Chapter 1,037 Air Show on Star Ring City
Under Jiang Chen's instruction, Futureman Heavy Industries integrated its twenty industrial space stations in Star Ring City, gathered the technical team involved in the design of the Seagull, and established a subsidiary called New Country First Shipyard. Production of the second Seagull began.
The order for this second transport ship is still the Aerospace Department of Star Ring Trading, but the newly shipped transport ship will not be designed with a passenger cabin, but will be a cargo type with relatively low technical content. At present, Guanghan City cannot accommodate too many passengers, and expanding flight frequency will only cause indigestion.
The main mission of this transport ship will be to transport rare earth ores. The lunar soil rich in rare earths will be sent to Star Ring City for processing, and then Future Mining will send the processed finished ore to Earth for release into the international market.
When this new 500,000-ton transport ship is "launched", all the "small boats" originally used to transport rare earth ores can be removed. The transport capacity of the five Electric Ray C-1s running back and forth twice is not comparable to The Seagull takes one trip, and it can't fly very fast.
These Electric Ray C-1s removed from the route will be sent back to the shipyard in Star Ring City, where the transport modules will be removed and replaced with mining modules. They will be processed at a low price for future people to mine and join the "vast and vast world". "In the army of asteroid mining.
Speaking of this newly manufactured transport ship, there is a small episode.
After experiencing Jiang Chen's unskilled naming skills, Kerwin refused to ask Jiang Chen to name the new ship no matter what. It would be better to say that he simply did not mention this matter to Jiang Chen. After discussing it with the technical team, he simply had the three characters "Sea Dragon" printed on the hull, and then wrote it into a report and sent it to Jiang Chen. on the desk.
It doesn't matter what the name is. It's okay if Kerwin doesn't mention it. It would be troublesome if he mentions Jiang Chen. He doesn't intend to leave his name on the transport ship anyway. The one that can be worthy of his name must be an aircraft carrier-level interstellar ship with a capacity of more than 10 million tons. He would rather give his name to future generations than settle on a mere transport ship. .
However, after learning the name of this transport ship, Jiang Chen was a little dumbfounded.
History is always surprisingly similar. The prototype of the Red River engine is the Shuttle 07 engine of the Pan-Asian Cooperation, and the Shuttle 07 fished out of the sea by the Beluga Research Station is exactly from the Sea Dragon of the Pan-Asian Cooperation in the future. Fallen.
Now this new ship not only inherits the engine of Pan-Asian cooperation, but also inherits the name of the ship that has crashed into the future.
Even Jiang Chen, who never believed in ghosts and gods, couldn't help but sigh.
Perhaps, this is also a kind of providence.
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Not long after the flights from Star Ring City to Guanghan City were opened,
SpaceX and other aerospace companies participated in the design of the American Apollo Final assembly is completed after machining.
According to the cooperation agreement signed between SpaceX and Halo Trading, the reborn Apollo will participate in the transportation route between Halo City and Guanghan City after passing the safety qualification inspection. Transport rare earths from Guanghan City to Star Ring City, and then bring crops and daily necessities on the earth to Guanghan City.
I don’t know if it is to pay tribute to a certain movie, but the main structure of this Apollo X1 is designed in a semicircular shape. Compared with the long strip design of Russia's Oleg Grand Duke, the advantage of this design is that the steering is more flexible and the safety factor is higher. The disadvantages are mainly reflected in the maintenance cost of the engines distributed side by side at the tail end, and the manufacturing of the spacecraft itself. On cost.
In addition to Apollo X1, also involved in the transportation project was the Russian Grand Duke Oleg that Jiang Chen had seen in Moscow. The 200,000-ton design is a full circle larger than the Apollo X1, and its transport capacity is also much higher. However, compared with the 500,000-ton Seagull, both are somewhat small in scale.
Whether it is the United States or Russia, these two traditional aerospace powers do not yet have the ability to produce 500,000-ton spacecraft. The ship design is okay, but the two major technical difficulties of engine and power source are obstacles that they cannot get around no matter what.
Maybe they have more experience in the aerospace industry, but this can no longer be solved by experience.
In addition to the two traditional aerospace powers, the Changchun independently developed by the Huaguo Aerospace Technology Group also participated in the route from Star Ring City to Guanghan City. Except for the RM-320 engine purchased from Future Heavy Industries at a high price, the other parts of this cargo spacecraft named after the city were independently designed by academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In appearance, this transport ship is also very Chinese-style.
The mining speed of iron, aluminum, titanium ore and rare earth resources in Guanghan City has far exceeded the transportation capacity between Guanghan City and Star Ring City. For Jiang Chen, the more people involved in the space transportation industry, the more natural The better, otherwise it will be useless if the things are mined and cannot be sold.
According to Jiang Chen's estimation, the route from Star Ring City to Guanghan City would require at least fifty transport ships of over 100,000 tons to pass through.
However, this kind of thing cannot be rushed. Except for Xinguo, there are currently only three countries capable of producing large transport ships of more than 100,000 tons.
Although Japan, which ranks fourth in aerospace technology, participated in the design of the Apollo X1 observation system and navigation system, it does not yet have the ability to independently produce a 100,000-ton spacecraft. India, ranked fifth, is ambitiously planning to design a 500,000-ton "spaceship" that can rival the Seagull. However, after designing the hull, they have yet to figure out how to make it move.
Time soon arrived in mid-May, and Star Ring Trading held the first Star Ring Space Technology Expo in Star Ring City.
If it weren't for Xia Shiyu's reminder, Jiang Chen almost forgot. Twelve products of Futureren Heavy Industries will appear at the air show, seven of which are export products, and the other five are just for the eyes of other aerospace companies and are not for external sale in principle.
For example, the Electric Ray X-1 series aircraft, which shocked countless foreign friends, were exhibited at the air show in the form of the P-1 mining model and the obsolete C-1 transport model.
This kind of event has been held every year since 2019. The significance of holding this kind of event is mainly to support other aerospace companies and find buyers for their products. If it finds something good that can be used, Starlink Trading will also purchase some at the air show.
To be honest, Jiang Chen did see a lot of interesting things at the air show, but he did not interfere with the procurement. He left all the power to the people in the aerospace department. Only they know what they really need in space.
Xia Shiyu accompanied Jiang Chen to the air show. As soon as the two appeared in front of the public, they became the focus of the air show. From the beginning of the air show, I was surrounded by a large group of people asking questions. The business cards in my pocket were all distributed in a short time, and my hands were stuffed with a bunch of business cards with Chinese characters.
What made Jiang Chen laugh or cry the most was that he found that he, a big living person, had actually stolen the limelight from Electric Ray X-1.
It's simply putting the cart before the horse.
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