Minke's black technology

Chapter 428 Space Ghost
After the firefly spacecraft was launched, the mining equipment on the moon base began to run continuously.

Every day, spaceships drag back meteorite mines of different sizes, push the meteorites into the platinum pulverizer through inertia, and then smelt and purify them into various metal blocks.

After several years of running-in, the entire system has entered a stable production stage. From capturing meteorites, breaking surfaces, screening and sorting to smelting and refining, etc., all can enter high-speed production.

Originally, the rabbit didn't have much research on this aspect, and there was no bald eagle in front of it that people could touch across the river, so they could only try it out according to the needs, and the result was that they really succeeded in tackling the problem without any risk.

To achieve the current scale, the technology has basically been updated several times. From the original remote mining to the current spaceship mining, it can be called a great technological leap.

Nowadays, most of the work in lunar mining and smelting is handed over to the intelligent system, which basically achieves fully automated assembly line production. The original remote mining has also been completely eliminated, and it has been turned into a mining spacecraft.

Many remote space miners did not wait for the company to lay off staff. They took the initiative to borrow money to buy the Firefly spacecraft, and became full-time spaceship pilots. They went out to search for metal meteorites, and soon paid off the spacecraft’s arrears within a few years.

The price of the firefly spacecraft is between 1000 million and 2000 million. The price fluctuates depending on the package accessories selected. Usually, people who have no money will choose the standard package to buy. If you use the method of installment payment without down payment, you may need to pay 1000 in the end. Two million yuan is easier than buying a house in a first-tier big city.

Such a spaceship is enough for a dozen members of the family to live quite comfortably, and the Meow Star Group also guarantees that the spaceship can be used for 100 years, so in some ways it is more valuable than a house.

When the Firefly spacecraft was launched, it immediately ignited the enthusiasm of the market, resulting in a shortage of goods.

It's not that the anti-gravity engines or other important components are in short supply, it's that the metal used to build the spaceship is too high to melt the asteroids on the moon.

After all, the main component of this asteroid is platinum, and there are naturally many other metals, but of course, after humans enter the space age, common metals such as steel, silver, and brass are needed in all aspects, so they only rely on Blue Star minerals and small Planets are not enough.

The demand for this metal has greatly increased, which has caused a 180-degree change in the metal futures market, from a period of endless decline to a period of rapid rise.

In just half a year, the price of related metal futures has doubled several times, and as long as space colonization continues for a day, metal futures are far from reaching the level of market saturation.

Thanks to this, the metal futures market has soared, making the economies of many resource-based countries continue to improve, thus avoiding the chaos caused by the economic downturn.

But this kind of good life is over. As the firefly spacecraft began to enter the field of space mining, Meow Star Space quickly met the demand for metals from all walks of life in China by proactively looking for meteorite mines.

And there is still a surplus for export. This situation immediately brought the metal futures market back to its original shape.

In fact, most of the alloys or high-quality steel smelted in space are used directly on the moon, some of which are used to build lunar bases, and the other part is used to make spaceships.

Especially firefly spaceships, this kind of domestic civilian spaceships are very demanding, and consume the most steel alloys, but only by making more firefly spaceships can the number of mining ships increase, so that more metal meteorites can be found return.

Therefore, in order to obtain more meteorite mines, more spaceships had to be manufactured, and then the demand for metals such as steel alloys was greatly increased, thus forming a closed loop.

With the increase of firefly spaceships, various private spaceships soon began to flourish.

Since Meow Star Group strictly controls the sales quota of anti-gravity engines, these private spaceships are basically owned by rabbits, even if rich foreign people find ways to bypass the spaceship export restrictions and buy firefly spaceships in the flower planting country, or simply find someone Go out and place an order for the Meow Star Group to customize a private spaceship.

However, the ownership of these spaceships always belongs to the rabbits of the florist, and they are also restricted by the intelligent system of the spacecraft, which can only take off and land over the florist's domain. This is where you can go to space.

Of course, after leaving the atmosphere, the so-called regional restrictions no longer exist. After all, the solar system belongs to all mankind, not the territory and airspace of a certain country.

