The Rise Of Space Technology

Outer space on Mars, the Starcatcher spacecraft arrives here with an asteroid towed.

As it got closer and closer to Mars, finally, under the action of an invisible force, Starcatcher and the asteroid began to orbit around Mars and became a satellite orbiting Mars.

However, soon, the asteroid was dragged to the space orbit and area where the Mars Space Solar Power Station was located. With the operation of spacecraft and robotic arms, this asteroid arrived on Mars. After a long time, the asteroids are quickly smelted into pieces of standard steel, which are transported by the spacecraft to the space factory in space, ready to be processed into parts for the manufacture of spacecraft.

As for the Star Catcher, it is slowly moored to a space port in outer space on Mars.

This space port is an extremely huge space building, like a huge sea urchin. There are long space docks in all directions, where spaceships large and small are parked.

"This Mars is really getting more and more lively. It looks the same every day. It's only been more than a month and it has changed drastically."

The captain of the Star Catcher, Shi Kai, dragged his tired body down from the Star Catcher, ready to take a private anti-gravity aircraft to fly to the base on Mars for a few days of rest.

Now the whole company is very busy, especially the employees who come to Mars, which are even more busy.

No, the Star Catcher has just returned to Mars, and the huge hatch has been opened. The staff here at the spaceport are manipulating the robotic arm to replenish the Star Catcher with supplies, water, collecting domestic garbage, and so on.

Soon, it will set off again to go to the asteroid belt to catch asteroids.

No way, even the Xinghai technology spacecraft is seriously insufficient, especially the spacecraft to capture asteroids, the task is very heavy, often after returning, after some inspections and replenishment of materials, they will set off again soon. .

A new batch of members will continue to go to the asteroid belt to mine asteroids. Now there are too many steel resources on Mars.

"Yeah, the change is really big, but I'm thinking of going back to Earth."

Xia Zhigang on the side also nodded and said.

"Back to Earth?"

"Wait for next month, you can go back to Earth when the New Year is almost here."

Shi Kai smiled and said, "It's been a few months since I came to Mars. To be honest, I really miss Earth, my family on Earth, my wife and children."

"But there's no way. Now the company's task is so arduous. By next year, the situation will be much better."

"You can go back to Earth next month to celebrate the New Year. I guess it's going to be on Mars."

At this time, Mao Jun walked over with a team of people, preparing to drive the Star Catcher spacecraft to the asteroid belt.

"Haha, don't worry, I heard that the boss will personally go to Mars during Chinese New Year, and also allow family members to go to Mars together. By next year, family members can also come to Mars with them."

When Shi Kai heard this, he immediately said with a smile.

Xinghai Technology is still a very humanized company, and the boss is also a good boss who treats employees very well.

Not only employees, but also their families are considered. For example, in order to solve the problem of employees' children's schooling, Xinghai Technology has built a lot of employee schools.

From kindergarten to primary school to middle school, Xinghai Technology has its own staff school, which only accepts the children of Xinghai Technology employees. The teachers hired are all excellent teachers. They can even occupy some of Xinghai Technology's resources. There are corresponding laboratories and the like, which are convenient for children to go to space and the moon to play from an early age, and feel the charm of the interstellar space age.

Everyone came to work on Mars, and the boss also took this into consideration. When several bases on Mars are built, relatively complete, and safe, they will allow the family members of employees to come to Mars to play.

"Great, my son has been clamoring to come to Mars."

When Mao Jun heard this, he laughed happily.

Working at Xinghai Technology is great, not to mention the high salary, and other aspects are also very comfortable, which is why everyone is willing to follow the boss Liu Yuan all the time.

Not only is the money given enough, but other aspects are also properly arranged for you, so that you can concentrate on your work and not worry about the trivial matters of life.

To solve your housing problems, your children's education problems, and even your spouse's work problems, where can you find such a company, and how can you not give your life to such a boss?

"Mao Jun, what's the hurry now?"

"We have just come down, and you are in a hurry to go to the asteroid belt?"

Shi Kai looked at Mao Jun, thought about it and asked.

