Under the guidance of Jiang Chen, Furui Heavy Industry has integrated its 20 industrial-use space stations in the Star City, and has assembled a technical team involved in the design of the Seagull, and established a subsidiary called the New China First Shipyard. Started the production of the second Seagull.
The second party of this second transport ship is still the aerospace department of the Star Ring Trade, but the new ship will not design a passenger cabin, but a relatively low-tech cargo type. At present, the city of Guanghan cannot accommodate too many passengers, and expanding flight schedules will only lead to indigestion.
The mission of this transport ship will mainly be engaged in the transportation of rare earth ore. The rare earth-rich moon soil is sent to the Star Ring City for processing, and then the future mining industry will send the processed finished mine to the earth for international market.
By the time the new 500,000-tonne transport ship was launched, the "boats" originally used to transport rare earth mines could be withdrawn. The capacity of five electric eel-1 runs back and forth, not as good as seagulls. The number is shipped, and it doesn't fly too fast.
These electric eel-1, which was removed from the route, will be sent back to the shipyard on the Star City. After the transport module is unloaded, the mining module will be replaced, and the low-cost processing will be applied to the future mining industry to join the “Great”. The asteroids are mining in the army.
Speaking of this new factory transport ship, there is a small episode.
He learned the name of Jiang Chen, which has no technical content. Kervin said that he would not look for Jiang Chen to name the new ship. It is better to say that he simply did not mention this with Jiang Chen, and discussed with the technical team, simply printed the three characters of "Hailong" on the ship, and then wrote it into the report and sent it to Jiang Chen. On the desk.
It doesn't matter what the name is. Kervin doesn't mention it. It would be troublesome to mention Jiang Chen. Anyway, he did not intend to leave his name on the transport ship. If you can match your own name, you have to say that it is a carrier-class starship of more than 10 million tons. He would rather give his name to a descendant to name it, and he would not be on a transport ship in the district. .
Just after learning the name of the transport ship, Jiang Chen was a little bit smirking.
History is always strikingly similar. The prototype of the Red River engine is the shuttle 07 engine of the Pan-Asian cooperation, and the shuttle 07 that was picked up from the sea by the Beluga Whale Station is from the Hyundai on the future. Falling down.
Now the new ship not only inherits the engine of the 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 feeling.
Perhaps this is also a kind of God.
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Shortly after the flight from Star City to Guanghan City was opened, aerospace companies and other aerospace companies participated in the design of Apollo 1 in the United States. After being dismantled into dozens of containers, they were sent to the port of Angka by sea. The warehouse leased in Star City completed the final assembly after simple processing.
According to the signing cooperation agreement with the Star Ring trade, the newly reborn Apollo will participate in the transportation route of the City of Stars and the city of Guanghan after passing the safety qualification check. The rare earth is transported from the city of Guanghan to the city of Xinghuan, and the crops and daily necessities on the earth are brought to the city of Guanghan.
I don't know if it is to pay tribute to a movie. The main structure of this Apollo 1 is designed to be semi-circular. Compared with the long strip design of Russia's Oleg, the design has the advantage of more flexible steering and higher safety factor. The drawbacks are mainly reflected in the maintenance cost of the engine that is juxtaposed at the end and the manufacture of the spacecraft itself. Cost.
In addition to Apollo 1, the same participation in the transportation project, the Russian Oleg Grand Gong that Jiang Chen had seen in Moscow. The design of the 200,000-ton class was a whole larger than the Apollo 1 and the capacity was also higher. However, compared with the 500,000-ton seagull, both of them are somewhat pocket-sized.
Whether it is the United States or Russia, these two traditional aerospace powers do not currently have the capability to produce 500,000-ton spacecraft. The design of the ship is still quite good, but the two technical difficulties of the engine and the power source are that they can't get through it anyway.
Perhaps they have more experience in the aerospace industry, but this is not solved by experience.
In addition to the two traditional aerospace powers, the Changchun number independently developed by Huaguo Aerospace Science and Technology Group also participated in the route from Star City to Guanghan City. This city-named cargo ship, in addition to the engine is a high-priced rm-320 engine bought from the future heavy work, the other parts are designed by the academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In appearance, this transport ship is also very Chinese.
The mining speed of iron, aluminum, titanium ore and rare earth resources in Guanghan City has far exceeded the capacity between the city of Guanghan and the city around the city. For Jiang Chen, the more people participate in the space transportation industry. The better, otherwise it will be useless if it is mined.
According to Jiang Chen’s estimate, from the route of the city around the city to the city of Guanghan, it is said that 50 ships with a capacity of more than 100,000 tons should be filled in.
However, this kind of thing is not going to come. In addition to the new country, there are only three countries that have the capacity to produce large transport ships of more than 100,000 tons.
Although Japan, which ranked fourth in space technology, participated in the design of the Apollo 1 observation system and navigation system, it still does not have the capability to independently produce 100,000-ton spacecraft. The fifth-ranked India is ambitiously preparing to design a 500,000-ton "space shuttle" that can be compared with the Seagull. However, they have not designed to understand how to make it move.
The time soon arrived in mid-May, and the Star Ring Trade held the first Star Space Aerospace Science and Technology Expo in Star City.
If it wasn't for Xia Shiyu's reminder, Jiang Chen almost forgot. In the future, there will be 12 products that will appear in the air show, of which seven are export products, and five are only for other aerospace companies. In principle, they are not sold.
For example, the eDonkey-1 series aircraft that made countless foreign friends exclaimed at the air show were the p-1 mining type and the -1 transportation type that had been eliminated.
Such activities have been held every year since 19 years. The significance of holding such activities is mainly to support other aerospace companies and find buyers for their products. If you find something that can be used, Stars 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 intervene in the procurement, and he gave it to the people in the space department, only they knew what they really needed in space.
Xia Shiyu accompanied Jiang Chen to attend the air show. When they appeared in front of the public, they became the focus of the air show. From the beginning of the air show, a large group of people surrounded the East and asked the West, the business card in the pocket was not finished in a while, and the hand was stuffed with a bunch of business cards.
What makes Jiang Chen laugh and cry is that he found that this big living person actually took away the limelight of the eDonkey-1.
It is simply putting the cart before the horse.
(To be continued.)