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Chapter 281 The untouchable Mars

Time flies, and two years have passed in the blink of an eye. The second round of the Mars window has arrived again. At this time, both Mi'ao and Shu'ao have spent huge resources to build a mobile space station similar to Liu Xiu's. , eagerly waiting for the Mars window to land on Mars!
However, these two companies have worked hard and spent a lot of money to follow in the footsteps of Liu Xiu. You must know that Liu Xiu not only has recyclable rocket technology, but also has the blessing of rotating pulse detonation engines!

Therefore, both the cost of transporting cargo to space and the cost of a single launch are much lower than Mi'ao and Shu'ao.

Although both Mi Zuo and Shu Zuo have developed space shuttles that can be used repeatedly.

However, although the space shuttle can be used multiple times, it still needs auxiliary rockets to send it into space. The cost of a single launch is as high as 600 million. Its load capacity is calculated based on 30 tons. The launch cost per ton is still Up to 20 million, so converted to 20,000 meters per kilogram.

Although the weight of Mi Zhao's space station heading to Mars is not as heavy as Liu Xiu's two thousand tons, it still reaches the level of five hundred tons.

Therefore, not counting the cost of the space station itself, but only taking into account the cost of transporting a space station of this weight to orbit, the freight has reached 10 billion.

This does not include the construction cost of the space station, and the space transportation costs of Shu'ao and Mi'ao are actually about the same level.

However, Liu Xiu's side has rocket recyclability technology and a rotating pulse detonation engine, which is much more durable than a rocket engine, and the fuel utilization rate of a pulse detonation engine is nearly twice as high as that of a rocket engine.

Therefore, after comprehensive calculation, the cost of space transportation per kilogram is only about 1,500 meters per kilogram, which is equivalent to 1.5 million meters per ton.

It is less than one-tenth of the shipping cost of the Milo space shuttle, so the cost of transporting a two-thousand-ton space station to space orbit is only three billion meters.

In fact, the main cost of the space station is transportation. The construction cost of the space station itself is thought to be low. After all, it is only a few hundred or thousands of tons. No matter how high the cost can be, how high can it be?

Unlike Mi'ao, although Shu'ao is said to be the first high-rise space station, especially its Salute series of space stations, it is not as wealthy as Mi'ao in building a space station for Mars landing.

So a space station weighing only three hundred tons was built as a space station for Mars landing.

And the reason why this is the case is naturally because Shu Ruo's family background is not strong enough!
After all, during World War II, Shuzo's home was destroyed.

Therefore, despite more than thirty years of recovery, there is still no relief. But Mihao is different. The Second World War not only did not hurt Mihao's homeland, but also thought that arms sales made Mihao a lot of money. .

Therefore, in terms of real wealth, Shu Tuo is still inferior to Mi Tuo, otherwise Su Tuo would not be dragged down by Mi Tuo's strong economic strength.

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As the Falcon rocket slowly lifted off, the last batch of astronauts were safely sent into the space station. Then the thrusters installed on the space station began to start. The powerful thrust caused the space station to slowly add up and escape from its original position. From a low orbit of four to five hundred kilometers high, it accelerates towards a high orbit until it escapes the gravitational range of the blue star and heads to Mars.

Compared with the 1,000-ton space station that landed on Mars for the first time and Liu Xiu's own 21 astronauts, the space station this time carried more than double the astronauts to Mars.

There were fifty astronauts together. Of course, these fifty astronauts included the four astronauts who came back with Liu Xiu last time and had already experienced a voyage to Mars.

Of course, Liu Xiu didn't make any changes this time. After all, Liu Xiu is now fifty-three years old, which has exceeded Liu Xiu's own regulations that astronauts must retire at the age of fifty.

What's more, Liu Xiu has now taken over the position of the old dean, so it is even less possible for him to carry out such dangerous activities. Because now Liu Xiu is only half a step away from becoming the top he said before.

This time, in addition to most of the hydrogen and oxygen fuel for propulsion, the two-thousand-ton space station also has more mineral processing equipment and more than 10,000 square meters of solar power panels.

In addition to these, there are more lithium batteries used for energy storage.

Because as more than two years passed, the sixteen people left on Mars were not idle and built another 10,000 square meters of glass greenhouses. However, as more glass greenhouses were built, their electricity consumption naturally increased. There are more.

However, solar energy cannot generate electricity at night, so the energy stored in the lithium battery originally brought there is no longer enough.

It is precisely because of this that I carried a lot of lithium batteries for energy storage this time.

As for the water and food in the space station, I didn't bring much, because Mars has already harvested several waves of rice and wheat, and there are countless other vegetables and the like.

However, being a vegetarian on Mars is not the same thing. This time, the space station carried six thumb chickens and two roosters for the construction of a Mars breeding farm.

It's just that for some reason, this chicken can't stand the hibernation technology suitable for humans. It has been tried dozens of times, but it basically ended in death and failure.

So as a last resort, we can only use normal life methods to take the chicken to Mars.

However, not long after the three space stations of Sanzuo left the Blue Star orbit one after another, the intelligence agent here reported the news to Liu Xiu, that is, the two guys Mizuo and Shuzuo actually coincidentally revealed the landing site of Mars. Chosen around their Mars base.

They also told their astronauts that if something unexpected happened, they could ask Liu Xiu's Mars base for help.

Regarding this intelligence news, Liu Xiu was basically certain that it was deliberately released by Mi Zuo and Shu Zuo, so that Liu Xiu could be mentally prepared in advance.

In addition, Liu Xiu also learned from the map of enemies and friends that in addition to carrying normal supplies and equipment, these two space stations also carried many thermal weapons, such as assault rifles and grenade guns. weapons.

It was obvious that their purpose was to occupy the magpie's nest. Of course, Liu Xiu's space station also carried thermal weapons.

But this was just in case, because this time Liu Xiu had no intention of letting Mi Zuo and Shu Zuo's space stations dock in the orbit of Mars.

After all, after the Battle of Nombao, the quantum clone awarded to Liu Xiu by the system could even take down alien unmanned spaceships, let alone the space stations of Shuzuo and Mizuo.

When the space stations of these two companies are about to change orbits and brake to dock in the orbit of Mars, use the quantum clone to move slightly higher and destroy it, then...

Anyway, Mars Liu Xiu is absolutely impossible to let Shu Zuo and Mi Zuo get involved, because this Mars is an important means for him to deal with the solar crisis in the future!
Therefore, except for Liu Xiu, those two crops are naturally not allowed to be touched!
(End of this chapter)