They are all senior executives of the company. Of course, they have a good understanding of the company's related matters. If he explained so clearly, it would be strange if he still doesn't know. Except for the senior management of the laboratory, other senior executives of the company, including Lei Tiantang, also understand. The benefits of their design.

However, Jiang Yuting still frowned and asked: "We can all understand the benefits you mentioned, but this kind of separate design will obviously also double the cost of the company's spaceport construction. In this regard, you Have you considered it?

And compared to the pure service spaceport you mentioned, it is obvious that your professional laboratory spaceport will have to be built before the service spaceport, right?

The company’s early construction resources are limited. After all, we can’t create many spacecraft out of thin air to carry out the construction of two spaceports at the same time. Will this situation affect the company’s space colonization strategy? ? "

This question of her is also something that many company management want to ask, because this is the fact, even if the company’s [Chuxin] spacecraft has completed all the test flight missions, it has been optimized and upgraded and then finalized, but this The manufacturing of giant monsters can be different from the assembly line that builds fighter jets, and a factory can build hundreds of them.

[Chuxin] The spacecraft manufacturing plant has now only completed the construction of two, and in the short term, the company will expand to up to 8 spacecraft manufacturing plants. This is already an optimal consideration.

However, each of these spacecraft factories can only accommodate the manufacturing work of one spacecraft, that is to say, at most 8 spacecraft can start construction at the same time, and if each spacecraft’s full-load production and delivery is as fast as 3 months With the delivery period, only 32 spacecraft will be delivered for use in one year.

It looks like a lot, but the construction tonnage of a spaceport is completely different from that of a space station. Just think about how big a spaceport should be built that can moor at least 8 [Chuxin] spacecraft at the same time.

Moreover, a fully functional spaceport can not only moor a spacecraft, but also have other necessary functions.

To refuel the spacecraft, a special fuel reserve area must be built there, right? If you want to repair the spacecraft, don't talk about building a special repair area, you have to build a reserve of repair parts ranging from engines to rivets, etc.? And all kinds of maintenance equipment must be complete, right?

In addition, the spaceport staff have to provide long-term living and living places and other functions. So many things are indispensable. Therefore, even in the initial construction plan of the spaceport, the total tonnage of the spaceport designed by them should reach 150,000 tons. The scale of the first grade, the long-term scale even reaches the exaggerated figure of 1 million tons!

Now we have to build another spaceport dedicated to the laboratory section. Even if it is built on a scale of 150,000 tons, even if it is only two earth-orbiting spaceports, the materials that need to be transported from the earth to space must be enough. 300,000 tons!

Even if the 32 spacecrafts reach the maximum carrying capacity of 590 tons without considering other factors each time, they will only reach 18,880 tons in one round of transportation. That means that all spacecraft must travel back and forth between the earth and space 16 times in order to complete the two spacecraft. Material transportation in the airport.

But this ideal state is obviously unattainable, and the production and transportation cycle of these materials is obviously impossible to reach the standard for all spacecrafts to be transported at full load in a short time.

Therefore, it may take several years to complete such transportation work and spaceport construction work, and it is obvious that the company's spacecraft capacity needs to be used elsewhere.

For example, the construction of a lunar base that Lei Tiantang is particularly concerned about obviously requires a large amount of spacecraft capacity. In this case, after the spaceport is divided into two, the funding and time issues of construction have to be considered.

Lei Tiantang also nodded and said, "Even if the funding issue is not considered for the time being, have you considered how to balance the construction issues?"

"Let me answer this question!" He Chengcheng, the chief designer of the spacecraft, stood up after hearing the two highest-level questions of the company.

"It's such a boss. With our [Chuxin] spacecraft successfully completing its first flight test, we have also conducted a detailed inspection of the spacecraft in the factory in the past two days, based on the flight test data and inspection data. Look, the overall design idea of ​​the spacecraft still has no major problems!

And from the inspection results, it is obvious that many of our designs are too conservative. We must know that in order to ensure that the spacecraft can 100% guarantee the success of the test flight and the safety of the astronauts, we have done everything in the structural design of the spacecraft and other related designs. It is designed according to the most robust plan.

After all, this is the first time we have designed and manufactured such a large-scale aircraft. If we have no experience, we can only adopt this conservative design. But now that we have the test flight data, we have the confidence to modify the design.

We can now analyze from the data that many designs such as structural support components are tedious, not to mention others, even if we just reduce these tedious places, the spacecraft’s solar system flight carrying capacity can be reduced from 590 tons. To 670 tons.

A new design plan is already being done~lightnovelpub.net~ The next spacecraft will adopt an optimized design. At that time, we are confident that the spacecraft’s carrying capacity will be increased to about 700 tons. This improvement has been able to Meet the company's spaceport construction plan and the moon and Mars advance base construction plan.

The ability to transport 700 tons of materials per flight can already advance our previously planned lunar and Mars base construction plans a lot, so we are not worried that the new spaceport design plan will affect the company's related construction plans. "He Chengxin talked freely at the spacecraft design projected by Origin.

"If you look at it this way, it is true, but even if the transportation capacity is improved, it does not mean that the flight mission can always be completed according to the optimal assumption, right?

And this increase in capacity can only speed up the construction of forward bases. The tonnage of a spaceport can't save much time, right?

After all, our plan is to build three large spaceports. This construction task is heavy enough. Now you have to add your laboratory spaceports. The increased capacity does not seem to play a decisive role. Right? "Lei Tiantang asked.

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