward to leading, has suddenly come to an abrupt halt, the feeling is undoubtedly very complicated.

"Yes, with this kind of engine, spaceflight has become much easier. It has become easier to transport materials to the moon and to mine minerals on the moon. Not to mention releasing satellites. It can be released just as quickly as a swarm of drones in outer space. Thousands or tens of thousands of satellites can be released at a time. This is the power of technology!"

Tang Yao was also full of emotion, but more of it was excitement and anticipation. It was obvious that our aerospace development would accelerate again, and it would increase exponentially.

"It is impossible for a thing to be at its peak forever. Rise and fall is the rule of all things. Now that our space rocket program has reached its peak, it is time for space exploration to enter a new stage. This is also a self-breakthrough, breaking down and then establishing~"

Zhao Mo said with a smile.

Never be nostalgic about the achievements you have made, but make continuous breakthroughs to push the technological development of the entire society forward. This is the secret to long-term prosperity. If you keep staying at a high position and not moving forward, and then try to prevent others from moving forward, the only outcome is a downward slope, followed by self-collapse, and then decline.

The development of dynasties in ancient times and America today are all like this.

In the evening, everyone held a small celebration banquet, and CCTV's interview team recorded this scene.

Afterwards, the relevant leaders left, but Zhao Mo, Academician Jiang, Academician Li and the researchers did not leave, but continued to stay here and conduct tests.

It was not until a week later that some problems found during the test were confirmed and solved, and the design of the "first generation spacecraft" was discussed and optimized and adjusted. Then Zhao Mo and other talents dispersed and went home.

By mid-August, construction of the first generation of spacecraft officially started.

This is a completely new thing with no precedent to refer to, and it is a huge thing that requires a super large factory to build.

Therefore, the first step was to build a super factory, which was located in the northwest plain area. Its scale was the largest in the world, reaching 2000 square kilometers, which is equivalent to the area of ​​a fifth-tier county!

This is the real super factory, it can be called the "real super factory"!
Such a huge creation naturally attracted the attention of the whole world, and it could not be hidden by keeping it secret.

When the construction started, they started from all directions. Because the distance was too far, they could confuse the outside world. But when the four directions started to close together, it could no longer be concealed. Even a fool could see that this was a big thing, and a very important thing!

Ordinary people only live around their work and family. If no one posts this online, they won’t know about it at all.

However, the residents near the real super factory cannot hide it. They will post what they see online, or simply take photos and post them online. In addition, satellites from various countries in the sky have been rotating around the earth and can also be seen. Naturally, they will post it to ask what we are doing?
Because the super factory is too real and too huge, we never thought of hiding it from the beginning. As long as we don’t reveal it actively, who can know what this thing is used for?

So, faced with questions, the spokesperson simply replied, "This is the new generation of smart factory that our Aerospace Science and Technology Group is building," and that was it.

No one believed this answer.

Not only do people abroad not believe it, but people in China don't believe it either.

Is what you said false?
Who can build a smart factory as large as a county town?

At most, you can build 6 to 7 square kilometers, like the world's largest factory, the Wolfsburg Automobile Factory. But yours is 2000 square kilometers, more than times the size of the Wolfsburg Automobile Factory!
Is it necessary for a space group like you to build such a large factory?
are you crazy?
But at least the spokesperson gave an excuse.

Although Chinese people do not believe that the Aerospace Corporation needs to build a factory as big as a county, when they think about our booming lunar base construction, they can use their imaginations and find reasons to convince themselves that it might be necessary.

Foreigners certainly don't believe it, so the media will hype and criticize it again, and various conspiracy theories will emerge.

It was at this time that a great change was quietly taking place within the aerospace industry. A large number of rocket designers were transferred to new positions and began to go to the real super factory to carry out new research.

In addition, the aerospace department also issued an invitation letter to invite aerospace experts and aerospace agencies from all over the world to attend a meeting to hold a future-oriented aerospace conference.

Well, except America.

Even now, their technology has fallen behind ours in all aspects, but their Wolf is still here and will continue to strangle our technological neck.

Emm...

Therefore, we will not invite him this time. The reason we give to the public is to use this clause as an excuse, saying that it is not that we do not want to invite him, but that others are not interested.

“Is it possible to fully open up rocket technology?”

Gallic Rooster, when Xiao Ma Ge learned that China Aerospace Group would host the Global Aerospace Conference, he also received a surprise message from us and was almost scared.

(End of this chapter)