In the outer space of the Earth, here is the space smelting plant of the Galaxy Technology Group. Here, an asteroid just mined from the asteroid was transported over.

Soon, the rays of light continued to converge on this asteroid. The asteroid became dazzling here, the temperature rose sharply, and the large amount of metal contained in the asteroid began to melt continuously.

After half a day, all the metal in the asteroid melted into a huge water polo standing quietly in space.

One by one, the robotic arms started to add a variety of pure metals continuously, and at the same time, the robotic arms began to stir constantly, so that these metal liquids were more fully fused together.

Space smelting technology is becoming more and more mature, and has been able to smelt a variety of steels according to customer needs, but this time, the smelted steel is too special.

The Dragon-class spacecraft 'Hanwu Great Emperor' has been officially launched, and the headquarters of Galaxy Technology Group has issued official documents to all subsidiaries, research institutes and research institutes of the Galaxy Technology Group.

It took more than 100,000 scientists and engineers to complete the construction of the 'Hanwu Great Emperor', which shows that Qin Yi attaches great importance to this dragon-class spacecraft.

There are many core difficulties in building a dragon-class spaceship. One powerful anti-gravity engine, one nuclear fusion reactor, and one gravity generating device.

But there is another very inconspicuous, but also very important thing, which is also a difficult point, that is, the keel.

The keel does not seem to have any technical content. There are already a lot of Qinglong-class spaceships on the side of Xinghe Technology Group, and keel construction has already been very experienced. It should not have any difficulty.

In fact, the opposite is true. The construction of this keel has stumped scientists.

The 'Hanwu Great Emperor' spacecraft is a dragon-class spacecraft. It is designed to have a mass of more than 100 million tons. This is the largest spacecraft ever built by human beings and the highest quality spacecraft.

With a mass of 100 million tons, many people will say that this random asteroid does not have a mass of hundreds of millions of tons. What is strange is that there should be no difficulty.

But asteroids are asteroids, and spaceships are spaceships.

Asteroids are solid, let alone 100 million tons, that is 1 billion tons. Ten billion tons is nothing, but once the mass of the spacecraft reaches hundreds of millions of tons, because its interior is empty, this also means You need a strong keel to support it.

Especially the dragon-level spaceship will also be equipped with a gravity generating device. The core fusion reactor here is where the gravity is even more amazing, although scientists can control its influence within a certain range as much as possible. .

However, this still poses a huge pressure and test on the overall structure of the spacecraft and the spacecraft's keel. The design and arrangement of this keel cannot be copied from the keel design of the Qinglong class spacecraft.

It must be redesigned, from the keel material, the structure of the keel, the design and arrangement of the keel, and the placement of the core components on the spacecraft, etc., all of which need to be rebuilt and redesigned.

The huge mass of hundreds of millions of tons has extremely strict requirements for each keel on the spacecraft.

What's more, the engine installed on the Dragon-class spacecraft is more powerful than the engine of the Qinglong-class spacecraft, and its thrust is even more terrible.

Strong power means that strong support is required, which requires higher keel. Without sufficient keel, the spacecraft's engine is enough to tear the spaceship to pieces.

The robotic arm is constantly stirring huge metal liquids. Various pure metal blocks are constantly transported by the robotic arm, then melted away and merged into large metal liquid balls.

A large piece of gold with a weight of tens of tons. This gold emits a charming light and color under the refraction of sunlight, but soon, this gold is melted away and turned into a small water polo. Water polo is also slowly integrated into the huge metal liquid ball.

The robotic arm is constantly shorter, the converging sunlight is constantly changing, the interior of the liquid metal ball is constantly flowing, and various metals are beginning to perfectly integrate with each other, gradually forming a brand new Alloy material-black black gold material.

The black gold material is a new type of alloy specially researched by the Institute of Materials Science of the Xinghe Academy of Sciences. This type has a characteristic that it is expensive and requires a certain proportion of gold.

The use of gold to study emerging alloy materials is also a new discipline that is emerging now. Gold was very expensive in the past. Even if there are gold-related alloy materials, no one would be foolish to use gold to make alloy materials. That is too expensive. There is no competitiveness at all.

