Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 375 Xuanwu Spaceship
But Zhong Cheng is obviously not crazy yet, and he can't do such a thing that is the enemy of the world.

He readily accepted the opinion of the chief executive officer of the Federation brought by Wu Tie.

The ownership of the Tiangong City Space Port belongs to the Federation, and it is fully managed and operated by the Space Agency.

The construction project of the space port is completed by Red Star Company, and the construction scale is decided by the NASA and Red Star Company through consultation.

The cost of the works will be paid out of future port revenues.

Allows the Red Star Corporation to have a dedicated dock in the spaceport.

As the price for such an "empty glove white wolf" behavior, the space agency signed a formal contract with the Red Star Company on behalf of the Federation:

Entrust Red Star Company with full rights to develop Mars, Venus, and Mercury. Red Star has the priority to use the land and resources of these three planets.

And the cost of transformation projects for these three planets will be paid or deducted from the taxes of the three future planets.

Zhong Cheng smiled wryly in his heart, the Federation did not want to spend a penny on this from the beginning to the end.

However, for Red Star Company, it is impossible to say whether it is a loss or a profit.

But the obligations of being a federal corporation are necessary.

And in this way, the Federation can also concentrate its manpower, material resources, and financial resources on the development and construction of the asteroid belt.

It is a good thing for all earth humans to build a defense line for the asteroid belt as soon as possible!
11 month 25 day.

The construction of Tiangong City, a space station located 2 kilometers away from the space ladder, has started.

The first to be built is the Tiangongcheng Elevator Cab Transit Dispatching Center, where the terminals of 36 of the 35 running channels of the Sky Ladder are located.

There is only one and the first running channel connected to Icarus, who is the counterweight of the ladder.

12 month 12 day.

No. [-], No. [-], and No. [-] lunar (station) platforms of Tiangongcheng Transit Dispatching Center were completed and put into use.

At this time, four running channels have been put into use, one up and one down to form a loop, theoretically, thousands of elevator cabins can run at the same time.

But in fact, for the sake of safety, a maximum of 60 elevator cabins are allowed to run in one running channel at the same time.

With four running channels connecting Kunlun City and Tiangong City, the transportation speed of materials, equipment and personnel has increased hundreds of times.

The high-speed construction phase of the second phase of the Nantianmen project has arrived.

2035 1 Month 20 Day.

All 512 cables of the Sky Ladder have been installed, forming a huge link with a diameter of 99 meters, firmly fixing Icarus above Kunlun City.

Of the 360 ​​large Zhurong electric pushers on the surface of Icarus, only 36 are left for orbital fine-tuning, and the others have been dismantled.

Hundreds of spaces of different sizes have been taken out of its interior, and more than 100 people are permanently stationed in it for daily operation and maintenance.

And its shape has been trimmed into a regular and smooth spherical shape with a diameter of 1.4 kilometers.

The transformation of Icarus has come to an end.

The eight running passages in the inner layer of the ladder have been completed, and the transfer center of Tiangong City has begun to take shape.

The Nantianmen Phase II Project Headquarters decided to start the construction of the spacecraft assembly space station.

The shipbuilding base of the Red Star Ship Manufacturing Company in Gaoyuan City will be dismantled as a whole, and transported to a location 100 kilometers below the transfer center of Tiangong City through a ladder.

Then reassemble it into a spaceship to assemble a space station, which is the space starship base.

The space starship base will undergo large-scale expansion on the basis of the original ground shipbuilding base, and the plan will have 5 assembly docks for large spaceships.

When the shipbuilding base on the ground was designed and built, it was taken into account that it would be dismantled and then moved to space, so the demolition and reconstruction project would be very fast.

The personnel of the Red Star Shipbuilding Company headed by Liu Yang said that the construction of the first space dock will be completed within three months.

Construction of the first spacecraft began in early May.

1 month 31 day.

Zhong Cheng held a spaceship construction seminar at the Kunlun City Engineering Headquarters.

On behalf of the Kunlun Research Institute, Liu Yuzhu explained the design of the spacecraft.

The Kunlun Research Institute completed the design task of the spacecraft half a year ago, but it did not copy the design plan of the Solar System Power Company.

The Super Apollo spacecraft is a long fusiform three kilometers long and one kilometer in diameter, a bit like an American football.

But Zhong Cheng decided to adopt a flat shape after simulating the design in the Taixu experimental system.

Build it into an ellipse about two kilometers long and one kilometer wide, with a thickness of about 100 meters.

If you add the command module protruding out of the ellipse in front, and the large nuclear fusion engines installed at the four corners, it looks like a huge turtle.

This design is to take into account the flight in the space environment, and the cargo carried can be fixed on the back and abdomen, which can save a lot of cargo space and increase the carrying capacity of the spacecraft.

Because of this shape, Zhong Chengcheng named Red Star's first spaceship "Xuanwu spaceship".

The self-weight of the Xuanwu spacecraft is 10 tons, and the maximum take-off weight can reach 80 tons. Excluding power materials, it can carry 60 tons of cargo.

If it is to transport people, it can transport 200 million people at one time, but it is impossible to transport so many people exclusively.

In the design, it is based on the mixed loading of passengers and cargo, which not only carries 10 people, but also carries 60 tons of goods.

Because for the carrying capacity of the Xuanwu spacecraft, 10 people are too light, and basically do not account for the weight.

Zhong Cheng thinks that this is the real Xuanwu beast. The previous Xuanwu cargo plane was a bit misnamed, but this time it is to justify its name.

However, although the Xuanwu spacecraft is so large and heavy, its speed in space can reach up to 1000 kilometers per second.

It takes only a day or two to reach Mars. Even if Mars is at the apogee, it will not take more than a week.

For human beings, Mars is already close at hand!
The speed of the Xuanwu spacecraft is due to its load capacity. It can use more than 10 tons of propellant to accelerate the spacecraft.

The ultra-large nuclear fusion engine specially designed for spacecraft can accelerate the jet of working fluid to more than 2 kilometers per second.

The basalt spacecraft designed by the Kunlun Research Institute has basically reached the upper limit allowed by the current basic physics theory.

In all aspects of performance completely surpassed the Super Apollo spacecraft.

This is a huge challenge for the Nantianmen Phase II project team, but it is also an opportunity to prove that Red Star is still the most powerful heavy industry group in the world.

None of the participants expressed dissatisfaction with the advanced nature of this design scheme.

Do your best if you want to do it, this is the belief that Zhong Cheng has brought to Red Star people over the years!
After Liu Yuzhu explained the design plan of the Xuanwu spacecraft, everyone discussed the construction period of the Xuanwu spacecraft.

Liu Yang has the most say on this.

He made a rough calculation. The size of the Xuanwu spacecraft is too large, and the technical requirements are high. Even if all the components and parts are handed over to other branches, the Red Star Ship Manufacturing Company is only responsible for the assembly, and the completion of the first Xuanwu spacecraft. It will take at least 2 years to build.

That is until May 2037.

(End of this chapter)