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The Heavenly Court and the Heavenly Palace are actually the same place, both being the residence of the Heavenly Emperor in mythology.

These two names are just different names for the same place, and can be translated recursively.

But in reality, there are still some differences between the Heavenly Court and the Heavenly Palace.

If we compare the entire world of immortals to a country, then the "Heavenly Palace" is where the emperor lives, a palace, while the "Heavenly Court" is the capital of this country, a city.

With this comparison, the two are not on the same level.

This is also why Tang Chao named this plan "Heavenly Court."

The Heavenly Court Space Station is going to be larger than the Tiangong Space Station, and much larger!

Tang Chao pointed to the rendering on the big screen and said, "I roughly divide the Heavenly Court Space Station into three parts. The first part is the research area, the middle part is the commercial area, and the rear part is the industrial area."

"All three parts have separate docking ports for spacecraft. The commercial area has the most docking ports, reaching 10, and both large and small ships can dock there."

"A main axis runs through the three areas, so the connection points of the three areas are also on the main axis. As long as the connection points are closed, the three areas can be independent of each other. At this time, if you want to go to other areas, you can only do so through spacewalking, and you also need to see if the password is enabled."

"The research area actually includes the initial Tiangong Space Station, the Tianhe core module, the Wentian experimental module, and the Mengtian experimental module. They are still in their original state, and the node module can dock with spacecraft, which can ensure the Tiangong Space Station's independent ability to interact with the outside world."

"However, the Tiangong Space Station is too small, and it is not very convenient to do experiments, so I also included our company's Starry Sky Inn. As long as the commercial equipment is removed and scientific research equipment is installed, it can become a scientific research site."

Of course, it will definitely not be changed now. The Starry Sky Inn has been built almost according to the commercial hotel model, and it will be launched into orbit in a while. How could it be changed to a space laboratory halfway.

The entire Heavenly Court Space Station project will take a long time. There are not many domestic units and companies qualified to take on the task of building that large pile of high-precision and cutting-edge things, and they also have their own orders to complete. It is impossible to fully build the parts for the Heavenly Court Space Station, so the parts alone will take at least two years to gather.

During the two years of parts production, various companies with the ability to manufacture rockets must also work hard. In addition to some scattered business from their own company, they must also produce parts for the recoverable version of the "Long March 9" and the "Voyager".

When the mission is over, they can get a certain percentage of the technology license.

The Long March 9 must be upgraded to a recoverable state, otherwise, building a space spectacle with disposable rockets may really "mislead the country with spectacles" after it is built.

Only recoverable rockets can save costs, and the space spectacles built can have effects such as "Technology Integration +5", "National Belief +5", and "Space Exploration +5".

Tang Chao has the technology for spaceplanes, but the cabins of airplanes are really not suitable for this. Usually, a cabin with a diameter of 4 or 5 meters can be said to be a super large cabin, and it is even more difficult to modify a cabin with a diameter of 8 meters to transport large objects, while making the fairing of a rocket to a diameter of 10 meters is not the same level of difficulty as making a cabin.

Because the fairing is just a big shell.

Even if it is not 10 meters in diameter, after research and upgrading, the Long March 9 can have a fairing with a diameter of more than ten meters.

Even if spaceplanes can conveniently transport things into space, they can only transport small parts and raw materials.

However, building a huge Heavenly Court Space Station with small parts and raw materials is not as simple as building blocks. Astronauts must carry out a lot of work in space.

Once astronauts' spacewalking operations are involved, the time consumed will be even longer.

According to current human technology, the method of building space facilities that require welding in science fiction movies can only be seen in science fiction movies.

So the best way is to build various large modules on the ground, and then use large rockets to transport them to space orbit to build blocks.

However, that kind of "science fiction" space construction technology also needs to be researched. Humans must continue to move forward and continue to develop new technologies, so the Heavenly Court Space Station has an industrial area.

If you want to say what can be made here, there is really nothing. Most of it is still doing experiments.

Humans have not yet had too large a space station, and they are restricted in what experiments they can do, so Tang Chao has made a large one this time, which can do some industrial manufacturing experiments and lay the foundation for future real space factories.

And what the industrial area can really make are some small 3D-printed parts for the use of the orbital repair shops on both sides.

The industrial manufacturing experiment project is to lay the foundation for the future, then the orbital repair shop is a good thing that can be used right now.