"I'm in a hurry. The steel needed now is too large, and I don't know what those people in the research institute are doing. I don't know where to use these asteroids when they are transported back." When the asteroids come back, they can build space factories, space ports and the like. Now, all the asteroids have been shipped, and I don’t know where they went. They have been urging our mining group to mine small asteroids. What about planets?"

Mao Jun nodded and said.

The mining business of asteroids is under the jurisdiction of Xinghai Technology Group, which is a different subsidiary group from the Research Institute and Xinghai Aerospace.

"Aren't they building spaceships all the time?"

"The Aerospace Group has taken on a lot of burdens. I heard that there are hundreds of spaceships in the world's orders. The production task is also very tight. We also need a lot of spaceships."

Shi Kai thought about it and said.

"It doesn't take much steel to build a spaceship, and a spaceship of 100,000 tons is already as big as the Star Catcher."

"Every time we pull back asteroids, they have hundreds of millions of tons of steel. Pulling one is enough to build hundreds, but now we have mined several asteroids back and forth. Steel is equivalent to half of what the Earth produced last year."

"But now these steels don't know where they went. Except for the first few that were used to build space factories, spaceports, and Mars bases on a large scale, all the steels in the following asteroids don't know where they are. went."

Mao Jun shook his head and said.

It is true that building a spacecraft requires a lot of steel, but when asteroids can be mined, it can easily meet the needs of building a spacecraft.

But what makes people strange is that the few asteroids mined later, with a total steel output of more than 300 million tons of huge steel, don't know where they are now, as if they have disappeared.

"Forget it, don't worry about those, these are not what we need to care about, we just need to do things according to the company's orders."

Shi Kai thought for a while and couldn't figure it out, but shook his head and said.

Xinghai Technology is a high-tech enterprise. The company's confidentiality regulations have always been very strict. For many things, if you don't know, don't ask, and don't think too much.

If you make mistakes at work, the company may not impose any penalties on you, but if you leak company secrets, the penalties are quite serious.

Xinghai Technology has always seldom fired employees. Those who were fired are basically related to leaking company secrets. In this regard, Xinghai Technology pays special attention.

When Shi Kai and Mao Jun were discussing where a lot of steel would go, the space factory in outer space on Mars was here.

The overall appearance of the huge space factory looks like a long cuboid, with small space docks and a large number of robotic arms.

At this time, a spaceship dragged a steel block that had just been smelted from the asteroid to the space factory, and first stopped at the space dock.

Then a robotic arm slowly sent the dragged steel block into the space factory.

In the space factory, Zhou Yu and Sun Zilong were watching the busy waking up in front of them. The robotic arms were constantly busy, and standard steel blocks were transported here.

Immediately afterwards, a powerful magnetic energy device was activated, and with the colorful magnetic energy acting on these steel blocks, the originally thick steel block soon became a thin, transparent piece of iron essence.

"This warp engine is really a super gold-eating beast. At present, hundreds of millions of tons of steel have been used, but according to calculations and processes, it may take nearly 200 million tons of steel to meet the needs of building the warp engine. "

Sun Zilong wiped the sweat on his forehead.

Thinking of the warp engine like a gold-swallowing beast, I couldn't help but get a big head.

It really takes too much resources and steel. With the powerful strength of Xinghai Technology, it can no longer meet its needs.

It takes too much steel to build a warp drive.

Tens of thousands of tons of steel can only be turned into an extremely thin sheet under the magnetic energy device, and the iron essence required to make a powerful warp engine is too large, and it takes more than 500 million tons of iron. Only steel can produce enough iron essence.

500 million tons of steel, even if the price of steel has plummeted, there are still thousands of yuan per ton, and 500 million tons of steel is worth 500 billion yuan.

And this is just the steel needed to make the warp engine. This is the first generation of the warp engine that is being made now. If the volume is not too large, if a more powerful warp engine is to be built in the future, I still don’t know the need for it. How much steel do you use?

"No wonder the boss said that only the resources of the interstellar space age can meet the needs of manufacturing warp engines. It is too resource-intensive to manufacture a warp spacecraft. The manufacturing cost alone is likely to be in the trillions. !"

Sun Zilong also sighed and shook his head.

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