Chapter 542 Unfortunate Vesta
Expert companies can always create some miracles that make it difficult for others to breathe!
First, at the end of June, the expert company announced an unprecedented reward - asteroids. To be precise, it is a reward of steel. But obviously, the acquisition price of 8,000 yuan per ton cannot be obtained from the earth or the moon. Because even if a ton of steel is transported from the moon, the transportation price is more than 10,000 yuan. So, in this way, only by dragging asteroids from the asteroid belt can there be sufficient profit margin.
For a time, the interstellar adventure ushered in the first real peak. Hundreds of spacecraft attacked from the earth, basically as long as asteroids with a diameter of more than 50 meters were all explored.
In fact, as mentioned earlier, the asteroid belt that is usually mentioned can only be said to be relatively concentrated; but the entire solar system is full of asteroids, but there are more places and fewer places. However, under such a network-like search, as long as the asteroids are of great size, they are all attracted by many attention.
Once upon a time, the asteroids that worried scientists now all changed from dangerous objects that destroyed the earth to ore stars that everyone was jealous! If an asteroid with a diameter of 50 meters had half of the iron content, its value would be as high as 200 million yuan!!! This is simply a gold mine placed in space - now, the price of gold in space has fallen below steel. In the space age, practicality determines the value.
As you can imagine, the explorers are crazy.
At the end of August, the first adventure group to rush to the asteroid belt came back, which was the adventure team of Fengchen Transportation Company. It actually dragged back an irregular asteroid with a diameter of about 300 meters, with an iron content as high as 86%! On the day of trading with the expert company, everyone went crazy. The price given by the expert company was 9.8 billion yuan!
What’s even more crazy is that it’s at the back: Fengchen Transportation Company directly said - we don’t need money, so we can replace it with spaceships! I want to build a unique spaceship, which will be built with 9.8 billion yuan!
In the Crazy Age, there are always crazy stories. Fengchen Transportation Company is just the beginning; as more and more expedition teams return, the outer space of the moon revolves around a whole circle of "meteorites" - becoming a moon satellite. This is a means for expert companies to store ores. Ores/asteroids are placed in space, making the whole world drool, but no one dares to have any wrong ideas. The largest one is more than 400 meters, and the small one is only more than ten meters. No matter how big it is, it cannot be dragged, or if it takes a long time, the investment is too high, the danger is too great, and the gain is not worth the loss; the same is true for even the smallest one.
Capital is the driving force for progress; under such stimulation, the adventure team began to develop in an expanding manner, and more people on the ground began to withdraw funds to enter this space age. In space, the adventure teams were even more running around and shuttled back and forth into space.
On the other hand, a second, or even more transportation companies appeared on the ground and in the sky. Baojian Group and Fengchen Transportation Company also began to have competitors. Because the expert companies actually opened up low-level space shuttles and ordinary spacecraft sales business. Of course, the premise is that you must have a Chinese resident certificate.
When 10 Giant spacecraft were launched collectively by the end of 2066, the whole world was once again concerned. Last time, four Giant spacecraft launched an attack, dragged Ceres, and played interstellar bolt balls! I wonder what heartbeat to play this time?
There are seventy or eighty-year-old spacecraft following next to the ten Giants, which is an adventure group. The expert company does not oppose these people following: it is now a stage of support and development. It will take some time for the weak civil base to develop into a mature company with good self-inflation ability.
Of course, these adventure groups also brought rich support to expert companies. The massive mineral resources and sufficient space human resources have allowed the development of expert companies to reach a higher level. In addition to the research and development of cutting-edge technologies, the rest of the development of modern technology is basically a replica-based expansion and development - and this requires materials. It is obvious that the first priority in technological materials is steel! Therefore, on earth, steel production is still regarded as an important symbol of a country.
In the vast space, ten giants rumbled and crushed by; and around the giants, there were small spacecraft of large and small teams scattered scattered. Among these spacecraft, the largest one was only over 300 meters. The larger spacecraft was more than 500 meters, which was obviously not something that the small adventure team today could afford - this was customized by Fengchen Transportation Company. Moreover, the spacecraft was too large, and the maintenance was very cumbersome, and the requirements of the pilot were high.
The dark red Vesta has a unique shape. There is a crater about 460 kilometers on Vesta with a diameter of about 500 kilometers. This makes Vesta look like it was bitten by a Tiangou. There is also a "small" bulge in the middle of the crater, which is a mountain as high as 18 kilometers; the outer edge of the crater is 4-12 kilometers above the ground. There are more than a thousand mountains on the entire Vesta, with a height of more than the highest peak on the earth - Mount Everest at about 8.8 kilometers!
There is also ice on Vesta, but very few, but it just happens to make Vesta beautiful. Looking up close, on the dark red surface, there are blue, yellow, red and other colors. They are mixtures formed after the combination of ice and minerals, reflecting the beautiful sunlight.
When you first look at the Vesta star up close, everyone felt a shock!
From one side, it looks like a big bowl with a diameter of 500 kilometers!
From the other side, it looks like a beautiful Lotus Mountain that only appears in the animation!
From a certain perspective, it looks like a human brain.
"So beautiful!" This is the sigh of most people.
"If I drag it back, how much will it be worth? I'll do it. Calculate based on the diameter of 450 kilometers and the iron content of 50%, that's also..."
"Money-lovers, go there! Even if you are dragged for a thousand years, we can't pull this thing with our aircraft."
In the distance, the staff of the Master Company had already started to work, and the small space shuttle was flexibly shuttled through space. An extremely strong carbon fiber web completed its encirclement within seven days. Because unlike Ceres' purpose, Vesta must be completely dragged into the gravity range of the earth and ensure the safety of the earth. Therefore, Vesta must accelerate at the beginning; but when it reaches the earth, it must start to slow down. Moreover, for the safety of the earth, Vesta needs to rotate around the moon.
However, there are no adventure groups around at this moment. After all, the materials carried by the adventure groups are relatively tight. Under the protection of the expert company, these people have already found their own goals and returned, most of which are asteroids with rich mineral resources below 300 meters.
Chapter completed!