Meow Star Laboratory also has a space experiment spacecraft, which was originally used to demonstrate the anti-gravity engine. This spacecraft has been brought back from the relevant departments, and soon became the favorite of all researchers.

When other people could only take rockets to the sky, the people of Meow Star Laboratory could go to Mars in an anti-gravity spacecraft, and snatched the title of Mars Landing No.1 from Musk. Since then, space travel has become a Basic welfare of the laboratory.

After the space experiment spacecraft left the surface of the blue star, it almost never came back.

Every time it replenishes supplies and replaces passengers, it flies to the Lunar Guanghan Palace Space City, where it completes the maintenance of the spacecraft, as well as filling in supplies.

Therefore, if you want to become a member of the space experimental spacecraft, you must apply more than one month in advance, and then you may be included in the passenger list, and then go directly to the moon to board the ship.

As for the prototype spacecraft of Firefly, it was borrowed by relevant departments for many years, and it was not returned until the civilian version of Firefly spacecraft was launched.

However, it doesn't matter if the relevant departments don't return it. Anyway, now that the firefly spacecraft has become popular, with the salary of the laboratory researchers, they can have one, or even a few.

"But the Firefly class is too small, it is only suitable for home use, our laboratory still has to design a few more public spaceships!" Qin Hua suggested.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Maoye agreed to their request.

So everyone present put forward their own ideas, and there were all kinds of surprises, but they were generally either cylindrical or long, and there were no strange shapes.

Zhao Baibing wanted to design an insect-shaped spaceship, but before he could say anything, he felt that it would be troublesome to make such a strange spaceship, so he quickly stopped talking.

Since everyone has their own needs and ideas, we can only collect everyone's design plans first, and then hand them over to the computer for comprehensive screening to find a balance point that everyone is more satisfied with.

The final spaceship was a disc and a cigar, or a table tennis racket, with a thick flying saucer at the head, connected to a cylindrical tail, and a total of four propellers on the disc.

In addition to placing the reactor, the tail of the cylinder is also a place for storing materials. One-third of the space is used to store water, and the remaining two-thirds are various living materials. After it is full, it is enough for more than 100 people for four years. Time consumption of life.

As for the large disk on the head, it is the living and working area of ​​the spacecraft crew. In addition to the necessary living space, there are also laboratories with various equipment.

A quarter of the sky on both sides of the disc is made of transparent armor plates, and there is also a panoramic space platform for the spacecraft. Standing on it, there are stars in all directions, which has a very strong shocking effect.

Because everyone is tilted too much in life and work, the design speed is not very fast. Its flying speed in the atmosphere is about [-] kilometers per hour, which belongs to the type of slowly floating in the sky.

However, it can still enter space on its own, and it can enter and exit. When it returns to the atmosphere of the blue star, the anti-gravity engine can make it fall slowly by itself, without violent friction and burning.

As a price for this 200-meter-long spacecraft, except for the disc area where people can live, there are more than 30 meters of its tail that belong to the reactor and electric propulsion engine. Perform various maintenance work.

"Let's see if there is anything else that needs to be modified?" Li Maoye did not comment on this spaceship. In his opinion, this level of spaceship design can only be regarded as a kindergarten level.

However, with the support of the anti-gravity engine, even the most exotic spaceship can fly into space. Anyway, the laboratory does not need to pursue extreme performance, as long as it can meet the needs of everyone, so he doesn't care what the spaceship is designed to look like.

In the end, the design of the spaceship was determined by the votes of the laboratory members, and then handed over to the colleagues of Meow Star Space, allowing them to manufacture the spaceship within a month.

The armed force of this spaceship is almost zero, but for the sake of safety, Li Maoye still carried a team of ghost drones on it, and they can still be sent out to deal with the enemy in an emergency.

At present, there are only two companies that can attack others in space, that is, rabbits and bald eagles. Among them, the space army of bald eagles can only be used for defense. After all, they do not have many anti-gravity engines in their hands, and it is impossible to use them all to equip the army.

