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Chapter 455

Chapter 455: Preparing to Build an Orbiting Space Station

The whole press conference came to an end in the excitement of Wang Xu and others. It can be said that this new machine press conference is full of rewards for Tiangong Technology. After all, this is an intentional order for more than 1,000 frames. what!

The total amount of orders for these more than 1,000 aircrafts is as high as hundreds of billions. Even this aircraft is not very expensive due to the price, but with such a large number, Tiangong Technology can earn at least tens of billions. profit.

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Of course, although Wang Bin has a certain degree of concern about the issues at the press conference, he did not spend much time. After all, Wang Bin has handed over the issues at the press conference to Wang Xu and other senior officials of Tiangong Technology. , So Wang Bin believes that they will do this matter well.

Therefore, after they developed the vertical take-off and landing aircraft, Wang Bin plunged into the design and development of Tiangong Technology’s medium and large aircraft.

Of course, the most important project for Tiangong Technology at this time is the establishment of a space station in cooperation with the government.

The space station they built in cooperation with the government is not a project that the government has been building before.

After all, the official space station under construction before is also a low-Earth orbit space station in real time, and in addition to the official itself, many countries have also joined the construction of this space station.

According to Wang Bin’s discussion with the official space station, the space station will no longer be an earth-orbiting space station, but a medium-orbiting space station.

According to Wang Bin and their discussion, the orbital height of the space station they are about to build will reach a height of 5,000 kilometers.

In addition, according to Wang Bin’s plan, the volume of this space station will be larger than the official space station currently under construction. After the space station is completed, it will not only carry out various scientific research tasks, but also the life of astronauts. It also undertakes tasks such as deep-space relay, deep-space positioning, deep-space exploration, and air-to-ground communications.

In addition, this space station will have to undertake a very important task in the future, that is, the task of a space relay gas station.

That is to say, the task of providing fuel for various manned spacecraft of Houtian Technology. It can be said that the technical difficulty of the entire project, even for the current Tiangong Technology, is of the Underworld level.

After all, according to the preliminary design drawings, the tonnage of the core module of this space station alone is as high as 50 tons. If you want to send such a heavy space station core module to an orbital altitude of 5,000 kilometers, with the current capabilities of Tiangong Technology, in addition to the upcoming Except for the Tiangong-9 rocket that has been developed, there is no rocket in China or even the entire world that can send this core module into orbit.

Of course, if it was decades ago, there are still rockets that can send this core module into orbit, then the Saturn V rocket of the Bald Eagle.

But now in the entire world, no rocket has this capability.

In addition to the weight of this core cabin which will reach 50 tons, the weight of the other cabins of the entire space station is not light. At least they have reached more than 30 tons. Most importantly, these cabins will no longer be used. The cabins of a traditional space station are cylindrical, and the shapes of these cabins, including the core cabin, are all rectangular.

Although there are many shortcomings in designing the space station’s cabin into a rectangle, the biggest shortcoming is that the space inside the rectangle is much smaller than that of a cylinder.

All rectangular cabin sections have their own advantages, that is, it is easier for individuals to realize space patchwork welding and so on.

This allows the space station to be made larger, and can withstand greater compression and tensile capabilities.

After all, according to Wang Bin and their estimates, the overall weight of this space station will exceed the space station that has been officially built before, reaching thousands of tons. At the same time, there will be multiple pairs of interfaces on this space station, and these pairs of interfaces Naturally, the purpose is to prepare for the future docking of aerospace planes and Universe spacecraft.

Of course, the construction of such a huge space station will naturally require astronauts’ space operations in the future, such as fixing welding between modules, etc., a lot of work. Since Tiangong Technology has not developed special engineering robots for the space environment, manual labor is required. To achieve this work.

So once the space station starts construction, it will naturally require a large number of astronauts.

For this reason, Wang Bin and his tiangong technology have already been prepared for this. The total number of astronauts owned by them in tiangong technology has reached more than 30 people.

The astronaut team of more than 30 people seems to be a lot, but in fact, it is far from enough for his entire space station plan, let alone a larger space program in the future.

For example, the high-orbit space station program, the lunar orbital space station program, the lunar survival research base program, and so on.

It is because of this that Wang Bin and Tiangong Technology have submitted a number of application reports to the government during this period of time, hoping that the official can give Tiangong Technology a team of at least one hundred astronauts.

In this regard, the official also responded to Tiangong Technology in the past few days, and these astronauts will come to them to report on Tiangong Technology in the near future.

It’s just that these astronauts are just novices in this area who have only undergone basic training.

After all, astronauts who have already had aerospace experience are very valuable even for officials. Naturally, it is impossible to have excess for Tiangong Technology, even if Tiangong Technology is now a real regular army.

Wang Bin did not care too much about this. After all, the Phoenix-kt1 aerospace aircraft test flight of today’s technology has reached a higher stage, and only in terms of prototypes, their Tiangong technology has already produced. Three aircraft have been released, and this small-scale mass production has also begun.

According to the speed of construction, in the next year, the number of aerospace aircrafts owned by Tiangong Technology will reach more than ten.

All, as long as these astronauts come and let them go to the sky with the test flight aerospace plane for a few laps, then these astronauts will be fine.

The most pressing problem facing the astronauts of Tiangong Technology now is how to enable these astronauts to quickly master the craftsmanship of space welding and other aspects.

After all, assembling a space station module in space is no better than the one on the ground. Even if the professional technology on the ground is brought into space manually, it may not be able to do it, let alone an astronaut.

Therefore, if the space station starts to be built, these professional skills must be mastered.

Of course, in addition to these, there are also various professional tools used in space. Tiangong Technology also has to pay close attention to research and development, such as welding machines used in space and professional welding rods used in space.

There is also space suits. With ordinary space suits, it is impossible to carry out all kinds of engineering work in space. Therefore, professional space suits are necessary. The best is a rigid space suit, which is a full exoskeleton. Covering spacesuit.