Super Plane Mall

Chapter 114 Manned Spaceflight II

In Zhu Lei's previous life, the Saturn V, the heaviest and most loaded rocket of human beings, has a take-off weight of more than 110 tons at a height of more than 3000 meters, but the weight of the fuel is nearly 3000 tons. The load capacity of a rocket of more than 100 tons in low-Earth orbit is only more than [-] tons, not to mention the high-orbit of the earth and the transportation of materials to the earth.

So the payload of the aerospace vehicle designed by Zhu Lei and the others is actually quite amazing.

In addition to the manned flight, Zhu Lei and the others actually have a lot of missions for the astronauts this time, because this time there is a core module of the space station that will follow them to the sky, and after the space station reaches the orbit, it needs to They put it together.

Although the space station has been modularized, the space inside the aerospace vehicle is limited, and the core module of the assembled space station cannot be put down. They still need to assemble it manually after they arrive in space.

Since the aerospace vehicle is fully loaded this time, the runway required for this flight is also relatively long, but fortunately, Zhu Lei has considered this issue some time ago.

Moreover, the design work of the second-generation aerospace vehicle is about to be completed, and it will be used in the future, so now the entire runway has been extended to six kilometers in length and widened. Such a long runway is enough. The first and second-generation aerospace vehicles have been used. As for the subsequent models, there is no need for a long runway, because Zhu Lei estimates that the anti-gravity engine should come out of the subsequent models.

Because of such a heavy task this time, if there are no accidents, then the Suzaku-[-] aerospace vehicle will stay in space for a week.In addition to the installation of the core module of the space station, did they also bring a lot of scientific research equipment and some experimental projects.Of course, many of these experimental projects are not Zhu Lei's own, they are official from the Ming Empire, and some are from private companies.

If the launch of space satellites and space manned technology is the most important goal of all countries, then the launch of space stations is something that no country in the world has ever dreamed of. It has not yet been realized, including the superpowers in the world. Strictly speaking, the Ming Empire has not yet realized manned spaceflight, but now it has such technology and is ready to launch it immediately.

It’s different now. Since the Ming Dynasty has Zhu Lei’s existence, it is already different from other countries, so the Ming Empire is no longer satisfied with the manned spaceflight technology, but has turned its attention to a bigger opportunity, which is to build a huge space in space. The space station, or the space city is more appropriate.

However, it is impossible to build such a huge sky city in space. It needs detailed plans and steps, and the sky city is still under design. Zhu Lei estimates that the world will not be designed at all in a year or two. If you don’t come out, it will take even longer to manufacture and install the space station later.

But the plan needs to be done step by step. Before building the sky city, you must first have a place to stay in space. You can’t go back and forth between the earth and space every day when building the sky city!Although the cost of aerospace vehicles is much lower than that of various rockets in the past, they cannot afford such waste.

What's more, this space city will definitely be assembled in space in the future, and the required personnel will not be one or two, there must be a place to rest!

So the space station this time is actually a temporary space station built in advance for various scientific research and space investigations before the construction of the space city is completed.

It can even be used as a temporary rest point after the construction of the space city begins.Although this is just a temporary space station, in fact this space station is not small compared to the space stations of other countries in the previous life, and it is even bigger than the space stations jointly built by European and American countries in the previous life. According to the estimates of various aerospace experts here, it will take nearly a year at the earliest to complete the initial construction, and by then the space station will reach about [-] tons.

However, this space station is mainly used as a rest place for personnel during the construction of the space city in the future, so the most important thing is to work hard on personnel security.

Because once the space city starts to be built, there will be an average of hundreds of people living in it every day, which is a huge challenge for this temporary space station.

Now who has not released the design drawings of the space city, but the preliminary plan has now been released, and it can even be said that it has been finalized.This space station will have a mass of at least [-] tons, and it can support tens of thousands of people to work and rest on it at the same time, and the structure of the space city will adopt a ring structure, because the current technology on the earth cannot produce artificial gravity equipment.

And Zhu Lei's Plane Mall does not have this kind of technology for sale now. He asked little loli, but little loli told him that it is impossible for this kind of technology to appear in elementary civilizations, even if there is such a technology Appears that can be manufactured with the technology of primary civilization.

So in the end, he could only find a way by himself. After many experts said, he had no other way but to use rotating gravity. This is the best way under the current situation.

And the main frame of the entire space station is also made of high-strength alloys manufactured by Zhu Lei's factory. After all, he has not heard of any special metal produced by a manufacturer in this world that can surpass the special steel produced by him. What's more, the metallurgical laboratory in his fief was not built in vain during this period of time.

The staff of the laboratory successfully formulated several new alloy material formulas based on the ideas of several previous formula materials in Zhu Lei's factory, and most of the alloy materials smelted according to these formulas have reached the strength of Intensity above 120.

The most outrageous material has reached a ridiculous strength of 210. However, although the formula of this material has been released, it is very troublesome to smelt it, and the cost is very high, even Zhu Lei can't afford it.

Moreover, Zhu Lei's current smelting equipment in the factory still can't smelt a formula, because the melting point of this formula is as high as 6000 degrees, and the maximum temperature of these smelting equipment in Zhu Lei's factory is less than [-] degrees, so at present It can only be produced in the laboratory, and it cannot be mass-produced at all. However, the smelting equipment for this new formula has also begun to be designed, but the progress is very slow. However, these materials are in the laboratory state. Can be smelted, Zhu Lei believes that the smelting equipment for these materials can also be designed, but there is no good way at present.

(End of this chapter)