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Chapter 778 Spaceship Program

The first flight was very successful. Although Wang Bin and the others also discovered some problems during the first flight, these problems were just small problems and not big problems, so they could be easily solved.

And with the successful test flight of this 330-ton ultra-high-sonic aircraft, Wang Bin and his Tiangong Technology continued to carry out the subsequent test flight of the Phoenix-2 aircraft, while allowing the R&D department to carry out the research and development of this aircraft's improved and aerospace aircraft.

After all, compared with aircraft in the atmosphere, the development of aerospace planes is the focus of Tiangong Technology's development now.

At the same time, in terms of research and development and space station construction, Wang Bin and his Tiangong Technology have not slowed down. In the past few months, their Tiangong Technology has launched many heavy rockets, and the spacecraft launched by these rockets are basically all the various modules of their Tiangong Technology Space Station.

Of course, in addition to their own space station segments, Tiangong Technology has also launched several rockets for the official and sent their space station segments to the predetermined orbit.

However, although, over the past period, whether it is official or Tiangong Technology, the progress of the construction of its own space station is still a bit low compared to the overall size of the entire space station.

Let’s talk about the official construction progress first. After this period of construction, the official space station has reached a total tonnage of about 150 tons. At this time, the space station has initially provided personnel rest and space research.

However, compared with a huge space station with a total weight of nearly 1,000 tons, the official construction has just begun. As the construction of the space station progresses, the difficulty of its construction will gradually increase and its investment will be further increased.

However, compared with the official space station, Tiangong Technology's space station construction is much faster. After all, over the past period of time, Tiangong Technology has basically launched the space station components every two or three days. It is precisely because of this that Tiangong Technology's space station construction progress has exceeded the official one.

Now the total weight of Tiangong Technology's Ziwei Space Station has reached more than 200 tons. Like the official space station, Tiangong Technology's space station has the ability to provide all aspects of guarantee for astronauts and survive for a long time.

Of course, since the space station is still under construction, the number of space stations that can maintain personnel survival and research and development is very limited. In the current situation, it can only meet the survival needs of two people at most.

Therefore, at this time, neither the official nor Tiangong Technology is in a hurry to send people to the space station, but is preparing to send people to the space station after the construction of the space station reaches a considerable level.

According to the official plan, at least when their space station has a total weight of more than 200 tons, they will be sent up to the ground. At that time, the astronauts above can conduct research on various topics while helping to build the space station.

Tiangong Technology's plan is to wait until the total weight of the space station reaches at least 500 tons, and then consider sending people to it.

Because, in the early stage, during the construction process, even if the space station is not helped by astronauts, with Tiangong's technological capabilities, it can complete all aspects of work on the ground, including the use of space robots, and carry out various aspects of reinforcement for the space station.

Therefore, for the sake of astronauts' safety, Tiangong Technology is not ready to send astronauts to the space station at this time.

However, once the total weight of the space station exceeds 500 tons, it is unrealistic to rely solely on operations on the ground. At this time, since the space station is already huge enough, it has strong defenses for various small meteorites and satellite debris, so the safety of astronauts can also be initially guaranteed.

After all, the space station built by Tiangong Technology is not an ordinary earth-orbit space station, but a medium-orbit space station with an orbital height of 5,000 kilometers.

Therefore, compared with the Earth's low-orbit space station, Tiangong Technology's Ziwei Space Station poses a greater threat to it and is naturally more dangerous.

In addition, compared with the Earth-orbit space station, a space station at a height of 5,000 kilometers must have considerable ability to resist threats from solar storms, otherwise, the threat of solar wind alone can directly paralyze the space station.

With the development of Tiangong Technology Desert in all aspects, it was very smooth, and Wang Bin basically stayed here. Of course, Wang Bin also listened to the situation on the old industrial zone of Tiangong Technology every day, and he would also take time to go to the old industrial zone to learn about the situation.

At the same time, Wang Bin is also very concerned about the development of various subsidiaries of Tiangong Technology, especially Tiangong Shipyard, which is particularly concerned about it. After all, Tiangong Shipyard can only manufacture some surface ships now.

But Wang Bin knew very well that with the development of aerospace engineering and the smooth construction of the space station, when the space station is completely taken, Wang Bin and the others will start to try to build a real spacecraft in space, that is, this medium-orbit space station.

Of course, since the load capacity of this space station is only about 1,000 tons, and the construction of spacecraft is only an attempt, the tonnage is not destined to be too large. According to the preliminary estimates of the R&D department, it will probably not exceed 100 tons.

Of course, this is already an amazing behemoth for the international spacecraft. After all, the international spacecraft cannot be called a spacecraft at all. Not to mention the flight ability in the universe, just in terms of carrying capacity, the international spacecraft is not good.

After all, these spacecraft have basically very limited carrying capacity, so compared with spacecraft in science fiction movies or novels, they can only be called spacecraft at best.

However, the spacecraft that Tiangong Technology wants to build is different. Not only will it reach hundreds of tons in tonnage, but it also has considerable aerospace capabilities in the universe. At least there is absolutely no problem in navigating between Earth's orbit and surrounding planets. Therefore, such a spacecraft, even if it is placed in science fiction movies, can already exist as a boat-class with its tonnage.
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