Interstellar Industrial Age

There was no other way. In the end, Ishida Taro had to buy 10 million tons of steel from Qin Yi at a price of 3,800 Chinese yuan per ton.

Although this price is only 200 Chinese dollars a ton cheaper than transporting from the ground to space, the tens of millions of tons of steel is also 2 billion Chinese dollars cheaper. This is not a small number, and Chinese dollars are very valuable. of.

What's more, it's not only a matter of saving a sum of money, because it is in space, it also saves the trouble of transportation, and saves his own strength and time, which is why Qin Yi can hold them. , because this is the best option, even though the price is really not cheap.

After talking about the business, Ishida and his group left quickly, but not long after Ishida's forefoot left, Uncle Sam from North America sent someone over again. The purpose was the same as Ishida and the others. They came to buy steel.

The Japanese have the 'Kaguya Project' in space, and are ready to rely on their own scientific and technological strength to build a large spaceship comparable to the Qinglong; North American Uncle Sam also proposed a huge 'Apollo Project' again. Unlike the original moon landing plan, the Apollo program was also designed to create a large spacecraft that could go to the asteroid belt to mine asteroids.

In addition, the European Space Agency also proposed a 'Columbus Project' to build a large spacecraft called 'Columbus' to recreate their glorious history hundreds of years ago.

The polar bears have come up with a 'Krolev' plan to build large spacecraft to mine asteroids and prepare for the construction of space warships in the future.

Even the Indian elephant has an ambitious plan of 'Light of India', which wants to spread the curry flavor all over the solar system.

Ambitious countries have put forward their own plans, and everyone clearly sees the importance of mining asteroids, especially with the lessons learned from the previous moon mining, and everyone is not far behind.

Now all the land and resources of the moon have been divided up. Chinese people account for the absolute majority, and other countries don’t have as many Chinese people together. Some slow-moving countries are constantly protesting every time the United Nations General Assembly opens, shouting loudly. The moon is the moon of the entire earth, requiring the sharing of lunar resources and the like.

Everyone remembers this lesson firmly, so in the matter of mining asteroids, no one dares to show weakness, and he is not willing to lag behind others.

Because you are one step slower than human beings today, you may soon be thousands or thousands of steps slower. When the resources of the asteroid belt are divided up, you will only be able to cry at the United Nations General Assembly and completely lose the space in space. The right to speak.

Once it falls behind in the new era, it is destined to become a second-rate country, and it will not gain a little benefit in the future era of interstellar voyages.

Qin Yi's selling the spaceship is too expensive, the kind that doesn't sell for a penny less than 5 trillion Chinese coins, even the most crazy Japanese people who reserve Chinese coins are still a lot, a lot worse now. Not to mention other countries.

There is no way, everyone can only be self-reliant. With these huge funds of several trillion Chinese dollars, there is no problem in building 10 or 8 huge spaceships, and you can also cultivate your own scientific research team, engineer team, and space shipbuilding capabilities. , to drive the development of related industries in their own countries, etc.

When it comes to accounting, everyone is a shrewd person, and no one is a fool.

Therefore, there are many people who come to Qin Yi to buy steel. They are all representatives of each country, and all of them are very ambitious. They want to buy tens of millions of tons of steel.

Qin Yi's steel has not been smelted for a long time. Today, 10 million tons of steel and 10 million tons of steel will be sold soon, and more than 200 billion Chinese coins have been recovered.

Every plan is very good, but if you want to rely on traditional rocket technology to promote spacecraft to mine asteroids, there should be no problem with smaller asteroids of a few million tons or about 10 million tons, but if you want to mine large asteroids planet,

hehe~

In Qin Yi's office in the spaceship headquarters building of Galaxy Technology Group, Qin Yi stood by the window and watched the Nan Bangzi leave, and the corner of his mouth couldn't help but laugh.

Traditional rocket-powered technology relies on burning solid or liquid fuel to obtain powerful thrust. Before the advent of antigravity technology, this was the only way for humans to enter space.

Rocket technology has a long history of development, and the technology is very mature. It has also made great contributions to the development of the human space industry, but it is obviously not obvious that it wants to use it to mine asteroids.

When a rocket burns up, the fuel will burn out very quickly, and it can still be used in short-range space voyages. Many spacecraft going back and forth between the earth and the moon are made by countries around the world and use rocket thrust.