The Heavenly Court Space Station has two orbital repair shops, installed on both sides of the industrial area module, which can be opened like the cargo hold of the space shuttle, but they are larger, with a diameter of 8 meters and a length of 20 meters.

It has a lot of maintenance equipment inside, and the inside can be pressurized after the hatch is closed. You only need to wear light intra-vehicular spacesuits to work.

In the early stage, its biggest role is to maintain and repair satellites.

At that time, it will be equipped with two space boats. If there are satellites that need to be repaired, the space boats can be sent to grab them, and then dragged back to the orbital repair shop, and then put back in the same way after repairing.

Satellites are very valuable resources. Sometimes they are scrapped just by being hit by tiny meteorites and space junk. It may only damage a small part. There was no ability to repair them before. After the Heavenly Court Space Station is built, there will be no problem.

In addition to maintenance, satellites can also be upgraded.

After all, the technological development on Earth is changing rapidly. Some satellites have a long lifespan, but the equipment cannot keep up with the demand. If there is an orbital repair shop, the parts that can be printed in space can be printed, and those that cannot be printed can be sent up with other tasks on rockets.

At that time, outdated satellites will be upgraded and maintained, and they can become handsome guys again and continue to revolve around the earth.

As for where the fuel for the space boats comes from, and even some satellites need to be refueled, this will lead to the lunar base plan.

If you want to operate the Heavenly Court Space Station completely and cheaply, the cooperation of the lunar base is indispensable.

It is much more convenient to transport fuel from the moon to Earth orbit than from the Earth's surface to space orbit. After it is transported over, it can be stored in the spherical fuel storage tanks behind the factory, which is the fuel supply station.

Of course, the premise is that those lunar vehicles can find a large amount of "ice ore" on the moon.

As for the commercial area in the middle, there is no need to say more. In recent years, people have been bombarded by the concept of commercial space stations every day, and they already have a roughly same basic concept of commercial space stations.

Eating, drinking, and playing, it's just that the space is larger and there are more projects.

These people present are all experts in the aerospace field, whether they are technical experts or operation and management experts, but they all focused their attention on the renderings of the commercial area.

Among them, Liu Wenwu, the owner of Blue Sword, who had met Tang Chao several times, couldn't help but asked first: "President Tang, the rotating gravity cabin marked above... is it the kind I think it is?"

Tang Chao smiled when he heard this. He thought how long these people could hold back, but he didn't expect to ask now.

"Of course, it's the kind you think it is."

It is really the rotating gravity cabin they imagined, used to simulate gravity.

Hearing Tang Chao's admission, aerospace experts and managers exclaimed.

"Really?"

"Impossible, right?"

"Damn it!"

"Technical issues..."

Tang Chao didn't let them continue to exclaim, and if they exclaimed again, they would have to take a breath of cold air. He directly said: "Technical aspects are not a problem, and even all the technologies involved in the Heavenly Court Space Station, we, Navigator, have!"

He looked at the people below and said seriously: "We, Navigator, never do things we are not sure about!"

"Everyone, look here," he zoomed in on the space station model behind him and fixed the picture behind the Tiangong Space Station and the Starry Sky Inn. There is a rotating gravity cabin there.

This rotating cabin is connected to the back of the Starry Sky Inn. It is circular, but not the kind that runs through it. Instead, it has four independent arc-shaped cabins, which are connected to the central rotating shaft by four cylindrical channels, and then there are various arc-shaped and straight steel bars for connection to make it more stable.

And behind it is the place connected to the commercial area.

There is a door there, and the permissions are very high, and ordinary people can't open it at all.

As long as it is locked, the scientific research area is a relatively independent small environment, and this rotating cabin is the living cabin of the scientific research area.

The diameter of the rotating cabin is only 30 meters, and it can only provide 0.5G of simulated gravity at a safe rotation speed, and people are prone to dizziness when walking inside, and it will be better if they stop and do not move.

Because its diameter is too small.

But it is already possible for astronauts. At least they can eat, sleep, wash, and go to the toilet a little more normally, and the efficiency of exercising will be higher.

In addition to this small rotating gravity cabin, there is also a large rotating gravity cabin on the Heavenly Court Space Station.

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Of course, this large size is compared to the "small" size.

The diameter of the large gravity cabin reaches 70 meters, and it can provide a maximum of 0.76G of simulated gravity at a safe rotation speed.

The gravity here is closer to the earth, which will not only make life more convenient, but also greatly improve comfort.

Even in the kitchen with special and independent filtering devices, you can eat stir-fried dishes!

