Central Cannia.

Hundreds of kilometers away from the Civilized Science City, a space city stands here.

This space city was formerly the Universal Satellite Launch Center.

However, after Lu Zhou and Lu Xing's team jointly developed the aerospace transport aircraft, the space city that matched it was built early.

As early as a few months ago, this aerospace city, formerly the Universal Satellite Launch Center, was renovated by Chensheng Building.

At present.

Humans transport matter to space, and these two means of carrying it.

They are two technologies: launch vehicle and space shuttle.

However, with the development of technology, space shuttle, which is obviously reusable, has gradually been eliminated by humans.

Is the space shuttle technology lagging behind the launch vehicle technology?

This is not the case.

There is only one reason why the space shuttle was eliminated, it is too expensive and can't afford it!

From the perspective of the manufacturing of the space shuttle itself, this high-precision spacecraft consists of more than 2 million precision parts, and its cost is much higher than that of a launch vehicle.

Not only that.

The launch cost of space shuttles is also very high.

As early as more than ten years ago, the launch cost of a space shuttle was as high as about 600 million US dollars, which was just the result of the dilution of the cost after multiple launches.

If it is a separate launch, the cost will still soar by dozens of percentage points.

Such high costs made the rich American, a native of America, say he couldn't stand it back then, and in the end he had to give up this technical route under the excuse of an accident in the space shuttle.

The aerospace transport aircraft developed by Lu Zhou and Lu Xing teams, from a similarity point, is obviously more similar to the space shuttle.

However, compared to the huge liquid launch box carried by the space shuttle, the aerospace transport aircraft developed by the Luzhou team uses a nuclear fusion engine as power, and uses a unique electric propulsion system.

This allows it to not only fly in the atmospheric environment, but also the working fluid it carries in space after breaking through the atmosphere.

Due to the advanced nature of the electric propulsion system, the working fluid required for this space shuttle in a space environment is much smaller than that of space shuttles and launch vehicles.

This allows the aerospace transport aircraft, which originally had an extremely exaggerated load, to carry more material into space, greatly reducing the unit price of transportation.

certainly.

The unit price of the transport here does not take into account the manufacturing cost of the aerospace transport aircraft, otherwise this cost would be enough to be shocking.

But this is how it develops aerospace technology.

Even though Lu Chen has technology far ahead of the world, it is undoubtedly a dream to transport items into space without spending money.

In the space city.

Lu Chen stood in the main control room.

Around him, the core researchers of Lu Zhou and Lu Xing's team were surrounded by him.

In-screen.

A huge milky white spacecraft crawled on the runway of the Space City.

“Does it have a name?”

Seeing the scientific researchers in white coats in the main control room keeping busy, Lu Chen whispered to Lu Zhou, who was accompanying him.

Hearing this question, Lu Zhou, who was in charge of the project, smiled and said, "Yes! Its name is Tianshu!"

"Tianshu..."

Of course Lu Chen knew the Tianshu Star, the first of the Big Dipper Star.

Luzhou named this first aerospace transport aircraft after Tianshu, which is enough to prove his expectations for it.

"I see this aerospace transport plane crawling on the runway. Is it so heavy that it can still take off through gliding?"

Lu Chen had long known the weight of Tianshu, with a net weight of 62,000 tons, a total load of 37,000 tons, and a weight of nearly 100,000 tons. It can be said to be a super giant.

It is hard to imagine what kind of scene is such a giant gliding and taking off.

Hearing this question.

Lu Zhou sighed: "After our calculations, gliding takeoff can save at least 4% of the energy for Tianshu than vertical takeoff, and this 4% of the energy is enough for it to travel back and forth once."

"But... can this track bear it?"

Lu Chen looked at the unimaginable huge figure of Tianshu in the main control screen and hesitated.

This is still through the screen, Lu Chen can't imagine how it feels to take off from a close distance.

What is the concept of a 100,000-ton aerospace transport aircraft?

You know, the most advanced aircraft carrier Ford is only 112,000 tons.

The size of the Ford aircraft carrier is, it is as long as 330 meters long. When erected, it is about as tall as three statues of Liberty.

It is conceivable how huge the Tianshu number is.

If it weren't for the profound technological accumulation of the Academy of Civilized Sciences, plus the abnormal plug-in of the technology editor.

Even if humans can create such space transport ships for hundreds of years, it is also a matter of two different things.

And according to Lu Zhou, this space transport ship can take off vertically!

It just consumes a little more energy.

Hearing Lu Chen's question, Lu Zhou shook his head with a wry smile: "Boss, with the gravity of the earth, it is unlikely that we can create ground materials that can ensure that the Tianshu glides without damage."

After hearing this, Lu Chen's face turned green.

Lu Chen knew more about what Lu Zhou said.

This means that every time the Tianshu number flew into the sky, Lu Chen would wipe the other party's butt once.

Although he had T-1 robots and intelligent unmanned factories to produce raw materials for him, he also spent a lot of money on building the runway of the Aerospace City.

Now Lu Zhou told him that this thing needs to be repaired after running, who can stand it?

"Since that's the case, why not take off directly vertically?"

Lu Chen asked the question he wanted to ask the most.

After all, compared to the cost of repairing the runway, energy is the cheapest thing for him, although 4% of the energy of Tianshu is also an astronomical figure.

But for Luchen Group, which masters controlled nuclear fusion technology, it is nothing.

Hearing this question, Lu Zhou could only smile bitterly: "Boss, Tianshu can indeed take off vertically, but its weight is as high as 100,000 tons. If you directly overcome such a huge gravity, it will seriously damage its internal parts. After flying once, you have to repair it. It is not worth the effort, and it is better to directly repair the runway."

This is not OK, nor that.

Lu Chen was finally a little dissatisfied and said with a dark face: "Will you not make it smaller?"

Hearing this, Lu Xing, who had been standing aside and had not spoken, said a little embarrassedly: "Boss, miniaturizing the controllable nuclear fusion engine to the present level is temporarily the limit of our team. If you want to continue to make progress, you must make revolutionary breakthroughs from multiple technologies."

Lu Xing’s meaning is very simple. If you want a vehicle as big as a Banshee fighter to be equipped with a nuclear fusion engine, you should wash and go to bed as soon as possible.

Hearing this, Lu Chen finally realized that the relationship was not that they didn’t want to make Tianshu a smaller one, but that they couldn’t do it!
Chapter completed!