Chapter 508 Construction of the Space Center
"Boom boom boom boom!" In the sky, a huge aerospace plane is landing, and according to the model of this aerospace plane, it is obvious that this aerospace plane is not a model produced by Tiangong Technology.
That’s right, after three years of development, today’s human civilization, companies or space agencies that can produce space planes are no longer limited to Tiangong Technology.
In addition to Tiangong Technology's Phoenix series, the official finally developed an aerospace plane with the joint efforts of R&D personnel.
At the same time, bald eagles and polar bears are already able to produce space flights.
However, in terms of performance, there is a huge gap between the official and other aerospace planes of the world and Tiangong Technology.
Take this landing Feiyu 21 aerospace plane for example. Although the size of this aerospace plane is much larger than that of the Phoenix-kt1, and is even almost attained to the Phoenix-kt2 countryside, its performance in load and other aspects is far from comparable to the Phoenix-kt1 model of Tiangong Technology.
After all, as an aerospace plane, its total weight is always the most important factor in measuring the performance of the aircraft.
According to the data that has been published by the official, the maximum take-off weight of this Flying Feather 21 aerospace plane has reached nearly 300 tons, but it can only send materials weighing about five tons and six astronauts to low-Earth orbit. As for the medium orbit, this aerospace plane does not have the capacity to carry, and even airplanes cannot reach the medium orbit, let alone medium or high orbits.
However, this aerospace plane is still very different from Tiangong Technology's Phoenix series, but compared with other aerospace agencies in the world, its performance is the strongest.
Take the Saturn 8 aerospace plane developed by the Bald Eagle in the past two years as an example. Its maximum take-off weight is more than 300 tons of dragons, and its length reaches more than 80 meters.
However, it can only send up to about three tons of cargo and three astronauts into low-Earth orbit, and it does not have the ability to navigate medium and high orbits.
Also, for the Arctic Kingdom's Cold Winter 40 aerospace plane, its total weight is only two tons, and it can only carry two astronauts.
From this we can see how big the gap between these aerospace agencies and Tiangong Technology is.
However, this is actually just superficial. If you really observe carefully, you will find that many of the things on these aerospace planes are unique products of Tiangong Technology. Except for Tiangong Technology, no company or organization on the earth can produce them.
For example, the engines used on these aerospace planes, especially knock pulse rocket engines.
In other words, if there is no engine of Tiangong Technology, most of these aerospace planes cannot be used in the sky. Even the official aerospace agency with the largest development progress in this regard has been confident in producing pulse-detonation rocket engines with the help of Tiangong Technology in recent years. However, the engines they developed and produced by themselves, their own mass thrust still cannot be compared with Tiangong Technology, even if it is a Tiangong-1 type pulse-detonation rocket engine.
But even so, it is already an extraordinary progress for the official, because this shows that in the entire earth, besides Tiangong Technology's ability to produce engines of aerospace planes, they are also the only two institutions that can produce engines of aerospace planes.
However, no matter what, on earth today, Tiangong Technology is no longer the only one on Tiangong Technology.
At the same time, this is something that Tiangong Technology is very happy to see.
However, there is one thing that Wang Bin is actually very confused. He even vaguely felt that all the aerospace agencies in the world had collectively discussed things.
That is, although major aerospace agencies have built interstellar airports for taking off and landing space planes at the same time, these airports are very small in scale. It is already amazing to have heard of three or five aerospace planes.
Therefore, since the Earth Defense Plan began, major aerospace agencies have directly transferred various aerospace-related industries one after another. For example, x Aerospace Company has immediately purchased a large area of land in the desert since the Earth Defense Plan began and immediately began to build relevant factories.
Even their company's most important database has been moved here, and the space flight production base they developed has been placed here.
From this we can see that major space agencies have already agreed that the Great Desert has definitely been used as the core area of the entire plan and will be used as the space center for the earth to fly to space in the future.
This also made the Chinese people very excited.
After all, everyone knows very well that with the most important space center on the entire earth, this will definitely greatly drive the entire Chinese economy, especially for the central and western regions.
This can be seen from the cargo throughput of major domestic ports over the past few years and the increasingly busy railway and highway network.
At the same time, it is precisely because of this that the Great Desert Space Center is also busy at this time, and the number of permanent residents has increased at an astonishing rate.
Of course, compared to the permanent population, more people coming to the Great Desert Aerospace Center are coming to travel at this time.
After all, there are dozens of space planes here every day, taking off from here, heading to the universe, and delivering the materials and personnel needed by the space station.
At the same time, with the increasing prosperity of the Great Desert Space Center, the demand for electricity and other areas of the entire Great Desert Space Center was becoming increasingly large. In the past, they could still provide electricity through a large number of solar power stations.
However, with the significant increase in factories, the power generated by solar power plants is no longer supplying, and the entire space center is consumed.
Fortunately, Tiangong Technology has mastered relatively mature controlled nuclear fusion technology. Therefore, since last year, it has begun to build large controlled nuclear fusion power stations less than 100 kilometers away from the Great Desert Space Center. If this large controlled nuclear fusion power station is completed, then the Great Desert Space Center will no longer have to worry about electricity.
Chapter completed!