A big country of aerospace with black technology

"We use a variety of triangular structural reinforcements at the joints to withstand impacts from all directions."

Geng Bo introduced the structure of the space platform that is about to start construction.

This is the first time in thousands of years.

Before this, humans had no experience in building such large-scale space creations.

Although I had experience in space station construction before this.

But, it's more like building blocks.

Combine several different cabin sections together.

And now, for the first time, they will build an unprecedented space creation starting from parts.

The initial mass is expected to be a super-large star port of more than 10,000 tons.

Within the design plan, it can accommodate more than a hundred small spacecraft.

In addition, the star port itself is a large space processing center.

Able to use raw materials to process and manufacture various materials that you need.

"High-strength titanium-nickel alloy can even withstand the explosion impact of high-nitrogen explosives."

Geng Bo opened a video recorded before.

The video shows the explosive impact test of titanium-nickel alloy.

A small piece of solid high-nitrogen explosive, only about the size of a palm, was placed on the side of the titanium-nickel alloy block.

The chemical properties of high-nitrogen explosives are not very stable, and a lot of passivating agents are added to prevent them from exploding upon contact.

Electronic detonators rapidly generate high temperature and high pressure under the action of electrical signals.

The already violent high-nitrogen explosive was ignited.

The explosion hit the laboratory, which had already been evacuated into a vacuum.

Although it has not yet reached the so-called "true" vacuum state, it is very close to the space environment.

No violent fire could be seen, but the explosion of the explosive produced a strong shock wave visible to the naked eye.

The cameras deployed inside the wall and behind tempered glass all experienced a series of jitters.

The mechanical detector clearly detected the yield of this explosion.

Equivalent to the explosive power of 24 kilograms of TNT.

Ignore the kinetic energy effects of conventional artillery shells.

This is equivalent to the explosive power of a large-caliber heavy artillery.

Because it is a vacuum environment, there is almost no material splashing.

After the explosion, everyone can clearly see it through the camera perspective.

On the titanium-nickel alloy column used for the experiment, a small yellow area appeared near the center of the explosion.

"Within this area of ​​less than 20 centimeters long, the color of the titanium-nickel alloy changed due to the high temperature generated at the moment of the explosion."

Geng Bo pointed at a small area circled in red in the video and preached.

"After the temperature drops, it will return to its original silvery white color."

"And there wasn't a big impact on performance."

"This is enough to prove that the keel of the space platform we designed is very tough."

"It is enough to resist the damage caused by ordinary weapons."

All the big guys in the audience nodded their heads to express their satisfaction.

Although this unprecedented space giant is internally known as a nuclear-powered star port.

But it actually has a more formal name.

A large-scale comprehensive space production, manufacturing, and scientific research platform using nuclear power.

Its design function does not include attack attributes.

At least judging from the published information, there are no weapons.

But who would have thought that such a large platform would not try to equip it with weapons.

That's a waste.

Even if it does not consider attacking others, it must also consider being attacked by others.

Because it's so big, it's like a hill hanging above everyone's heads.

It's easy for others to attack it.

A space creation ten kilometers in diameter.

It has surpassed any machine made by humans before.

No matter whether it is land or sea, there has never been such a behemoth.

The longest train on land is only a little more than half as long.

That train used more than 600 carriages and was only over 7,000 meters long.

It's like taking a giant mountain taller than Mount Everest alone.

Thrown into space.

Even though it is running in orbit, it is on a synchronous orbit tens of thousands of kilometers away.

It will still be like a small spinning top that never stops spinning, spinning across the top of your head.

With the naked eye, you can see its huge figure in the bright night sky.

Such a sword of Damocles hangs above his head.

No country with ambitions can sit idly by.

Once a related conflict occurs, they may try to destroy this huge creation that may impose divine punishment on them.

In fact, if the entire construction plan of the nuclear power star port is announced.

Few other countries thought it could actually be built by humans.

It is simply too huge and too terrifying!

Let’s not talk about how to build such a behemoth in space.

How does light launch tens of thousands of tons of various construction materials into space?

It can stump 99% of the countries in the world.

Throughout the world, only the Dragon Kingdom can have such a huge transportation capacity.

After more than ten years of development.

Whether it is recyclable rockets or super-thrust rockets, great progress has been made.

Let us have the ability to launch tens of thousands of tons of materials into space.

And the development of domestic engineering construction capabilities.

It also gives us the ability to complete this unprecedented work in space tens of thousands of kilometers away.

Although other countries cannot complete the construction work, it does not mean that they cannot launch an attack on the star port.

The star port itself does not have the legendary energy shield.

Although Zhang Xingyang has such technology in his mind.

However, with the current level of science and technology, it involves various field applications.

It's obviously still a fantasy.

If you want to strengthen the star port's protective capabilities, you might as well add two more armor plates.

Or add more self-defense weapons to the star port.

"This is the self-defense weapon we are involved in for the nuclear-powered starport, the high-energy laser."

After showing off Xingang's ability to fight, Geng Bo began to introduce Xingang's powerful muscles to everyone.

"It's well known that kinetic energy weapons are very limited in what they can do in space."

"The biggest reason is their speed."

On the huge integrated display without splicing, a short video showing everything from matchlocks to flintlock rifles to bolt-action rifles and automatic rifles was shown.

“Almost all of our current kinetic energy weapons are powered by gunpowder chemical energy.

The general speed is about twice the speed of sound, of course there are faster ones, but they never exceed ten times the speed of sound.

The vastness of the universe is far greater than any battlefield in our history. "

"Starting from the surface, it is 36,000 kilometers away from our star port."

