From black technology to super engineering

"The take-off weight of the new transport ship will reach 13,000 tons. In terms of carrying capacity and speed...it is indeed better than a sea freighter."

Ye Ming talked eloquently during the meeting, then looked at the chief engineer of Jiangnan Shipyard, and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, I don't know how many tons a freighter generally weighs now...but it should be no problem to replace ocean-going freighters, right?"

"Hahaha." Chief Engineer Zhou Xingwen laughed loudly: "It seems that Mr. Ye has no idea about the current ocean liner..."

"Could it be more than 100,000 tons now?"

"Almost, now new ocean-going cargo ships with a capacity of more than 100,000 tons are considered standard equipment."

"Er..." Ye Ming coughed: "That's incomparable. If the space transport ship has a carrying capacity of 100,000 tons, it can be built... At worst, it can be made into a reactor, but the cost is too high. A ship must be at least a kilometer long...it doesn't make sense."

"Well. However, the space transport ship still has a great advantage in ocean transportation. After all, it is very fast and can arrive in a day, and it can theoretically reach any city, thereby eliminating the gap between the inland and the coast."

"Yes! That's what I want to say!" Ye Ming nodded his head like a chicken pecking at rice.

The reason why he proposed it was entirely to find “jobs” for transport ships—to build accelerators. Of course, it is no problem to build so many space transport ships, because there will be construction of space cities later, which can also be used.

But human resources and production speed are still limited after all.

You can't build a lot of transport ships just to catch up with the schedule at the beginning, and then stop ten ships and stop eight ships...that would be boring.

Therefore, using it for ground transportation is one of the employment directions—for this reason, Ye Ming also specially designed it as a 10,000-ton class, just to match the so-called "10,000-ton giant ship". As a result... the 10,000-ton giant ship has long since become a thing of the past.

"The main thing is the transportation cost. If the transportation cost can be reduced, let alone 10,000 tons, even a thousand tons can be loaded at a time...it will be useful..." Mr. Zhou added with a smile.

"Well... the helium-3 factory on the moon will also expand simultaneously. In three years, I dare not say that helium-3 will become the price of cabbage. At least it will be more than half cheaper than it is now, and it will definitely be cheaper than sea ships with the same cargo capacity."

"That's no problem! And as long as the global freight costs can be saved, the production costs of the whole society will be greatly reduced." Mr. Zhou nodded firmly.

At this time, Director Zhang suddenly said: "But if we fully promote cargo spaceships to replace sea transportation, then... some countries may have to jump."

Ye Ming was startled for a moment, and then he realized "what" the certain countries mentioned by Director Zhang were referring to.

Of course... those who collect tolls and run gas stations.

He smiled slightly: "Under the torrent of technology, a behemoth like Laomei is nothing more than a praying mantis, let alone certain countries."

Director Zhang nodded with a smile: "Well, this is true."

Amidst the laughter of the crowd, Ye Ming announced the end of the meeting. Afterwards, he returned home, said goodbye to his parents briefly, and boarded the helicopter with He Mo to the nearest military airport.

He was going to Dalian Shipyard to take a look at the soon-to-be-completed Asterisk.

After several years of construction, a whole set of naming rules for spaceships has been formed in the country - needless to say, warships are based on dynasties.

For civilian spaceships, spaceships in the solar system, especially in low-earth orbit, are generally named X-month.

Among them, the first Yaoyue account is the representative, including the follow-up Wenyue account, Wangyue account, and Chasing the month account, etc.

As for the spaceships that want to conduct long-distance exploration in the system, the X-Day is used as the naming standard—of course, only one Sun-Day is currently under construction, which is used for the exploration of Mars and the asteroid belt-Jupiter.

The transport ship is uniformly named Xuntian, but it will be divided into different models according to the carrying capacity.

The spaceship to be used for extraterrestrial exploration is named after the star X.

For example, Xunxing 1-8.

The Asterisk is the first manned scientific research ship specially designed to travel through wormholes.

...

It was four o'clock in the afternoon when Ye Ming arrived at Dalian Shipyard.

After simply exchanging greetings with Mr. Huang, the person in charge who came to greet him, he directly took the factory car to the No. 7 shipyard.

"Mr. Huang, have you fully implemented unmanned production?"

He Mo has sharp eyes, and she can see at a glance that the entire dock is full of multi-engineering machinery vehicles and unmanned vehicles. There is no doubt that all of these are remotely controlled by Aita through ultra-distance communication + 6G.

"Well, the transportation, management and boring aspects have almost been realized, but the construction field is still not good." Mr. Huang explained with a smile: "Whether it is building a spaceship or a ship, it is still inseparable from skilled workers."

"It's inconvenient for a robot, isn't it?"

"All of them." Mr. Huang paused: "For some tasks, robots can be more precise than humans, but the strength may not be enough. If the strength is enough, the space is not suitable, everything is suitable, and sometimes the feel is not right... ..."

Ye Ming echoed with a smile: "After all, talents are the most sophisticated machines."

"Haha, Mr. Ye's words have reached the essence."

Several people chatted all the way, and soon arrived at the construction site.

Although Wenxinghao is named independently, its shape still refers to Yaoyuehao and Wenyuehao—after all, as long as the appearance remains unchanged, experience can be inherited.

But compared to Yaoyue, its volume has increased to four times.

It has a total length of more than 230 meters, a height of more than 50 meters and a width of 40 meters.

In the design, it will have a crew capacity of 380 people, and the cabin alone has 12 floors.

Such a height makes it necessary to design an elevator.

In addition, its transport warehouse is also divided into upper and lower floors, with a huge space, enough to accommodate two buildings.

Due to the large number of people, the exploration team will carry food for more than two years this time - this requires that the experimental cabin must have space for growing vegetables and raising them.

——Although according to the current feedback, the Canglan Star and the Earth show a high degree of environmental consistency, but it will never be possible for these 300 people to take risks as soon as they land.

As such, it will also be loaded with weapons, as well as a quick-reaction force of fifty.

And the soldiers of the unit consist of...

Let's put it this way, every fighter is carefully selected. In addition to being proficient in combat, everyone must be good at multiple fields.

As a multi-functional exploration spacecraft, it also needs to have certain space exploration capabilities. Therefore, it will also carry small space shuttles - powered by compressed air.

As for the large-scale construction and detection tools used for ground development, there is no need to mention it.

It can be said that this spacecraft carries the most cutting-edge and exquisite technology of mankind so far.

And the most ardent expectations of mankind.

It can't have any mistakes.