Only rabbits have offensive power in space, and basically all of them are realized through modified ghost drones. After all, the conditions in space are completely different from those in the blue star atmosphere, and the distance scale is also astronomical. Traditional missiles The machine guns all lost their original effects.

Only laser weapons and electromagnetic railguns are still a little bit lethal, so the ghost killer drone has become a weapon in the space age, and its attack power has not decreased but increased.

After losing the barrier of atmospheric friction, the power of the Ghost Killer's electromagnetic railgun has greatly increased, and the range has also increased from the original eight kilometers to hundreds of kilometers. However, such a distance is still a close-range attack in space, and the attack weapon needs to be replaced. Row.

In addition, in order to allow the ghost killer to enter space combat, the original battery power supply is completely insufficient, and a reactor with cold nuclear fusion technology must be used.

This forced the size of the Ghost Killer UAV to change. After all, the smallest cold fusion reactor sent by the China National Nuclear Corporation is as big as a single-door refrigerator, which is already half the size of the original Ghost Killer.

If the anti-gravity engine, new electromagnetic rail gun and space laser weapon are also replaced, then the space version of the ghost killer must be at least ten times larger on the original basis.

Li Maoye once wanted China National Nuclear Corporation to reduce the reactor to the size of a laptop, but unfortunately, the power of such a reactor is simply not enough, and it is completely unable to provide enough energy for the anti-gravity engine.

"Then there is no other way, we can only enlarge the ghost drone!" Li Maoye muttered.

The new model design was quickly developed. Anyway, the intelligent system is still the same as before. As for the shape of the drone, there is no need to consider aerodynamics, because the main battlefield of the Space Ghost Killer is outside the atmosphere.

When the reactor energy is delivered, the Meow Star Laboratory will also manufacture a new model of the Space Ghost, and then let the intelligent robot send these two things to the clean room, where the maintenance robot will be assembled according to the drawings, and the power pack and Drones come together.

The whole process was very fast, and it took less than twelve hours to complete the installation and commissioning, and then re-cover the drone's skin.

This completes the first nuclear-powered version of the Wraith, which will soon be launched into testing.

The relevant departments attached great importance to this test. They sent people to follow up the whole process, and escorted the space ghost fighter to the drone "Cat Castle", and then walked through it all according to the test process.

The Space Phantom fighter, along with other common types of Phantom fighters, carried out routine mission tests such as attack, escort, return flight, and maintenance under the command and control of "Cat Fort".

And in the end, it is necessary to test whether it can break through the atmosphere. Of course, there is no problem in theory. The performance of the anti-gravity engine has long been verified, but the military equipment must not be sloppy. It must go through 48 hours of continuous testing and inspection before it can Confirm its base case.

After the ghost fighter entered a drone "Cat Fort", "Cat Fort" flew to a height of [-] meters, and then commanded Cat Fort to open the cabin through the console command to activate the space ghost.

At this time, the ghost intelligence system activated the reactor. This reactor was originally designed as a type with standby, dormancy and activation. Because of this, it is difficult to manufacture and produce, and even the bald eagle has not been able to master this technology.

After special modification, the Space Ghost is ten times larger than the ordinary Ghost fighter, so it is completely different from other fighters. When the intelligent system activates the reactor, the red light on the nose of the aircraft lights up, and it is directly suspended in mid-air.

The Space Phantom was as nimble as a fish in water. It came out of the cabin door, broke through the sound barrier and flew far away in the blink of an eye, leaving only a conical cloud in place. The powerful explosion sound formed a huge explosion. The impact caused the "Cat Castle", which was very close, to shake violently.

"Not bad! The power of a cold fusion reactor is much higher than that of a battery!"

Li Maoye commented in the command center. He knew that the power of the space ghost fighter was a composite engine, and the speed could not be provided by the anti-gravity engine alone. Otherwise, it would be difficult for the speed of the ghost fighter to break through the sound barrier in a few seconds.

Since it can break through the sound barrier, it proves that the composite engine is working normally, whether it is the super electric push engine or the anti-gravity engine, both are working, and the working efficiency is amazing.

(End of this chapter)