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They are all senior executives of the company. Of course they have a good understanding of these related matters of the company. He explained so clearly. It would be strange if they were not clear. Except for the senior executives of the laboratory, other senior executives of the company including Lei Tiantang also understood The benefits of their design.

However, Jiang Yuting still frowned and asked: "We all understand the benefits you said, but this separately designed solution will obviously also increase the company's space port construction costs by a factor of two. Have you considered it?

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

The company's pre-construction resources are limited. After all, we can't change a lot of spaceships to carry out the construction of two types of space ports at the same time. Will this situation affect the company's space colonization strategy? ?"

Her question is also what many company managements want to ask, because this is the case. Even if the company’s [first heart] spacecraft completed all test flights, and then optimized and upgraded, it was finalized, but this kind of The manufacturing work of the behemoth can be opened in the same way as the fighter jet assembly line, and a factory can build hundreds of aircraft.

[Chuxin] The spacecraft manufacturing plant has only completed two construction projects, and in the short term, the company will also expand up to eight spacecraft manufacturing plants. This is already an optimization consideration.

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

It may seem like a lot of things, but the construction of the tonnage of the space port can be completely different from the space station. It is possible to understand how big the space port should be to build at least 8 spaceships at the same time.

And a full-featured space port can not only park a spaceship, but also have other necessary functions.

To add fuel to the spacecraft, do you have to build a special fuel storage area there?If you want to repair the spacecraft, let's not build a special maintenance area, you have to build a repair part that reserves all kinds of large to small rivets and so on?Do you have all kinds of maintenance equipment?

In addition to the function of providing long-term living space for the staff of the spaceport, so many things are not indispensable, so even if it is the initial construction plan of the spaceport, they will design a total tonnage of the spaceport of 150,000 tons. The scale of the level, the long-term scale should even reach the exaggerated figure of 1 million tons!

Now we have to build another space port dedicated to the laboratory group, even if it is built on the scale of 150,000 tons, even if only two earth orbit space ports are built, the materials that need to be transported from the earth to space will be reached. 300,000 tons!

The 32 spaceships do not consider other factors to achieve a maximum carrying capacity of 590 tons for each transportation, and a round of transportation is 18880 tons. That is why all the spaceships have to travel 16 times between the earth and space. Material transportation in the airport.

However, this ideal state is obviously not achieved, and the production and transportation cycle of these materials is obviously impossible to reach the standard of allowing all spaceships to be fully loaded in a short time.

Therefore, it may take several years to complete the transportation work and the construction of the space port, and it is clear that the company's spacecraft capacity will be used elsewhere.

For example, the construction of the lunar base that Lei Tiantang pays special attention to will obviously require a large amount of spaceship capacity. In this case, after the space port is divided into two, the capital and time of construction will have to be considered.

Lei Tiantang also nodded: "Even if you don't consider the funding problem for a while, do you think about how to balance the construction issues?"

"I'll answer this question!" He Chengxin, the chief designer of the spacecraft, stepped out after hearing the two top questions from the company.

"It’s such a boss. With our [First Heart] spacecraft successfully completing the first flight test, we also conducted a detailed inspection of the spacecraft in the factory in the past two days, based on the test flight data and the inspection data. Look, there is no big problem with the overall design of the spaceship!

And from the inspection results, it is clear that many of our designs are too conservative. We have to know that in order to ensure that the spacecraft can fully guarantee the success of the test flight and the safety of the astronauts, we have designed the structure of the spacecraft and other related designs. It is designed according to the most sturdy scheme.

After all, this is the first time we have designed and manufactured an aircraft of such a large scale. We can only use this conservative design without experience, but now that we have the data for the test flight, we will have 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 only reduce these redundant places, the spacecraft’s solar system flight carrying capacity can also be from 590 tons Raised to 670 tons like this.

The new design plan has already been made. The next spacecraft will adopt the optimized design. At that time, we are confident that the spacecraft's carrying capacity will be increased to about 700 tons. Such an improvement can already meet the company's space port construction. Plans and plans for the construction of the moon and Mars forward base were made.

The ability to transport 700 tons of materials per flight can already advance the Moon and Mars base construction plans we have planned a lot in advance, so we are not worried that the new spaceport design plan will affect the company's related construction plans."He Chengcheng talked bluntly about the spaceship design projected from the origin.

"It looks like this, but even if the transportation capacity is improved, it does not mean that the flight mission can always be completed according to the best idea?

And this improvement in capacity is nothing more than speeding up the construction of forward bases. How much time can the space port be so large?

After all, we plan to build 3 large spaceports in our plan. This construction task is heavy enough. Now that we have to add your laboratory spaceport, the increased capacity does not seem to play a decisive role. Right?Lei Tiantang asked.