Super Dimension Technology Era

Just as Luo Feng and others were visiting the Kunpeng-level and Xinxing provincial-level construction.

The time came unknowingly, March 3rd, Year 1 of the new era.

In the spacecraft assembly factory in Jin City, Li Guoqing, Chen Yao and others were busy building the Forward 2.

Advance 2 is an enlarged version of Advance 1, with an overall height of 105 meters, a full take-off load of 2,400 tons, and a payload of 600 tons.

The engine is still a nuclear-powered plasma engine, and this stage of the launch vehicle is the largest space rocket (the largest on the ground) built by the new mankind to date.

Several old engineers who had experienced the Cold War era looked at the behemoth in front of them and thought of the prototypes of the Forward series launch vehicles.

There were similar designs in the last century. The United States had previously designed the "Pluto" nuclear-powered cruise missile.

The "Pluto" nuclear-powered cruise missile uses a nuclear-powered ramjet engine and can cruise in the air for several months.

It can carry more than twenty mushroom eggs. When attacking, it can fly tens of thousands of kilometers at a low altitude of 300 meters and three times the speed of sound. Its combat performance is simply unparalleled.

As for why this product only stays on the design drawings, it’s not because of the engineering difficulty, but because I dare not build it, and even if I build it, I dare not use it.

First, the first-stage rocket accelerates this thing to subsonic speed, and the reactor is ignited to 1,400 degrees. The subsonic air enters several conical heating chambers through the blades, expands in volume and is ejected backward, giving thrust and cooling the core at the same time, driving Generators store electrical energy.

Does it feel very similar to the nuclear-powered plasma engine developed by New Humanity? There are only two differences between the two.

First, the reactors are different. Pluto uses a nuclear fission reactor, while the Advance series uses a nuclear fusion reactor.

Second, there is a difference in the way of heating the working fluid. Pluto uses direct contact heating, while the Advance series uses a nuclear fusion reactor to generate electricity, ionize and heat compressed air.

Pluto's exposed reactor directly heats the air for propulsion, and throws radioactive dust throughout the cruise process. Just think about it and you will know how cruel this thing is.

In fact, the emergence of the "Pluto" nuclear-powered cruise missile was intended to deter Lao Maozi, who planned to cruise over the North Atlantic and continuously spray radioactive dust to create contaminated areas.

Even after it has thrown all the mushroom eggs, it can continue to fly over the enemy country, creating sonic booms and nuclear pollution.

Human beings really do anything to kill their own kind.

Humans in the Cold War era and humans after that are simply two different creatures. Who knows how many murderous weapons and cruel things they designed at that time.

For example, Lao Maozi's house, mushroom egg fire extinguishing, underground nuclear explosion power station, nuclear energy lighthouse, "Gorgon" interception system (nuclear explosion interception), Big Ivan hydrogen bomb, Poseidon nuclear power torpedo...

And Lao Mijia is no less generous, with Orion space rockets, Pluto nuclear-powered cruise missiles, nuclear-powered bombers, neutron bombs and cobalt bombs, etc.

Britain's Daedalus Project...

It was a depressing and crazy era. The whole world was going crazy. It was a miracle that humans could survive the Cold War.

It was by learning from these crazy plans of the last century that Li Guoqing and Chen Yao completed the Forward One and the enlarged version of the Forward Two.

"Old Li, what do you think of the design of Advance Three?" Chen Yao asked.

Li Guoqing is the chief engineer of the Advance series and often tests new rockets. His opinions are very important.

After thinking for a few minutes, Li Guoqing said: "I think the third advance should end with a full load of 10,000 tons."

"Oh? Continue."

"You should know about space nanofactories and space mining."

Chen Yao nodded. He was engaged in aerospace, so he naturally understood the sky factory and space mining of the New Humanity.

"Except for some equipment and food that cannot be produced and processed in outer space, our future outer space strategy should be towards self-sufficiency and feedback to Blue Star." Li Guoqing explained.

"Indeed."

"In this case, our rocket design should be moderate. I estimate that the payload is 2,000 tons, which is almost enough for use."

"Then use the maximum payload of 2,000 tons as a benchmark to design the final stage of the forward series."

The two set the tone and set this standard because inside the atmosphere of Blue Star, the nuclear-powered plasma engine has the highest cost performance when the launch vehicle is fully loaded with less than 10,000 tons.

As the weight increases, the thrust requirements of the engine are very high, and the cost-effectiveness of the launch vehicle is too low, which is not worth the gain.

With the development of space factories and space mining, future Blue Star launch vehicles will be mostly used for personnel transportation and food transportation.

Li Guoqing and Chen Yao naturally have to take precautions to avoid building a lot of super large launch vehicles.

…

The Lagrange point L1 satellite city, the space capsule and skeleton attached to the asteroid, has occupied the surface area of ​​the asteroid.

In the nearby blue star's orbit of 200,000 kilometers to 260,000 kilometers, 56 other asteroids are floating in this area.

On one of the semi-metallic asteroids numbered "T7", a "Luban" spacecraft is docked on it.

Countless nanorobots are working tirelessly to collect necessary elements inside the asteroid. For new humans, every element is useful.

Therefore, spacecraft mining is a spacecraft dedicated to collecting one or several elements.

For example, the Luban 008 is responsible for collecting copper elements, silver elements, zinc elements, and iron elements as a supplement.

If the copper, silver, and zinc elements on the T7 asteroid are not enough for one ship, some iron elements will be mined.

There are two modes of transportation for the Lu class, a combination of in-ship cabin and external towage. The in-vessel cabin is 600 to 800 tons, and the external towing is 1,000 to 1,500 tons.

These asteroids pushed over by the Illuminati are all asteroids with a diameter of more than 400 meters, and they contain rich raw materials.

If the raw materials are not available on the asteroid, they will be mined on the moon. If the moon is not available, they will be transported by Blue Star on the ground. If this fails, we will have to find alternative materials.

The new humans are gradually forming a system in terms of space mining and space factories.

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Luban 008 completed its mining mission and was pulled along a 1,200-ton iron block to the 180,000-kilometer track.

There is a space factory there, which is the fuse asteroid that accidentally entered the Blue Star. In order to commemorate the second purification battle, this asteroid was named "Victory Asteroid".

A flight of over three hours.

The Luban 008 mining spacecraft is docked at the spaceport of the Victory asteroid.

The engineers and person in charge of the factory recorded the mineral types and weights of Luban 008 and received the minerals.

On the assembly line of the space capsule production workshop, industrial nanorobots perform their respective duties, generating skeletons, radiation isolation layers, thermal insulation layers, thermal insulation layers, airtight layers, pipes, wires and cables, and mechanical structures.

Then enter the next step, assembling various electronic devices or biocomputers, sealing and testing before leaving the factory.

Finally painted and numbered, ready for delivery.

In the entire process, humans only need to be responsible for part of the detection and control equipment. The convenience of production in the new era reflects the explosion of productivity.

It is this kind of rapid space production that allows new humans to build satellite cities, spaceships, and space bases in outer space day by day.

It also greatly reduces logistical pressure, allowing new humans to free up their hands and prepare to march to Mars.

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