But now it ’s different. With the booming mining industry in the asteroid belt, more and more gold has been mined from the asteroid belt. The global gold price has been falling and falling. It is also slowly researching gold-related alloys.

The use of gold in the industrial field is more practical than it is a symbol of wealth. Various gold-related alloy materials have also been continuously researched.

This black gold material is one of the most representative materials.

This kind of material is light in weight, high in hardness, and good in supportability. It is very suitable to be used as the keel of a spaceship, especially the keel of a giant dragon-level spaceship.

The keel of the Qinglong-class spaceship is usually made of ordinary alloy materials. The keel of this dragon-class spaceship must use a special alloy material to ensure the overall strength and support of the keel, thereby supporting the huge quality.

"If you say that we will make a spaceship larger than a dragon-class spaceship in the future, what material will we use for this keel?"

In the smelting plant, Ren Qing, the person in charge of the Materials Science Research Institute of the Galaxy Research Institute, asked Yang Hongyan next to him.

"I don't know, this spaceship is getting bigger and bigger, the quality is getting bigger and bigger, the power is getting stronger and stronger, and the requirements for the keel are increasing."

"It is estimated that degenerate materials will be needed in the future."

Yang Hongyan thought for a while and said that this time he came over, he also wanted to see for himself whether the material of this keel could pass the keel. The keel is the core of a spaceship, and it is his most concerned thing now.

The keel of the spacecraft has been holding everyone's progress for several months. Although the boss Qin Yi said nothing, he still remembers the first time the boss raised money with himself, which shows that Qin Yi attaches importance to this matter.

"Degenerate material?"

"I have been researching degenerate materials, and my boss has also given me a lot of information, but to this day, there is still no way to study them."

When referring to degenerate materials, Ren Qing couldn't help frowning.

The life of the Institute of Materials Science is not good. Any new materials needed by the institutes of the Galaxy Institute of Science will make demands on him.

Materials such as building a spacecraft, building an anti-gravity engine, etc. require different materials and many requirements, so that the Institute of Materials has always been under a high pressure.

This time the construction of the 'Hanwu Great Emperor' spacecraft, starting with the manufacture of the core anti-gravity engine, Ren Qing's was often annoyed by the Yang Hongyan in front of him.

The thrust of this Dragon-class spacecraft is too powerful. Without enough powerful materials to make it, the powerful force will tear the engine.

Finally, it was difficult to get the engine material. Now Yang Hongyan has come to urge the keel material again. This keel also requires a lot of weight. It must withstand the mass of hundreds of millions of tons, and it must be able to withstand the strong pressure released by the powerful engine of the spaceship. The burden of keel material fell on his shoulders again.

Ren Qing can't wait to be able to study the degenerate materials now. Once the degenerate materials are available, I care whether you are the engine or the keel, or you want to make a billion-ton, ten billion Ton-sized spacecraft, I can send you all with one material.

"Do n’t take your time. At the moment, we do n’t need degenerate materials for the time being, but we will definitely use them in the future, let alone the engine and keel of this spaceship, we will definitely use them Only degenerate materials are allowed. "

Yang Hongyan said with a smile.

Looking out, at this moment a part of the huge liquid metal ball has begun to cool and solidify ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ The robot arm is slowly shaping the part that has cooled and solidified.

The Dragon-class spaceship is a spacecraft used for interstellar navigation and interstellar colony. By design, it is very large, it will exceed 10 kilometers in length, 3 kilometers in height, and more than 5 kilometers in width.

In addition to the special requirements of the keel of such a huge spaceship, each keel must be made of the entire casting as much as possible to increase its load-bearing capacity.

With the dragging of the robotic arm, the front part has completely cooled and solidified, but the back part is connected with the metal liquid ball, and the metal liquid is slowly dragged out from the huge metal liquid ball.

After a few full hours, a huge gold hoop rod appeared in the void. This long gold hoop rod is just a hair embryo of a keel. A spaceship came over and dragged it to the Dragon Nest Space Factory. Over here.

The Longchao Space Factory will further process it, using a whole piece of casting to process one keel, and each keel needs to be individually customized from smelting to shaping and processing.

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