I Have a Little Black Hole

They are all high-level executives of the company, and of course they know a lot about the company's related matters. He explained it so clearly. It would be strange if he still didn't understand it. Except for the high-level management of the laboratory, other high-level executives of the company, including Lei Tiantang, also understood it. the benefits of their design.

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

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

The company's early construction resources are limited. After all, we can't make a lot of spaceships 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 hers is also what the management of many companies want to ask, because the fact is that even if the company's [Chuxin] spacecraft completes all the test flight tasks, and then optimizes and upgrades, it is finalized, but this kind of The manufacturing of the behemoth can be compared to the production line of fighter jets, and a factory can build hundreds of different ones.

[Chuxin] The spacecraft manufacturing factory has only completed two construction works, and the company will expand to a maximum of eight spacecraft manufacturing factories in the short term, which is already an optimal consideration.

However, each of these spacecraft factories can only accommodate the manufacturing of one spacecraft, which means that at most 8 spacecraft can start construction at the same time, and if each spacecraft is delivered at full capacity for 3 months at the fastest In the delivery period, at most 32 spacecraft will be delivered within a year.

It seems like a lot, but the construction tonnage of a spaceport is completely different from that of a space station. Think about how big a spaceport that can park at least 8 [Chuxin] spacecraft at the same time should be built. You can probably understand.

And a fully functional spaceport can not only park a spaceship, but also have various other necessary functions.

To refuel the spacecraft, there must be a dedicated fuel reserve area, right? If you want to repair the spaceship, let's not say that you need to build a special maintenance area. You have to build a stock of repair parts ranging from engines as small as rivets, etc., right? And all kinds of maintenance equipment must be complete, right?

In addition, there are functions such as a place for the staff of the spaceport to live and live for a long time. There are so many things that cannot be missing. Therefore, even in the initial construction plan of the spaceport, the total tonnage of the spaceport they designed should reach 150,000 tons. scale, and the long-term scale will even reach 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 just two earth-orbiting spaceports, the materials that need to be transported from the earth to space will reach 300,000 tons!

And even if the 32 spaceships reach the maximum carrying capacity of 590 tons without considering other factors for each transport, and one round of transport is only 18,880 tons, then all the spaceships will need to go back and forth between the earth and space 16 times in order to complete two astronauts. Material transportation at the airport.

But this ideal state is obviously unattainable, and it is obviously impossible for the production and transportation cycle of these materials to meet the standard of transporting all spaceships at full capacity in a short period of time.

So it may take several years to complete such transportation and construction of the spaceport, and obviously the company's spacecraft capacity will be used elsewhere.

The construction of the lunar base that Lei Tiantang is particularly concerned about obviously requires a lot of spaceship 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 issue?

Let me answer this question! He Chengxin, the chief designer of the spacecraft, stood up when he heard the question from the two top executives of the company.

That's the boss. As our [Chuxin] spacecraft successfully completed its first flight test, we also conducted a detailed inspection of the spacecraft in the factory in the past two days. According to the test flight data and inspection data, Look, there is still no major problem with the overall design of the spacecraft!

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, the structural design of the spacecraft and other related designs are all related. It is designed according to the most robust scheme.

After all, this is the first time that we have designed and manufactured such a large-scale aircraft. Without experience, we can only adopt this conservative design, but now that we have the data of the test flight, we will have the confidence to modify the design.

We can now analyze from the data that many designs such as structural support components are redundant, not to mention others, even if we just reduce these redundant places, the solar system flight carrying capacity of the spacecraft can also be increased from 590 tons Lift to 670 tons like this.

The new design plan has already been made, and the next spacecraft will adopt the optimized design. At that time, we are confident to increase the carrying capacity of the spacecraft to about 700 tons. Such an improvement can already meet the company's spaceport construction. Plans and plans for the construction of forward bases on the Moon and Mars are planned.

Being able to transport 700 tons of supplies per flight has brought us a lot ahead of our planned construction plans for the moon and Mars bases, so we are not worried that the new spaceport design plan will affect the company's related construction plans. He Chengxin talked eloquently to the spacecraft design map projected by Origin.

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

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

After all, we are planning to build 3 large spaceports. This construction task is heavy enough. Now we need to add your laboratory-type spaceport. This increase in capacity does not seem to play a decisive role. Bar? Lei Tiantang asked.

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