"The take-off weight of the new transport ship will reach 13,000 tons. In terms of carrying capacity and speed... it is indeed better than sea freighters."
Ye Ming was talking eloquently in the meeting, then looked at the chief engineer of Jiangnan Shipyard, and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, I don't know how many tons cargo ships are now generally... but it should be no problem to replace ocean-going cargo ships, right?"
"Hahaha." Chief Engineer Zhou Xingwen laughed: "It seems that Mr. Ye has no idea about the current seagoing ships..."
"Is it now generally more than 100,000 tons?"
"It's almost the same. Nowadays, new ocean-going cargo ships with more than 100,000 tons are considered standard equipment."
"Uh..." Ye Ming coughed: "That can't be compared. If a space transport ship wants to reach a carrying capacity of 100,000 tons, it can be built... At most, it will be enough to make up a reactor, but the cost will be astronomical. It is estimated that one
The ship must be at least a thousand meters long...it makes no sense."
"Yeah. However, the space transport ship has great advantages when used for ocean transportation. After all, it is very fast and can arrive in one day. In theory, it can also reach any city, thereby eliminating the gap between inland and coastal areas."
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"Yes! That's what I want to say!" Ye Ming nodded his head like a chicken pecking at rice.
The reason why he proposed it was simply to find "jobs" for transport ships - in order to build accelerators, it would be no problem to build so many space transport ships, because there would be space cities to build later, which could also be used.
But human resources and production speed are still limited after all.
You can't just build a large number of transport ships in order to catch up with the schedule at the beginning, and then end up with eight out of ten ships... that would be boring.
Therefore, using it for ground transportation is one of the employment directions - for this reason, Ye Ming also specially designed it to be 10,000 tons, just to match the so-called "10,000-ton giant ship". As a result...10,000-ton giant ship
It has long become a thing of the past.
"The main thing is the transportation cost. If the transportation cost can be reduced, let alone 10,000 tons, even if it is loaded with 1,000 tons at a time... it will be useful..." Mr. Zhou added with a smile.
"Well... the helium-3 factory on the moon will also expand simultaneously. In three years, I dare not say that helium-3 will become a bargain price. At least it will be more than half cheaper than it is now, and it will definitely be cheaper than sea-going ships with the same cargo capacity."
"That's no problem! And as long as global freight costs can be saved, the production costs of the entire society will be greatly reduced." Mr. Zhou nodded firmly.
At this time, Director Zhang suddenly said: "But if we comprehensively promote cargo spacecraft to replace sea transportation, then... some countries may be afraid of jumping on the bandwagon."
Ye Ming was slightly startled, and then realized "which countries" Director Zhang was referring to.
Of course...those who collect tolls and run gas stations.
He smiled slightly: "Under the torrent of technology, behemoths like the United States and the United States are just praying mantises, let alone certain countries."
Director Zhang nodded with a smile: "Well, this is true."
Amid the laughter of everyone, Ye Ming announced that the meeting was adjourned. Afterwards, he returned home, briefly said goodbye to his parents, and then boarded a helicopter with He Mo and headed to the nearest military airport.
He is going to the Dalian Shipyard to take a look at the Wenxing, which is about to be completed.
After several years of construction, a complete set of naming rules for space ships has been formed in China - battleships, not to mention, are based on dynasties.
For civilian spacecraft, spacecraft in the solar system, especially in low-Earth orbit, are generally named x-month.
Among them, the initial "Yue Yue" number is the representative, including the subsequent "Wen Yue number", "Wang Yue number", and "Zhuyue number", etc.
For those spacecrafts that are to carry out long-distance exploration within the system, the naming standard is based on the X-Sun. Of course, there is currently only one X-Sun in preparation for construction, which will be used to explore Mars and the asteroid belt-Jupiter.
The transport ships are uniformly named Xiantian, but they will be divided into different models according to their carrying capacity.
The spacecraft to be used for extrasolar exploration will be named after the x star.
For example, Xunxing No. 1-8.
The Questioning Star is the first manned scientific research ship specially designed to travel through wormholes.
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It was four o'clock in the afternoon when Ye Ming arrived at the Dalian Shipyard.
After a brief exchange of greetings with the person in charge, Mr. Huang, who came to greet him, he took the factory bus directly to the No. 7 Shipyard.
"Mr. Huang, have you fully implemented unmanned production?"
He Mo had sharp eyes, and she could see at a glance that the entire dock was full of construction machinery vehicles and unmanned carrier vehicles - there was no doubt that these were all remotely controlled by Aita through long-distance communication 6g.
"Well, the transportation, management and boring aspects are almost achieved, but the construction field is still not good." Chief Engineer Huang explained with a smile: "Whether it is building a spaceship or a ship, it is still inseparable from skilled workers."
"It's the robot that's inconvenient, right?"
"Both." Mr. Huang paused: "For some tasks, robots can do it more accurately than humans, but the power may not be enough. If the power is enough, the space is not suitable, everything is suitable, and sometimes the feel is wrong...
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Ye Ming smiled and echoed: "After all, talent is the most sophisticated machine."
"Haha, Mr. Ye's words hit the nail on the head."
Several people chatted all the way and soon arrived at the construction site.
Although the Wenxinghao is independently named, its appearance still refers to the Yaoyuehao and Wenyuehao - after all, as long as the appearance remains unchanged, the experience can be inherited.
But compared to Yaoyuehao, its size has increased to four times.
It has a total ship length of more than 230 meters, a total ship height of more than 50 meters, and a total ship width of 40 meters.
In the design, it will have a crew capacity of 380 people, and the cabin alone is designed to have twelve floors.
Such a height makes it necessary to design an elevator.
In addition, its transport warehouse is also divided into upper and lower floors, with a large space, enough to accommodate two buildings.
Due to the large number of people, this time the exploration team will carry more than two years of food - which requires that its experimental cabin must have space for growing vegetables and raising animals.
——Although according to current feedback, Blue Planet shows a high degree of environmental consistency with the Earth, it will never be possible to allow more than 300 people to take risks as soon as they land.
Therefore, it will also be loaded with weapons and carry a fifty-man rapid reaction force.
The soldiers of this unit are composed of...
Let's put it this way, every warrior is carefully selected. In addition to being proficient in combat, everyone must be good at multiple fields.
As a multi-functional exploration spacecraft, it also needs to have certain space exploration capabilities. Therefore, it will also carry a small space shuttle driven by compressed air.
Not to mention the large-scale construction and detection tools used for ground development.
It can be said that this spacecraft carries the most cutting-edge and exquisite technology of mankind to date.
