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Chapter 244 Tianshu

Central Kanya.

Hundreds of kilometers away from the Civilized Science City, an aerospace city stands here.

This aerospace city was formerly known as the Huanyu Satellite Launch Center.

However, after Lu Zhou and Lu Xing's team jointly developed the aerospace transport aircraft, the supporting space city was also built early.

As early as a few months ago, this space city, formerly the Huanyu Satellite Launch Center, was remodeled by Chensheng Construction.

For now.

There are two means of delivery for humans to transport matter into space.

They are launch vehicle and space shuttle respectively.

However, with the development of technology, the space shuttle, which is obviously a reusable technology, has gradually been eliminated by humans.

Is space shuttle technology lagging behind launch vehicle technology?

But in fact, it's not.

There is only one reason why the space shuttle was eliminated, it was too expensive and unaffordable!
From the perspective of the manufacturing of the space shuttle itself, this high-precision spacecraft is composed of more than 200 million precision parts, and its cost is much higher than that of the launch vehicle.

Not only that.

The launch cost of the space shuttle is also frighteningly high.

As early as more than ten years ago, the launch cost of a space shuttle was as high as about 6 million U.S. dollars. This was only the result of the cost being diluted after multiple launches.

If it is launched separately, the cost will have to soar by dozens of percentage points.

Such a high cost made the old man of the United States couldn't bear it back then, and finally had to use the excuse of the space shuttle accident to give up this technical route.

The aerospace transport aircraft developed by the two teams of Luzhou and Luxing is obviously more similar to the space shuttle in terms of similarity.

It's just that compared to the huge liquid launch box carried by the space shuttle, the aerospace transport aircraft developed by Lu Zhou's team uses a unique electric propulsion system in addition to the nuclear fusion engine as the power source.

Let it not only fly in the atmosphere, but also fly in space with the working fluid it carries after breaking through the atmosphere.

Due to the advanced nature of the electric propulsion system, the working medium that this aerospace plane needs to carry in the space environment is far smaller than that of space shuttles and launch vehicles.

Let the aerospace transport aircraft, which has an extremely exaggerated load capacity, be able to carry more materials into space, greatly reducing the unit price of transportation.

of course.

The unit price here does not take into account the manufacturing cost of the aerospace transport aircraft, otherwise the cost would be staggering.

But that's what developing aerospace technology is all about.

Even though Lu Chen has technology that is far ahead of the world, it is undoubtedly a dream to transport items into space without spending money.

In the Aerospace City.

Lu Chen stood in the main control room.

Surrounded by Lu Zhou and the core researchers of the Lu Xing team.

inside the screen.

A huge milky-white spacecraft crawled on the runway of the space city.

"Does it have a name?"

Watching the scientific researchers in white coats in the main control room keep busy, Lu Chen asked in a low voice to Lu Zhou who was by his side.

Hearing this question, Lu Zhou, who is in charge of the project, said with a smile, "Yes! Its name is Tianshu!"

"Tianshu."

Of course Lu Chen knew about the Tianshu star, the head of the Big Dipper.

Lu Zhou named this first aerospace transport aircraft after Tianshu, which is enough to prove the expectation for it.

"I saw this aerospace transport plane crawling on the runway. Could it be so heavy that it can still take off by gliding?"

Lu Chen already knew the weight of the Tianshu, with a net weight of 6.2 tons, a gross load of 3.7 tons, and a total weight of nearly [-] tons. It can be said to be a super giant.

It's hard to imagine what it would be like for such a giant gliding to take off.

Hear this question.

Lu Zhou sighed: "According to our calculations, gliding takeoff can save at least 4% more energy for Tianshu than vertical takeoff, and this 4% energy is enough for it to go back and forth to the moon once."

"But... can this runway bear it?"

Looking at the unimaginably huge figure of the Tianshu on the main control screen, Lu Chen hesitated.

This was still through the screen, Lu Chen couldn't imagine what it would be like to watch it take off from a close distance.

What is the concept of a [-]-ton aerospace transport aircraft?
You know, the most advanced USS Ford aircraft carrier is only 11.2 tons.

As for the size of the Ford aircraft carrier, its length alone is as high as more than 330 meters. When erected, it is about as high as three Statues of Liberty.

It is conceivable how huge the Tianshu is.

If it weren't for the profound scientific and technological accumulation of the Academy of Civilization and Science, plus the perverted plug-in of the technology editor.

Even if it is given to human beings for hundreds of years, whether this kind of space transport ship can be manufactured is a matter of two opinions.

And according to Lu Zhou, this space transport ship can take off vertically!
It just consumes more energy.

Hearing Lu Chen's question, Lu Zhou smiled wryly and shook his head: "Boss, with the gravity of the earth, it is impossible for us to produce ground materials that can guarantee the gliding of the Tianshu without damage."

After hearing this, Lu Chen's face turned a little green.

Lu Chen couldn't understand what Lu Zhou's words meant.

This means that every time the Tianshu flies into the sky, Lu Chen has to wipe the opponent's ass.

Although there are T-1 robots and intelligent unmanned factories to produce raw materials for him, it also cost him a huge amount of money to manufacture the runway of the space city.

Now Lu Zhou told him that this thing has to repair the runway once it runs, who can bear it?
"In that case, why not just take off vertically?"

Lu Chen asked the question he most wanted to ask.

After all, compared to the cost of maintaining the runway, energy is the cheapest thing for him, although 4% of the energy of the Tianshu is an astronomical sum.

But to the Lu Chen Group, which has controllable nuclear fusion technology, it is nothing at all.

Hearing this question, Lu Zhou could only respond with a wry smile: "Boss, the Tianshu can indeed take off vertically, but its weight is as high as [-] tons after all, directly violently overcoming such a huge gravity will seriously damage its interior." Parts, it has to be repaired after one flight, the loss outweighs the gain, it is better to directly repair the runway.”

This doesn't work either, that doesn't work either.

Lu Chen finally felt a little dissatisfied, and said with a dark face, "Don't you guys make it smaller?"

Hearing this, Lu Xing, who had been standing by the side without speaking, said in embarrassment: "Boss, the miniaturization of the controllable nuclear fusion engine to the current level is temporarily the limit of our team. If we want to continue to improve, we must do it in many ways." It takes a revolutionary breakthrough in technology."

Lu Xing's meaning is very simple. If you want to install a nuclear fusion engine on an aircraft as large as the Banshee, you should go to sleep as soon as possible.

Hearing this, Lu Chen finally understood that the feeling was not that they didn't want to make Tianshu smaller, but that they couldn't do it!
(End of this chapter)