Chapter 459 Isn’t this a space aircraft carrier?

lightning rod?

Not that much.

Dong Chen suddenly felt a slight pain in his head. He touched his bald head and said, "I think it's okay. It's not a lightning rod. If I insist on metaphor, it's at most an escape tower. But whether it's a lightning rod or an escape The towers are quite important.”

"It doesn't matter whether your metaphor is important or not, but we are a space station and nothing else. The comparison is a bit too disparate. It's too ugly to stand in front of us like this." Sun Hao said helplessly.

"It would be better not to merge and dock. Fortunately, the information we sent out was only our own model and plan, and we did not directly challenge the basic version of Tiangong Space Station."

"It's okay," Dong Chen said, returning the flat-panel monitor in his hand to Sun Hao, "If you really feel it's inappropriate, the superiors will definitely bring it up with us."

"...Well, it's your company anyway, and you've always been in contact with the superiors. You have the final say."

Sun Hao didn't care. Since Dong Chen had taken care of everything above, he could just do what he wanted to do well.

While the Arclight Group is making full preparations and the melon-eaters are reveling in the fun, various national agencies and aerospace companies can no longer sit still.

This is no longer a future plan made by a certain country or company in the past. It is a real plan that will be carried out in the near future.

Moreover, this space station is too big. The main axis is about 1,000 meters long. The largest activity space is about 200 meters long, 60 meters wide and 60 meters high. It is a general cube shape.

It is divided into many functional cabins, of which the largest space is more than 200 square meters, which is the reception hall of the space station.

There are more than a dozen such activity spaces, large and small, juxtaposed to form a 1,000-meter-long main axis. The partitions in their cabins have their own functions.

There is a huge circular rotating cabin in the middle of the main axis of the space station and close to the rear third. Their maximum diameter reaches 500 meters, and within this diameter range, they are connected to several circles of different diameters. Rotating cabin.

In this way, different cabins obtain different simulated gravity, ranging from 0 gravity to simulated gravity close to 1G, and can be used for different purposes, including maintenance, accommodation, supplies, sightseeing and other functions.

The total of these things is quite large, and its tonnage is worthy of its size, with an empty weight of 5,700 tons. This is because a large number of lightweight new materials are used, otherwise it would be heavier.

This kind of tonnage was something they would have never imagined before. Now the largest man-made object in space, the International Space Station, only weighs over 400 tons.

The tonnage of 5,700 is close to the total weight that humans have launched into space in decades, and the Arclight Group actually plans to complete it within a few years.

But they still have this kind of strength. One "Diao" class aerospace transport aircraft can transport 100 tons of cargo at a time, and Arc Light Aerospace now has two.

One is officially finalized, and the other is what has been said to be an "experimental" model.

In other words, they can transport 200 tons of materials at one time. The 5,700 tons can be transported in less than 30 times. Their current transportation tools only need to be refueled and slightly overhauled before they can be used again. If calculated ideally, it can be used again in one month. The materials inside can be shipped.

I remember when they went to heaven to send something... Oh, it's hard to look back on the past.

So they don't want Arc Light Group to succeed in this kind of thing, especially in foreign countries. No matter how they view this plan, it has a close relationship with country S.

This advanced version of the space station is too big, and it is enough to do a lot of things on it, so it is different from the scientific spectacle seen by the masses and scientists.

What the military of various countries saw was not a space station, but a dangerous space fortress.

Country S is also currently holding a meeting to deal with this... different situation. After all, the things that scientists and the military have to consider are indeed different.

"...Their aerospace aircraft technology is indeed very good, and their life support technology is also outstanding. At least I didn't feel any discomfort during the last flight."

"Even when crossing the atmosphere, the stability is much better than that of our manned spacecraft. The comfort and jitter feel to me are only slightly worse than those of military transport aircraft."

"That's my report. It's over."

After Wang Ping finished her report, she looked at the man in military uniform who had just asked her to speak, and then waited for the next question.

After listening to her report, the people participating in the meeting at the conference table were talking a lot, and the leader who presided over the meeting gave them a few minutes to discuss, and when the time was up, he asked, "Is there anything else you want to ask? "

Hearing the chief speak, the discussion below stopped. A soldier wearing the uniform of an Air Force major general asked, "Colonel Wang Ping, judging from your observation of their Eagle-class space transport aircraft, can it Can it be converted into a combat aircraft at any time? Is it a big threat to us?"

"...Yes, it can be modified at any time, but I don't know the technological level of their weapons and equipment, so it's hard to be sure. But I think with our interception system, it should be no problem to intercept their attacks. "Wang Ping said with slight hesitation.

"What about the threat our existing equipment poses to them?"

"... Judging from our current technological level, since it can break through the atmosphere and enter outer space at any time, only the laser weapons currently being tested may cause harm to them." Wang Ping continued to report.

After asking the questions about the aerospace transport aircraft, they discussed the issue of the new Tiangong Space Station. If the aerospace transport aircraft is a major threat, then this huge space station is a space aircraft carrier full of major threats.

It rotates nearly 16 times around the earth every day, and is so huge that it can dock up to 6 "Diao" class aerospace transport aircraft at the same time, or 20 "Falcon" class aerospace aircraft.

There is a satellite maintenance workshop above, so repairing the aircraft is not a big problem, and there are also several huge fuel storage tanks that can refuel the aircraft at any time.

This is a standard space aircraft carrier, and considering their technological suppression, this is a big threat.

And that’s true for every country on earth.

The most important thing is that this giant space station and these aircraft belong to a private company. They are the private property of this company and belong to the chairman named Dong Chen. In theory, they do not belong to any country.

Wang Ping listened to the discussions of these soldiers here and felt that the perspectives and ways of thinking about problems between soldiers and scientists were very different.

Although she is currently in the military and was called over for mission reporting and situation analysis because of the last mission, she is essentially an astronaut, and the current position of astronauts is to be a scientist one by one. , and he wears many hats.

And after humans go into space, they can think more openly. It's not that they are unpatriotic, but they will really consider issues as the earth's space pioneers.

These are different issues considered by people with different identities.

Fortunately, the position of Country S is relatively reliable. Country S and Dong Chen are now in the honeymoon period of friendly cooperation. Although there are analyzes and precautions, these are normal procedures and must be done for the sake of the country. of.

It's just that they won't really do any offensive actions, and they will still focus on stable cooperation.

Just like the honeymoon period between country S and other countries, they really gave them whatever they wanted. As long as they paid for it, they would get the goods. However, there was still a lot of secret precautions. The final result proved that the precautions were indeed correct.

The same is true for Country S and Dong Chen now. Country S hopes that this honeymoon period can be as long as possible, and it doesn't even matter if you give a little something, because the benefits are really huge.

It's just that other countries don't think so, and they don't get any benefits at all.