Interstellar Industrial Age

v1 Chapter 77: , Cheap space age

The inspection of 'Hou Yihao' is very tedious. Every small detail must be checked repeatedly and carefully. As for a small module and small component, it needs to be repeatedly checked. , Over and over again, take care of it.

There is no way, this is the first anti-gravity spacecraft of Huaxia, or the spacecraft that will be used to carry a man on the moon next year. If there is something wrong.

The money invested by the country is a trivial matter. If there is no way to carry a manned moon on time next year, then Huaxia will definitely become an international joke. In the future, if you go abroad, you will say that you are Japanese or Korean, or you will be laughed to death.

Therefore, this matter is sloppy, and absolutely no problem is allowed. Repeated inspections are only the most basic. On the whole, the supercomputer has long been used to know how many simulated flights have been performed.

Many scientists and engineers conducted no fewer than ten inspections. After repeated confirmations and demonstrations, they confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the Houyi and that the Houyi finally arrived at the test flight.

On this day, the sky above Tianfu is cloudy, and the sky is covered with thick clouds. Satellites in space cannot simply shoot the activities on the ground through the thick clouds.

Today, it ’s just a test flight experiment, and it will not fly directly into space, so Huaxia does not want to expose the 'Houyi'. Selecting such weather, the satellites in space will naturally not be able to shoot the 'Houyi'. .

Qin Yi and Yin Shouping have already got up from the room in the base city early. These days Qin Yi is involved in the inspection of the anti-gravity engine. This is the core and most critical place of the Houyi, so this inspection work It is also very tedious.

I checked again and again, and finally it was time for the test flight, and Qin Yi was very excited.

的 The birth of the anti-gravity spacecraft means that mankind has entered a new era in the field of interstellar space. From then on, traditional rockets can be thrown into the dust of history.

Compared to the anti-gravity spacecraft, relying on traditional rocket technology to enter space not only costs a lot of money, the cost of each rocket is tens of millions, some even hundreds of millions. Launching a rocket, tens of millions are gone. .

Moreover, the transport capacity of the carrier rocket is very limited. Even the US Saturn 5 carrier rocket can only transport more than 100 tons of material into space.

The cost of a round trip to space is really too high. It costs about 3,000 US dollars to transport a kilogram of things into space.

Even if the mouse is huge and the transportation capacity is small, the key is that the safety is not high. There are always accidents in the rockets that are launched every year. You must know that every time a rocket is launched, scientists and engineers in various countries will repeatedly check it, but it is still necessary Something went wrong.

With the anti-gravity spacecraft, the transportation capacity is extremely powerful and terrible. This can greatly reduce the cost of returning to space and save valuable expenses. The key is that what you want to send to space in the future becomes an easy task.

The rocket seems huge, but once it has limited carrying capacity, the other is that the space is also very limited, and the space in the transportation part is very small. The things you want to transport are not only required for quality, but also for volume. Have extremely strict requirements.

This means that many large things ca n’t be transported into space, or they can only be assembled in space through repeated transportation, and assembling things in space, the risk is greater, astronauts The workload will be huge.

The same cost will also be very high. It needs to launch parts into space again and again, and then the astronauts perform outer space walks to assemble again and again.

In order to replace a lens for the Hubble Space Telescope, the US side spent hundreds of millions of dollars to know that assembling and replacing parts in space is definitely not an easy task.

With the anti-gravity spacecraft, it is not the same, it is large enough, the carrying capacity is strong enough, the internal space is large enough, it is possible to assemble large equipment such as the Hubble Space Telescope on the ground, and then once Sex is launched into space.

Once something goes wrong, you need to repair or replace parts, etc., you can transport the equipment back to the ground for maintenance and upgrade, and then launch it into space after the maintenance and upgrade is completed.

没有 Without an anti-gravity spacecraft and relying on traditional rockets, even the powerful countries such as the United States and the European Union will eventually have to give up the Hubble Space Telescope and International Space Station, which cost huge amounts of money to build.

Because once the service life is reached, the cost of further maintenance is too high. Even the United States and the European Union can't afford it, and can only helplessly pull these large space equipment to the earth ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ Let it fall to the earth naturally, relying on the frictional fuel of the earth's atmosphere to fall off.

But are these space equipment really worthless?

No, even if it was launched decades ago, it still has a very high level of science and technology. It is the crystallization of human science and technology.

More important things are costly. The Hubble Space Telescope has cost billions of dollars, and the construction of the International Space Station has cost 160 billion dollars, but they are all piled up with money.

I have to know that these billions of US dollars and 160 billion US dollars are not the current US dollars, but the US dollars more than 10 or 20 years ago. The US dollars of that era were still very valuable.

If it weren't for nothing, even the wealthy Americans would absolutely be reluctant to scrap these things.

If there is an anti-gravity spacecraft, something like the Hubble Space Telescope, it can be brought back to the ground in one go, the equipment inside it can be re-launched, and then launched into space again.

Not only save a lot of costs, but also safe and very fast. Changing things on the ground is naturally easier than knowing how many times to change things in space.

Even if it is a behemoth like the International Space Station, it is assembled by docking again and again, and then it is transported back to the ground for upgrade and modification without the need to endure it and scrap it.

So the emergence of the anti-gravity spacecraft is definitely a milestone in the history of human spaceflight. Its significance is too great. With the anti-gravity spacecraft, the interstellar space era is possible and truly enters the cheap space era.

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