All this is prepared for customers, and the price, of course, is also the standard for space customers.

A ticket for an orbital shuttle costs millions of dollars, so naturally, the consumption in such a great place must be equivalent.

"...The three parts can eventually be assembled into a huge space station that is more than 300 meters long, more than 180 meters wide, and 70 meters high."

"It has a mass of 2470 tons, and the internal pressurized space reaches an astonishing 9720 cubic meters."

"The world's largest space facility is currently the International Space Station. It is only about 100 meters wide, 73 meters long, 20 meters high, has a mass of 419 tons, and an internal pressurized space of 916 cubic meters."

"Three times the size, six times the mass, ten times the pressurized space, and more complete functions."

"In fact, half of the weight of the International Space Station is on trusses and solar panels, and the weight of the pressurized module is only about 200 tons. Even the first phase of the Tiangong Space Station, plus manned spacecraft and cargo spacecraft, is about 100 tons."

"So this is our spectacle, our Heavenly Court Space Station!"

After Tang Chao finished saying the last word, the conference room was silent, so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, until after a few seconds of silence, warm applause rang out in the conference room.

"Clap clap clap clap——"

This plan is amazing!

300 meters is the length of an aircraft carrier on Earth, and a mass of 2470 tons is the level of more than half of a 054 frigate or a fully loaded 20380 frigate, but its significance in space orbit is too important.

Commercial companies value the commercial area, while the official values the experimental area and the industrial area, and both parties can find their favorites.

The most important thing is that Navigator has all the technology on the entire space station.

Thinking about the things that Navigator has done since its establishment more than a year ago, they easily believed Tang Chao's words.

Because he does what he says.

So the only thing to consider is how to send it into space.

It's almost 2500 tons, how many times will it take to transport it?

If the whole country is mobilized, it will take two years to manufacture qualified parts and assemble them together, so how long will it take to launch them all?

And some equipment is not easy to transport, and astronauts have to assemble it after it is transported up.

A large amount of welding work in the sky is avoided, but auxiliary docking and fixing work are their job.

For example, the small rotating gravity cabin, its diameter reaches 30 meters. Although the fairing can be made larger, it cannot be made so large.

Just as someone raised this question, Tang Chao said with a smile: "Do you know about the Kerbal Space Program?"

The few younger technical professionals and managers present nodded.

Seeing someone nodding, Tang Chao pointed to the small rotating gravity cabin and continued: "Its prototype is the rotating gravity cabin on the spacecraft in "The Martian", and it was later made into a mod in the Kerbal game."

"As before, we have restored Kerbal's folding technology, which is similar to inflatable space station technology, but it is different."

"So don't look at the fact that its diameter reaches 30 meters after it is unfolded, but when it is retracted, the diameter is only 14 meters."

"As long as we make a slightly larger fairing, we can use a super-heavy rocket to launch this 85-ton behemoth into space orbit in one go, and then let it unfold."

"After unfolding, the arc-shaped steel bars will extend and automatically connect between the cabins, but the straight steel bars connecting the central rotating shaft and the cabins need to be fixed by astronauts, which is also the first time that astronauts have come into contact with space assembly operations, and by the way, it is also for themselves, because after the assembly is completed, they can live inside."

"The three-module structure of the Tiangong Space Station, our company's Starry Sky Inn, and the small rotating gravity cabin, this is the first phase of the Heavenly Court Space Station."

"However, this first phase of the project won't start for at least a year, so let's allow our Starry Sky Inn to operate commercially for a year first. Our company is already being besieged by wealthy individuals from various countries. If we don't let them go to space soon, we might have to start working in space ourselves."

After hearing what Tang Chao said, everyone else burst into laughter.

These were all domestic enterprises with no business conflicts with Navigator Company, because they were all too weak to handle commercial space tourism.

However, by participating in the Heavenly Court Space Station project, they would definitely experience rapid development in terms of technology, strength, and influence once the project was completed.

This kind of super project is the best for nurturing companies.

With Tang Chao guaranteeing the technology, the remaining issue was to discuss the allocation of production. Those who came to the meeting were all top units and companies in the aerospace field, but they alone were not enough. They also needed the participation of other heavy machinery companies.

That would require more detailed meetings to be decided later.

For now, it was time to eat.

After eating, it would be time to hold a meeting to discuss the publicity of this major project.

Public opinion is a very important battlefield!

It can no longer be ignored.