"We assume that the speed of an energetic warhead is ten times the speed of sound, and that no velocity decay occurs during this process."

"It would take close to three hours to cover such a distance!"

"After such a long time, Starport has already moved far away."

"On the other hand, with laser weapons, the same distance only takes less than one-eighth of a second!"

Geng Bo danced with great exaggeration.

"The thin particles in space also create enough conditions for laser weapons to show their power."

"The attenuation of one light second is smaller than the attenuation of one hundred meters on the earth!"

One light second = 300000KM

Many people present have military experience.

Many people even experienced the battlefield many times when they were young.

It was also an eye-opener for them.

I never thought that war would one day turn into laser shooting.

"I remember, don't we already have laser weapons?"

A middle-aged man in the audience frowned and raised his hand to speak.

Laser weapons exported to Camel's country have achieved many results in the past period.

It even shot down a fighter jet produced by the opponent's Dassault Company.

In front of the world media, he showed his face severely.

Geng Bo opened a new video, "The basic principles of laser generators are indeed the same, but their energy sources are completely different."

The video screen is divided into two parts.

On the left is the normal exit laser weapon - the Silent Slayer.

On the right is the newly developed space model laser weapon.

"The lasers used on the starport eliminate the explosive generators we used before."

"On the one hand, the shock caused by the explosion is difficult to eliminate in the space environment."

“On the other hand, explosive generators require a large amount of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, which is nothing in the ground environment.

But in space, every piece of material is very precious.

So we used a powerful nuclear reactor to serve as its energy alloy. "

Everyone here is basically familiar with the fourth-generation nuclear reactor, which has just entered the development stage.

"The thorium-based molten salt reactor can not only provide sufficient power for the star port, but also provide sufficient power for the laser."

On the design sketch, the location and number of lasers are marked in red.

At the intersection of the star port's ring frame and umbrella keel.

There are more than 120 laser generators distributed.

They are all connected to the nuclear reactor at the top of the starport through superconducting wires.

It can obtain power supply of more than 100 megawatts in an instant.

There is no doubt that this can deal with most of the current weapons threats to mankind.

Even the most unexpectedly encountered meteorites.

"In our experiment, we used the power of an entire nuclear power plant to successfully vaporize a rock with a diameter of 1 meter!"

The scene of the experiment was played on the large screen.

The seemingly huge stone vaporized in an instant.

The naked eye can't tell what happened in less than a second.

Only through high-speed cameras can we know what kind of impact the rock suffered.

The invisible laser becomes visible under a special camera.

A high-speed camera that can take tens of thousands of photos per second completely records the entire process.

The laser burned through more than 1 meter of rock in 0.2 seconds.

"Such weapons can fully protect our safety in space!"

Geng Bo looked at the design drawings and said enthusiastically.

"From now on, we will be like the first navigators to go to sea in the Age of Discovery, and take the lead in the new era!"

Only after you really understand it deeply will you know.

What an amazing project this is.

It combines all the most advanced technologies currently available to mankind.

It is also the rapid development of the country in machinery, electrical, manufacturing, aviation, aerospace, etc.

Only then did they create this creature that should only appear in myths and legends.

If you take such a star port, you can go back hundreds of years.

It was enough to make people at that time believe that immortals really existed in the world.

And Starport is the fairy palace where immortals live!

Geng Bo's explanation was undoubtedly a great success.

During the voting process in the second half of the meeting, almost all relevant content was passed.

Next, all departments will give them the green light.

There will be no restrictions on funding.

In fact, the most expensive investment so far is in nuclear reactor research and development.

However, there are many related industries that can benefit from nuclear reactor research and development.

So it went through very quickly.

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Jiangnan Shipyard.

Vice President Yuan stopped a technician who had won the title of technical pacesetter many times.

"Lao Yang, the superiors are going to assign a group of people to work on a new project."

"What project?" As one of the many senior engineers in Jiangnan Factory, Lao Yang didn't think he was anything special.

Vice President Yuan gave him a slight push, "I don't know yet, but it is said to be a good thing!"

"It is said to be a very large confidential project."

Lao Yang frowned slightly, "But we are still building that very large LNG ship."

"I don't have that much time to travel."

Vice President Yuan resented the lack of steel, "Why do you care about LNG ships?"

"If you can be selected this time, it will be much more important than the LNG ship."

Although Vice President Yuan didn't know the purpose of the selection, he still saw part of the specifications of the previous person.

Lao Yang hesitated, but finally nodded and agreed.

This situation does not only happen at Jiangnan Shipyard.

It doesn't just happen to Lao Yang.

From the Jiangnan Factory alone, more than twenty people were selected to participate in a very special selection.

In many construction groups, hundreds of people have been transferred.

In addition, dozens to hundreds of people have been redeployed from nuclear power construction, chemical industry construction, and even the Ministry of Railways.

Elite members from various industries have been drawn out.

Some of them have carried out the construction of super high-rise buildings, and some have built large nuclear power plants.

There were also people who personally guided the construction of the country's first high-speed railway.

Each of them is a top practitioner in their own industry.

It can be said that if a brick is thrown down, there will be two senior professional titles and a national model worker.

Among these people, if you don’t have three or four national-level honors, you will be embarrassed to say hello to others.

It only took them less than a month to be found by the country and brought together.

In the end, these hundreds of people arrived at a very special place.

Beidu Astronaut Selection and Training Base!

They will participate in astronaut selection for the first time as non-pilots.

Once selected, they will directly participate in the first phase of the Star Port construction project.

They will also be the first professional space builders in history! (End of chapter)