Interstellar Industrial Age

The inspection of 'Hou Yihao' is very cumbersome, and every small detail must be repeatedly and carefully inspected. As for a small module, widget, etc., it needs to be repeatedly inspected. , over and over again, tirelessly.

There is no way, this is Huaxia's first anti-gravity spacecraft, or the spacecraft that will be used for manned moon landing next year, if something goes wrong.

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

Therefore, in this matter, it is not allowed to be careless, and it is absolutely not allowed to have any problems. Repeated inspections are only the most basic. On the whole, supercomputers have been used for many simulation flights.

After numerous scientists and engineers conducted no less than ten inspections, after repeated confirmation and demonstration, it was confirmed that there was no problem with the 'Houyi', and it was finally time for the 'Houyi' to fly.

On this day, the sky above Tianfu was cloudy, and the sky was shrouded in thick clouds. The satellites in space could not see the ground activities through the thick clouds at all.

Today is just a test flight experiment, and will not fly directly into space, so Huaxia does not want to expose the 'Houyi'. If such weather is chosen, the satellites in space will naturally not be able to photograph the 'Houyi'. .

Qin Yi and Yin Shouping got up early from the room in the base city. These days, Qin Yi's work involved in the inspection of the anti-gravity engine, which is the core and most critical part of the 'Houyi', so this inspection work Also very cumbersome.

After checking it over and over again, when it was finally time for the test flight, Qin Yi also seemed very excited.

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

Compared with anti-gravity spacecraft, relying on traditional rocket technology to enter space is not only expensive, but the cost of each rocket is often tens of millions, and some even hundreds of millions. Once a rocket is launched, tens of millions will be gone. .

Moreover, the transport capacity of launch vehicles is very limited. Even the US'Saturn 5' launch vehicle can only transport more than 100 tons of materials into space.

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

Even if the mice are huge and the transportation capacity is small, the key is that the safety is not high. The rockets launched every year around the world always have accidents. You must know that every time a rocket is launched, scientists and engineers from various countries will conduct repeated inspections, but it is still indispensable. Something went wrong.

With anti-gravity spacecraft, the transportation capacity is extremely powerful and terrifying, which can greatly reduce the cost of going to and from space and save valuable funds. The key is that it becomes an easy thing to send anything to space in the future.

The rocket seems to be huge, but in addition to its limited carrying capacity, the other is that the space is also very limited. The space for the transportation part is very small. The things you want to transport are not only required in terms of quality, but also in terms of volume. have extremely strict requirements.

This also means that many large things cannot be transported into space, or they can only be assembled in space through transport again and again, and assembling things in space involves greater risks, astronauts The workload will be enormous.

The same cost will also be high, requiring the launch of parts into space again and again, and then the astronauts will perform spacewalks to assemble them again and again.

In order to replace a lens for the Hubble Space Telescope, the United States spent hundreds of millions of dollars to know that it is definitely not an easy task to assemble, replace parts, etc. in space.

With an antigravity spacecraft, it is different. It is large enough, its carrying capacity is strong enough, and its internal space is large enough 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 and needs to be repaired or replaced, the equipment can be transported back to the ground for maintenance and upgrades, and after the repairs and upgrades are completed, it can be launched into space.

Without anti-gravity spacecraft and relying on traditional rockets, even powerful countries such as the United States and the European Union would eventually have to give up the expensive Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station.

Because once the service life is up, the cost of continuing maintenance is too high. Even the United States and the European Union cannot bear it. They can only choose to pull these large space equipment to the earth and let it fall to the earth naturally. , relying on the friction of the Earth's atmosphere to fuel off.

But are these space equipment really worthless?

No, even if it was launched decades ago, it is still very high-tech, and it is the crystallization of human technology.

More importantly, these things cost a lot of money. The Hubble Space Telescope cost billions of dollars before and after. As for the construction of the International Space Station, it cost 160 billion dollars, but they were all piled up with money.

You must know that these billions of dollars and 160 billion dollars are not the beautiful knives of today, but the beautiful knives of more than ten or twenty years ago. The beautiful knives of that era were still very valuable.

If it weren't for the fact that there was no other way, to the point of last resort, even Americans with deep pockets would definitely be reluctant to scrap these things.

If there is an anti-gravity spacecraft, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, it can be brought back to the ground directly at one time, and after the equipment in it is updated, it will be relaunched into space.

Not only does it save a lot of costs, but it is also safe and very fast. It is naturally easier to change things on the ground than in space.

Even a behemoth like the International Space Station is assembled by docking again and again, dismantling it, and then transporting it back to the ground for upgrading and modification, without having to endure the heartache to scrap it.

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

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