Because the distance between the earth and the moon is short, only less than 400,000 kilometers, it can still walk by relying on the thrust of the rocket.

But going to the asteroid belt, even the straightest distance from the earth to the asteroid is more than one astronomical unit, which is at least 150 million kilometers.

In fact, it is impossible to fly in a straight line at all, because the earth is rotating. If you fly in a straight line, you will not be able to catch up with the earth at all, and you must advance to the direction of the earth's revolution.

The one-way journey is much longer, more than 200 million kilometers casually, and if you add back and forth, it will take at least 400 million kilometers.

For such a long distance, despite flying in space, power is only required when starting and decelerating, and most of the time relies on inertial flight, but such a long distance, various situations may arise, relying on traditional rocket power technology is too unreliable.

If the calculation is accurate, if everything goes well, it is still possible to mine the asteroid and return it, but the room for manoeuvre is relatively small, and the fault tolerance rate is very low. In the event of an accident, whether it can be returned is a problem.

Qin Yi believes that scientists in these countries should have made repeated and detailed calculations on this, and they are very clear that there are great risks, but they have no choice. He watched helplessly as the Huaxia family dominated.

Scientists also believe that anything may not be good enough at the beginning, but with the advancement of technology and the accumulation of experience, it can be improved slowly and continuously to reduce the risk, just like when the aircraft first appeared, accidents. The rate is extremely high, but right now, the plane is the safest way to travel.

In space, Mount Fuji Space City.

This is the largest space building built by the Japanese in space. It integrates scientific research, shipbuilding, tourism and many other functions. It is very large and very lively. It is the embodiment of the Japanese power in space. .

Gentlemen, for our brilliant future, in order to create a starry sky for our descendants, in the days to come, I hope that everyone can give 100% of their energy to build the Kaguya spacecraft as soon as possible.

The chief engineer and chief designer of Kaguya Project Jiro Omura said to a group of scientists and engineers.

Hi~

When everyone heard it, they all looked solemn, and immediately replied in unison very respectfully.

This is a very motivated team and a very professional team. In order to build the Kaguya spacecraft, the entire project team has recruited top scientists and engineers from various fields in Japan, with a total of more than 100,000 people. In addition, relying on the entire country With the participation of hundreds of colleges and universities in Japan, and the active assistance of tens of thousands of powerful companies, it is bound to build a huge spaceship that attracts worldwide attention.

All other operations at Mount Fuji Space City's shipyard, where small spaceships were built, have either stopped or moved elsewhere.

The steel purchased from Galaxy Technology Group was transported by spacecraft, and the robotic arm from Huaxia Mozuo Machinery Technology Group became extremely busy.

The entire shipbuilding dock is almost like a miniature version of the Dragon Nest Space Factory, although I don't want to admit it, but in this era, in the development of the space field.

Not only Japan, but all countries around the world have been influenced by Huaxia, and they are also learning from Huaxia, whether it is the construction of space buildings, or the construction of spaceships, etc., everyone is learning, learning from China, learning from Galaxy Technology Group .

The same is true for the construction of the 'Kaguya' spacecraft, because the Qinglong spacecraft is really too big. It was built in the exposed dock of the Dragon Nest Space Factory and is directly exposed to space.

The countries in the world who are very concerned about this will naturally not give up a good opportunity to learn. Therefore, when the Qinglong spacecraft was built, countless pairs of eyes were staring at every moment, and cameras were used to complete the construction process. filmed.

Now to build the 'Kaguya' spacecraft, the Japanese have also learned the process and steps of the Galaxy Technology Group's construction of the 'Qinglong' spacecraft, and then combined their own designs to make some changes and modifications .

In just a few months, a huge keel appeared next to the Fujisan Space City. Although this keel is not as large as the Qinglong spacecraft, its length has reached more than 800 meters, more than 300 meters long, and some heights. At more than 100 meters, it can be seen that this is definitely a very large spacecraft.

At the same time, there are several rows of rocket propulsion designs on the two wings at the bottom of the spacecraft. Obviously, in terms of power, the Japanese did not design a single-power rocket propulsion system, but adopted a safer and more secure multi-power system. Design, also because of the multi-rocket propulsion system, its power will be more powerful.

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